the sons of. expeditions to the bottom of the earth. says. russia is closely monitoring barak obama's meeting with the polish president which is aimed at increasing washington's meucci presence in the country. belgrade agrees to extradite former general about to the hague on a war crimes charges despite his health problems so abuse accused of arresting him only those who can join the. georgian protestors appeal to the e.u. probe of access harassment following the government's independent state crackdown that's left hundreds wounded to take.

it with r.t. live from moscow on the recent show welcome to the program for missile defense plans and america's military presence in poland in focus as the u.s. president wraps up his european tour with a visit to the country it's something that moscow is watching closely especially after obama's promise to try and agree on a system that suits both of that security interests that you're going to see going off now is in warsaw and joins us live how you go to so this is obama's first visit to poland it seems that the meeting was productive also what's to be expected of the meeting. well this is barack obama's first official visit to be correct and it's also the final leg of his european tour so while a lot of issues are on the table but the focus is of course on the plans for paul

ince to house a u.s. air base to service who these military transport planes and f. sixteen fighter jets and also possibly house by twenty eighteen short range interceptor missiles now this is quite a controversial issue specially for russia it's quite it's a monitoring this meeting which is actually going on right now as we speak and we are waiting to hear the results of it in the near future russia is closely monitoring this meeting because poland is wait here in its neighborhood in previously this issue was one of the biggest stumbling points in the relations between the united states and russia and it's also quite interesting piece of latest ones for this air base and a possible interceptor missiles many analysts cheering calls including the former prime and foreign minister they see that clearly there is no threat to poland from any of its neighbors so they will really see

a point in washington increasing its military presence here at the moment you know certainly the russian president the end of the g. eight summit hugo was a making some really strong comments about how washington's a plan to deploy this and he missile shield in eastern europe he said that it's obvious that russia is the target of these missiles not talk to us about the future the end game has anything been done so far to achieve any sort of compromise on this highly controversial issue. well talks on of this sort of cooperation between the united states and poland began a long time ago was actually the george bush administration which wanted to go for war and to halle's elements of its anti missile defense system in europe here on its territory and also in the czech republic this was fiercely criticized by russia it's said that basing these islands here would create a direct threat to russia's national security so when the barak obama became the president of the united states he scrapped these plans in fact there was

a lot of talk about increasing cooperation between moscow washington and brussels for russia the united states and nato to build a possibly build our joint anti missile defense system which would enable all sides to share the responsibility for the safety of one another and just previously at the g eight summit in paris both presidents need to needed if and barak obama talked about this of possible joint system and said that it should definitely work for the interests of all signs but really when it comes to or not the words but action it seems that washington policies washington's policy is sort of moving to the side of it because earlier the united states interim eniac agreed for because to house elements of the anti missile defense system on of their territory and russia was not included in this project now. as you say absolutely correctly

he's saying that russia has to closely monitor how the situation is developing in fact he said that if this tendency continues the world me see another arms race by twenty twenty now with the talks here in poland about this possible interceptor missiles and about the air base present nutri. in fact quite heavy also it just seems that. the policies that logically it is talking about don't really fit in the real picture of course they go to a dozen washington continues to insist that such a missile defense shield is meant to protect europe against places like iran and north korea so strangely though i think there is going to thank you. but russia believes that a promise is not enough and they want the legal teams that the u.s. and its allies won't use their planned missile shield against it but atomic color

from the u.s. based arms control association says divisions within the united states want encourage a solution to satisfy both but 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 system 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 with 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. it would article and still to come for you this hour how opening the frontiers is leading to an anxious israel egypt announces that after years of time trolling the egypt garza crossing will become a completely open tell of we worried will be explaining why shortly. a serbian court has ruled that former bosnian serb army general is fit to stand trial in the hague his family has said he isn't healthy enough to be extradited capturing him has been a key condition means time for serve years eve you entry as i mean as our reports 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 un demands or even a five million dollars bounty 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 and 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 but the people of serbia down let's.

prices. in your minds and your national goods by western companies and organizations you 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 ones do it once was because having great difficulty is itself serbia's it already complied with a lot of e.u. demands including arresting former president slobodan milosevic and political leader bell and projects and each time the response from the e.u. has been enough to keep the dream of membership alive secure this you play this is very big news this is a very courageous decision by the syrian president is one additional step for the integration of serbia into the european union one day the arrest of michael not it's is a very important step child wants 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 could simply devastate the country and stead of boosting its economy especially during the ongoing financial crisis of several you member states so being media more tightly controlled by the government today than they could ever be under military recruiting in unison that the e.u. is some kind of panacea that will resolve the problems now if serbia does during the 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. still to come here on r.t. we are in new york to ask if they do say is a right tornadoes battering the u.s. and the pacific rim on nuclear. ok the world in the last weekend they were poor a billion years the sun burns out but it will be ok find out if he's the only one seeing the sunny side over the kinds of building up of pile of trouble that's in about ten minutes time right here on ars. opposition 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 mass top level

corruption and accuse president saakashvili of suppressing political freedom the opposition says that hundreds of people are still. being held in jail so many others including senior political figures are reported missing those who continue to speak out against the government say they're being violently harassed by special forces opposition leader nino burjanadze spoke about what she sees as the dire state of democracy in a modern day ga. ga ga has become very similar to north korea where people have been taken to hospital brought back to jail lytton again in t. consumer agency 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 georgia well that reuters opposing voices say there are some of

the most intense pressure they've faced in years believing their governments intent on wiping them out he's a surfer who was in the square in tbilisi which was the flashpoint for this week's violence she says dark clouds are still hanging over the city. well what we're hearing is in the aftermath of the person of that protest wednesday nights is that the crackdown on the proposition is continuing so what we're hearing he says they said it was a day of independence military parade and certainly the this is very said there was a heavy military and police presence remaining on the streets many of the streets we saw a lot of the people at that parade itself were military personnel they went civilians turning out to watch that certainly very severe than what we've been hearing since is that this crackdown has continued now parties cray have actually received a text for someone who says he's. the leader of opposition he led the rally

i want his text three to r.t. is that it's really very serious situation according to him he has a number of people including opposition leaders who are missing and he's talking about people who are still being arrested essentially saying that the opposition are still being silenced by circus really and his government. many people. there are dozens of opposition supporters can't reach and my friends have simply disappeared. with reporters. not just got the guts to support. one of the opposition leaders really it's the everybody who. has to teach a ship and if there is leading up to wednesday what we saw the numbers turning out the demonstrations were markedly less now they're actually divisions amongst the opposition themselves. in her party against country than some of the other

opposition parties. rage that was at the last minute pulled off a lot of them in space we're talking to you they were very confused they didn't know quite what was happening. it was clear that something was going to happen the police we knew that the intervention the dispersal was going to go ahead it's one thing meetings that happened very very quickly it was extremely violent. people with. police it turned out a lot of people saying also it was sort of just justifiable a lot of people thought it was excessive force one of our own correspondents he works the spanish channel was hit by one of the rubber bullets and if you're outside that main areas parliament then you're fair game to them 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's justified. you can get the latest updates on what's happening in georgia direct from our correspondents just by following our twitter stream there's also video reports and opinion on the bloody crackdown against protesters which you can

look through your own page on facebook facebook dot com slash r.t. . without reliable from moscow now after four years of a total lockdown gaza's one and a half million residents finally have a great way to the outside world egypt has dropped the stringent security that israel insisted on for its border crossing with the blockaded region israel's a long struggle to keep gaza's borders water tight uprising people there in the hope of forcing hamas out of power human rights groups and massive humanitarian

costs from food shortages to the sick being unable to leave the simple treatment but as our caller reports and i find the palestinians as a real headache for television. this is egypt's border with gaza but place where for years the gates was shut more often than open and only the most extreme humanitarian cases were let through which meant no more than three hundred people a day but vulgar hamada 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. there and i wonder the hospital here and they gave me some women but the pain didn't and the borders are poor this is the reason why as for. the new egyptian foreign minister says the decision to close the border was shameful on saturday his promise to open buffer permanently without the israelis is coming true no more

willing agreement going up six years ago between another poster gyptian president hosni mubarak the united states the israelis and the us. be in place that agreement gave monitors access to the crossing and allow television to supervise and monitor security cameras from a farm. was watching. 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 on key puts now i was just eight hundred meters 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 cuts and snipers from gaza city i don't care of any meaning regular here the first receive pouring down we have to run and take their place somewhere i said till we drive over the keyboard. every run in his whole area

there are just last month a sixteen year old boy was killed when it was some rockets hit the school bus he was travelling home in people who live here are afraid 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 sure. if that border will be open for you a lot of. the hamas is already. busy munition. they really have much more people occasions of which are becoming clearer by the day and sun some eighty five kilometers away from gaza but already 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 tel aviv weapons nene's as their daily life was raised living not far from gaza it's possible becoming part of his radio life across the country to see our team tel aviv. well opening the rough crossing between egypt and gaza was seen as

a major step in if lighting those humanitarian crisis at the strip. from the united nations relief and works agency says that improving the palestinian living standards will lead to a drop among those who join militant groups. what is going on enough border to do it is a very good the egyptians right now they are easing you know travel thousands of palestinians into egypt there are more than one and half million people here are completely. destroyed have no whole not political horizon or comical eyes in israel in the seas and the gaza strip one hundred percent of people have a good life here they have something to lose there it will be a great pressure on others in order not. to get into conflict and we are sure that you're not creating a new atmosphere in your life or to gaza a new hope for the people here in the gaza strip it will affect the whole

atmosphere away from military conflict or using rockets or we parents or another round of conflict. it's twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow you with r.t. and in just a few minutes artie's intrepid sean thomas puts the heat on global global warming on ice. scientists all of the world are debating the warming that happening or is it not i'm john thompson antarctica and coming up on r.g.p. we explore what people down here are saying about the subject. i don't let's go to some other world news and three for you this hour and greece's senior politicians have failed to agree on 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 the conditions for the massive bailout from the e.u. and i.m.f. with other eurozone countries eager to make greece take more of the strain. in

northern pakistan a bomb blast at a marketplace has killed at least eight people and injured twelve others a deadly explosion was reportedly caused by remote control device officials say terrorists were targeting the elders of the local clans who support the government in its struggle with the taliban militants. and the number killed by a tornado that swept through the u.s. midwest of the town of joplin excuse me that toll has now reached one hundred thirty two the first female after the country's deadliest twister in six decades hit authorities say one thousand people on a long list of the missing have now been found alive online talk show host laurie hotness 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 are we building

our society responsibly our with any forethought at all oh this week let's talk about that do you think society thinks a long time 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 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 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 their people weren't worried about making money so much they'd make things paper i think we're done this is it and i phones

there's no thinking past the next five minutes do you have children i do does my concern you that it does but i think we're ok the world and then last weekend there were four billion years of the sun burns out and they will be ok you know back in the thirty's we used to build projects that lasted for for one hundred years well they go there both of us the hoover dam to last a long time. just like that. they should last a thousand years because hopefully will be around in a thousand years right you put my body other workers 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 saw that was going to win 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 coldest climates. reports from truly deep down under where scientists are getting garcias to give us clues as to which way our world is heading. each week pulled out of new job hikes to the buildings and. george island 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. the factors are glaziers are changing in size point search engine climates right now we know that since the middle of or the end of the nineteenth century the majority of last years are receding 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. and a greater amount of fresh water is coming from the land to the sea which forms a fresh water layer on the surface of the sea water pressure water is lighter so there is some problems with mixing of their water coral which could possibly influences the structure of little 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 krill survival in the winter time has declined that means that the area may not support the amount of cruel in the future it has supported in the past penguins species i believe penguins and chinstrap penguins are declining in this region principally do that because an increase 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. i don't know what other mean indicator on the glass here is the equilibrium lane altitudes it's the altitude where the accumulates in the minds of snow equals the males of the 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 colder since two thousand and six this outer tooth 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 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 some where it's getting colder and somewhere there are no changes at all at the same time which tendency occurs in which area is also

changing so is the climate here and right now is constant in the future this can also change 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 other areas of the planet 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 our team. tara what about takes a stroll through the streets that of the capital's character stabbed all over them that's coming your way after an update of the top stories in just a few minutes. for

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