instigating the violence. and the ten year anniversary. greeted its first prisoners marked by protests in the u.s. and abroad people took to the streets demanding the release of those still held in jail that president obama. doesn't have lined up next in a special report we'll look at how the war and possible and that left both sides feeling like they lost the peace as ethnic conflict between cost of our obedience and serbs continues. this young serbian boy came here a couple of weeks ago it's a well known bridging course of skimming. it divides the city into two parts and albania. he thought he was going to fight to defend

serbia but for now his only weapon is an axe and keeping his tent 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. both here and know the other side of the bridge. i am. of the choppers coming here every day make a lot of noise with 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 others living in the village of the pulse of age. however the cost of os 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 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 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 l. over. oh that's the way i. 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 kosovo almost every month. i have a plan to meet people there you need to help people because they fight for the liberty their they build to the barricades it's called knowledge and they're

standing for their city 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 the wind and kosovo is over there. in the words of a point that 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 . well set us laws i'm not from kos about but i feel the need to be here together

with people to demonstrate my support and 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 be it meth and people like me or a few and far between here and our politicians come here for only two or three days and all they do is make promises. boy and 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's 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 barricade sinjar it so several times what are you guys put them up unusable.

was. this this bridge is the main bridge and three thought is connected to two parts of from three. completely. divided no off of the war on ninety nine. the situation before the war was love like. this man. strolls along an invisible bullet 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 times here on this bridge the. both of them were told its. own but for

green. the former yugoslav leader you'll see brawls 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 only quote here what i can say that this is my house because i'm his. driveway of h. a so 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. and i'm going to see what 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. know all these of both being destroyed to and. from. back. 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 of. this polo oh are you good and you 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 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 move mainly because we want to get protection from the russian state. as you know we in kosovo i have been under pressure immense pressure from the west for the past two years in the west wants us to leave this territory it wants to expel serbs from serbian land its ethnic cleansing we are now witnessing its final phase. simberg eleventh i have heard reports of people in cos of scummy. 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 that russia 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. wealthy british style sign is an expert on the times. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy

with max cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report. if they shoot something inappropriate for public they can easily be. cast he's a war ok. i wish he would have never happened but it has happened. in a war a t.v. camera becomes an unnecessary what destroys their own safety all foreign nationals including journalists and inspectors should leave around. and it's clear what happens with such witnesses i got on my site. many checks to. play. a merciless shooting and.

more news today violence has once again fled up the face these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are today. 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 was and see.

the beat the you leave me. leave. that even me alone. at the. very decent people say do you want to give up the roots and history. the backbone is all left and. of course i'm in no position to give them some advise. but each day is like all the others we are here the albanians are on the other side of the bridge but today something interesting happened our singer ivana 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. 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 server discusses the fate of his long suffering homeland. though one of the plan to think of this by the yugoslavia twenty years ago. this flies here is the republic of slovenia it was the first to fall away you were . so this is looking at both of. them the republic of croatia followed suit. but i. would worry

a slice of macedonia would come back it was the third republic to seat. the fourth republic. and herzegovina broke away in the wake of a hard fought war we. had a poor record is 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 retrace the journey to northern kosovo. 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. solve for three. and i mean ten years ago seven years to go when the save the

same no but after they saw. the opportunity. of being accommodating to the cause of the side. except with them they know i mean percentage of participation will be cause for elections among. them even with a woman but some things of the albanians. back it was in charge of a television channel in southern the. he created this small t.v. and radio station immediately after the declaration of course of those independents . this is the first to view the new i mean here we are for children program here for news. here for debate 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 thing. just hiding. destroying the bridge on a mystery. disappointed by the spectacle in the palace will be like him. when you go. there is a lot of people who watch him in almost one hundred months you will 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 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 is creating the illusion that 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 they did allude to a search for all part of the post you know they are doing the same and personally this is a long story and this story was unsuccessful for syria. only version of it is cool

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 surrounded by al thani and settlements. so very difficult to expect you know and 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 they are. his and the banners the north. you know and we will not accept the gospel in the palace if they do that i think that they have the wind as a loss and that's the reason could be you know very very special status that means no albanian flag no i've been in court. now i've 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 kosofsky welcome the arrival of the trucks loaded with medicines food and equipment . boy and 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 responding to us i've been around here for two weeks now and 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 to 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 duty. 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 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 can only look in the let 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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