bulls in power brock obama insists the u.s. will locate part of its missile shield in poland urging russia to get involved despite strong reservations moscow's strong reservations to the plan. lawyers for the former bosnian serb general ride home lodge says he accepts his appeal against extradition to a war crimes tribunal in may is unlikely to succeed we'll bring you a firsthand report from the village where he was captured. they received mises says the. georgian opposition leaders say the government is rounding up families of dissidents many of whom are still missing after the violent repression of last

week's protests. and a light at the end of the tunnel for the people of gaza as egypt opens a border crossing and they know for your blockade of the palestinian territory. and in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story russia should be part of a missile defense shield in europe so says u.s. president barack obama speaking in poland but despite comments obama reared aerated the u.s. is not giving up on plans to host some of his rockets n. planes in the country close to russia's borders risk it all has more from warsaw. 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 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 the plans to quit an air base here in poland on its land which will service hercules military transport planes and f. sixteen fighter jets and also more importantly for poles to hell's short range interceptor missiles white twenty eighteen all this comes after another meeting between barack obama and the russia's president meeting in vegas 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 to be am the issue itself is a v sensitive one for moscow for years it was the biggest stumbling points in the view lesions 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 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 conflict in picture indeed because there's definite positive tendencies when it comes to communication but the actions don't movie theater in the picture u.s.

based radio host and author steven lemmon tells our t.v. russia's concerns on the american missile defense system may be fact well founded under is air missile defense system is not the defense it's what buckets there which is understand this is a lot of the system isn't a tax system and what america has the money station in this close the russians or is it a system so colin ingrid two hundred miles from russia proper they want a way to intercept russia's response before they do any. good as much damage as possible but again i scratch my head of ac is it possible that american leaders are so insane if they are going to war with russia they simply can't conceive of their position ever know we have a bunch of lunatics you know waste isn't this country's i don't want anything.

at the g eight summit world leaders have discussed the arab uprisings with a particular focus on the libyan situation it really did joint statement calling for colonel gadhafi to step down immediately saying he's lost all legitimacy russia has increased pressure on the libyan leader by endorsing the making of a communique but also says it's upping efforts to mediate a cease fire moscow hopes its ties with both sides in the conflict will put it in an ideal position to make progress r.t. spoke exclusively with a representative of the rebels to find out what they want to do with the country. first of all it's a points out that asked to leave it becomes democratic states will and senior to observe agreements it's required by international law the transitional council will be working for an axiom of a year after the country's liberates its we have a road map planned for seize the creation of a national congress which would be elected by all be an equal but will form a commission which will create a constitution and it will be voted on in a national referendum we hope that this will take no more than

a year. nato jets have had a number of targets in libya's capital tripoli including our compound our own by khadafi mark almond a visiting professor of international relations at bill kent university in turkey tells our team russia's mediation might help but believes the alliance may want to carry on the military campaign through to the end. but the rebels feel they have the support of the nato countries some are only some of the arab states actually have a british and much interest in its natural beliefs. and union and i suspect unless countries decided they were likely due next month or social to a military victory the nato countries may decide to have some kind of compromise with russia will be able to act as a mediator but i suspect that the moment big trees near a nation leader said gadhafi must go. where can you get into i'm sure it's a victory or death for him maybe it is more likely that more the less we brought

a close door his options which makes interviews very very difficult to imagine for me where in a few minutes a look at whether some recent catastrophes are making people think more about the planet's future. i think we're ok the world in the last weekend there were four billion years the sun burns out so they will be out there yes people on the streets of new york if they are bothered by doomsday predictions lots. of other ticking time bomb made many think is threatening mankind global warming party travels to antartica to see if the continent with the world's coldest climate is getting a little hot under the problem. but first former bosnian serb army general radko mulattoes she's waiting for his fate to be announced which may happen as early as monday in serbia few have been left indifferent to his arrest with reaction to ranging from jubilance to outrage artie's a catarina czar of a has visited the serbian village was finally. well we did

manage to talk to a some of the people of course it was quite early in the morning when we made our trip and the village itself was credibly small very small. lots of people gardening and basically the only thing that was odd it was the pope a large amount of journalists and a number of policemen that were standing outside the house where a former bosnian general michael modish 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 neighbor and could not it was arrested no one had the slightest idea he was being that his brother lives in his hands and to be very well to do you think you knew many people in the hands he was wearing a cap and it's moving with difficulty as though he tried to stroke we had no idea

who the man was until the police arrived pinions our force. after the arrest. and to talk a little bit more about what his arrest means for the serbian people i'm joined live by mr alexander who is a political analyst here in belgrade 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. we're all. through the second thing. they don't think that any of those promises made this really come into play. so it's just another sort of a national figure. you think it will be. a mission promises or presume you're referring to the promises of membership that was given to serbia for the actual people membership really matter. it might have several

years ago the thing is it's just become an old and tired story the more people. listen about it here about the less they're actually enthused them they 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 to try to you know of course i understand that many people here in serbia are very dissatisfied with the tribe you know and john actually believes it can be objective absolutely everything that's good has been done so far shows that actually was attributable just. plain exclusively one side the bad guys were pigs twenty years ago they were the serbs and the hague tribunal is there to justify western policy here and we have the real culprits. artie's facebook page you can always find latest updates on the stories and first hand accounts from our correspondents and remember we're always interested in what you have to say on the stories we're covering today we're asking our viewers what

the arrest of right cold blooded means for a victory for justice or betrayal a national hero. or a facebook dot com slash r g news that matters. is . the. thousands are taken to the streets of georgia's capital protesting the government's violent crackdown on peaceful rallies two days ago of silence commemorating the victims of the crackdown whose numbers they claim is being downplayed by officials protesters also adopted to state in which the dispersal was called an illegal

operation of intimidation and a promise to gather again sunday earlier my colleague henri sushi spoke with r.t. sarah ferguson was covering events in tbilisi. the opposition have taken to the streets again this time that main focus is an announced things like a fairly protesting against the violence the disease when states cracked as he said at the time the deployment of the place didn't come as a surprise to any of us here with that problem they need the main part in an area we needed them case he sometimes intervention it was the scale of the police operation that is really you talk about the scale of the police operation in one of your earlier reports you said that there was there were many more police than there were protesters out city that has got this in numbers was he i mean there were protests in the thousands and many of them were peaceful and also it was dubbed the silver at least in this isn't always each other right. faces in the fighting against and they came to my safety place and when the police operation turned up and they were in a. very very quick 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 and it was very chaotic a lot of injuries were sustained it's a very hard to gauge an accurate figure on this and as we said the process is taking to the streets again because they're deeply unhappy with the way the situation was handled and the ensuing events lastly arsenal and so when you talk about the chaos that ensued what did you see when 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 modern day battle scene they lined the streets on both sides the street outside the main parliament building so they had the protesters to release around it and there were thousands of them they had their own and shields they were beating on is very very aggressive and in the space of about a couple of minutes here in talks over the tannoy all right ideas are possible negotiations a couple of minutes later they were in the clouds and like i say cast and see those

everywhere they were running bullets like i said center because i didn't produce a want to early reports of one of our colleagues marty espanyol who was a victim of a violent yes a spanish correspondent at the time he got hit by a of the bullets as he was trying to get out of this in a many of the journalists were in fact injured in colleagues so the chances of getting injured in this way when you see that the methods of violence being used by the police what 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 of them in the genesis of the war and 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 who still trying to track down relatives and friends and family that they have they need turned out of the demonstration and they're not able to find. they are not do you think is that it coming out the amount and. it is very hard to get an accurate reading on that and so i think that witnessing it it seems

extreme the numbers that i really think that the ninety arrests they're saying the numbers of people. we still many more injuries than mostly setting the number of people that we see as much. george's opposition says the government is stage you know we're trying to get to everyone who took part in the protest speaking exclusively with our leader nino burjanadze says that many of those speaking out against president saakashvili get detained or even disappear. we know a little people who aren't will have been arrested and government giving us any information about them. unfortunately we received a nonissue to. two more. persons who. penetrate it is people i think are beaten until this and then car. people fall in other ways it's impossible to imagine that this course where in the tribune of a raid and special forces and special department is found them you know that people

that beat him in a jail and in chorley's very brutally this is we are receiving this information you can see my security officers who we are just. getting meaner in the jail because it's an electrician coleen's. hospitals or. we have been for an awful lease and there were some rumors a few people were in police indict so basically end of stories are coming from police you know it's terrible and what is very important today we're receiving information that some of the people who police he's looking for and couldn't find. him they if any of this police entered and they were arrested mazas says and life's you can always follow our events in georgia unfold on our website now online find out how the critics say the cross accusing of opposition members is going beyond

all reason after one protester who threw a chocolate bar president saakashvili was censored three months in jail there's a much more r.t. dot com. it. has been eased after four years of total lockdown egypt has opened a border crossing for pedestrians giving the gateway to the outside world for one and a half million palestinians crossings are acceptable accessible to anyone except men between ages eighteen and forty who require that the border was closed after hamas seized power in gaza with israel hoping the watch paid would help force the party out human rights groups a massive humanitarian cost and food shortages to the sick being unable to leave for treatment as artie's powerlessly reports the new life for protest palestinians is causing headaches for television. this is egypt's border with gaza a place where for years the gates was shut more often than opened only the most extreme humanitarian cases where through which meant no more than three hundred

people a day. 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. then i went to the hospital here and they gave me some linen and the paint in there and the borders are closed and this is the reason why is so for us 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 another post egyptian president hosni mubarak the united states these raids in the europeans be in place that agreement monitors access to the crossing and it will tell of it to supervise and monitor security cameras from afar and is who was watching. egypt on certain points and checkpoints so it was the same interest of both countries. the permanent

opening of rougher terrifies israeli citizens especially those who live funky puts was just eight hundred meters from the israeli gaza border. ever since the key parts was established nearly sixty years ago it's been on the receiving end of interest and smyth has from gaza since he was killed and i mean when we hear the first misinforming now we have to run and take their place. we've tried. every run in his home. they're all just last month a sixteen year old boy was killed when to some school bus he was travelling home in people who live here are afraid they 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 sure. if they go they'll be open for you.

in the. you know visit munitions. they really have much smaller the implications of which are becoming clearer about a day i'm standing some eighty five kilometers away from gaza there will be a grad missiles fired from there has hit the outskirts of the city the israeli army is mourning many in the next major conflict tens of thousands of rockets with its television rep this means is that day the line for israelis living not far from gaza response becoming part of his way to be nice across the country to see our team tel aviv's. new governments opening of the border with gaza and the only egyptian decision that's made headlines around the world court there has five countries i was told leader hosni mubarak and to have his former ministers ninety million dollars for cutting off telecommunications internet and mobile connections were disrupted for days when the popular uprising started in january the former leader is currently in custody pending trial on for option charges and his involvement in the deadly crackdown on protests. in china some thirty five million

people are estimated to have been affected by a devastating drought along the yangtze river is the worst recorded in half a century among the many problems. the region now faces are shortages of drinking water and severe losses for the agricultural industry and no rainfall is forecast in the area until the beginning of june. last year rochelle also experienced its worst drought in more than a century find out about its impact on the country's agriculture by visiting our web site r t dot com the drought is the latest natural disaster that spring ever greater numbers of doomsday theories some experts say there are a sign that people need to build their futures with greater sponsibility online talk show host lloyd harford just asked people on the streets of new york if the time is really now 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 term 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 costs me out of. all this like you know that those are just not enough for thought put into it i just need the 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 to see it some become a conspiracy or i think that in friends the company is public so. there is no private interest in the u.k. and i hope that 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 it i phones i there's no thinking past next five minutes if you had children i do it doesn't concern you

that it does but i think we're ok the world in and last week and they were four billion years the sun burns out so they will be ok back in the thirty's we used to build projects that lasted for one hundred years well it was they're built to last the 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 buddy had to work and he's 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. costello so who's going to win the planet or the corporation. who knows whether or not you think we're building society responsibly the bottom line is with lives and our planet on the line we can always strive to do better.

well will we see the isolation as our planet's coldest continent turned into green valley is this another burning issue is currently being tackled by antarctic scientists as artie's sean thomas reports. each week block move. to the billings homes in 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 facts 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 class years are receding and 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 some greater amount of fresh water is coming from the land to 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 of the 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 winter time has declined that means that the area may not support the amount of coral in the future that it has supported in the past penguin species adelie penguins and chinstrap and ones are declining in this region principally due to that decline 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 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 i mean an indicator on the glass here is an equilibrium laying out since you'd see it's the altitudes where the accumulates in the minds of snow equals the male so the mayans if they sow to choose gets higher it means that the climate is getting warmer and if the altitude gets nor it means that the climate is getting closer 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 the message when we have to keep in mind we don't have a situation where climate change is in the same way all over the planet somewhere it's getting warmer some where it's got some colder and some where there are new changes that tolerate the same time which tendency occurs in which an area is also changing so is the climate here and right now is constants in the future of space

can also be achieved 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 all the areas of the planet that are going to change in the future so we might have a chance of being prepared for whatever comes down the line in antarctica sean thomas r t. back with a recap of our top stories in a few minutes stay with us here on r.t. .

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