finance scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports on our key. russia should have a stake in the missile shield in europe live pictures right here spells out his idea while visiting poland is also. part of the system that washington wants to have a use there is a missile defense has been an apple of discord between moscow and washington again these are live pictures right here of obama meeting with the polish prime minister donald. so he is a divided over a lot of cheers a rest stand being extradition on war crimes charges will bring you a first hand account from live fillets where the former general was captured the.

u.s. state department calls on a georgia north or at least to investigate the armed crackdown on protests that led to several deaths all the while the opposition there still claims that supporters are still being targeted. and easing isolation egypt opens our border crossing with gaza partially ending the four year blockade of palestinian territory . worldwide news a live from moscow this is a hearty welcome to the program. should be part of a missile defense shield in europe so says the u.s. president who was speaking in poland the country septa host some of the systems his words come two days since he promised it to me trying to get at the g. eight summit in france to try and agree on a system that suits both the security interests not easy to go to prison office in

warsaw for us even our joins us live or you go to hello to you we were just showing our live pictures of iraq obama in warsaw making some statements there are a lot of positive signals for russia what's what else has been said that you know wolf. well barack obama has already met with the polish president he's actually now meeting with the post prime minister and the live pictures are from the prime minister's office the american president has been outlining that the united states and russia have managed to reach a new stable friendly level of relations and he's been a reassuring his polish counterpart and the other polish politicians are that such close ties between moscow and washington are in no way a threat to central and eastern europe now all this comes off the back of barack obama's meeting with the russian president at the g eight summit in france where they also discuss the future possible joint anti missile defense system in europe

and seem to agree that such a system should work in the interests of all sides now this is a very important issue for russia since for quite some time of this was actually washington's plans to build this game veces them in europe was one of the biggest stumbling points in the relations between the two countries and knelt recommitted of the russian president is saying that it's absolutely vital to reach an understanding and an agreement on a joint a.m.d. system because otherwise the world me see a new arms race by twenty twenty now when it comes to poland the m.v. issue directly concerns it because apart from housing possibly housing an american air base to service hercules military trials to transport planes and f. sixteen fighter jets it may also house short range interceptor missiles by twenty eighteen so now many analysts are saying that there's definitely

a positive tendency in the relations between russia and the west on this issue but they're also stressing that washington has to provide legal guarantees to russia that it's under no threat. 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 nato and the united states need to make a joint statement to russia saying that this is tim is not you this system is no danger to you it's focused on dangers and threats from middle east not from russia . both president obama and president come out also you have said that it is quite possible that nato will cooperate with russia on this joint anti missile defense system so be still haven't provided any concrete plans though and

there's definitely a positive tendency in all this but when it comes to not words but action it's important that this tendency. that's right you go that's exactly what the russian president dmitry medvedev was saying at the wrap up to the g eight summit in northern france thank you. for thousands of taken to the streets of the georgian capital to protest against the government's violent dispersal of peaceful crowns two days ago as follows the u.s. state department's call for an investigation into the crackdown and oppositions claims that those are speaking out against president saakashvili still being targeted earlier i talked to sara for three has been covering the events in tbilisi for. the opposition have taken to the streets again this time their main focus is announce things like officially protesting against the violence that was used. as he said at the time the deployment of the police didn't come as a surprise to any of us here i believe the main part in an area we knew that there

was going to be some form of intervention it was the scale of the police operation that was really cool about israel the police operation in one of your earlier reports you said that there was there were many more police than there were protesters out silly the discrepancy in numbers was he there were protesters in the thousands and many of them were peaceful and also it was dubbed the silver evolution this is an older generation of demonstrators in the fighting against cancer i did see places and when the police operation turned up and they were in the thousands and they say. it's very very quick question now where the operation was justified whether it was just. that amount of force certainly many people on the ground we all felt that it was a very chaos a lot of injuries were sustained it's a very hard to gauge an accurate figure on this and this is he said the protesters taking to the streets again because they're deeply unhappy with the way the situation was handled and the ensuing events after the allston of so little of the

chaos that ensued what did you see what would police batons or was it based or spray or what were you saying well they turned up and i said at the time it really felt like witnessing a moderate muslims a battle scene they lined the streets on both sides of the street outside the main parliament building so they had the protesters to breeze around it and there were thousands of them they had their armored shields that they were beating on it was very very aggressive and about a couple of minutes. the right idea position either about possible negotiations a couple of minutes later they were in the crowds and i like i said has and see those take us everywhere they were rubber bullets. because i didn't you say want to early reports of one of our colleagues marty espanol was a victim of a violent yes a spanish correspondent he has. at the time he got hit by the bullets as he trying to get out of that scene and many of the tennis were in fact injured colleagues were getting injured in this but when you saw that the methods or violence being used by the police were kind of injuries were people sustaining it was just very aggressive they were walking into the crowds and just basically grabbing anyone

that was in front. here in the area when when it kicks off you need to get out of there pretty sharpish because they're not going to see this going to you know a young journalist protester they were just in there and it was extremely chaotic it's hard to gauge accurate information is a lot of people still trying to track down relatives friends and family who they knew turned out of the demonstration they're not able to find where they are the things that are coming out. it's very hard to get an accurate reading on. witnessing it it seems extreme the number. the rest is saying numbers of people in hospital in. many more injuries and certainly the number of people who they're witnessing is much higher. than are you can always i follow how do you vince and george are unfolding just do so on our website now online find out how critics say their witch hunt against the opposition is going beyond all reason but after one protester who threw

a chocolate bar president saakashvili you're sentenced to three months in jail this and much much more artsy dot com and coming your way in just a few minutes here on our. we're going to look at whether some recent catastrophes are making people think more about the future of our planet. there's no the give the next five minutes we ask people on the new york streets what they think of the raging tornado zone near a nuclear disasters ask. plus another ticking time bomb and many think it's threatening mankind global warming our troubles to see if a consonant with the world's coldest part of it is getting hot under the collar. well former bosnian serb army general radical not it is waiting for his fate to be announced on monday in serbia few have been left indifferent by his arrest with reaction ranging from jubilance to outrage well arty's. has visited the serbian

village where it was finally court. well we did manage to talk to some of the people of course it was saturday and not quite early in the morning when we made our trip and the village itself was credibly small very sleepy lots of people gardening and basically the only thing that was audit was the large amount of journalists and of a number of policemen that were standing outside the house where a former bosnian general michael market was actually arrested and you could feel that the people of that village were not very happy with the amount of journalists present they were very keen to talk to them but we did manage to speak to one woman who was one of a lot of his neighbor. who were shocked to know right come largish was arrested no one had the slightest idea here been there he's brother lives in this house and they know him very well ten days ago a new man appeared in the house he was buried in a camp and

a military jacket and was moving with difficulty as though he'd had a stroke we had no idea who the man was until the police arrived and to talk a little bit more about what has arrest means for their serbian people i'm joined live by mr alexander who is a political analyst thank you so much for talking to us now body what does it mean for the people of serbia are they happy about it are they not happy about it. because they don't first of all the considerable others here will protect the serbs from another genocide like more troops the second thing is they don't think that any of those promises made to this go well actually come into play let's realize still it's just another sort of a national humiliation so this intentional being done. with a mission promises i am presuming you're referring to the promises of you membership that was given to serbia for the actual people to see

a membership really matter well it's. have several years ago the thing is it's has become an old and tired story that the more people. listen about it the less there are to include them to actually believe because all they're seeing is any money that comes in from the outside winds up in the pockets of a very few people mostly the politicians they try to you know of course i understand that many people here in serbia are very dissatisfied with the tribe you know and don't actually believe it can be objective absolutely everything that's has been done so far shows that she was a tribunal just set up the limits to simply one side the guys with beards twenty years ago they were the serbs and the tribunal is there to justify western policy here that's actually the real culprits helping ins are of course divided after the arrest but many experts including of those here in belgrade and abroad believe that

serbia sold out for a chance at a membership success or sellout the arrest of former bosnian general. has put serbia and the headlines once again for years no nato action un demands or even a five million dollar bounty pressed 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 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 serve you achieved what he 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 had known where he was officials in belgrade very much

hope that they can finally get a peace. the europe high the people of serbia down who lets. low prices and you and your mines and your national supply western companies and organizations who will be able to get into the european union let's do a little so-called war criminals unless again it is going to help you get into this so-called rich man's club because we can see the rich once club which once was great difficulties itself serbia has already complied with a lot of e.u. demands including arresting former president slobodan milosevic and political leaders about on projects and each time the response from the e.u. has been enough to keep the dream of membership alive secure he should play this is very big news this is a very courageous decision by decision president this is one additional step for the integration of serbia into the european union one day the arrest of not it's

is a very important step. for integration of the entire region in your atlantic community i know that people will also be thinking about thirty a 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 and 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 had ever been under milosevic are 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 wretch has jumped on 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 breaks his fate in jail but considering that that is the rest 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 r r t l great serbia. i don't r.t. facebook page you can find the latest updates on the stories and first accounts from our correspondents have a look at your screen right now as we'll show you our facebook page here on our i remember we're always interested in your opinion on the stories we're covering here and if you look at your screen now you can see where you can put in your opinion and check out the latest blogs and videos and all sorts of areas where you can enjoy and have your say and so they were asking what the rest of blood is means for you i think just this all the betrayal of a hero log on to facebook dot com or slash r.t.

using up yours. it's. the. with us here live from moscow thanks for joining us today garza's blockade has been eased after four years of total lockdown opened a border crossing for pedestrians giving a pathway to the outside world one and a half million palestinians the crossings accessible to anyone except men aged between eighteen and forty who do require users of water was close after hamas seized power in gaza with israel hoping the blockade would help to force the group out human rights groups massive humanitarian cost from food shortages to the sick

being unable to leave a simple treatment but as are these words we are reports of a new lifeline for palestinians 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 let through which meant no more than three hundred people a day but while her mother was not one of them last year she died from cancer of the stomach she had tried desperately for months to leave gaza for chemotherapy treatment abroad but was never able to get the permission she needed to leave. then 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 buffer permanently without the israelis is coming true no more we're in

agreement going up six years ago between the not opposed to gyptian 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 allowed television to supervise and monitor security cameras from a far. egypt on certain points and checkpoints for the same interest of both countries. the permanent opening of rougher terrifies israeli citizens especially those who live on she puts in a hole 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 rockets and snipers from gaza city to our fair game i mean it's really here the first receive falling down we have to one and take their place. we drive. all the keyboards there everyone in his home cares there are just last month a sixteen year old boy was killed when a car some rocket if

a school bus he was traveling home in people who live here are afraid that what will happen next is that move weapons 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 really a lot of. the hamas is already the old it is immune issues. there we have much more the implications of which are becoming clearer by the day i'm standing 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 with your television representing is that dating life was raised living not far from gaza is fast becoming a part of his radio life across the country since we are to tel aviv. right now twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital your thoughts here outside

the headlines around the world nato has continued bombing that libyan capital tripoli on saturday a rare daytime air strike has hit the compound of colonel gadhafi with nato saying it was targeting that command center and not that neither. the strikes come off the g eight. despite pressure on gadhafi to leave while russia said it is upping efforts to mediate a cease fire. and see austerity protests have turned violent as police clashed with demonstrators over one hundred people were injured as a country rallies over sweeping cuts started about a fortnight ago after two years of recession the country is now facing the highest unemployment rate in the year as a major debt problems. an american a korean citizen who was detained by north korea six months ago won unspecified charges and has been released eddie john young soon has flown back to the u.s. accompanied by a delegation from washington the details of his arrest were never given but reports

suggest he was accused of illegal missionary activity north korea officially guarantees freedom of religion but authorities sometimes crack down on missionaries see them as western influenced through. or without many disastrous world events sparing even greater numbers of doomsday theories experts point to raging tornadoes in a nuclear crisis is a sign that people need to build their futures with greater responsibility online a talk show host laura hofner just asked people on the streets of the big apple if there really is time to change. tornadoes ripping down buildings nuclear power plants melting down are we building our society responsibly our 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 time i think it depends which country you're in. i think americans are very short term. why aren't planes made of the material black box me out of. this like you know way 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 a new government conspiracy or i think that the friends the companies but because. there is no private interests in the nuclear power plants that i hope that it's true so maybe if there are people weren't worried about making money so much they'd make things better i think this is it i phones i pads there's no thinking past the next five minutes if you had children i do does my concern you that it does but i think we're ok the world in and last weekend there were four billion years the sun burns out so they will be ok well you know back in the thirty's we used to build

projects that lasted for for one hundred years well a book that will tell us the hoover dam to last a long time we don't go projects like that. they should last a thousand years because hopefully will be around in a thousand years right you put my body had a work there using construction 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 front of you taking the. cost a lot so those going away and 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. he's coming here live from moscow now will we see the icy last years of our planet's coldest continent green values and the sound of

a burning issues are currently being tackled by antarctic scientists. thomas reports. more than a month. in one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is antarctica and people have to be aware that they are far away from civilization sean thomas discovers quote makes antarctica so special and attractive for many the wildlife in antarctica is you live in the flood zone. expedition to the bottom of the earth. each week of hikes to the billings house and later on king's george island to measure twenty nine different markers. by doing so he can record exactly how the glacier changes each year but it seems that glaciers in antarctica are getting smaller. the facts are

glaciers are changing in size point search change in climates right now 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. greater amount of fresh water is coming from the land to the sea which forms fresh water where the surface of the sea water pressure water is lighter so there is some problems with mixing up the water column which could possibly influence a 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

it has supported in the past penguin species delhi penguins and chinstrap penguins are declining in this region principle we do know that the point in coral even though the overall global trend is pointing to what is in fact global warning some scientists are saying that we are 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 altitude it's the altitudes where the accumulates the minds of snow equals the melts 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 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 somewhere escape and colder and somewhere there are new changes it's all over the same time which tendency occurs in which an area is also changing so is the climate here and right now is constant in the future that's kind also extreme 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 southern most 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 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 party. of our top stories is coming your way in just

a few minutes out of the author short break thanks for staying with us.