foreign involvement would bring more harm than good. and the u.s. takes its anti-rock or say china tries to persuade energy hungry to stop buying oil from tehran currently purchases almost one third of iran's oil exports. just for the top stories one next a special report on the ethnic divisions which are tearing kossovo apart. this young serbian came here a couple of weeks ago. it's a well known bridging course of. it divides the city into two parts serbian and albanian. he thought he was going to fight to defend

serbia but for now his only weapon is an axe and keeping his tent up me of the barricades is his only combat mission. he's only seen his potential adversary kosovar albanians from a distance there on the other bank of the river. because . this is serbian land both here in the other side of the breach. or the choppers coming here every day make a lot of noise will they keep children away. can do their jobs properly this unnerves the people.

every hour helicopters make life uncomfortable for the slotted georgevitch along with several thousand of those living in the village of the pulse of age. however the coast of aussie themselves apology to blame for this situation in the summer of two thousand and eleven they blocked roads in the region's north to hold up traffic carrying international troops and officials from priest and. as a result the only way albanian border guards and customs officials can now reach the base near the border with central serbia is by. this barricade an impossibility has built for months ago. that's when no menu special forces to try to enter this territory. to set up their policeman customers officials on the border with serbia. music that came through

the village activists left their homes in a bid to stop them water though i must say in all fairness that the situation in the north of course a lot resembles the battle of stalingrad. you know unarmed serbian people opposing nato forces armed to the teeth. units from the kosovo force known as an international organization established by nato attempted to dismantle the barricades. it sparked the biggest standoff since kosovo's declaration of independence in two thousand and eight. zero. zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero. zero zero zero zero zero zero l. a global. oh that's the way. it

was there oh yeah. we. call it. yvonne as you go on drives through the serb barricades without a hitch ivana who's a popular serbian actress and singer who comes to northern kosovo almost every month. i have a plan to meet people there you need to help people because they fight for the liberty there they build to the barricades it's called knowledge and they're standing for their city and they're alone so we people of art have to help as much

as we can bring it you know. on her way to the divided city of course of scum attributes are. always visits mount capital nic serbia's highest point. northern kosovo is in full view from an altitude of nearly two kilometers. this was already from here you can see almost all of serbia far in line to kosovo is over there. but in the words of a point this is more than just mountains plains and the graves of our ancestors who lost their lives fighting to be europe's free don't want to be of little push. it wasn't us knows i'm not from cos of us but i feel the need to be here together with people demonstrate my support these people have lived in a state of siege for twelve years in the past six months they have been struggling

for control of this bridge and i hope they will continue their struggle in achieving their goal being less and people like me are few and far between here and our politicians come here for only two or three days and all they do is make promises. buoyant has kept a diary since the first day of his vigil and spends his free time collecting his thoughts in it horseman list in december the eight each day is like all the others i'm down in the dumps in this tent but i hope to get used to it with time because i hear the cost will force and remove the barricades sinjar it's a several times what our guys put them up unusable.

was. this this bridge is the main bridge and route three thor is connected to two parts of the return of completely. divided no off of the war in ninety nine. when the situation before the war was love life. this man. strolls along an invisible border it unlike boy and he's kept an eye on the standoff between kosovar albanians and serbs for more than a decade his memories of bitter clashes on this bridge a still fresh. oh member. of one minute time here on this bridge the. both of them were still. on but. green.

the former yugoslav leader you'll see a bronze tito laid the foundation for the current conflict by granting autonomous status to kosovo in one thousand nine hundred sixty three the population of mostly ethnic albanians demanded independence off to yugoslavia broke up but open clashes between the kosovo liberation army and serbian troops broke out. in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine intervened on the side of the cost of months of bombardment by allied aircraft compelled then serbian leaders slobodan milosevic to pull troops out of kosovo as a result of the nato operation around five hundred civilians died. the region declared independence in two thousand and eight but has never been recognized by belgrade around one hundred fifty thousand serbs still live in kosovo. or

you're going to this is the house i used to live in. my father built all the necessary papers were in his name all of which are what i can say that this is my house because all in his. driveway of h. assume visits what's left of his former house in a suburb of southern mr viets are in albanian territory only during the day it's safer that way. each visit saddens him both years of emptiness and the albanians living nearby have contributed to the gradual decay of the house built by his father. but i'm going to he wouldn't i would like to return him but we need the basic life conditions if we don't get them back we won't be able to come back with.

me you know that is even more upset by the condition of the local cemetery where serbs are buried. there well we're going to we're going to you can see how many tombstones have been destroyed. water before you put one hundred. these of both being destroyed to and. from. back. of the weekend the marketplace near the bridge in northern mitrovica turns into

a public forum the latest talking point is the situation with the barricades but another subject cropped up in december twenty. fifth. with the follow up with you know how are you good and you and thank you i'm fine i'm representing russo serbian society we're now collecting signatures under applications for russian passports can i ask you to give your signature. of course with all my heart here put down your first name and last name but isn't it ok there we go. thank you. it. began collecting signatures from kosovo serbs requesting russian citizenship in november twentieth. he gathered fifty thousand in just a few weeks. of each was among them people living north of the river

a pinning their hopes on help from moscow. or from we've decided to seek a russian citizenship or myth mainly because we want to get protection from the russian state. as you know we in kosovo have been under pressure immense pressure from the west for the past two years and the west wants us to leave this territory it wants to expel serbs from serbian land its ethnic cleansing and if we're now witnessing its final phase. simberg eleventh i have heard reports of people in cos of skimming. signing a petition to request a russian citizenship. stays lady board georgie which collected forty seven thousand signatures with all of them were sent to russia with them but that was like a bolt from the blue i know the crusher received the citizenship requests but it said no in the end we'll be on it and yet. is not

giving up he's confident the russians have not said their final word the serb activist continues collecting the signatures of his compatriots seeking russian citizenship and says he'll wait for as long as it takes fellow campaign a boy and contributes in his own way he's determined to stay in his tent until the threat of an albanian invasion disappear his. culture is that so much time and effort in which of course he was on example here in the republican party presidential contenders are falling over themselves to their support of israel is this a reflection of those ignorance of history in the israeli. wealthy british style most of the time to the subtle.

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if only as you go on is two hours late but the people manning the barricades near the main bridge of serbian mithra hold no grudge against her for that the singing star has a large following among admiring locals an impromptu show gets under way as an early december dusk descends on the tributes and the. one of those who are listen closely to see it was see

the beat the you leave me. leave. that even me alone. at the. very decent. so do you want to give up the roots and history. of the backbone of all land. of course i'm in no position to give them some advise. but you know each day is like all the others we're here the old beans are on the other side of the bridge but today something interesting happened our singer yvonne as she gone came here nobody but politicians had visited doesn't before you give

a speech at first we are saying my favorite song about. after yvonne is performance boy and heads back to his tent for a late supper. this time he will eat a serbian pike. as he slices it the young serb discusses the fate of his long suffering homeland. well one of the plan to think of this by the yugoslavia twenty years ago as. the world in. this flies here is the republic of slovenia it was the first to fall away you were. so this is slowing both of. them of the republic of croatia followed suit. but it.

would worry slice macedonia would come back it was the third republic to secede to . the fourth republic. and herzegovina broke away in the wake of a hard fought war we. had a poor record of the same fate. the only remaining state here is serbia together with castle foreigners would dearly like to take it away to where is this slice it's a tiny but inseparable part of serbia. the next morning a convoy of twenty trucks carrying supplies of russian humanitarian aid we trace of energy guns journey to northern kosovo the supplies include basic necessities from clothes and medicine to an electric generator. not done in miami and so far the forward trucks have been duly processed they have crossed the administrative line.

and are now in the region's territory after might be expect the other trucks to be allowed through the checkpoint. in that case we will arrive in course of skies. in a few hours. however any hope that the convoy would reach maturity to any time soon was dashed. the convoy of russian humanitarian aid became hostage to a long running territorial dispute the checkpoint that halted the trucks is the only pristina controlled place in the region's north the serbs don't recognize it they use alternative roads to bypass the checkpoint. like the serbs albanians living in the southern sector of mitrovica often come to the bridge as they look across the evil river they hope that sooner or later all of course of our will be united under pristine is all from rooty if you would.

go so. when the same. opportunity. of being accommodated into the course of the thought. of participation. even with the but something's up. bakiev was in charge of a television channel in southern. he created this small t.v. and radio station immediately after the declaration of kosovo's independence. this is the fourth wall to have your new woman here we go through the four children program you for news. here for debate i think this is the smallest. thin award so the

studio's rather sterile appearance is broken only by the anti said caricature those that confront guests as soon as they enter. this is a new earth roots. founding. having. the throwing of the bridge on and recruit the. most disciplined of people by becoming cleaves thinkable in the palace will one of you like him miracle bring your good thing. good but is a lot of people was coming on someone who lived in memphis you would be doing to help build. kosovo's declaration of independence in february two thousand and eight was symbolized by the structure built in pristina bearing the word newborn in giant block letters the problems of the regions north broke the back of course of our minds at the time it didn't occur to them that the local serbs would never agreed to be ruled by kosovo's or forties.

kosovo's deputy premier i redeem coochie is one of the so-called new born politicians in pristina he takes an optimistic view of what's happening in northern kosovo his unshakable belief is that several years from now the serbs will realize that they need to look to pristina in the south rather than belgrade in the north main problem is that people in northern part of course or they are incentives to get out of there are for the bible to do to cooperate with us and your understanding of them because they cannot cooperate with us if serbia's create an illusion that the one day they will come back this is the part of serbia or something like that they need to be much more realistic not to create illusions any more they did for one part of crash here and they did allude to the search for one part of the post you know they are doing the same and personally this is a long story and this story was unsuccessful for sylvia. only the event of

a g.'s opposite number he's deputy to the serbian minister of accounts of affairs he comes to this region quite often this time his motorcade has traveled a long distance inside the region he decided to see what life is like in the small serbian enclave of iraq surrounded by albanian settlements. so very difficult to expect you know that is a good thing also in the united nations the return of the mine as long as there. is a business are not part of the international that this is like un there. is in the banners the north. you know and we will not accept the gospel in the policy there that i think that we have to. be you know very very special status that means no albanian flag no i've been in court not been in police officer nor been in cost them. three days of intensive talks finally resulted in the russian

humanitarian aid being allowed into northern cos of. thousands of serbs from the northern sector of kosovska mitrovica welcome the arrival of the trucks loaded with medicines food and equipment. was in the crowd but only for half an hour it was all the time he could afford before resuming his vigil near the barricade. i can see my mission here is pointless i've been around here for two weeks now and i felt on more useful things here then if i'd stayed at home. each day here i chop firewood and fire it is still there i feel it is my duty to stay here. another day of chilly confrontation in the tribute so has drawn to a close a far away mood seem is calling muslims to evening prayer as french soldiers from k. four relieved their german counterparts on judy. meanwhile boy and makes another entry

in his diary after heating up the stove to keep him warm through the night. you know this course of the people here in cos well want exactly what people in the rest of serbia do you know within us they want cos they want to be there it's not all being you people will stay on in the stance regardless of where there are barricades will be torn down or the other and only the pentagon that people will come here and look at the bridge. and god willing i'll come here again and again to stand together with my friends ship them.

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