street. in that. russia should have a stake in the missile shield in europe iraq obama spells out his idea while visiting poland but also reaffirms america's plans to station some of his rockets and planes that are in serbia there's a split over reckon with that it is looming extradition and war crimes charges people from the village where he was arrested say they had no idea the former general was living next door and. they arrested mostest says. the georgian opposition says the government's mallon targeting the families of dissidents and dozens of whom are still missing after an phony crackdown on protests two days ago. easy in isolation egypt opens

a border crossing with gaza be ending before you have blockade of the palestinian term. international news and comment from our studios here in central moscow this is r.t. with twenty four hours a day so russia should be part of a missile defense shield in europe so says the u.s. president i was speaking in poland and despite the comments iraq obama reiterated 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 know if it's going off 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 komorowski have said that

it's very possible that a 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 quit an air base here in poland on its lands which will service. military transport planes and f. sixteen fighter jets and also more importantly for poles to house short range interceptor missiles by twenty eighteen now all this comes after another meeting between barack obama and the russia's president need to be needed if at the g eight summit in france the two leaders also discussed a future possible joint anti missile defense system and seems 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 relationship between russia and the united states so now it's really unclear of the purpose. of the strong military presence by the united

states here in portland 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 world wants to work together with russia then it 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 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 istomin 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 cult whipping picture indeed because there's definite positive tendencies when it comes to communication but the absence don't really fit in the picture. the radio

host and author from chicago stephen lemmon told me earlier here in r.t. that russia's concerns on the american missile defense system are well founded and there is any missile defense system is nothing to fear. and this will show weakness understand this is a lot of fear so spoke is an attack system and what america has money stateliness close to russia's borders between systems and comin ingrid two hundred miles from russia proper they want a way to intercept russia's response before they even. inflict as much damage as possible then again i specially when i get an ac is it possible that we're in we use this all insane war with russia basically conceivable bush and every know we have a bunch of lunatics and hope wasters and those countries don't want anything else.

along with missile defense g eight leaders also discussed the situation in libya they put pressure on gadhafi to leave russia said it's upping efforts to mediate a cease fire moscow says its ties with both sides in the conflict puts it in an ideal position to make progress party exclusively spoke to a representative of the rebels to find out what they want to do with the country. first of all i want to point out that i asked a leader becomes democratic state will continue to observe all the agreements it's required by international law it's residual council will be working over and maximal of a year after the country's liberates its we have a road map plan that for seize the creation of a national congress which will be elected by all levy and people will form a commission which will create a constitution that will be voted on in a national referendum we hope this will take no more than a year when. nato has continued bombing the libyan capital tripoli on saturday mark

ullman and a visiting professor in international relations that will count university in turkey and told us that russian mediation might help but so far it seems the alliance wants to carry on with the military campaign until the bitter end. of the rebels feel they have a supporter of going to outraise some are some other arab states so they haven't really shown much interest. and i suspect unless nato countries decided they were likely next month or so to achieve a military victory major countries may decide. to act as a mediator but i suspect at the moment. the national leader said. anything to. death is more likely but nonetheless we've brought a closed door as options which makes some of you see ocean very very difficult to imagine. i confess i'm not calling i'm talking to be a little out here a lot see it coming your way in a few minutes on the program

a look at whether some recent catastrophes are making people think more about the planet speech i think we're ok in the world in the last week and they want four billion years the sun burns out so they will be ok. we also people on the streets of new york if they have all the doomsday predictions. also still to come the sound of a ticking time bomb many think is threatening mankind and that is global warming if he travels through antarctica to see if the continent before it's called this climate is getting hot under the cup. first. general. to be announced which may happen as early as monday and left in different the rest with a reaction ranging from jubilance to outrage. desirable has visited the village where it was fun. but we did manage to 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. lots of people. and basically the only thing that was odd it was the large amount of journalists. a number of policemen that were standing outside the house where former bosnian general actually all rested 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 the neighbor. to neighbor edgecumbe knowledge was arrested knew when he. was being that his brother . very low security man appeared to me he was wearing you know it's rejected from his meeting with difficulty as though he's had a stroke. 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 on the. political analyst thank you so much for talking to us now. what does it mean for the people are happy about it are they not happy about it. because they don't. think that any of those promises made. to play. so it's just another sort of national humiliation so it's intentional being done. with a mission promises i am presuming you're referring to the promises of the membership that was given to serbia for the actual people just even membership really matters both might have several years ago the thing is it's just become an

old entire story and the more people. listen about it the was there actually includes them to be actually believed 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 people of course i understand that many people here in serbia are very dissatisfied with that they try to you know i don't actually believe it can be objective absolutely everything that's been has been done so far shoals actually was a tribunal just set up claim exclusively one side bad guys were paid twenty years ago they were the serbs and the take tribune are always there to justify western policy here. are the real culprits. analyses facebook page you can find the latest updates on the stories and first hand accounts from correspondents and remember we're always interested in your opinion on the stories we're covering and today we're all scheme what the rest of iraq and means to you victory for justice

will be the trail of the heroes of one thousand facebook dot com slash news and have your say because if. he. believed he. would. just say. thousands of taking to the streets of the georgian capital to protest against the government's plan a break up of peaceful rallies two days ago held a minute of silence to commemorate the victims of the crackdown whose number they claim is being played down the protesters are also adopted a statement in which the discourse was called an illegal operation of intimidation

and promise to gather again on sunday my colleague rory sushi talked to sarah firth our correspondent who's been covering events in tbilisi. the opposition have taken to the streets again this time their main focus is announced things like a silly protesting against the violence that was used when he said at the time the deployment of the place didn't come as a surprise to any of us here when they leave the main cabin area we knew there was going to be some form of intervention it was the scale of the police operation it was really just about the scale of the police operation in one of your earlier reports you said that there was there were many more police and there were protesters actually discuss this in numbers was he mean there were protesters in the thousands and many of them were peaceful and also it was dubbed the still revolution this is an older generation of faces in the fighting against tensions rising food prices and when the police operations and they found insulation.

is very likely everyone's question now whether the operation was justified whether it's just. that amount of force certainly many people on the ground we all felt that it was it was very chaotic a lot of injuries were sustained it's very hard to gauge an accurate figure on this and this is he said the protesters taking to the streets again because they think the unhappy with the way the situation was handled and the ensuing events after the elsinore so when you talk about the chaos that ensued what did you see the police wielding batons or was a base or spray of what you say well they turned south and i said at the time it really felt like witnessing a moderate muslims a bustle saying they lined the street. from both sides. of the main parliament building so they had the protests the streets around it and there were thousands of them they had there on the shelves they were beating on it was very very aggressive and in the space of about a couple of minutes hearing talks of the tunnel in front of us to the opposition leader about possible negotiations a couple of minutes later they were in the crowds and i like i said has been see

those take us everywhere they were rubber bullets flying less rice and center because i didn't you say one of the early reports of one of our colleagues marty espanol was a victim of the volley yes i spun it corresponded to me at the time he got hit by of the bullets as we were trying to get out of that scene and many of the journalists were in fact injured a lot of the georgian colleagues so the chances of getting injured in this but when you saw that the methods of violence being used by the police what kind of injuries were before sustaining it was just very aggressive they were walking into the crowds and just basically grabbing anyone that was in front of them in the genesis of the wall 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 protester they were just in there and it was extremely chaotic it's hard to gauge accurate information is a lot of people to try and strike that envelops is friends and family that they feel they need to turn the demonstration and they're not able to find where they are the things that are coming out. it is very hard to get an accurate reading on

who they're witnessing it it seems extremely releasing that we know that. they're saying the numbers of people in hospital in their cities we saw many more injuries and most recently the number of people see is much higher and georgia's opposition says the government is staging a witch hunt against everyone who took part in the protests speaking exclusively to r.t. the opposition leader and you know so many of those speaking out against president saakashvili detained disappear. we know a lot of people who are who have been arrested and government giving us any information about them. unfortunately were taken are issued. to them or. persons home from being on the phone i'm afraid it's people have been arrested beaten you know until there is and then a car. full blown well people for all of us are wise it's impossible to imagine that this chorus of lawyer in the tribune of parade and special forces and special

department because you know that people are great in jail and in chorley's very brutally this is we are receiving this information you can see my security officers who are just to be to me in the jail the way i was etc literature people in. hospitals or the way of before enough police and there were some rumors that fewer people are in police indict so these kind of stories are coming out from the police you know it's a 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 family police entered and they were arrested mazas says and lifes. and you can always follow how the events in georgia unfold on our web site now online you can find out

how critics say the persecution of opposition members is going beyond all reason as author one protester who threw a chocolate bar a prison so he's really was sentenced to three months in jail well this and much more for you at r.t. dot com. because this blockade is being used author for years of total law egypt open the border crossing for diversions giving a gateway to the outside world four and a half million palestinians across it is accessible to anyone except men aged between eighty and forty who require visas the border was closed after her seized power in gaza with israel hoping the blockade would help force the party of human rights groups like the massive humanitarian cost from food shortages to the sick be unable to leave the simple treatment for this policy reports the new lifeline for palestinians is a real headache fertility. 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 we lived through which meant no more than three hundred

people a day but water 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 went to the hospital here and they gave me some linen and the paint in there and the borders are poor this is the reason 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 drawn up six years ago between the not opposed to egypt and 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. points and checkpoints so that was the same interest. 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 endless what could and snipers from gaza so she was killed i mean when we hear the first. we have to run and take their place. with. everyone in his whole. they're all just last month a sixteen year old boy was killed when it was summer the school bus he was traveling home in people who live here are afraid that what will happen next is that move with these will find their way into the hands of palestinian militants and ultimately be used against the jewish state the only sure. if the border will be open for you.

know how much is already. busy in your mission. there we have much more all the implications of which are becoming clearer about a day and some in 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 records will tell of it means is that daily life was reagan's living not far from gaza is fast becoming part of his way to life across the country to see our team tel aviv's. the new government of the border with gaza isn't the only egyptian decision that's made headlines around the world record the country's leader hosni mubarak and through respects minister ninety million dollars the cutting off telecommunications internet and mobile connections were disrupted for days when the popular uprising began in germany. is currently in custody pending trial on corruption charges and his involvement in the deadly crackdown on protesters. in china some thirty five

million people are estimated to have been affected by devastating drought along the yangtze river it's the worst recorded in half a century among 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 air until the beginning of june. and the drugs the latest natural disaster that spurring ever greater numbers of doomsday theories some experts say they're a sign that people need to build their futures with greater responsibility online talk show host laurie oftenest asked people on the streets of the big apple if this really is time to change. tornadoes ripping down buildings nuclear power plants melting down our rebuilding our society was arguably are with any or thought at all this week let's talk about that do you think society thinks of long time or they just always doom's i 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 long why aren't planes made of that aerial the black boxes be out of. this like you know way that those are just not enough for thought put into it i just maybe doubt 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 big government conspiracy or i think and friends. companies public so. there is no private interests in the. i hope it's true so maybe if there are people worried about making money so much they'd make things better i think we're done this is the i phone's i there's no thinking past the next five minutes do children i do doesn't make uncertainty than it does but i think we're ok the world in and last weekend there were four billion years of the sun

burns out it will be ok back in the thirty's we said build projects that lasted for for a hundred years well they're built to last a hoover dam is going to last a long time projects like that. they should last a thousand years because hopefully will be around in a thousand years right you put my body at a worker using instruction 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 care cost a lot so those going away and the planet or the corporation. 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. so will we see the icy glasses of our planet's coal this continent turned into lush

green valleys well there's another burning issues are currently being tackled by antarctic scientists as sean thomas reports. each week pull of loot of hikes to the billings house and the english are on the king's 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 falcons are glaciers are changing in size points to a change in climate sort of right now we know that since the middle or the end of the nineteenth century the majority of 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 warming trend affects the local ecosystem but some greater amount of fresh water is coming from slam into the sea which forms a freshwater layer on the surface of the sea water fresh water is lighter

so there is some problems with mixing i was a water coral which could possibly influence a structural. 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 coral in the future that it has supported in the past penguins species i believe penguins and chinstrap the ones are declining in this region principally do that the point in 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. trends. don't know what other mean indicator on the glass

here is the echo librium line altitudes it's the old city is where the accumulates the mines of snow equals the mail so their minds if they sow to choose gets higher it means that the climate is getting warmer and if the altitude case nor at least the climate is going to have closer since two thousand and six this ounce of 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 when we have to keep in mind we don't time a situation where climate changes in the same way all over the planet somewhere is getting warmer the summer is get some colder and some where there are no changes at all we've seen time which tendency occurs in which an area is also changing so is the climate here and right now is constants in the future the base 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 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. and i did that with a recap of our top stories when just a few minutes from now stay with us here in our studios live in central moscow.

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