decades to come. controversial stop and search policy banned of most of europe but still used by british police as black community leaders screaming racism those who are most often considered suspicious by the authorities believe they are being picked on because of the color of their skin. as you headlines i'll be back with a look at the news stories in full in thirty minutes from now in the meantime a special report for you where we look at how the war in kosovo ended but left both sides feeling that they had not achieved peace as ethnic conflict between kosovo albanians and serbs continues you're watching r.t. . 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 near 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. and both here in the other side of the bridge. all of the choppers coming here every day make

a lot of noise nubile cool they keep children away just now adults can do their jobs properly this unnerves the people here. every hour helicopters make life uncomfortable georgevitch along with several thousand of those living in the village of the pulse of age. however the cost 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 was built for months ago. that's when albanian

special forces. tried to enter this territory. to set up their policemen on 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 an armed 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. oh that's the way. it was there oh yeah. we. call. her. 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 cos of almost every month. i have a plan to meet people there you need to help people because they fight for the

liberty they're they build to the barricades it's called knowledge and they're standing for their city body and they're all 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 for europe's free don't want to you or poor.

it will set us all as i'm not from costs about but i feel the need to be here together with people do 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 their method 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 or spin list in december the eight each day is like all the others i'm down in the dumps in this town but i hope to get used to it with time because i hear the cost will force and remove the barricades sinjar it so several times what

our guys put them up unusable. was. this this bridge is the main bridge and route three theories connect to two parts of me to return all the completely. divided no off of the war in ninety nine. i mean the situation before the war was not like that. 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 many thought i'm here on this

bridge the. both of them were told. on both. 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 programmed. in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine to intervene on the side of the course 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. you're going to love them 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 i'm his. driveway of h. assume visits what's left of his former house in a suburb of southern the tributes 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. and i'm going to see what

i would like to return here but we need the basic life conditions if we don't get them back we will 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. the water according to. these of both being destroyed to and. from.

very cut right at 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 the 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 ok there we go. thank you. 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 of myth mainly because we want to get protection from the russian state. as you know we in the course of us have been under pressure immense pressure from the west for the past two years the west wants us to leave this territory it wants to expel serbs from serbian land it's ethnic cleansing and if we're now witnessing its final phase. simberg eleventh i have heard reports of people. signing a petition to request a russian citizenship to your bases lady board shorts forty seven thousand

signatures with all of them were sent to russia before but that was like a bolt from the blue i know that crusher received a citizenship requests but it said no in the end. is not giving up he's confident the russians have not said their final word. 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 disappears.

this is art. to reclaim the american dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth that out of many we are one that one we breathe we hope. to me the american dream is to live in peace and prosperity and freedom and a government under socialism is not a government a free. man. you . have very motivated out for us the country who are activists who are willing to fight for what they think is right for themselves but the fact is forty four bridge then. we are counting. property drowning and i think it's spread by

it's cutting off our. it's making goldmark recy. all but impossible. 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 are on the. floor and for those who are listen listen. to the it was see them use the beat the you leave me. leave. even me alone.

at that. they are very decent people so do you want to give up the roots and history. the backbone of all land. of course i'm in no position to give them some advise. but you know if 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 does before you go on and give a speech at first we are saying my favorite song about cost. 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. though one of the plan to think of this by the yugoslavia twenty years ago as. the world in. this lies 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 we 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 the same fate. the only remaining state here is serbia together with castle foreigners would dearly like to take it away to. use 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 the journey to northern kosovo the supplies include basic necessities from clothes and medicine to an electric generator. so far the forward trucks have been duly processed they have crossed the administrative line. and are now in the regions territory of the might expect the other trucks to be allowed through 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 the serbs don't recognize it they use alternative roads to bypass the checkpoint. like the albanians living in the southern sector of often come to the bridge as they look across the river they hope that sooner or later all of kosovo will be united under pristina. if you would. sell for three. and i mean ten years ago seven years ago when the will say the same no but after they saw. the opportunity. of being accommodated into the cost of the side. they know i mean percentage of

participation to be cause for elections among. them even with a percentage of the albanians. back it was in charge of a television channel in southern. he created the small t.v. and radio station immediately after the declaration of kosovo's independence. this is the first to go through i mean here we are for children program here for news. here for debates i think this is the smallest. haven't seen in the world so the studios rather sterile appearance is broken only by the empty set caricature that confront guests as soon as they enter. this is the most rich. time doing.

just hiding. destroying the bridge on a mystery. disappointed if you will by the spectacle in the palace will be like him. when you go. there is a lot of people. come in on one good month as you would be doing. 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 ira dean 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 their incentives can get up if they are forced by building a new took a preview and your understanding of them because they can not cooperate with us if so be as creating the illusion that one day they will come back and 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 they did illusion to a search for all part of the post you know they are doing the same and first this is a long story and this story just unsuccessful for syria only very van of it is coup g.'s opposite number he's deputy to the serbian minister for kosovo 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 are surrounded by al thani and settlements. so very difficult to expect you know that is security council in the united nations or attend the mine as long as there. is a business are not part of the international that this is like un there are no tells us his 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 find a solution the solution could be you know very very special status that means no albanian flag no ban in court not being in police officer not been in cost them. three days of intensive talks finally resulted in the russian humanitarian aid being allowed into northern conservation 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 me at the barricade. i can see my mission here aspiring close i've been around here for two weeks now and i felt on more useful things here then if i'd stayed at home. 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 has drawn to a close a far away mood scene is calling muslims to evening prayer as french soldiers from k. four relieved the german counterparts on g.g. . meanwhile boy in 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 will want to exactly what people in the rest of serbia do

within us they want casilla to be theirs not the old be and. people will stay on in the stance regardless of where there are barricades will be torn down or the other animal that can live on 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 . download the official auntie application to your i phone or i pod touch from the store. one job life on the go.

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