with separatist movements the dangerous precedent has been set. this is the way that this conflict is ruining our president and i we cannot that relationship we cannot be just human being and a friend or a victim of racism an arab israeli man finds himself behind bars all to hundred consensual sex with a jewish woman who complained to police tricked into believing he was also would. call delays of moving on in the men's neo nazi group accused of dozens of murders and other race crimes while psychiatric tests are carried out. live from our studios here in central moscow this is a t with twenty four hours a day the un's highest court has ruled kosovo's unilateral declaration of

independence from serbia over two years ago did not violate international law the court said there was no article which prevents declarations of sovereignty the decision which is a rejection of a claim by serbia is non-binding because of a majority declared independence from belgrade in february two thousand and eight to you and brokered negotiations failed us and most european nations recognize the move but serbia backed by russia and china called it a violation of its territorial integrity because of a previously been administered by the un following the nato bombing campaign against serbia in one thousand nine hundred nine but the journalist and historian. says the decision is biased. it's pretty much a death sentence for international law this is a textbook case of. clear violation of both the un resolution twelve forty four and all the accepted norms of international law i honestly was expecting. a more

nuanced decision along the lines of it was illegal but it doesn't matter i quite honestly didn't expect the world court to take such a directly pro-american position to be perfectly honest kosovo is as much independent does munch equal or vichy france was in world war two it's a puppet state it suffers from endemic corruption abuses of power its government structure can be best described as organized crime is not a state in any way shape or form just because the us state department says it is a doesn't mean it is a case of course it was just a naked land grab and if it's allowed to stand and serbia itself may actually soon fall apart and disappear serbia as a country cannot afford to simply let this slide for the past twenty years there have been wars and conflicts in the balkans stemming from the collapse of yugoslavia and each time there was any sort of dispute the serbs turned out to be on the losing end and the principles that the so-called international community

adopted along the way varied according to the needs of the moment there's no principle here really that can consistently apply over the past twenty years except the serbs always lose and that's clearly not a principle you can build a policy on. well still to come later in the program here and a manhunt in southern russia police sweep the north caucuses searching for the militants who attacked the hydroelectric power station. for human rights activists at the aids conference in vienna assuming the pharmaceutical companies. but first in israel an arab man has been sentenced to eighteen months for rape by deception about to sure tricked a woman into having sex with him by claiming to be jewish plans to appeal the decision and as all of these ports new reports even couples who choose to have interfaith relationships face hostility. this jewish drucilla i'm suburb is surrounded by arab neighborhoods and far from cultivating

a culture of tolerance vigilante style jewish patrol groups calling themselves fire for judaism stand watch outside the local shopping mall their mission to prevent arab men mixing with local jewish girls the municipality has created a twenty four hour hotline where parents and friends can phone to rat on jewish girls breaking this to boot a specially trained team of counselors and psychologists is on standby to rescue them as we should more. it's important to save our traditions culture history and identity because without this who are we from my experience we can see that the chances for a healthy relationship between really really jewish woman and an arab man very very low is because of the great differences between these two cultures shut up at any of the most recent case involves an arab man who posed as a jewish bachelor a jewish woman agreed to have sex with him but after she found out he was an arab and not a jew she filed a police complaint the courts took the case so seriously that he's now being

convicted of rape by deception and same tools to eighteen months to present the judge stated he had an obligation to protect the public funds of the state of criminals who could know it innocent victims but reactions to the verdict differ i think if the women want to do it it's stored mauled a lot different if it's arabic or more of a because something like this usually do is girls don't know where their guys. unless it's a choice you know. there should be a choice you didn't leave a choice but in prison is too much and this is the way that this conflict is ruining our present arrives that we cannot have relationships that we cannot be just human being arabs make up a fifth of israel's population but relationships between arabs and jews are rare former palestinian minister ziad abu is a yard says fights break out almost weekly and night clubs and other puppy. places over the issue it's not religion he says it's racism there are jewish.

which. threatened. to break. in the two years ronnie white here and bin tata have been together they've never been physically threatened he's muslim she's jewish but they're not thinking about leaving israel because they say it's simply too difficult on other levels and when my family found out they were. very adamant about cutting me on every level. for acting as a traitor to everybody and being in it and making that choice right now israeli parliamentarians are considering and it will be quiet perspective israeli citizens to israel as a jewish democratic state i would be furious most refused to swear allegiance to

a state they believe explicitly excludes and marginalizes them. when i. was head of the center for victims of crime and academic college and also political journalist an analyst gideon levy and here's what they had to say. i'm not so sure about it personally i think that this case has been blown out of potion entirely because the court to emphasize the fact that the sure prison is to be single when he was married not sure then the court tenses science to such a claim to be too and the real question is whether it should be. raised now to the . time we are adults people have grown up people and we know that in any kind of relationship between men and women. big lies and small lies white lies and

blake lies i hear about his age he could tell her he loved her and he didn't love her he could tell her that he has a car and he doesn't have a car this will be sure there really shows that he's emotional pretended to be a jew and this is the subtext of the whole thing don't touch a women that's the subtext yf the judges cemented the diff they didn't mean it but that's their meaning. well coming up later a wider look at how the arab minority in israel has felt intimidated for years. one of the ways to highlight that is by looking at the very early years the first twenty years of israel's existence when the palestinians inside israel lived under a military government. they couldn't move outside of their communities without a permit from military government government they lived under martial law i mean today there are there are several palestinian parties but none of them have ever been allowed to serve in the government none of them have held any positions of responsibility what's happened is that you can only participate in the government

if you subscribe to this position which is that the jews are privileged population inside the country for instance there's no palestinian minority have no control over their schooling their curriculum is decided by the jewish majority there's very clear issue here about where palestinians are being allowed to live and slowly they've been pushed further and further out of their historic homeland to the very margins of it now outside of it and that's a process of very clear cleansing. and you can hear more from jonathan cook a journalist working in the middle east later in the program here on r.t. a ruling against and then there neo nazi group has been perspire for the suspects go through psychiatric assessment the group is accused of dozens of ethnically motivated killings and terror plots and could spend the rest of their lives in prison if convicted here in moscow stacey bivins has more. some of the defendants

said that they are guilty of some of the charges some of them say that they are innocent so there is a nit picking of who is guilty and whose and at that and we spoke to a defense attorney of one of those people during a break and he really went at the prosecution saying that they had errors in the polyphony investigation and their arrows going on right now as that is the reason why this trial is closed now that not the defendants on this case are young guys they're only in their twenty's but the prosecution says not let their age fool pull you that they are extremely dangerous and that they are governed by extremist idea that the thirteen alleged neo nazis are accused of four main things of murdering twenty seven people because of ethnic hatred prepping to launch a terrorist attack participating and in a legal and illegal extremist network and citing ethnic hatred now according to the f.s.b. when agents went into the rest these guys they put on

a strong defense moving so for all ages and the agency also says that during this the west arrests they found several weapons and explosives now if these men are found guilty they could face life in prison these men were found or are accused of being guilty of having illegal ties with and extremists network and that group is called the national socialist society and the mission behind this group is to rule a socialist russia and to up root and essentially get rid of all immigrants but who is really responsible they're arresting essentially people who are foot soldiers they're young and they don't really have the money or the power to have a network like this so who's funding that. and who's organizing it and they say until the the masterminds behind this organization are brought to light and brought to justice russia cannot claim victory against extremists but you have the.

foreigners of the nationalist movement saying look you can come at us at whatever direction you want we're not going anywhere we're fighting a race war and we're here to stay and i spoke to a supporter a wife of a person who bob market that he was targeting traders for central from central asia that were in moscow and she said you know what i'm proud of my husband he's a soldier and more russians need to step up and be heroes here's more of our amazing interview. this self professed and deeply religious woman is full with hate hate for those who are different hate for immigrants she accuses of occupying disrespecting and contaminating her nation russians she insists are fighting a race war motivated by love books a love for one homeland and our nation of love for our good people families where people don't just date and then break up but rather they get married in church they

don't practice abortions they don't support interest nic marriages does abort ethnically mixed communities and what are your thoughts about me i'm not russian i'm african american i'm here are you upset that your government gave me a visa what are your thoughts on that. i believe everyone should live in their own homeland they belong which are believe and inspired by racist blocking her husband . and two fellow students. the market in two thousand and six they target it because of the number of traders that come from central asia and china a blast killed fourteen attacks against non-slip at looking people are often brutal and in cases like yours cost the market they are deadly the deeds of angry mob family outnumber victims all recorded by racist and then posted on nationalist websites. activists call the situation out of control when a local nonprofit crime watchdog group acknowledges it is slowly getting better let

you know what needs to started seizing the most odious groups that had been involved in systematic violence and terrorism during the last two years the largest formations in moscow were dispelled and the key activists and murderers detained. she says one thousand people have been killed due to hate crimes in two thousand and ten that's down from fifty for the same time period last year but that map does little to satisfy maggots who kill suffer lions it's better than police protection is supposed. believe going to any longer walk alone they'll work in crowds of people take care of their own safety. comes interaction after a crime is committed. asked for veronica her husband is serving a life sentence for actions neither of them regret in for a cause they both support. r.t. . by the way you can find more stories and analysis on our web site is our dot com that's available to you whenever you want it here's some of what can be found there

right now online an iraqi american turned his own skin into a canvas for the memories of a forgotten war is determined to draw attention to those killed in iraq anyone can . post on our web site an impressive forces gathering in ukraine seaside resort of service to pull as bikers from around the world to show off their metal steeds for more head to r.t. dot com. the russian president has ordered security stepped up at all critical facilities in the north caucuses on wednesday a group of gunmen stormed a hydroelectric station in comedy about caria leaving two guards dead and destroying two power generators which medvedev promised anyone responsible for failing to ensure safety and kill infrastructure sites will be dealt with. this isn't a sporadic event this is a case of criminal activity related negligence law enforcement bodies and companies

should do everything in their power to avert any repetition of events like this in the future and if this does happen again none of the law enforcement groups or company executives will remain in their jobs that we've seen nothing similar to this before so we must draw the most serious confusions from the. artist not is of a has the latest now on the hunt for the militants behind the palace station attack . reported that the militants leaders are the sure who was behind the storming of this hydro plant in the north caucasus on wednesday morning a group of opp to five gunmen forced their way into the. power plant killing two police officers at the entrance members of gangs were reportedly identified by employees of the station as the attackers although there's been no official confirmation of the gang detonated equivalent to ten kilos of t.n.t. the explosions didn't damage the planned day and didn't affect the electricity

supply of the region security has been tightened at all the energy facilities across russia manhunt is underway although the bulk idea says less violence than all the nearby north caucasus republic such as. it was the scene of the fiercest fighting in october two thousand and five than dozens of militants stormed the capital city at night attacking police man and governmental officers one hundred and forty people were killed among them ninety two militants last ten attacks on law enforcement officials. in this region in the very heart of russia's north caucasus known to be a haven for militants. but reporting from russia's southern republic of company. protests continue outside the international aids conference in vienna demonstrators

claim american policies of favoring multinational pharmaceutical companies making medicine and treatments more expensive the complaint is being launched against the us at the united nations on behalf of nineteen organizations from around the globe activists demanding more rights for those with a child the. same to keep awareness of the disease during this period of international standards in respect to functions in the form of medical journalist for the sunday times in london he thinks the. form is trying its best but using the wrong science. i think that their calls were are being listened to but that actually the direction in which the science is going is misplaced imagine why people are angry. for many years i reported on this subject i started writing about it twenty five years ago and held the conventional view that it aids was caused by a new virus when that was first. forward in the one nine hundred eighty but over the years are trying to return clues from that scientists who've been challenging

that idea to say that hiv has never been proven as a specific entity and therefore the tests that claim to diagnose infection are faulty i think they've got a very strong point and that's why after all these years it's we're still seeing such dissatisfaction with the efforts of the scientific community it's not that they're not trying but they're they're misdirecting their efforts. well now time for some other world news this north korea has called for joint military exercises between south korea and the u.s. to be canceled calling them a threat to global peace but also describe new u.s. sanctions as a clear expression of intensified hostility to clinton is expected to discuss the issue during the regional forum tension was heightened considerably in march after north korea was accused of sinking a warship to the south. he's fifteen people have been killed and

twenty one wounded by the northern iraqi city of last struck a shopping area near a shia mosque demolishing buildings and setting cars on fire it was the third attack this week in the province which has been an insurgent stronghold has been sustained violence in iraq which has been without a new government five months after inconclusive parliamentary elections. but principally for the moment i'll be back in about ten minutes from now with all the latest headlines in just a few minutes though he will be talking to journalist and author jonathan cook he says that israel is a regional bully which actually benefits from the vision that's coming up very shortly here on.

what i have to cook a freelance journalist and author of three books thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. you are the only. journalist to be based here in nazareth the largest arab town in israel what kind of different insight does this give you to the conflict as opposed to most foreign journalists who are based in the centers of tel aviv to jerusalem and ramallah that location in itself. tends to select the focus of your work tends to prejudge what the issues major issues here are in the conflict and i think journalists who are based in the normal cities like jerusalem and tel aviv tend to assume that the conflict began in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven that it's

a product of the occupation of the palestinian territories the west bank and gaza whereas my focus has been based being based inside israel in a palestinian or arab community how do you want to describe it is to see that conflict predates nine hundred sixty seven why do you feel that as a whole should not be classified as a democracy bearing in mind that the arab community here can vote they can form their own political parties this idea that just because you have voting rights therefore you live in a democracy so superficially it sounds persuasive but actually it's not very persuasive and one of the ways to highlight that is by looking at the very early years the first twenty years of israel's existence when the palestinians inside israel lived under a military government. they couldn't move outside of their communities without a permit from military government government they lived under martial law but during that period they had full voting rights so with where they are living under in a democracy the question really is how did israel engineer a situation where it could give voting rights to its palestinian minority and not

feel threatened and today there are there are several palestinian parties guards none of them of ever being allowed to serve in the government none of them of held any positions of responsibility what's happened is that you can only participate in the government if you subscribe to this position which is that the jews are privileged population inside the country this isn't just about the parliament it applies to many other kinds of spheres of life for them for instance there's no the power. sunni minority have no control of the schooling curriculum is decided by the jewish majority in your book blood and religion you've accused israel of a long slow process of ethnic cleansing but do you not think the fact that since nine hundred forty nine the arab israeli population as well as the palestinian population within the west bank and gaza the fact that those populations have grown considerably doesn't that challenge the the theory you put forward well it's grown yes but the question is not just about the numbers it's also

a question about where they live of course has been a lot of ethnic cleansing going on in the last seventy sixty seventy years and some people would argue that actually what israel is doing qualifies as genocide whether one wants to adopt that view or not there's very clear issue here about where palestinians are being allowed to live and slowly they've been pushed further and further out of their historic homeland to the very margins of it now outside of it is always in the change the oath upon entering the israeli parliament no longer to members of parliament swear allegiance only to the state of israel but also to a jewish democratic state why do you think this happened what is the significance well this is part of a much wider trend to do with loyalty what it would boil to legislation as the government's now calling it mr mr lieberman's party. was far right party i've already mentioned he he he got elected on a plan he's the third largest party in the parliament he was elected all of them or you look out over the road to your citizenship and his party's been introducing

a series of buildings to try and ensure that palestinian citizens have less and less legitimacy with a little sister not all of the bills are being passed but but they're changing the whole discourse in israel into one in which the assumption is that palestinians are not loyal they have should have no rights they have to prove their loyalty and so this is very much part about whole search the same kind of move you talk about lack of loyalty but recently an elders. member of parliament earnings wabi lost some of her purpose just because she participated in the fraternity which some israelis felt essentially put her head wall with israel it's a strange idea that you need to be at war with humanitarian activists to try to bring aid to people of gaza. i have asked question for all of us we should look at say what is it legitimate to attack in international waters both taking aid to people who are you know what according to all the other surveys taken by by international bodies like the united nations are suffering from malnutrition many

other things so but i mean of course it was a very different situation and she's not only doing that as a concern global citizen which is interesting because it's her people she's a member of the palestinian people you've stated that israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu his first term of office was characterized by the deceit of the american president clinton and also attempts to destroy the peace process do you believe that the strategy continues now in his second term of office he's saying to a group of settlers he doesn't think he's being filmed he doesn't realize he's being filmed but he tells the this group of settlers exactly what he did in his first term in the late ninety's during the all slow process and that what he did was to deceive bill clinton to give away very small areas of of occupied territory in return for agreements that they would have to give much larger areas of occupied territories and thereby destroy the whole principle of the overall slower process and of course although he doesn't say it's about that very much explains the palestinian reaction which led to the second intifada while following on from what

you've said is this ways and why you say that israel actually once and benefits from the chaos of the middle east well i've argued that israel is in favor of chaos in the middle east partly because. it's following in a tradition of well known colonial tradition of divide and rule one that israel has implemented in the occupied territories the lesson israel learned from that is it's a very effective way of stopping any kind of resistance to. your plans the palestinians have struggled to counteract israel's initiatives because they've been so divided. it's been a very useful strategy inside israel in the occupied territories what is the solution we disappoint to a one state solution i'm support anything that brought peace and gave palestinians and israeli jews the right to live happy contented lives. the question is how do you achieve that now some people say you can do it through two state solution i

don't actually think that's even technically possible any longer if it ever was we're talking about very small areas of land that would be left to the palestinians nobody's talking about it being a militarized state who control the borders i mean there are all sorts of questions that nobody really wants to look at in any kind of depth at the moment because everybody knows the answers would mean that this wouldn't really be a proper state jonathan karl thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. . let me. be easy. to laugh. laugh.

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