in the. polls apart rock obama says the u.s. will locate part of its missile shield in poland urging russia to get involved despite saw scows objections to the plan. lawyers for former bosnian serb general rocco blodgett safety except that his appeal against extradition to the war crimes tribunal in the hague is unlikely to succeed to bring you a firsthand report from the village where he was captured. it's a mistake ma says since then the storage and opposition leaders say the government's rounding up families of dissidents many of whom are still missing after a violent repression of last week's protests. and

a light at the end of the tunnel for people of gaza as egypt opens the border crossing ending up for your blockade of the palestinian territories. six am in moscow i'm not tressa good to have you with us here on r t our top story russia should be part of a missile defense shield in europe according to the u.s. president speaking in poland barack obama reiterated the u.s. isn't giving up on plans to site some rockets and planes in the country close to russia's borders or he said work is going on as 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 equip an air base here and poland on its land which will service. military transport planes and f. sixteen fighter jets and also more importantly for poles to helles short range interceptor missiles white twenty eighteen no all this comes after another meeting between barack obama and the russia's president to meet a new video 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 a v sensitive one for moscow for years it was the biggest stumbling points in the relations 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 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 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 nato and the united states need to make a joint statement to russia saying that this is to me is not aimed at 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 pits are indeed because there's definite positive tendencies when it comes to communication but some of the actions don't really fit in the picture.

u.s. based radio host and author steven lemmen tells r t he thinks russia's concerns on the u.s. missile defense system are well founded america's eighty missile defense system is not the defense missile. that would still be as i understand this is a serious of sr isn't a texas though it would and where it has the money station is close the russians of course they want a way to intercept russia's response before they can do it so they inflict as much damage as possible but again i swear i just want to get an ac is it possible that american leaders are saloons saying if they want a war with russia they simply can't conceive of their pollution ever know we have a bunch of lunatics you know places in this country so i don't really think that's the. i think g eight summit world leaders have discussed the arab uprisings with a focus on the situation in libya they've released a joint statement calling for colonel gadhafi to step down immediately saying he's

lost all legitimacy russia has stepped up pressure on the libyan leader by endorsing the communique but it also says it's upping efforts to mediate a cease fire moscow hopes its ties with both sides in the conflict or put it in the ideal position to make progress r.t. spoke exclusively with a representative of the rebels for find out what they would do with the country. of the first of all and some points out that answer leave it becomes democratic states will continue to observe only early 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 plan that for sees the creation of a national congress which will be elected by all libyan people and will form a commission which will create a constitution that will be voted on in a national referendum we hope that this will take no more than a year. r.t. will bring you an extended interview with the rebel leader mustafa abdel jovial

sunday four am g.m.t. repeating throughout the day. nato jets have had a number of targets in the libyan capital tripoli including a compound belonging to cut off the professor marker army and tells our team russia's mediation may help but believes the alliance was to carry on with the military campaign through the. but the rebels feel they have the support of the nato countries some of the lead some of the arab states actually have already shown much interest in reducing its natural. union and i suspect unless countries decided they were mightly the next month or so to achieve a military victory the major countries may decide perhaps we'll have some kind of compromise and russia will be able to act as a mediator but i suspect at the moment trees and nation need to see if said gadhafi must. go free where can he go into i'm afraid say it's victory or death for him maybe death is more likely that moment less we've brought

a closed door his options which makes a new solution very very difficult to imagine. coming your way in a few minutes we'll look at whether some recent catastrophes are making people think more about the planet's future. i think we're ok the world in and last weekend there were four billion years the sun burns out so that they will be able to be as people on the streets of new york whether they're followed by doomsday predictions thoughts. of a ticking time bomb many think is threatening mankind global warming are to travel to antartica to see it because you know what the world's oldest private if you're getting hot under the collar and. former bosnian serb army general ratko mulatto is waiting for a court to decide whether he'll be extradited to the hague in serbia few have been left with and left indifferent by his arrest with reaction ranging from jubilant outrage or he's catarina as are about has visited the serbian village where

a lot of it was finally caught. well we did manage to talk to some of the people of course it was saturday and out quite early in the morning when we made our trip to the village itself was a credibly small very sleepy lots of people gardening and basically the only thing that was odd it was the large amount of journalists both of a number of policemen that were standing outside the house where a former bosnian general of commodities 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 not i should speak to one woman who was one of a lot of his neighbor. to neighbor and can luggage was arrested no one had the slightest idea he was being his brother leaves in his hands and knees and very well tended to get a new man appeared in the hands he was wearing a cap and military jackets moving with difficulty as though he had a stroke we had no idea who the man was until the police arrived pinions are of

course divided after the arrest. and to talk a little bit more about what has arrest means for their serbian people i'm joined live by mr isaacs on the quiet 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 they don't first of all the. feel. that serbs from another genocide like. the second thing is they don't think that any of those promises made to discover the truth come into play. still it's just another sort of a national humiliation. you think it will be. the return of a nation promises or presume you're referring to the promises of he membership that was given to serbia for the actual people just even membership really matter. it

might have several years ago the thing is it's has become an old and tired story and the more people. listen about it here about the less they're actually includes 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 try to force 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 has been done so far shows actually was a tribunal just set up lame exclusively one side bad guys will pick twenty years ago they were the serbs and the hague tribunal is there to justify western policy here and such we hide the real culprits. artie's facebook page you can find latest updates and firsthand accounts from our correspondents remember world was interested in your opinion on the stories we're covering so they were asked me

viewers what the arrest of right cold blooded means for about a victory for justice or the betrayal of a hero around facebook dot com slash artemia it was an actor's. thousands have taken to the streets of georgia's capital protesting the government's violent breakup of peaceful rallies two days ago they held a minute of silence commemorating victims of a crackdown on his number they claim is being played down protesters also adopted a statement in which called the dispersal and illegal operation of intimidation

promised to gather again on sunday earlier my colleague rory sushi talked with r.p. sarah firth who covered the events in tbilisi. the opposition have taken this case again this time the main focus is announced things like to say that protesting against the violence that is against a wednesday's crackdown as he said at the time that the pulling in of the place didn't come as a surprise to any of us here that i would leave the main part in an area we needed as there was going to be some form of intervention it was the scale of the police operation that was 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 so you needed discrepancy in numbers as he ages i mean there were protests in the thousands and many of them were peaceful and also it was dubbed this the revolution this is an older generation in ten states this is the fighting against the. and i see the prices and when the police operation turned up and they were in their thousands later. very very everyone's question now whether

the operation was justified whether it's just. that amount of force certainly many people in the ground we all felt that it was and it was very calles it was a lot of injuries were sustained it's a very hard to gauge an accurate figure on this and as he 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 are the only arsenal of so when you talk about the chaos that ensued what did you see what was the 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 lot of modern day a battle scene they lined the streets on both sides of the street outside the main parliament building so they had the protesters these around and there were thousands of them they had there on the chills they were beating on is very very aggressive and in the space of a couple of minutes here into. the idea position later about possible negotiations a couple of minutes later they were in the cars and i like i said has and 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 violent yes that's punished correspondent at the time he got hit by rather bullets as he was trying to get out of the scene and many of the tennis were in fights injured a lot of our children colleagues of the drivers are getting injured in this but would you say that the methods of violence being used by the police what kind of injuries were people sustaining this is very aggressive they were walking into the crowds and just basically grabbing anyone that they that was in front of them in the genesis of being warned if you're in an area when when it kicks off you need to get out of there pretty sharpish because they're not going to discriminate you know young journalists protest 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 and friends and family that they had they need turned out of the same station and they're not able to find where they are now do you think is it a. it is very hard to get an accurate reading on that and so i think that witnessing it seems extreme you know the numbers that we know that ninety arrests

this saying numbers of people in hospital and. we saw many more injuries the most unsettling the number for the people who were there will see as much. i mean staging a witch hunt against everyone who took part in the protests speaking exclusively with r.t. opposition leader nino burjanadze says many of those speaking out against president saakashvili to taint or even disappear. but we do know the little people who aren't will have been arrested and government isn't giving us any information about them. unfortunately received a non-issue today is that two more. persons had to. emigrate based people and i think that is. until there is and then. little. people falling on their way so it's impossible to imagine that forcibly in the tribune of a raid and special forces and special department because found them you know that

people that p.t.t. . any police. ready to leave this we are receiving this information you can see my security officer who we are just to fix in the unit in the jail. because it's a delegate to the police. because details it's a. little bit we have before that police. in that way as someone who has a few people who are into police think out of some of these kind of stories coming out of the police to know it's terrible and what he's worrying what since today we're receiving information they have some of the people who police these are looking for and couldn't find. their families police entered into a rest if this system. you can always follow the events unfolding in georgia on our web site now wildlife and find out how critics say the persecution of the opposition members is going beyond all reason or one protester who threw

a chocolate bar at president saakashvili was sentenced to three months behind bars this and much more. egypt has ended a four year blockade of the gaza strip creating an opening to the outside world for one and a half million palestinians imposed in two thousand and seven after hamas came to power the closure was aimed at weakening the party the crossing which will be free of user. restrictions for everyone except men ages eighteen to forty will enable palestinians to move freely for medical study and business purposes but as art is possibly reports in israel use few of them will lead to increasing terror. 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 lit through which meant no more than three hundred people a day but water her mother 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 give me some women and the pain there and the borders are poor 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 willing agreement drawn up six years ago between another poster 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 who was watching. on certain points and checkpoints that were the same interest of both countries. the permanent opening of rougher terrifies israeli citizens especially those who live and he 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 i am aware of any meaning when we hear the first receive falling down we have to take their place somewhere i said there we thought i thought the order of the keyboard cell there for everyone in here the whole area. said there are just last month a sixteen year old boy was killed when it was summer could hit the school bus he was traveling home in people who live. there 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 plainly sure that if they go they'll be all paid freely. still guys that are in hamas is that now all of the you know there is in unison. they really have much in all

the implications of which are becoming clearer by the day i'm standing some eighty five kilometers away from gaza but it will be a grad missile fired from there has hit the outskirts of the city is radio news warning that in the next major conflict tens of thousands of rockets will hit tel aviv reckless means is that daily life was waiting for the not far from gaza it's possible coming out of his way the night across the country to see our team set up a. thrown out of some other stories making headlines across the globe are respected regional police chief has been killed in a suicide attack in northern afghanistan at least five others also died in a blast targeting the compound of the local governor police chief gen darwood daoud was one of the leaders of the northern alliance that fought the taliban there's been an upswing in attacks on security forces in the wake of the killing of osama bin ladin pakistan earlier this month. according to has fired the country's ousted leader hosni mubarak and two of his former ministers ninety million dollars

for cutting off telecommunications internet and mobile connections were disrupted for days when a popular uprising started in january former leader 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 a devastating drought along the sea river it's the worst recorded in a century among the many problems the region now faces or a shortage of drinking water and severe losses for agriculture no rain falls for forecasts for the area until the beginning of june. well last year russia also experienced its worst drought in more than a century find out about its impact on the country's agriculture by visiting our website are teed up. the drought is the latest natural disaster spring ever greater numbers or doomsday theories some experts say it's a sign people need to build their futures with greater responsibility online talk

show host laurie harford as people on the streets of new york if it's time for a 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 they just always doomed to think of the short term i hear things which country are and. i think americans are very short term. why aren't planes made of the material the black costs me out of. honestly believe 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 that it's a it's a big covering conspiracy or i think that it from friends the companies but because . there is no private interests in the nuclear power plants that i hope that

it's sure so maybe if people weren't worried about making money so much they'd make things their part i think we're done with is it i phones i bet there's no thinking past the next five minutes did children i do doesn't make uncertain event. i think we're ok the world in and last weekend they were four billion years in the sun burns out so they will be ok you know back in the thirty's we used to build projects that lasted for one hundred years well it looks it will tell us that hoover dam is going to last a long time don't go projects like that where they should last a thousand years because hopefully will be around in a thousand years right you put my body out of 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 or bunch of you taking. the was 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. but only in this news lot will we see the icy glaciers of our planet's coldest car to turn into green valleys is another issue is currently being tackled by antarctic scientists as artie's shark thomas reports. each week. hikes to the bone scans and. george island to measure twenty nine different markers. by doing so he can record exactly how the glacier changes each year and it seems that glaciers in antarctica are getting smaller yet. if i put our glaciers are changing in size points to a change in claimants and i know we know that since the middle or the end of the

nineteenth century the majority of the last year's are receiving it means there is a general warming over climate antarctica provides a unique opportunity where scientists can get a firsthand look at how this warming trend affects the local ecosystem. greater amount of fresh water is coming from slam into the sea which forms of fresh water where. surface of the sea water fresh water is lighter so there is some problems with mixing of the water coral which could possibly influence as a structural. planter 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 that it has supported in the past penguin species delhi penguins and constructing

ones are declining in this region principle we do to that decline in coral 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. of the mean indicator on the glass here is the equilibrium lane altitudes it's the altitude where the accumulates in the minds of snow equals the melts of the minds if they sell to choose to get tired it means that the climate is getting warmer and if the altitude gets lor it means that the climate is getting colder since two thousand and six. altitudes 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 that we have to keep in mind we don't have a situation where climate change is in the same way all over the planet it's

somewhere it's getting warmer some where it's getting colder and some where there are new changes atoll at the same time which tendency occurs in which area is also changing so if the climate here and right now is constant in the future events can also change although 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 prepared for whatever comes down the line in antarctica sean thomas our team. back with a recap of our top stories in a few minutes stay with us.

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