time since the unrest began as the arab league vastly continue its observer mission despite one monitor deciding to quit. the headlines with those stories in full in about thirty minutes from now in the meantime special report we look at how the war in kosovo ended but left both sides feeling like they lost the pieces 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 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 in the other side of the bridge. choppers coming here every day. nor will they keep children away. can do their jobs properly this unnerves the people.

every hour helicopters make life uncomfortable for us not to boat georgevitch along with several thousand others living in the village of the pulse of age. however the cause of us themselves apology to blame for this situation in the summer of two thousand and eleven they blocked roads in the regions 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 in the boss of it she was billed four months ago. that's when the menu special forces. tried to enter this territory. to set up their

policemen on customers officials on the border with serbia who for the 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. with. units from the kosovo force known as k for 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. oh that's the way i.

was there although you know. 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 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 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 your little push. people said i'm not from cost of art but i feel the need to be here together with the 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 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. 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 town but i hope to get used to it with time because i hear it because they were forced to remove the barricades sinjar it so several times what are you guys put them up unusable.

was. this this bridge is the main bridge and route three theories connect to two parts of me three. completely. divided no after the war on ninety nine. i mean 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. bridge the. both of them were told its. own but.

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 broke out. 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 lead a slowdown the loss of a chance 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 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 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 him but we need the basic life conditions if we don't get them back we will be able to come back here 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 or you. know all these of both being destroyed to and. from. well. the break up. 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 of. this polo how are you good and you 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 is 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 course of us 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 if we're now witnessing its final phase. simberg eleventh i have heard reports of people in cos of. signing a petition to request a russian citizenship. board georgie which collected forty seven thousand signatures with all of them were sent to russia with and through 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. this is our time. to reclaim the american dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth that out of many we all want that war we breathe the 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 of free.

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 already we're bridge. we are counting. property drowning and i think it's threatened by it's cutting off our. it's making goldmark recy. all but impossible. when an uncomfortable question leads to a grave accusation the world sues moore's you know fog. the president who isn't supposed to hide anything. or it's someone asking him why do you make

a secret out that when the powers to be suppress the voice of those who think different culture when you get experiencing very serious problems often the saakashvili government came to power in two thousand and three but if you will that was when the problems began piling up. interviews were now off limits to our journalists they were often be seen up and humiliated in public when the attempt to protect property puts life in real danger that we have been deprived of the only means of earning a living and i have the gall to originals of all the papers. the little ice the ownership rights on the basis of companies freedom becomes just a stage prop wealthy british style stock.

markets. can. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cause or there are no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report. if only she'd gone is two hours late but the people manning the barricades me at 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. floor and for those who are listen listen. to the it was six. feet using the i believe.

that even me alone. was. at the. very decent people 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's 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 in my favorite song about.

after ivana's 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 police think of this by the yugoslavia twenty years ago as. they were 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 i. would worry a slice of macedonia would come back it was the third republic to seat 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 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 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 ago when the same with same no but after they saw. the opportunity. of

being accommodated into the cost of the sidehill then they accept what 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 this small t.v. and radio station immediately after the declaration of course of those independents . 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 studio's rather sterile appearance is broken only by the empty set caricature those that confront guests as soon as they enter. this is

a most rich. time doing. just hiding. destroying the bridge on a mystery. disappointed by the spectacle in the palace will be like him. do you think. there is a lot of people who watch them 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 forced by building a new took a preview and we understand of them because they cannot cooperate with us if serbia is create an 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 anymore they did for one part of crash here and 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 sylvia. only the event of it is cool 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 al thani and settlements. so very difficult to expect you know and that is the fear that 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 there nor. you know and we will not accept the gospel in the policy didn't 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. 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. no more. 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 to has drawn to a close a far away mood scene 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 i was in that people here in cos will want exactly what people in the rest of serbia do you know with all within us they want casilla to be theirs not all being you people will stay on in the stance regardless of where there are barricades will be torn down and that can only happen in the levy people will come here and them and look at the bridge with a rope and god willing i'll come here again and again to stand together with my friends and us ship them.

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