the russians would be soon rich bryson if you knew that song from feinstein oppression is so. nice for instance on t.v. dot com. russia should have a stake in the missile shield in europe the rocket bomber swells out his idea while visiting conan but also reaffirms america's plans to station some of its rockets and planes there. in serbia there's a split ever recommend outages looming extradition and war crimes charges the people from the village where he was arrested say they have no idea of the former general who's living next door. and. they were arrested mostest system one of. the georgian opposition says the government are now targeting the families of dissidents dozens of whom are still missing after i'm gone a crackdown on protests two days ago. and easing isolation in egypt

opens a border crossing of gaza in the ending before you have blockade of the palestinian territory. international news or comment live from our studios here in central moscow this is r.t. with the twenty four hours a day russia should be part of a missile defense shield in europe so says the u.s. president he was speaking in poland but despite the comments barack obama reiterated that the u.s. is not giving up on plans to host some of its rockets some planes in the country close to russia's borders you want to just kind of is in warsaw for. it has become quite a conflicting picture here in warsaw because on one hand you have barack obama talking about this new stable and friendly level of relations between

a russia and the united states and both him and president come out all ski have said that it's very possible that russia will be part of a future joint anti missile defense system in europe but then on the other hand barack obama has just confirmed washington's plans to equip an air base here in poland on its land which would service. military transport planes and f. sixteen fighter jets and also more importantly for a pom's to house short range interceptor missiles by twenty eighteen now all of this comes after another meeting between barack obama and the russia's president need to be viewed if at the g eight summit in france the two leaders also discussed a future possible joint anti missile defense system and seemed to agree that it should work in the interests of all sides in fact the a.m.d. issue itself is of the sensitive one for moscow for years it was the biggest stumbling points in the lesions between russia and the united states so now it's

really unclear of you purpose of the strong military presence by the united states sure in pool and especially to moscow since it's been saying that this country is under no direct threat from any of its neighbors so now many analysts are saying that if washington one wants to work together russia then has to provide a legal guarantees to moscow 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 need 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 is them 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 so it's quite a conflict thing picture indeed because there's definite positive tendencies when

it comes to communication but the actions don't really fit in the picture and radio host and author from chicago steven lemon told me earlier that russia's concerns on the american missile defense system are well founded america's energy missile defense system is no athlete or serious. they actually understand this is a lot fairer system is an attack system they were in where it has not only stateless those the russians who is a system said colin ingrid two hundred miles from russia proper they were a way to intercept russia's response before they even knew he. posed as much damage as possible but again other special here ac is a class of all american we use to salute saying if we want to war with russia i simply can't conceive of their position ever know we have a bunch of lunatics you know it wishes that this country's i don't want anything

else. stephen moment for him a little earlier well along with missile defense g eight leaders also discussed the situation in libya and they put pressure on gadhafi to leave while russia said it's upping efforts to mediate a cease fire says its ties with both sides in the conflict in an ideal position to make progress exclusively spoke to a representative of the rebels to find out what they want to do with the country teacher. first of all i want to point out that asked a leader becomes democratic state will continue to observe all the agreements it's required going to national law of the transitional council will be working over an accident of a year out of the country's liberated we have a road map planned to see the creation of a national congress which would be elected by all the libyan people will form a commission which will create is to to sion it will be voted on in a national referendum we hope that this will take no more than

a year when. nato has continued bombing the libyan capital tripoli on saturday mark element visiting professor in international relations at university in turkey told me earlier that russian mediation might help but so far it seems that nato wants to carry on until the bitter end of the rebels feel they have a supporter of the nato countries some are some other arab states so they have already shown much interest. although. i suspect unless nato countries decided they were might clearly in the next month or so to achieve a military victory the nato countries may decide. to act as the mediator but i suspect at the moment victories. is more likely. we brought a close or as option which makes a new solution very very different with matching. professor mark almond talking to

me there on the table coming your way in a few minutes from now a look at whether some recent catastrophe to make people think more about its future. i think we're ok in the world in the last weekend there were four billion years the sun burns out but it will be ok we asked people on new york streets if they are all the doomsday predictions. but also still to come the sound of a ticking time bomb many think is threatening mankind and that is a global warming he travels to antarctica to see if the continent with the world's cleanest climate is getting hot under the collar. or stories to come but first former bosnian serb army general recommended it she is waiting for his fate to be announced which may happen as early as monday in serbia few have been left in difference by his arrest with reaction ranging from jubilance to outrage or not is a katrina czar of his visit to the serbian village women that it was finally called

. well we didn't talk to some of the people of course it was saturday 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 odd it was the large amount of journalists and. the number of policemen that were standing outside the house where former bosnian general was actually arrested and you could feel that the people of that village were not very happy with the amount of journalists present they weren't very keen to talk to them but we did manage to speak to one woman who was one of a lot of his neighbor. to new knowledge was arrested no one did this like to say gee he's been there she's brother he's in his house and today very well oh. man appears in the hands he was wearing a cap and. meeting with difficulty as though he's had a stroke we had no idea who the man was until the police arrived.

after the arrest. and to talk a little bit more about what his 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. what does it mean for the people of serbia are they happy about it are they not happy about it. because first of all because. your old. boy. many of those promises made. comments are playing with you realize. it's just another sort of national humiliation. you think will be. a mission promises presume you're referring to the promises of membership that was given to serbia for the actual people membership really matter well. it might have

several years ago the thing is it's become an old and tired story and the more people. listen about it here about the less they're actually enthused and they actually believe because all they're seeing is any money that comes in from the outside winds up in the pockets of 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 it has been done so far shows it actually was a tribunal just. plain exclusively one side bad guys were picked on two years ago they were the serbs and the hague tribunal is there to justify western policy here that's actually the real culprits. facebook page you can find the latest updates on the stories and first hand accounts from our correspondents and remember we're always interested in your opinion on the stories we're covering here on screen

today we're asking what the arrest to recommend means for you a victory for justice all in the trail of a hero log on to facebook dot com slash r t use and have your say and. it's. in the. thousands of take to the streets of the georgian capital to protest against the government's violent this person of peaceful crowds two days ago as far as the u.s. state department joining russia's call for an investigation into the crackdown that left several people dead well you might. talk to sara first he's been covering

events in tbilisi for the same. the opposition have taken to the streets again this time their main focus isn't on things like a silly protesting against the violence that was used. as he said at the time the deployment of the place didn't come as a surprise to any of us here when they moved to the main hall in an area we needed and there was going to be some form of intervention it was the scale of the police operation it was really about the police operation in one of your earlier reports you sort of there was there were many more police than there were protesters the discrepancy in numbers was he i mean there were protesters in the thousands and many of them were peaceful and also it was dubbed the cell revolution this is an older generation of demonstrators here fighting against them to rise in the price and when the police operation turned up and they were in their thousands in a. very very good question now when the operation was justified whether it's just.

that amount of force certainly many people on the ground we all felt that it was and it was very chaotic a lot of injuries were sustained it's very hard to gauge an accurate figure on these numbers as we said the protesters taking to the streets again because they're deeply unhappy with the way the situation was handled and the ensuing events last night and we also know all of the chaos that ensued what did you see the police batons or was it based on spray and what would you say and i said at the time it really felt like witnessing a lot of modern day bustle seemed they lined the streets on both sides of that street outside the main parliament building so they had the protest assemblies around it and there were thousands of them they had their own materials that they were beating on of serry very aggressive and in the space of about a couple of minutes we were hearing talks of the toys of idealization later about possible negotiations a couple of minutes later they were in the crowds and like i say cousin see those take us everywhere they were rubber bullets like i said center because i didn't you say one of the early reports of one of our colleagues marty espanol was

a victim of a volley yes a spanish person and his at me at the time he. trying to get out of that scene and many of the journalists were in fact injured a lot like shooting colleagues so the chances of getting injured and. that the methods of violence being used by the police were kind of injuries were ok for sustaining it was just very aggressive they were walking into the crowds and just basically grabbing anyone that they could that was in front of them in the tenets of the war and here in that area when when it kicks off you need to be out of there pretty sharpish because they're not going to discriminate you know a young journalist protestor they were just in and it was extremely chaotic it's hard to gauge accurate information is a lot of people are still trying to track down my list of friends and family that they have here they need turned out to inspiration and they're not able to find where they are not the figures that are coming out. it is very hard to get an accurate reading on that also witnessing it is the sixteen that they're releasing that we know that they're in ninety arrests they're saying the numbers of people in

hospital in these we saw many more injuries and that's the certainly the number of people who see as much. which is opposition says that the government is staging a witch hunt against everyone who took part in those protests and speaking exclusively to r.t. the opposition leader and you know. many of those speaking out against prison so he's really determined will disappear. we know a little of people who are who have been arrested and government not giving us any information about that. unfortunately we received another letter today is that two more. persons hello from beyond phone i'm afraid that this people are having gotten beaten until this and then play a card. all over the world people fall or otherwise it's impossible to imagine that this course where. the tribune of parade and special forces as special department because you know that people are great in jail and they include these very brutal

it is we are receiving this information you can see my security officers who were just a little bit in the jail. because it's an electrician coleen's the. hospitals or. before that always so. there were some rumors here people in police had been gagged so basically end of stories coming out of police you know it's terrible and what is very important today we're receiving information that some of the people homeless police is looking for and couldn't find. in their favor this police entered and they arrested mazas sisters and wife's . by the way you can always follow her of the events in georgia unfold on our website now online you can find out how critics say the persecution of opposition members is going beyond all reason that's one protester who threw

a chocolate bar at present so it really was sentenced to three months in jail this much more free of arctic. garza's blockade has been eased after four years of total lockdown egypt's opened a border crossing for pedestrians give way to the outside world for one a half million palestinians the crossing is accessible to anyone except men aged between eighteen and forty who require visas the border was closed after hamas seized power in gaza with israel hoping the blockade would help force the group our human rights groups the massive humanitarian cost from food shortages to the sick and they were to leave for simple treatment but of course there are reports a new life line 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 wilder 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. and i wondered hospital here and they give me some linen and look in the nand the borders are closed this is the reason why a cell 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 gone up six years ago between another post 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 allowed to live it to supervise and monitor security cameras from a far. points. so for the same interest of both countries. the permanent opening of rougher

terrifies israeli citizens especially those who live. 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 interest rockets and snipers from gaza so she was scared and i mean really here the first risk. we have to one and take their place. we've tried. every run in his whole. they're all just last month a sixteen year old boy was killed when it was some rocket hit the school bus he was travelling home in people who live here are afraid to 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 i'm sure. if the board will be open really. really. busy

munition. much more all the 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 tel aviv rappers nene's is that dating life was rabies living not far from gaza is fast becoming part of his radio life across the country to see our team tel aviv's. the new government's opening of the border with gaza isn't the only egyptian decision that's made headlines around the world a court there is fighting become treason alstad leader hosni mubarak and two of his ex ministers nineteen billion dollars for cutting off telecommunications internet and mobile connections were disrupted for days when the popular uprising began in january its leader is currently in custody pending trial on corruption charges and his involvement in the deadly crackdown on protesters. in china over

thirty five million people are estimated to have been affected by a devastating drought along the yangtze river it's the worst recorded in half a century one of the many problems the region now faces a shortage of drinking water and severe losses for the agricultural industry no rain falls forecast in the area until the beginning of june. and the droughts and latest natural disaster that spring ever greater numbers of doomsday theory some experts say that there are signs that people need to build their futures with greater responsibility and talk show host laurie hall finished last people on the streets of the big apple if this really is time to change. tornadoes ripping down buildings nuclear power plants melting down are we building our society responsibly our with any more thought at all this week let's talk about that do you think society thinks of long term or are they just always doomed to

think of the short term i mean 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 nuclear power plants and i hope that it's true so maybe if their people weren't worried about making money so much they'd make. i think we're done this is it i phones i pads there's no thinking past the next five minutes you'd children i do doesn't my concern you know that 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 we said build projects that lasted for for one hundred years well they're built to last a hoover dam is going to last a long time. just like that. they should last a thousand years because hopefully will be around in a thousand years right he put my body or work or he's in 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 order bunch of you taking care cost a lot so the who's going to win the planet or the corporation. who knows whether or not you think we're building society probably the bottom line is with lives and our planet on the line we can always strive to do better. well now we see the icy grasses of our planet's coldest continent turn into lush

green valleys well listen all the burning issues are currently being tackled by antarctic scientists as thomas reports. within a mile of. being one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is and charge it up and people have to be aware that they are far away from civilization sean thomas discovers what makes antarctica so special and attractive from the wildlife in antarctica is unique and for. expeditions to the bottom of the earth. each week. heights to the. glacier on kings 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 yet. the factors are glaciers

are changing in size points to a change in climates right now we know that since the middle or the end of the nineteenth century the majority of the last 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 morning trend affects the local ecosystem some greater amount of fresh water is coming from slam to the sea which forms a freshwater where i was the surface of the sea water freshwater is right so there was some problems with mixing i was there was a coral which could possibly influence a 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 delhi penguins and chinstrap young ones are declining in this region principally do that the point and even though the overall global trend is pointing to what is in fact global warning some scientists are saying that we're living between i say this 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 an indicator on the glass here is the aqua librium lane altitudes it's the altitudes where the accumulates the minds of snow equals the melts of the mind if this out it's huge gets higher it means that the climate is getting warmer and if the altitude gets nor it means that the climate is getting closer and since two thousand and six. sounds to choose 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 not simple i mean how do you keep in mind we don't have a situation where climate changes in the same way all over the planet somewhere is getting warmer this summer it's got some colder and some where there are new changes of toad the same time which tendency occurs in which an area is also changing so is the climate here and right now it's constants in the future the base can also issued 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 a prepared for whatever comes down the line in antarctica sean thomas archie. a

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