st bernard. keeps an eye on america's high stakes military ambitions in poland as president obama rounds soffits european trip in warsaw. belgrade agrees to extradite former general rather go to the hague of war crimes charges despite his health problems serbia is accused of arresting him only so it can join the e.u. . georgia protesters that appeal to the e.u. to probe accessorize not following the governments in the grandest a crackdown that's left hundreds wounded and detained.

ten am in the russian capital you're watching r t thanks for joining us now our top story missile defense plans and america's military presence in poland are in focus as the u.s. president wraps up his european tour with a visit to the country well it's something moscow is watching closely especially after obama's promise to try and agree on a system that suits both of their security interests it work is going on is it warsaw for r.t. . this is barak obama's first official visit to poland and the last leg of his european tour a lot of issues are on the table but probably the most important one is the plans for paul ince to house a u.s. air base which would service hercules military transport planes and f. sixteen fighter jets and also by twenty eighteen possibly halle's short range interceptor missiles are less interesting because the last time the two sides

talked about this sort of cooperation it was during the george bush administration which wanted to help us and to be elements of its anti missile defense system in europe here in poland and also in the czech republic while this was hugely criticized by moscow which said that with poland here in its neighborhood that would create a direct threat to russia's national security actually for some time this issue was of the main stumbling point in the really she's between moscow and washington what barack obama canceled of these plans in fact for some time there was a lot of talk about boosting cooperation between moscow washington and brussels including possible joint eighty missile defense system at the g eight summit in france the two presidents barack obama and. they also stressed that such a system has to work for full size in the interests of all sides but previously

america and the romania agreed for the country to how some elements of its a.m.d.'s shiels on its territory without inviting russia to take part in this project now we've already heard from president meet me d.v.d. of who said that if this tendency continues the rule that means see another arms race start by twenty twenty also quite interesting is that many analysts here in poland including the country's former foreign and prime minister. the see there today's clearly no threat to paul and from its neighbors and they don't see the point in hells ing so much american military here all. seem time if the previous administration here in toronto was saying that only by clause the clause. cooperation with washington can fall and secure its cvs the current

administration or so they are trying to hold an independent policy from washington and again judging by their action it doesn't really this policy doesn't really fit in the current picture. but russia believes a promise is not enough and wants legal guarantees that the u.s. and its allies want to use their wired missile shield against it but tom cawley now from the u.s. based arms control association says the vicious within the united states and world encourage a solution to satisfy both. well they are talking about how to make this a joint system the question is what does joint mean at this point they're talking about sharing early warning information and other radar information which would be a step forward but before they can get there before they can get to a shared system russia needs to be reassured that this istomin is not aimed at it and again the nato and the united states need to make a joint statement to russia saying that this is them is not aimed at you this is them is no danger to you it's focused on dangers and threats from middle east not

from russia there is the obama administration which is very much wants a cooperative relationship on missile defense with russia and very much wants another arms control reduction agreement with russia certain republicans in the u.s. senate do not want those things so we have to make that clear distinction between what the ministration wants and what some members of the senate want so focusing on what the administration wants and what russia wants they both want cooperation on missile defense and they both want to move on to a new arms reduction agreement and given that i think there's enough common interest to move that forward as still to come this hour how opening frontiers is leading up to what actually is the israel egypt announces that after years of tight control of the egypt gaza crossing will be completely open about scott sullivan worried he explained why. a serbian court has ruled the former boss and serb army general of iraq or blood is to stand trial in the hague where

his family has said he isn't healthy enough to be extradited captured him has been a key condition for a service. and as it got that he now has a lot of reports lot of his arrest is seen as a sacrifice the country's very willing to make. success or sellout the arrest of former bosnian general outcome luggage has put serbia and the headlines once again for years no nato action u.n. demands or even a five million dollars bounty put up by washington could help snare him. but the prospect of billions of dollars worth of aid slipping out of reach was too much for belgrade but leaked u.n. report stating that serbia refused to cooperate in the search for europe's most wanted man led most to assume membership negotiations would be cancelled and just a week later serbia achieved what it couldn't for the previous sixteen years. if it wanted to hand him over as the price of entering the european union had every

interest in doing it as quickly as possible and the targets government which came into power in two thousand and eight should have done it then and they would have done it but i'm sure if they'd known where he was officials in belgrade very much hope that they can finally get a piece of the euro pie that the people of serbia down let's. prices. your minds in your national supply western companies and organizations you will be able to get into the european union let's talk all the war criminals and life again that is going to help you get into this so-called rich man's club because we can see the rich once it once was is having great difficulty is itself serbia's are already complied with a lot of eden man's including arresting former presidents about the loss of each and political leader. and each time the response from the e.u. has been enough to keep the dream of membership alive secure this year play this is

very big news this is a very courageous decision by the serbian president this is one additional step for the integration of serbia into the european union one day the arrest of i cannot it's. very important step towards full integration of the entire region in our your atlantic community i know that people will also be thinking about serbia and its future in the european union. what i know is that we will approach that we three knew the energy because of today but some believe serbia's membership ambitions could simply devastate the country instead of boosting its economy especially during the ongoing financial crisis of several you member states so being media more tightly controlled by the government. under the new laws from repeating in uni so that the e.u. is some kind of panacea to lose old problems now if serbia does during the think it

will be the first time in history that a wretch has jumped onto a sinking ship a long and drawn out trial is almost a guarantee and not many believe it will be an objective process still it seems for the serbian powers that be no price is too high if they are included in the expansion for no sixteen year old general awaits his fate in jail but considering the fact his arrest was one of the major conditions for serbia's potential acceptance into the european union it seems to be a question of when and not if he will face the war crimes tribunal and made. catherine as our party belgrade serbia. and all the way where in new york to ask if the doomsayers are right with tornadoes battery be us a pacific rim on nuclear alert. i think we're ok the world in. four billion years the sun. will be ok i'll find out if he's the only one to see

the bright side or whether mankind it's building up a pile of trouble for the future that's about ten minutes. i walk was issued members in georgia are appealing to the e.u. to investigate the government's savage crackdown on protesters during the country's independence day they were demonstrating against what they say is massive top level corruption and accuse president saakashvili of suppressing political freedom your physician says that hundreds of people are being held in jails at high. spittles than the others including senior political figures are reported missing or those who continue to speak out against the government save their be violently harassed by special forces opposition leader and the no bullshit artist spoke about what he sees as the dire state of democracy in today's ga. ga has become very similar to north korea where people are beaten taken to hospital brought back to jail beaten again and then taken to emergency rooms where people

are forbidden from visiting their loved ones where people are terrorized and where georgian security forces silenced criticism of the government under the threat of more violence this is the democracy we live in i can honestly say that i will have strong doubts whether democratic values even exist in this world if the international community doesn't acknowledge what is going on today in ga. ga's opposing voices say they are under some of the most intense pressure they faced in years believing their governments in terms of wiping them out artists are first was in the square in tbilisi which was the flashpoint for this week's violence and she says dark cloud still hangs over the city. but what we're hearing is in the aftermath of the dispersal of that protest wednesday night is that the crackdown only if opposition is continuing so what we were hearing at three thirty they said it is a day of independence military parade and certainly the atmosphere is very subdued

there was a heavy military and police presence remaining on the streets many of the streets that we saw a lot of the people at that parade itself were military personnel they went civilians turning out to watch that so certainly very severe than what we've been hearing since and is that this crackdown has continued now parties created have actually received a text for and as someone who says he's. stunned the leader of opposition he led the rally what he's takes three to r.t. is that it's really very serious situation according to him he's there's a number of people including opposition leaders who are missing he's talking about people who are still being arrested century saying that the opposition are still being silenced by circus fairly and his government we could use a policeman many people have been beaten to death some of my friends have. dozens of opposition supporters that i can't reach my friends have simply disappeared.

just bodyguards and most of his supporters have been. one of the opposition leaders . everybody who. has basically dictatorship in the days leading up to wednesday what we saw the numbers turning out the demonstrations were markedly less now there are actually divisions among the opposition and sells original the in her party going to come together some of the other opposition parties they call the day of rage that was at the last minute called us a lot of the space we're talking to they were very confused they didn't know what was happening the evening to you on it is quite clear that something was going to happen the police turned and we knew that the intervention the dispersal was going to go ahead but one thing meetings that happened very very quickly it was extremely violent people for the amount of police it turned out a lot of people saying off it was that's what it was justifiable a lot of people thought not it was excessive force one of our own correspondents who works the spanish channel was hit by one of the rather bullets and if you were

outside the main areas parliament then you with against them and certainly the force that they were using as we said a lot of questions being asked whether that was excessive force and whether it's justified. well you can get the latest updates on what's happening in georgia direct from our correspondents by following our twitter stream and there are also video reports that opinion are the bloody crackdown against protesters which you can look through at our page that's facebook dot com forward slash our jeanne moos . it's.

now israel's a long struggle to keep its borders water tight even though it's been at the expense of eleven palestinians have access to basic human assess cities although it's not a new worry in egypt gaza border is about to be thrown wide open after a decision by cairo as policy reports a humanitarian life right for arabs is a real headache propellor be. this is egypt's border with gaza a place where for years the gates were shut more often then opened only the most extreme humanitarian cases were let through which meant no more in three hundred people a day but fall to her mother was not one of them last year she died from cancer of the stomach she had trying desperately for months to leave gaza for chemotherapy treatment abroad but was never able to get the permission she needed to leave. and i went to the hospital here and they gave me some women and but the pain there and the borders are closed this is the reason was for. the new egyptian foreign minister says the decision to close the border was shameful on saturday his promise

to open a buffer permanently but after his release is coming true no more all in agreement drawn up six years ago between the not opposed to give him president hosni mubarak the united states the israelis and the europeans be in place that agreement gave you monitors access to the crossing and allow television to supervise and monitor security cameras from a far and was watching. egypt on certain points and checkpoints so that it was the same interest of both countries. permanent opening of rougher terrifies israeli citizens especially those who live funky puts was just eight hundred meters from the israeli gaza border ever since the key ports was established nearly sixty years ago it's been on the receiving end of endless rockets and snipers from gaza city to our scale of any meaning when we hear the first misinforming down we have to run and take their place. so we try to pull out all over the keyboard so there are everyone in his whole area there

are just last month of sixteen year old boy who was killed when it was some rocket hit the school bus he was traveling home in people who live here are afraid that what will happen next is that move with friends will find their way into the hands of palestinian militants and ultimately be used against the jewish state and sure. if their border will be open for really any luck in your nation. in the hamas is already loaded his immunization paying they really have much more the implications of which are becoming clearer by the day i'm standing some eighty five kilometers away from gaza where the really a grad missile fired from there has hit the outskirts of the city the israeli army is warning that in the next major conflict tens of thousands of rockets were hit television that was means as their daily life was raised living not far from gaza is fast becoming part of his radio life across the country since the r.t.

television. and in a few minutes sarkies intrepid sharp harness puts the heat of global warming on our . scientists all over the world are the building of global warming is it happening or is it not i'm shaun's on this in antarctica and coming up on r.g.p. we explore what people down here are saying about the subject. time to have a look at some world those in grief now greece's senior politicians have failed to agree on a new set of deep cuts ever forms which are. necessary to stop it sliding into default but the party leaders say that the measures will rule of the country's economy and destroy greek society or their conditions for the grass of bailout for the e.u. and i.m.f. with other eurozone countries eager to make greece take more of the strings. the exile the former leader of jurists is due to return to the small central american country on saturday in the hope it might have been nation's political deadlock

muddles the law it was overthrown by the army nearly two years ago but remains popular among hundreds the military has struggled for international recognition probably because and it's thought is the law is returned will help with your demise it. the number killed by a tornado that swept through the u.s. midwest town of joplin has reached one hundred thirty two friday saw the first funeral after the country's deadliest twister in six decades hit thirty said ninety people in a long list of the missing how good found alive in all lot of talk show host laurie are finished has been asking people whether we need to reassess how we tackle survival during nature's lethal onslaughts. tornadoes ripping down buildings nuclear power plants melting down our rebuilding our society was awfully hard with any forethought at all oh this week let's talk

about that do you think society thinks of long term or are they just always doom to think of the short term i think it depends which country you're in. i think americans are very short term. i think europe is. why aren't planes made of the material the black box me out of. all this like you know we that those are just not enough for thought put into it i just maybe net or maybe there's other things that we're not really seeing maybe it's you know i mean i'm sure a lot of i'm sure yeah some people are going to say it's some big government conspiracy or i think that and friends the companies public so. there is no private interests in the u.k. i hope that it's sure though maybe if there are people weren't worried about making money so much they'd make things better but i think this is it and i phones i pads there's no thinking past the next five minutes do you have children i do does my concern even if it does but i think we're ok the world in and last weekend there

were four billion years of the sun burns out so they will be ok back in the thirty's with projects that bastid for for one hundred years well the both of us the hoover dam is going to last a long time and projects like. this should last a thousand years because hopefully will be around in a thousand years right you put my buddy had to work and he's in construction so there's a lot of that too it is a fight against the corporation mine mainly. because you know i mean it's from a purely economic front of you taking. cost a lot so that was going away and the planet or the corporation. it's whether or not you think we're building society responsibly the bottom line is with lives and our planet on the line we can always strive to do better.

to get a proper grip on global warming you have to spend some time in the planet's called us climates thomas reports from deep down under where scientists are getting glaciers to give us clues as to which way our world is heading. each week of hikes to the. george islands to measure twenty nine different markers. by doing so he can record exactly how the glacier changes each year and it seems that glaciers in antarctica are getting smaller. if i put our glaciers are changing in size point search change in climates i know we know that since the middle or the end of the nineteenth century the majority of glass years are receding it means there is a general warming over. antarctica provides a unique opportunity where scientists can get a firsthand look at how this warming trend affects the local ecosystem some greater amount of fresh water is coming from slammed through the sea ice forms fresh water

where on the surface of the sea water fresh water is lighter so there is some problems with mixing of the water coral which could possibly influences the structure of the plankton zooplankton and krill are the main source of food for the majority of life in antarctica clearly over the last thirty years in this region the amount of ice which is critical for coral survival in the winter time has declined that means that the area may not support the amount of cruel in the future that it has supported in the past penguin species adelie penguins and chinstrap and ones are declining in this region principally do that decline in coral even though the overall global trend is pointing to what is in fact global warming some scientists are saying that we're living between ice ages and this is

all part of a natural cycle in fact there is some evidence to suggest that we're at the beginning of the next cooling trend. because i mean indicator on the glass here is an equilibrium lane altitudes it's the altitude where the accumulates in the minds of snow equals the males of their minds if they sow to choose to get higher it means that the climate is getting warmer and therefore how to treat gets lor and means that the climate is getting colder since two thousand and six this altitude keeps getting lower. and while scientists have been keeping track of how the issues have been reacting to changes in the environment they say it is just one part of a much larger system but we have to keep in mind we don't have a situation where climate change is in the same way all over the planet it's somewhere it's getting warmer summer is getting colder and somewhere there are no changes at all at the same time which tendency occurs in which an area is also changing so if the climate here and right now is constant in the future that's kind

also machine which though not all scientists agree on the levels of climate change most believe that it is becoming increasingly more important to monitor what is happening on our southernmost continent. is a truly spectacular place it is changing rapidly and more knowledge about what is changing and why can only help all of us understand all the areas of the planet that are going to change in the future so we might have a chance of being prepared for whatever comes down the line in antarctica sean thomas r t. well you can see all of the shah's antarctic expedition series online whatever you want at our team dot com all his reports are there and here's what else you can export our website. three hundred thousand dollar search for a siberian sloth this how you could be in the money if you bought one words for a russian cities motto that's that's if you're a russian it's up to scratch plus. artillery fire and destruction but this is no

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