i know what's really happening to the global economy in zurich large. enough to keeps an eye on america's high stakes military ambitions in poland as president obama round sought his european trip in warsaw. belgrade agrees to extradite former general rock of loutish to the hague on war crimes charges despite his health problems serbia is accused of arresting him only so he could join the e.u. . georgian protesters appealed to the e.u. to probe excess harassment following the government's independence day crackdown that's left hundreds wounded and detained.

eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r t thanks for joining us and our top story missile defense plans that 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 to agree on a system that suits both of their security interests you've got biskit of is in warsaw for r.t. . this is barak obama's first official visit to pull into and u.s. to lead off these european tour a lot of issues are on the table but probably the most important one is the plans for pulling still fails a u.s. air base which would show this hercules military transport planes f. sixteen fighter jets and also eighteen possibly helo's short range interceptor.

thus are less interesting because the last time the two sides talked about this sort of cooperation was during the george bush administration which wanted to power 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 the main stumbling point in the really she's between moscow and washington what barack obama canceled of these where in fact for some time there was a lot of talk about boosting cooperation between moscow washington and brussels including a 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 all sides in the interests of all sides but previously

america and to romania agreed for the country to have those elements of its a.m.d.'s shield on its territory without inviting russia to take part in this project now we've already heard from president meet me the video who said that if this tendency continues the world 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 they see that there is clearly no threat to poland from its neighbors and they don't see a point in housing so much american military here all syrian at the same time if the previous administration here in poland was saying that only by close very close ties and military cooperation with washington can poland secure its safety

the current administration says that they're 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. well russia believes a promise is not enough and once legal guarantees that the u.s. and its allies want to use their plant it missile shield against it a time cleaner from the us based arms control association says the vicious with their the united states want to encourage a solution to satisfy both sides 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 the system is not aimed at it and again the nato and the united states need to make a joint statement to russia saying that this system 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 very much wants a cooperative relationship on missile defense with russia and very much wants another arms control reduction agreement with russia and 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. and still to come at this hour how opening france years is leading to an anxious egypt announced that after years of tight control the egypt gaza process will be caught completely open about stop tell of the worry explain why. a serbian court has ruled that former bosnian serb

army general is to stand trial in the hague where his family has said he isn't healthy enough to be extradited capturing him has been a key condition for a service and three and as artie's a couple of reports marchers arrests is seen as a sacrifice the country's very willing to make. success or sellout the arrest of former bosnian general on luggage has put serbia and the headlines once again for years no nato action un demands or even a five million dollars bounty prep 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 a leaked un 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 then 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 the people of serbia doubt it let's. prices. your minds in your national moods by western companies and organizations who will be able to get into the european union let's not call the war criminals unless the game is going to help you get into this so-called rich man's club because we can see the rich once club do it once was having great difficulty is that itself serbia's are already complied with a lot of e.u. demands including arresting former president slobodan milosevic and political leader. and each time the response from the e.u.

has been enough to keep the dream of membership alive citron 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 our comrade it's is a 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 with renewed energy because of today but some believe serbia's membership undershirts could simply devastated country and stead of boosting its economy especially during the ongoing financial crisis of several e.u. member states so be media more tightly controlled by the government today than they had ever been on the milosevic repeating in unison that the e.u. is some kind of panacea that will resolve the problems now if serbia does during

the i think it will be the first time in history that a rat 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 now the sixty 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 in the hague catherine as our r.t. belgrade serbia. now on the way here on r t we're in new york to ask if the doomsayers are right with the needles battering the u.s. and the pacific rim on nuclear over. the world in the last week. there were four billion years the sun burns out so they will be able to find out if

he's the only one seeing the bright side or whether of mankind's building out of pinal trouble for the future that's in about ten minutes time. opposition members in georgia are appealing to the e.u. to investigate the government's savage crackdown on protesters during the country's and the presidency they were demonstrating against what they say is mass top level corruption and accuse president saakashvili of suppressive political freedom the opposition says that hundreds of people are still being held in jail many others including senior political figures are reported missing well those who continue to speak out against the government say they're being violently harassed by special forces opposition leader and a whole bunch about the spoke about what he sees as the dire state of democracy in today's georgia. easiest. georgia has become very similar to north korea where people are beaten taken to hospital brought back to begin again and seeking

to emergency rooms were people often didn't 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're living i can honestly say that i will have strong doubts whether the democratic values even exist in this world if the international community doesn't acknowledge what is going on today in georgia. georgists opposing voices say there are some of the most intense pressure they place in here is believing their government in terms of wiping them out or to surf earth 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 person of that protest wednesday nights is that the crackdown on a proposition is continuing so what we were hearing as he says they said it is a day of independence military parade and certainly this is very said he those of

heavy military and police presence remaining on the streets many of the streets were closed we saw a lot of the people at that parade itself were military personnel they were civilians turning out to watch that certainly very simply than what we've been hearing since is that this crackdown has continued now artie's crew have actually received a text for someone who says he's not in a pigeon sun the leader of that opposition he let the rally i 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 essentially saying that the opposition are still being silenced by secularly and his government. people have beaten to death some of my friends have stood there are dozens of opposition supporters can't reach each of my friends have simply disappeared. i used. to for support. one of the opposition leaders which is really.

the everybody who did. so because his 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 themselves originating in a picture nancy and her party against comes together some of the other opposition parties they call the day of rage that was at the last minute call girls a lot of them is face we're talking to you they were very confused they didn't know quite what was happening evenings you on it was clear that something was going to happen the police knew that the intention of dispersal was going to go ahead but one thing leads into the crowd that happened very very quickly it was extremely violent. people here with the amount of police it turns out a lot of people saying off was was that sort of just justifiable a lot of people thought was excessive force one of our own correspondents who went to the spanish channel was hit by one of the rather bullets and if you are outside

that main areas parliament then you are fair game to then and that's certainly the force that they were using as we said a lot of questions being asked about whether that was excessive force and whether it was just a ploy. for of their own you can get the latest updates on what's happening in georgia direct from our correspondents by following our twitter stream there also video reports of opinion on the bloody crackdown against protesters which you can look at on our paper page that's facebook dot com forward slash r.t. news.

a zero is a long struggle to keep its supporters watertight even though what's been at the expense of letting palestinians have access to basic human necessities well now it's got a new worry egypt gaza border is about to be thrown wide open after a decision by cairo as possibly reports a humanitarian lifeline for arabs is a real headache for television. this is egypt's border with gaza a place where for years the gates was shut off and then opened only the most extreme humanitarian cases were through which meant no more than three hundred people a day of water 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. the building a world of a hospital here and they give me some women and 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 rough a permanently without the israelis is coming true no more willing agreement gone up six years ago between the now deposed egyptian president hosni mubarak the united states the israelis and the europeans be in place that agreement gave e.u. monitors access to the crossing and a lot of it to supervise and monitor security cameras from a far. was watching. egypt on certain points and checkpoints so that it was the same interest of both countries. the permanent opening of rougher terrifies israeli citizens especially those who live and he puts in the whole hours just eight hundred metres from the israeli gaza border ever since the kibbutz was established nearly sixty years ago it's been on the receiving end of endless what could and snipers from gaza city get out of care of any meaning when we hear the first responder falling down we have to one and take their place well i said though that i thought of all the keyboard cells there are ever in his

the whole area there are just last month a sixteen year old boy was killed when a car some rocket hit the school bus he was traveling home in people who live here are afraid that what will happen next is that more weapons will find their way into the hands of palestinian militants and ultimately be used. against the jewish state then sure. if that goal they'll be open for really any love within your nation. in hamas is already. busy munitions and we have much smaller implications of which are becoming clearer by the day i'm standing some eighty five kilometers away from gaza but already a grad missiles fired from there has hit the outskirts of the city israeli army is warning that in the next major conflict tens of thousands of rockets will hit television right this means is that daily life was raised living not far from gaza it is possible coming part of his maybe not across the country to see our team tel

aviv and in a few minutes artie's intrepid sean thomas puts the heat of global warming on arts . centers all over the world are the building of global warming is it probably or is it not punch on tom's an embargo and coming up on r g we explore with people down here are saying about the subject. a look at somewhat world news in brief now greece's senior politicians have failed to agree a new set of cuts and reforms which are necessary to stop it sliding into default but the party leaders say the measures will ruin the country's economy and destroy greek society or their conditions for the massive bailouts of the e.u. and i.m.f. with other eurozone countries eager to make reste take more of the string. at the xcel the former leader of one juror is due to return to the small social american country on saturday in the hope it might be the nation's political deadlock

smuggles a lawyer was overthrown by the army nearly two years ago but he remains popular among hundreds the military has struggled for international recognition of following recoup at its heart is the law is returned will help which a divisive. 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 for six decades hit below thirty c. one thousand people and a long list of the missing have been found alive online talk show host laurie harford misters been asking people whether we need to reassess how we tackle survival during nature's will be full of slots. tornadoes ripping down buildings nuclear power plants melting down are we building our society was our family are with any forethought at all this week let's talk

about that do you think society thinks of long time or they just always doomed to think of a short term idea depends which country you're in. i think americans are very short term. why aren't planes made of the material the black box to be out of. all this like you know we that those are just not enough for thought put into it i maybe dad 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 only covering conspiracy or i think that and friends. companies public so. there is no private interests in the new crop well i hope that it's true so maybe if there are people worried about making money so much they make things better i think we're done this is it i phones i've been there's no thinking past next five minutes do children i do doesn't make concerned you know and it does but i think we're ok the

world in and last weekend there were four billion years of the sun burns out and it will be ok you know back in the thirty's we said build projects that lasted for for one hundred years well they are built to last a hoover dam to last a long time. just like that. this should last a thousand years because hopefully will be around in a thousand years right you put my body or work or use an attraction so there's a lot of that to it is a fight against the corporation mainly. because you know i mean it's from a purely economic or want of you taking care cost a lot so so who's going to win the planet or the corporation. who knows 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.

all to get a proper grip on global warming you have to spend some time in the planet's coldest climates and r.t. shaun 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 pull up move loot of hikes to the boeing trans and. 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 can certainly see years 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 class years are receiving it means there is a general warming over climate 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 the land to the sea which forms of fresh water

where i don't think the surface of the sea water pressure water is lighter so there is some problems with mixing of the water coral which could possibly influence the structure of. 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 wintertime 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 delhi penguins and chinstrap penguins are declining in this region principly do that the quine encroach even though the overall global trend is pointing to what is in fact global warning 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 the mean indicator on the glass here is the equilibrium lane altitudes and it's the altitude where the accumulates in the minds of snow equals the male sort of mind if this altitudes gets higher it means that the climate is getting warmer and if the altitude gets lor it means that the climate is getting closer since two thousand and sixty. keeps getting lower. and while scientists have been keeping track of how the glaciers have been reacting to changes in the environment they say it is just one part of a much larger system 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 get some colder and some where there are new changes atoll the same time which tendency occurs in which an area is also changing so if the climate here is constant in the future this can also achieve

much 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 antarctica 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 archie oh you can see all of sean's antarctic expedition series online whenever you want our team dot com and all his reports are there here's what else you can explore on our website at three hundred thousand dollars search for a siberian slogan how you could really end the money if you've got the winning words for a city's motto if you're russians up to scratch plus. an artillery fire and destruction but this is no war zone this is expired ammo that's gone up in smoke

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