have fired tear gas to disperse a crowd of ethnic serbs defaming their barricades along the cost of serbia border troops reportedly used special equipment to remove concrete barriers late on wednesday and put up a barbed wire fans to try and restore control of the area gunshots were reportedly heard when hundreds of ethnic serbs poured into the streets to remove the wire around twenty roadblocks were mounted to stop local authorities in northern caso from controlling the serb dominated area tensions have been on the rise over disputed border crossings since the summer and clashes escalated one costumer authorities. moved to chapter points while imposing a trade value on serving goods when you serve the living area we jack casillas two thousand and eight in the panels from from them and from from serbia and for more on this let's now talk to political analyst alexander palm beach who is in belgrade for us that's about it thanks very much for being here with us in the program well mayor troops have been deployed to the area since stanchions escalated back in july so what does their presence

though this is one of the secrets to why nato is using aggressive action right now by the deadline for serbia as an assembler knife that that's the day when the european commission the european union supposed to make a decision on granting serbia candidate status in the meantime they know that the government of belgrade will do give just about any concessions to get candid status as a result they're trying to change nato is trying to change the situation on the ground knowing that the hands of the present government approach e.u. government in belgrade are kind and there are good actually taking advantage of the situation. i think they'll probably get a grant candidacy to belgrade but probably not begin. which is that she would go. so we had at least two more weeks until december ninth when we made more things

and kosovo and serbia did very well together with in yugoslavia until tensions were you know stirred up more or less by u.s. intelligence. and you can find more on the unstable situation cost when our website r t dot com to go online to get the latest updates as well as the background to the serbian causing conflict and you can also find a number of stories by our correspondents reporting from the scene all that is available on our website r t v dot com. now russia is ready to pull out of the start nuclear arms reduction treaty if the u.s. continues with its plans to deploy a missile defense shield in europe present a major event of war and that moscow may move its sound offensive missile systems to its borders in response well it's now cross lifestyle correspondent i mean so now we're for more on this sony's a president it has made russia's position clear what are the details of what he said. progress is reaction to the active development of plans for this missile defense shield in eastern europe came in the form of an announcement from president of egypt where he highlighted five s

tear gas to disperse a crowd of affleck serves the fanning they are barricades along the cost of serbia border troops reportedly used special equipment to remove concrete barriers late on wednesday and put up a barbed wire fans to try and restore control of the area gunshots were reportedly heard when hundreds of ethnic serbs poured into the streets to. the wire around twenty roadblocks were mounted to stop local authorities in northern ca so from controlling the serb dominated area tensions have been on the rise over disputed border crossings since the summer clashes as the weight of one constant or authorities move to checkpoints while imposing a trade ban on serbian goods for many serbs living in the area we just because it was two thousand and eight independence from serbia and now corresponds alex airshaft scale will be joining us shortly with more. don de bar and i war activists and journalists says that these latest actions my natives caso a forest are a blight and sign of aggression ok for is a struct that was developed for you know the united nations and developed for that whic

and kosovo and serbia did very well together with in yugoslavia until tensions were you know stirred up more or less by u.s. intelligence. you can find more on the unstable situation consul in our web site r t v dot com so go online to get the latest somethings as well as the background to the serbian qassam conflict and also find a number of stories by our correspondents reporting from the scene and all that is available at our team. russia is ready to pull out of the starting plea arms reduction treaty eve the u.s. continues with its plans to deploy a missile the fan shilling you are a president of the trinity and if war in the moscow name move its own offensive missile systems to its borders in response i guess any so now we would ports. some very harsh and direct words from president meets made it on the development of plans for the u.s. nato and their eastern european allies to build and develop that missile defense shield in eastern europe just outside russia's border he pointed out five steps that the russian federation would take if nato the u.s. and its allies don't reconsid

frankly speaking goal serbia especially cause of a very far from the e.u. ascension at this point so it is mostly a sort of political pressure and much less much less an actual option at this point it's ideally it functions but at this point it's very hard to say that and any actual solution could come out of that particular. point of approach nicholas concerts thank you very much indeed joining us live in belgrade good to see here on r.t. thank you. and please please. well coming up later in the program here on r.t. this are one for all all all for one. e.u. leaders pledge closer ties and stand by the single currency but the question of collective pouring for the eurozone continues to divide the region's top brass. portugal hits a new low as its debt has been classified as junk by one of the world's leading ratings agencies. those stories still to come on moscow says it's not planning to halt the reset of ties with washington but is ready to pull out of the nuclear arms reduction treaty if the u.s. goes ahead with its defense shield plans in europe washing

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and they still consider land a part of serbia of course the majority albanian cos it was not consider their territories to be independent but so far at least they have been allowed a measure of self-sufficiency a measure of independence and an ability to be in contact freely with the mainland serbs now in july became a threat to this albanian said that they wanted to control the customs control all the goods and all the cars coming into the area now the serbs didn't just see this as a formality they sort of as an infringement of their remaining freedoms they're calling this a slippery slope first the control of the customs and perhaps control of the police coming in here and being able to control the territory and finally the. remained of the serbian population at first they put out these barricades to prevent this happening but then supposedly a compromise solution was found where instead of the albanians being able to take control of customs this control would go to the native baquet for the serbs they did not trust state for the state of the case for is not being independent they s

that divided kosovo the politicians in belgrade have repeated that the area is an integral part of serbia but under the presidency of western oriented but it started joining the european union has become a bigger priority to satisfy eed demands that it has recently called for the barricades to be dismantled and branded their defenders extremists to units that are public it will grow it has abandoned kosovo and the people of kosovo are fighting for themselves the e.u. keeps making new demands first handing over milosevic. then murder which they will never be satisfied meanwhile the situation for serbs in kosovo is getting worse that we have because this is footage of the latest clashes on the barricades which have been happening almost daily recently but despite the toll of simmering violence when we visit the barricades on a quite a night there is of course where serbs remains firm olive oil because this will because this is our homeland we will not leave it and we will defend it regardless of what anyone else tells us to do on the butt of. the european union most of the leaders in belgra

police will move in then the army would move in then they'd have to either go to the main part of serbia or perhaps they'd have to disappear among the local population so this is an unacceptable outcome to you know so you had this four month standoff with the barricades of the serbs are saying none of your customs here and with the albanians trying to move in now after a while the initiative was taken away from dell playing ins and it was taken over by nato by k. four u.k. four is the place to be the mediator it's in it's going to resolve the situation but the serbs have no chance of decay for saying that what happened on the night of the twenty third is a perfect illustration of this conflict why did they come in why did he use force in fact they're condemning this particular attempt to dismantle the barricades by saying that they had a previous agreement with the k four that they would not actually touch their barricades that they would not do anything about them and they would not try to provoke a scene and yet that's exactly what happened on the night. lotteries in the order of the r

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standoff is just too high and says he never wanted independence just to cross over to reunite to serbia but he had missed the does is unlikely to happen and that a compromise is necessary process. we are isolated now anyways maybe as talking about this will put pressure on belgrade to pay more attention to serve some cause or to help but you will see those that were there for twelve years since the conflict that divided kosovo the politicians in belgrade have repeated of the area is an integral part of serbia but under the presidency of western oriented but it started joining the european union has become a bigger priority to satisfy eed demands that it has recently called for the barricades to be dismantled and branded their defenders extremists to units that have public in belgrade has abandoned kosovo and the people of kosovo are fighting for themselves the e.u. keeps making new demands first handing over milosevic then could out which then murder which but they will never be satisfied meanwhile the situation for serbs in kosovo is getting worse that we have because this is footage o

police will move in then the army would move in then you'd have to either go to the main part of serbia or perhaps they'd have to disappear among the local population so this isn't an acceptable outcome to them so we've had this for months standoff with the barricades of the serbs are saying none of your customs here and with the albanians trying to move in now after a while the initiative was taken away from the albanians and it was taken over by that native back ok for p.k. for is supposed to be to mediate or it's in it's going to resolve the situation where the serbs have no choice of make a for party or are they reporting from each of its political analyst knesset says the root of the current standoff there is in it is failure to stick to its peacekeeping mandate. it's not a problem of whether they should be there and not a problem that they are the ones that are the only legitimate well for us that we should act upon such a situation but the problem is that they are exceeding their limits and they are exceeding their authority and nobody wants to fit all night at some barricade and

for a long time and kosovo and serbia did very well together within yugoslavia until tensions were you know stirred up more or less by u.s. intelligence. he has been covering events in the north of course since the protests spread out the sun you can find our correspondents reports on this opinions on our website. and also online i see started down an out and out her man who once ran for governor in the u.s. now sleeping rough in ukraine but he'd gone looking from the. likes of the martin tough incident hussein and stones of advertising. seem to come. as the deadline approaches for the u.s. to withdraw its troops from iraq looks like it's not just soldiers that are leaving the country billions of dollars have reportedly been stolen from iraq during the military campaign but one of the justice system is chasing petty crime by granting offices people the top appeared to be immune from investigation. not everybody leaves the war zone empty handed the number of people indicted and convicted by the u.s. for bribery fraud in there in iraq and afghanistan has never been so high among those a

a nato broken agreement with them and trying to tear down one of their roadblocks near the kosovo serbia border it prompted the latest clashes in the north the breakaway region came despite claims that the alliance had earlier promise not to take unilateral action as. has the details from kosovo we haven't witnessed the same as on the night of the twenty eighth but tension remains extremely high in north in kosovo. that night as the native by k four try to dismantle the barricades the serbs came out today defense tear gas was used there were injuries as well as we drove around the serbian part of kosovo you know does it have barricades are not being dismantled and in fact some have told us that more are going to be put up they're being manned and if people here are going to carry on manning them as an act of defiance now what you may see there is barricades you may say well that's just a pile of rubble but to the people living here they're an extremely important symbol and also they have important practical implications the local minority field and their rights have been eroded kosovo wh

peacekeepers accused of stirring things up while in clashes along the serbia kosovo border after nato forces move in to tear down a protester roadblock despite promising to keep away. but just a week left till voters go to the polls to decide on the country's next. time they'll that vision for the future. but first russia's president sent a strong warning to nato countries this week over their play and european missile shield dmitri medvedev said if it goes ahead without guarantees of russia's safety moscow would deploy its own missiles as peter all over explains one casualty could be russia any united states is much vaunted nuclear cuts. hope on hold of the use of talks surrounding the united states proposed missile shield in eastern europe russia says the u.s. still won't give adequate assurances over who will be targeted from woods from president made yet of. other measures are insufficient russia will deploy a contemporary strike systems in the west in order to prevent further damage from u.s. missile systems deployed in europe the deployment of the is going to missile system in t

tensions running high and serbia's border with northern kosovo's neither of the conflict in sides are prepared to rule out a further escalation of violence local serbs say nato forces are to blame for breaking an agreement by trying to remove a barricade blocking the way to one of a number of disputed checkpoints and move from violent clashes that left dozens injured on both sides. have got the details from kosovo last slide caused here in northern kosovo without violence but does not mean that the source of tension has disappeared two nights ago on the twenty third nato back a force tried to remove a barricade that has been put up by the ethnic servin minority here it was word was stiff resistance tear gas was used more than twenty people were injured and the operation by the capel had to be abandoned. now yesterday we drove around the area and these barricades which have been up here for around four months still are manned by people and people are saying that they're not going to abandon them and find planning to put up even more of them now that untrained eye these road blocks thes

northern kosovo but said talk now to alexander publishes 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 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 and prishtina and they're doing it openly in spite of their mandate from the un which is supposed to be a peacekeeping mandate is they said keep to the warring sides separated. reports the case will be using tear gas i just mentioned 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 they really are acting like an occupier instead of peacekeepers they're using tear gas they're using barbed wire and we must remember the population here the serbian population still has nunneries of fifty sixty years ago during world war two the same methods were used by

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

in serbia multis available in. the senate rushes to vote on austerity plan to clear the way for a new government. to fix one of the largest economies. nato countries expect to reconstruct libya new questions over the real motives for the military strikes. a political storm the nation's mood tons oddly as local i'll break down the country. to the bad old days of.

times are tough in jagodina in central serbia. the signs are plain to see.undown areva has been struggling for survival. -- the run down brewery has been struggling for survival. the department store shot down. he has left his stamp on jagodina with a large recreational park, a soccer stadium, and a popular water park. he has also attracted industry with the promise of free land. the government provides farmers with cows to encourage people to stay in rural areas. a village on the outskirts of the city is home to one family. all they had to get a cow was to register with the government lottery. he has given out hundreds of the animals. >> it is unique. there has never been anything like this in serbia or the former yugoslavia. >> dragan markovic has been remarkably successful since the end of the yugoslav wars. he claims he never carried a weapon. boxing has been enough. that line has become a favorite joke among his colleagues. weapons were a serious matter in the early 1990's. people checked them before entering a restaurant or club. in 1993, the party of

conflicting sides on serbia's border with northern kosovo warned of a possible escalation of violence local serbs say nato backed forces a broker earlier agreements by trying to take down a border parikh aid a move that led to fierce clashes. discovers the weird and wonderful in some of the russian capital most unconventional museums stay with us. hello and welcome to the program the most people are out of the taj mahal gallery and the state machine is in the finals in the us and up the other interesting way the wonderful museums must have up its sleeve the history of balls red polka calligraphy i struck up style and so this is pretty impressive and the us will be exploring on the streets muskrats. in the soviet era many called moscow the world capital of museums it's a surprise considering there were hundreds of very different exhibition venues open in the city decades later there are even moon museums opens the public and exploring the wide range fascinating and size us subjects. first up is experiments hany implicated in the north of moscow if you think sites and fun do not get tog

on conflicting sides on serbia's border with northern kosovo one of the possible escalation of violence to local service a nato bad forces broke earlier agreements by trying to tear down a boar a border barricade of some movies led to fierce clashes. moscow out now heads to the museum this definitely keeping its cool it's always minus ten and there find out why next. hello and welcome to the program for the most people out of the taj mahal valerie in the states question is in the five observations opposite of what other interesting way the wonderful museums of moscow have up its sleeve the history of balls red polka calligraphy i stopped that spied so this is pretty impressive and that boss will be exploring on the streets of moscow out. in the soviet era many called moscow the world capital of museums it's no surprise considering there were hundreds of very different exhibition venues open in the city decades later there are even more museums opens the public and exploring the wide range fascinating and size us subjects. first up his experiments hany i'm located in the north of moscow

have been mousing barricades for months to defy a cause of authorities imposing a trade ban with serbia. two years might sound like a long time but when you're trying to finish building an olympic city from scratch and the heat is most certainly on the russian resort of sochi may still resemble a construction site but organizers of the twenty fourteen winter games there say everything will be ready in time and told them to their word the president of the international olympic committee has just paid a visit. yeah the present danger nationally thing could mediate so great to have you here with us in sochi i know it's not your first time in the city and your first time inspecting and a link big facility what is preferable to actually modernize existing facilities to a big city like in london thank over beijing or build everything from scratch like in sochi or world we have no preference between the two types of project what is the quality of the game for deity so we first look at the welfare of the athletes and then we have two options either we go back to a city that has already organize

a nato broken agreements with them in trying to tear down one of their roadblocks because of the serbia border it prompted the latest clashes in the north of the breakaway region and despite claims the alliance had earlier promised not to take you know that the action or security forces used tear gas and oil of warning shots as first crowds of protesters remove part of a barricade. takeover of border checkpoints testers defended the road with trucks rolling stones reportedly even twenty one years ago great has condemned natives actions and urged peacekeepers to act according to their mandate but failed to keep that mandate is the root of the problem according to little at least because the message. it's not a problem of whether they should be there and it's not a problem that they are the ones that are the only legitimate well force which should act upon such situations but the problem is that they are exceeding their limits and they are exceeding their authority nobody wants all night and some very . like nobody has something better to do the problem is that people are really scared th

not being respected not a part of this new so-called state they still say that they're living in serbia and they do not recognize this kosovo so when in july albanian possibles decided they would impose their customs but all the goods would have to go through their officials the serbian locals here rebelled ahead of business as a slippery slope first their goods will be controlled then the police will move in then the army would move in then don't have to either go to the main part of serbia or perhaps they have to disappear among the local population so this isn't an acceptable outcome to them so we've had this for months stand off with the barricades of the serbs are saying none of your customs here and with the albanians trying to move in now after a while the initiative was taken away from albania and it was taken over by that nato back a four ok four is supposed to be the mediator it's in it's going to resolve the situation the serbs have no trust of decay for they're saying that what happened on the night of the twenty third is a perfect illustration of this conflict why did they

and you round of violence has flared up on the course of all serbia border with nato troops using tear gas whilst dismantling barricades put up by local serbs opposed to border checkpoints their representatives claim that the nato command in the breakaway province has broken agreements with them after promising on wednesday not to take unilateral action or troops in riot gear attempted to remove concrete barriers and put up a barbed wire fence to restore control of the area belgrade has condemned the nato move and urged the peacekeepers to act according to the un mandate to protect civilians political analyst nicola tenacity says nato force in kosovo for can't fulfill this mission and that's why local serbs stay at the barricades there is no doubt nato has a legitimate presence in the whole of possible it's not a problem of whether to should be there is not a problem that they are the ones that are the only legitimate force that we should act upon such a situation but the problem is that they are exceeding their limits and they are exceeding their authority nobody wants to fit all nigh

absolutely not going to allow nato to help the albanians establish their own state and to turn to of serbia and this is this is a classical stalemate nato is going to keep doing what they're trying to do and the serbs are going to be doing with do trying to do nato has the force the serbs said no they're not the arms so nato has the initiative they have the power and obviously they're willing to use it against unarmed civilians and you can find more on the unstable situation because of i was on our web site r.t. dot com go online to get the latest updates as well as the background to be serbian and possible conflict you can also find a number of stories by our correspondents reporting from the scene all of them at r.t. dot com. now five minutes past the hour here in moscow russia is ready to pull out of the start nuclear arms reduction treaty if the u.s. continues with its plans to deploy a missile defense shield in europe president dmitri medvedev warned that moscow made move its own offensive missile systems to its borders in response teams and so now it has more on this. press's reaction

and kosovo and serbia did very well together with in yugoslavia until tensions were you know stirred up more or less by u.s. intelligence. but r.t. has been covering events in the north of course since the protests first letter of the summer you can find the correspondence reports and lists opinions on our website articles. also online today from a rising star to down and out point out how a man who once ran for governor in the u.s. ended up sleeping rough in ukraine he'd gone looking for the. likes of the dark when saddam hussein became stars of advertising the full version of the politics dot com. as the deadline approaches for the u.s. to withdraw its troops from iraq looks like it's not just soldiers leaving the country billions of dollars are reportedly been stolen from iraq during a military campaign. justice system is chasing petty crime by a ranking officers the people at the top to be immune from investigation. not everyone leaves the war zone empty handed the number of people indicted and convicted by the u.s. for bribery fraud and there in iraq and afghanistan has never be

for a long time and kosovo and serbia did very well together with in yugoslavia until tensions were you know stirred up more or less by u.s. intelligence. well our team has been covering events in the north of course of since the protests first up this summer you can find our correspondents reports and analysts opinions on our website that's not a dot com also online. from rising started down in out out her hand and once ran for governor the u.s. ended up sleeping rough crane where he'd gone looking for not. think underdog support rather than saddam hussein came from stars of video advertising check out the full version of the at and t. dot com. it's been one of the toughest weeks yet for the european union as markets italy recently on fit to weather the storm and the current economic climate interest on italy's debt has hit seven point eight percent unimaginable just a few months ago but both of them with a straight downside of the e.u. that its ratings agencies have been forced to act on a grim figures downgrading hundred portugal's debt to junk status warning of what account numb

and kosovo serbia did very well together within yugoslavia until tensions were you know stirred up more or less by u.s. intelligence. but he has been covering events in the north of possible since the protests first played out the sun you can find our correspondents report sound honest when i website about iraq. also unlike rising star three down and out point out man who wants to run for governor us sleeping rough in ukraine. looking for love. the likes of the dark prince and the same become stars of video advertising got the full version of the other party dot com. it's been one of the toughest weeks yet for the european union as markets team italy creasing the unfit to weather the storm of the current economic climate interest on italy's debt has hit seven point eight percent mashable just months ago both of devil with a streak of melt downs among other e.u. members ratings agencies have been forced to act on the grim pleas downgrading hungary and debt to junk status warning of want to come the time banks also hit the rating of e.u. leaders promote more austerity to combat the crisis

for a long time and kosovo and serbia did very well together within yugoslavia until tensions were you know stirred up more or less by u.s. intelligence. it's been one of the toughest weeks yet for the european union as markets deem. fit to weather the current economic storm interest in italy's debt has hit seven point eight percent on just a few months ago and above the level that triggered about downs and other eurozone nations shockwave saw ratings agencies downgrade hungry and portugal's debt to junk status. as well to. tighten banks were also dealt a ratings blow as e.u. leaders pledged more cuts to combat the crisis but in the euro crack capital of brussels leading by example doesn't seem to be taking hold. any reports. this is become a familiar sight in the streets of europe symptomatic of the euro crisis and now it seems that the tide of discontent is rising within the plush halls of the vast european commission bureaucracy the. staff unions are threatening to go on strike after rejecting a proposal by the commission or the e.u. civil service to save a one billion euros over se