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 they say get up to speed them with the latest i'm joined live know by our teacher of the band that he's a keeper across developments for us this evening by the high again the march sen 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. all 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 the jolie about one hundred fifty protesters left actually there hemmed in by police so no more can join them that is waiting for them to disperse they're playing music dancing they still got some of their placards up there really celebrating what in the last half of them has been a successful protests started say because that is peak probably didn't near quite the ten thousand the organizer expect miss certainly over five thousand and they came from all over britain from

a force field or scotland and they came here to campaign against tuition fee hikes which will see university fees. here nine thousand pounds next year that's triple what they are the moment and also education cuts and i spoke to some of them earlier today is what they had to say. education cuts don't have a heel i mean this is something we eat we really need the government to do because they cannot help generation of working class students from going to university because just want to put it so that they have a listen now to basically say please try we're doing whatever we can we just don't see you perfectly please just stop what you're doing and revive the trade maybe even the governments we sending money on the people rather than themselves the name and the whole reason why this is happening is not all and that's a plan to make sure that the job they said and things are. over the big worry as well as about security there was a worry things could turn ugly same type of thing we witnessed a year ago are there any reports of standoff with police. there were

a few minor flashpoints of the the scotland yard the police chief for the capital 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 to use this procedure called kettling where they stop any protesters from from dispersing they gather them in one place and that actually. was effective today some thought that might escalate tensions and violence or certainly after they threaten to use plastic bullets should violence escalate but there actually the protest skit was carried out in the last part in a very peaceful way to there's a say only twenty arrests made or so and that's despite the police's threat sees plastic bullets just for the first time for a pre-planned protest in mainland u.k. clearly i spoke to chris nine and 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 is 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. 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 to spite most of the protesters evaporating here as police on the street were numbered. four thousand say almost as many as the protests even that's how

serious they were taking these protests and other say the students certainly got their message across the police are still here wait 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 about your later for the course of the evening artie's i've abandoned 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 the long lasting standoff in the region between k. four forces and local search continues for many lived there the roadblocks were 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 any new sanctions so says the country's president to random 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 artie's going to teach a cat and 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 want to 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 arraigning economy which would be hard on the iranian people in the first place and they say further isolating iran would be counterproductive instead russia 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 attentions around iran and israel was hinting that they are gearing towards a preemptive strike washington said all options are on the table but despite 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 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 skip. nicol 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 it back in two thousand and three the u.s. was adamant it's 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 from hezbollah or other groups we 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 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 should pick apart some of those findings then and 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 that it 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 it 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 that it 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 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 and weapons you know dozens of client states around to run. and and during the bush administration and into the obama 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 across the country although their report politically motivated they did said the watchdogs directed general bias towards the west do they have a point do you think. absolutely the mohamed el baradei the previous director general of the step down in two thousand and nine and the u.s. especially in more quiet circles like we found out from wiki leaks releases of diplomatic cables that were classified us were practically applauding that the new guy amano 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 uncorroborated intelligence reports primarily from

the u.s. in israel and the fact that the i.a.e.a. would would collect these together and publicize them in order to sort of you know rally against against iran and it is just it's unfortunate. the west. pretext to isolate or attack iran and comparisons with iraq of course then spring to mind you think this situation could eventually go as far 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 and the united states and even the pentagon is pretty strongly against going to war against iraq it's only the psychotic war mongering politicians in both countries like benjamin netanyahu and many in the obama administration and most leaders of congress they're the only ones that are really doing this is

a saber rattling the only ones that actually are calling for him at least implying that we are to have a military strike israeli intelligence benjamin netanyahu accused members of the real israeli intelligence of releasing leaked information about his plans to unilaterally strike iran so i think even the more sensible parts of the military and intelligence structures of both country knows that war with iran would be just a catastrophe so glaeser thanks your comments your pleasure assistant editor of war dot com. nato 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 troops was short lived for a new block was put up further down the road the crackdown comes just days after the head of the un drew attention to the increasing number of attacks on serbs living in northern kosovo that said talk now to alexander private she's

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 but 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 to prishtina and they're doing it openly in spite of their mandate from the un which is supposed to be a peacekeeping mandate as you said to keep to the warring sides separated. there's been reports that kay fell but using tear gas to just mention 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 i mean they're acting like an occupier he said of the peacekeepers they're using tear gas they're using barbed wire and we must remember the population here the serbian population still has

memories 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 used not 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 the u.s. foundations and recognition into the ongoing violence against the said in the region would you therefore expect any response from the world body now. no 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 the 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 that this is not just about cost of all 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 costs of all 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 story 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 now just just flush 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 throughout the west in the world right now. because most 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 show use of force even deadly force so all these things are connected we cannot look at it as a local thing anymore but looking at it as a a as. level where is it going to go in the immediate future do you think will the situation remain to be tense 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 you know 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 tomorrow thanks for your thoughts on the program of xander published political analyst joining us on the pleasure as always well arty's correspondent lecturer geoff skiis visited the region as well to delve deeper into the causes behind the ongoing tension this is his report. 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 need to. get it together here and there were two who were in dance pieces well in

a way to stress that. the star 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 kosovo serbs isolated themselves from the case for troops but also from their unwanted neighbors this is the famous bridge in middle of it so 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 of how subs 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 killed. for every sound off the call that a four troops managed to demolish serbs built two piles there are times when the two pro sisters take place simultaneously.

and. likely see. serbs say they have no choice but to continue barricading themselves in they believe would not hesitate to wipe them off their land forcefully help they believe by k. for troops despite constant clashes even a token changes and political pressure from both great 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 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 in 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. kosovo has seen different hard times even be in my bed turkey ones but just arie's with stude all heart tests of times and everyone and make sure of it's of no use 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 serve 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. alexy russia of ski r.t. reporting from costas commute in kosovo. 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 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 they saw waves that for the embattled country. we've seen a lot of concern today that it's least the latest usa in country to be sucked into a death spiral from which there might be navy turn now we saw today it's these borrowing costs past that seven percent threshold that's extremely significant because that was the trigger point at which we saw countries searches ireland portugal and greece when they passed it have 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 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 we see the situation develop today extremely i'm precedented right really the year is a quite a squaring from one country to the next from the financial situation to a political situation of course it's really has been a different now we know prime minister berlusconi has said that he's going to step down once safe budget reforms have been passed but 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 angelino al found that someone who is quite close to berlusconi in his government was the minister of justice now of course is uncertain 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 now of

course we need to remember is that an interim government at this point too early elections is absolutely no certainty that they're going to be able to push these necessary measures through that of course such. the problem in the first place in this is really what causes a much concern amongst the marketplace this is where if we have the political will to push through these measures and it was being very very clear today if the new government how and when that will be formed it's not going to be a quick fix solution to the very critical situation it's. our correspondent sara furthur literally see economic 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. 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 effect of a very. strong speculative movement that is going on now for several months over

the child in the economy and the child in state to g.d.p. ratio was unsustainable in fact the problem of italy ease of course debt but the major one is no growth the absence of growth which is imposed by the policies are to repeat in the most of the german positions on how to handle the moment to re union this is causing a total m balance in the country i think we are edging towards a very dangerous area which of course will look really impossible situation in the stock market the effect of this would be the collapse of the system but this would create a couse in the country instead of a solution. we were in greece which heads the line of countries destabilizing the euro zone promise of george pervan dros to the farewell speech to the nation and is

now expected to formally ten days resignation he said the country's politicians have finally reached an agreement about the creation of a unity government which will deal with the debt crisis it is address though he gave no indication of who his successor might be but this comes after weeks of political chaos that has put greek membership of the euro in jeopardy. violence has erupted once again in syria with civilians reportedly coming under fire from police after thousands took to the streets you watch in here 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 commit to twenty eight minutes now past nine at night moscow time look at ahead a unique chance to dive into the wilds of russia's far east in just a few minutes before that though i will recap today's top stories are headlines again here on r t from moscow this wednesday night back in a couple of minutes. this

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