long. in the. breaking news from r.t. the president. one of the republics that independence from georgia has died aged sixty two. dollar news as we round up the week g. eight leaders unite to call for colonel gadhafi to go to moscow moves to mediate a cease fire and libya. the u.s. expands its military presence in poland during a head of its own missile then shield which russia says could spark a new arms race. thus the georgian opposition and international observers

call on to lucy to investigate the brutal independent state crackdown on protesters which left two people dead. you know with r.t. and our weekly nice review welcome to the program but first this hour the knees the republic's president has died so i think perhaps passed away early on sunday morning in moscow let's cross to tom barton for more on this tom what can you tell us about the circumstances of his death. well kerry as far as we know. it got in a week ago for a long surgery in a moscow hospital and he's going to have passed away today very little else is known apart from those facts. she's deaf it's no no the here. she was

president for a long time and he was now suffering from health and that he has now passed away that. cars with a question as to who will lead the country next when indeed what does this now mean . cause you looked up to. he left the country through some very difficult times in the one nine hundred ninety s. the country first declared unilateral independence but it was then part of georgia and as far as tbilisi's eyes were concerned later in two thousand and eight the country was involved in a war of independence with georgia it for some vicious battles with georgia in that time which was ruling over the country and in two thousand and eight a country managed to achieve independence by capture then lead the country in its first two years of independence from georgia it's

a country bordering the black sea just south of russia's territories in the south of russia just north of georgia and this country is very famous as a holiday destination and also for its wine as well because you know wine very famous throughout the former soviet union and in russia that country facing a very difficult time in two thousand and eight and since trying to carve itself a new identity and surrogate was very much at the head of that. that that kind of effort to try and form itself a new identity his death today a great loss for young and though this search is now on an interim leader will step in in the time in the place. but after that period the country will very much be searching for a new leader for this young state ok now thank you. the

week's main news now is colonel gadhafi a major eight summit in france. as russia joined forces with allies calling to quit as he cleared his rule illegitimate and discussed ways to broker peace in a struggling euro currency was also at a critical list for the world's richest countries as artie's and he saw no way reports. new world new ideas host france but that concept on the g eight table at a time when it looks like old ways aren't working our war in libya on the front line with the euro crisis in the background leads to questions like this will sarkozy be known as the man who saved tens of thousands of civilians in benghazi oh well he knows the. problems to economic ruin and a never ending war in libya he must go g eight leaders agreed word for word in their generation about the taffy saying he has lost all legitimacy now it's understood behind closed doors there was harsh debate on the sidelines russia was

asked to step in and broker a cease fire it accepted and will send an envoy and we are in touch with most lloyd's the new forces in benghazi and representatives who did not. break in a diplomatic ties do you think it's useful in any case because we're trying to make closer approaches to sunni reasons for the escalation of violence which is still on the east and we discussed this at the g. eight curation says that we could not be regime has lost its legitimacy to the must step down russia's approach to interfering in the internal affairs of sovereign nations defers dramatically from the west which appears eager to back some countries but not others it's just do intervene in libya it does not suit is to intervene in bahrain those and those rational economic and geopolitical not about humanitarian missions g eight nations agreed up twenty five billion dollars to four packets to arab nations that have toppled autocratic regimes and are struggling to

build so-called new democracies while on the euro there were statements like this school orsino up because the euro a zero everything that race in the future the euro will threaten europe as a whole so huge spending cuts continue in an attempt to prevent euro extinction so will the mission in libya and the spending of billions g. eight leaders my. have reached consensus on could daffy but can the west now afford to push pick and choose politics even further russia's deputy foreign minister claims a resolution on syria won't even be read let alone signed by russia after the disaster in the via the question now what will happen to the rest of the arab world facing revolt for now only syria is a possible target with some g. eight leaders going as far to hint a u.n. resolution similar to libya could be an option if damascus doesn't back down something russia is more than likely to oppose reporting from the g.

eight and he says now a r t two beat france but with colonel gadhafi increasingly isolated and nato jets intensifying their attacks some experts believe russian that mediation is crucial for peace comments from bill clinton the first in turkey says winning is more important for the alliance than the bush. but the rebels feel they have the support of the nato countries among some other arab states so they haven't really shown much interest in. communion and are straight and less countries decided they were likely you next month or so to achieve a military victory with nato countries may decide perhaps we'll have some kind of prize russia will be able to write the mediator further i suspect at the moment victories. where can you do to.

maybe is more likely. for a leader of the libyan rebels told r.t. that once the darky is gone they would be there also calls for peace full interview time let's hear some of what was not thought on the hill to say. army requirement is that one worker in this son should leave libya among those who served in the previous government but are there are many reputable people with whom we are ready to have a dialogue and. members of the executive bodies of the future of libya it's colonel gadhafi who's not so good at all of this in the first place strong treat him secure corridors for medicine and food supply is going to need once he stops doing this role the prospect of a dialogue will open up through an intermediary. that nato is boosting its military potential of the border with russia despite objections from moscow the u.s. has struck a deal to station fighter jets and poland which also has

a back and start to massage agreements came during president obama's visit to warsaw saturday and missiles which are part of the u.s. missile defense shield will be in place by twenty eighteen russia has repeatedly called for a joint system washington wants to separate himself from. g eight summit like russian president expressed concern about america's position on neutral belo says washington's reluctance to provide iraqis puts global security at stake. blood so if there were border unless we reach a deal before twenty twenty in the us and he misses our systems finalized you could trigger a new arms race we have to get guarantees that this system is not aimed at arse no one gave us any such guarantees but being told it's against the countries that it is a threat so when we ask you these countries and we keep silence then we are to these countries threatening his missiles no they do not believe has the missiles russia

has them and the people usually is easy listening to us not that you're going to let you go without us experts have been telling us he gets about because reluctance to provide it legally binding there and he's on missile defense attorney and that's all in talks of a joint system. things the oceans in washington well they are talking about how to make this a joint system the question is what does joint mean 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 system 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 there is the obama administration which very much wants

a cooperative relationship on missile defense with russia and very much wants another arms control reduction agreement with russia certain republicans in the u.s. senate do not want those things so we have to make that clear distinction between what the ministration wants and what some members of the senate want so focusing on what the administration wants what russia wants they both want cooperation on missile defense and they both want to move on to a new arms reduction agreement and given that i think there's enough common interest to move that forward. on the way i would russians to say enough is enough when it comes to drug pushers. this is how some activists are trying to stop the madness in the country with waterproofed i. see this in town paid leave and dealers make sure everyone knows who they are. thousands of georgians have made their name and there were this week's three

hundred response to antigovernment protests on thursday and they seem used tear gas rubber bullets and also crimes against protesters and subleasing two people were killed in the audience international observers one straw to investigate excessive use of force on the surface reports. with thousands of vonage police closing in on all sides and angry protesters lashing out war cries to main street and to police he became a battleground. cannons rubber bullets and tear gas to fight indiscriminately into the crowds many people were injured including a number of journalists parties in spanish correspondent was among those caught in the cales the policemen appears ok they was very aggressive with the people and they started all the people they don't make any arms with nothing and then suddenly being so big pain in my stomach and realized it me with some kind of

bullet it's kind of bullet is the bullet and they gave me and i started. this exclusive the riot police didn't come as a surprise to any of us that it was the scale of the operation that was such a shock. disperse the crowd as they were following my friends with the song goal to kill. the seed of it in a hundred thousand and seven protests that had also resulted in violence so the police presence this time was even greater and just as. the violence of the most shocking age of many of the demonstrators. has been dubbed i've come to be called the silver revolution and the older generation certainly be in the crowd people are struggling with life and high food prices in the aftermath worried relatives and friends searched the hospitals for missing people. we told them we

came to bring fifty million. people don't need to know where they are. and you can ration telling us. the numbers of people injured or arrested the prefix string li heart can. we know a little people who aren't will have been arrested and government giving us any information about that there are now international calls for the government to investigate violations playtest this human rights bill mixed freedom of speech any pretense that it paid a high price trying to pack a day i mean i was a little bit ridiculous i thought that i can't trust anyone anymore i'll never come true approaches truly again i just want to be safe. yet great once again taking to the streets despite way states violent people refusing to be silenced there

and on the police the. soldiers presence because saakashvili has been quick to blame the foreign forces for this week's protests and so we see that a former georgian politician told r.t. saakashvili has no one's self. signed of signature or soccer shuras after private rule he always tries to find a scapegoat. for powers crossing the border of my country and tries to destabilize situation in georgia which is wrong he himself is the most leisure of intimidating mr. factor of. the country and he's the one who needs to be blamed for. the former bosnian serb army chief of that which is waiting to hear when he will be sent to the hague

on genocide charges he was captured on thursday after sixteen years on the boat he was indicted in ninety ninety five for war crimes including the killing of more than seven thousand seven thousand muslim men and always. have reports from belgrade reaction to his arrest has ranged from cubans to rage. official belgrade is called the capture of former bosnian general on luggage a great thing for their country that sentiment has been echoed by many european officials who are with serbia side said so firmly on the chance of a potential e.u. membership and the billions of dollars worth of grant money that could come with it it seems that they are overlooking the wishes and feelings of the serbian people not a single person we have spoken to here in belgrade has said that they believe arresting the former general is a good thing or necessary for serbia to come to terms with its past many going as far as to say that the real criminal in this situation is the current president

what is the average for selling of his people. for the jews who believe he is the biggest criminal in the studio he's a serbian we deserve human blood he's our man he's a general right we could start each visit paris shouldn't interfere with a team a team. if you are people too high a. year of you can give to down the right credits to money you know what i mean so far belgrade has reacted quietly to the news of our lunches arrest and potential extradition to the hague war crimes tribunal but a large rally is scheduled for later on tonight we are expecting thousands of people to gather outside the parliament building in the very heart of the serbian capital belgrade and of course looking back remembering previous rallies when a former leader of one project was arrested and extradited to the hague thousands of people took to the streets of the capital they were forced violently dispersed

by riot police and many are fearing that this situation could repeat itself if if is in fact extradited to the hague thoughts as some experts believe the absolute this people on the disappointment that they have for their government. actually keeps them off the streets the thing is people have been so all disappointed about the outcomes of all these different demonstrations and unfortunately in serbia that there's no lots of reasons to demonstrate over the years that the enthusiasm is dropping a little bit so i think millions of people are actually are happy but they don't really trust anyone who actually calls them out to the streets of demonstrate and they're also actually worried that the government actually provoked the rest you know or virtual make it easier so this is the strength of the pressure more than it already is so for that reason it's hard to say the enthusiasm is there but

there's a lot of missed a lot of mistrust even for opposition politicians originally official belgrade forbade any public gatherings following the news of ophthalmologists arrest fearing of course a repeat of the events of a few years ago when that on projects was arrested and extradited to the hague and war crimes tribunals but it does seem that every action undertaken by official belgrade is aimed not at the people of this country thought at those within the european union who do have the ability to open its doors for serbia but even with the arrest of that one law and his potential extradition not everyone believes that serbia will finally get its dream e.u. membership. travelers are there well more on the way this hour including a look at what's hot in the frozen ocean people celebrate its discovery which is the. new season at the bottom of the planet.

tradition says the boss of the international monetary fund is european for leading and managing economies szilard russia india and china are joined with south africa to save and that should be cost by that present value of stress that developing countries should get their chance now if there was echoed by the minister of egypt spread highly of french finance minister was one of the city's back members and someone said to have the support and a process nonstructural one. hundred to be exclusively without trying to set off a good god is a favorite it's only a matter of time before us monopoly on john mccain's. candidacy is very much a message that the developed countries and the european countries would like to maintain the status quo which is not necessarily for a hand i think that changes your name i've. already started but probably they

do not go far enough. the face of a narcotics epidemic russia has been upping the ante in its fight against drug trafficking but strict laws and public awareness campaigns are producing mixed results and that's not enough for some of these are international reports on those taking justice into their own hands. kate said all is fair in love and war and perhaps even more say in the war on drugs drugs that killed two point five million people every year across the globe and almost two hundred fifty men women and youngsters every day in russia and some are fighting their own contributor szell battle against the threat tasers customers they arranged to meet alleged drug dealers and once they use it is find as suspect as a drug pusher they serve them a black mark and leave them red faced. people have their enemies would like

people will be afraid to go out next time because next time they do there. these guys are not alone in rushing there and conventional methods of fighting against drugs their colleagues from the drug free city movement happening queues of torture in addicts after they used handcuffs to force them to kick their habit they've also marked drug dealers houses to shame them in the community. it is our uprising against the drug dealers do you think it's better to sit at home and watch how the drug dealers will be killing you we managed to unite our forces and declare war to the drug dealers. sociologists a mob just as occurs when people become disillusioned by official efforts but the public taking the law into its own hands is an unwelcome trend growth in the us and our border there are a lot of enthusiastic striving to eradicate this horrible evil by any means

possible when actions don't comply with the law the law is against them it's very official we can eradicate this evil but only by legal methods there are over five million drug users in morden russia vast amounts of money being blown on reducing drug demand and treating addicts for sadistic so just getting more and more gloomy . bess's house the moscow activists to try. to stop the menace threaten the country with waterproof dye the marks do as they say will have to hide to the public for at least three weeks some are skeptical about their methods are others even accuse them of hooliganism but the antidrug little entries argue their form of justice is warthe it if it helps save at least one life. grief notion r r t moscow. well some more of today's international stories we're covering for you this hour about a suicide bombing in northern afghanistan has killed

a senior police chief and five others including military troops the police commander was one of the leaders of the movement dullards which foods against militants the taliban has admitted the attack there's been a surge in the presence of security forces wakefulness on the blogs killing. yemen's president and the country's troubled chief group a cease fire out of the five days of clashes on the top of that left three hundred twenty people to have a gun battles began off the present salary refused to sign a proposal. is going to step down. this week one thing stood for is that anyone who decides it's a simple sorry is under pressure to go after months of demonstrations the modern entity is trying to be a group. there's worry ahead for japan's fukushima nuclear plant as a powerful typhoon in its way in the next day or so and shows admit the facility is

not fully prepared for the heavy rain and winds some react to buildings are wide open it's a storm well it's not even into the sea. was rotten and folks felt the brunt of the system north far more. lockheed martin the world's largest defense contractor and the pentagon's number one supplier suffered a significant cyber attack in this security department is trying to determine the extent of the data which often security team says it's attached to the threat quickly you can celebrate investigation has been kissed. you know over there a trip to and article diving into its i c c is probably wouldn't be high on your to do list but for some it's all in the morning's work but it's easy john thomas and it's those who are looking around in the deep sea or the name of science.

a backwoods plunge into frigid enter article daughters certainly is not for the children but this crew is making this dive a regular experience all in the name of science. the main purpose of our trip john talks a car is to establish a foundation for monitoring different species living on the bottom of the ocean we are studying the distribution of animals that live there and we are studying their nature each day during the short summer season as crew makes multiple trips out to sea where they get a firsthand look at what's below the surface. if you trace one in the same biological community stretches from a depth of five it's almost fifty meters there are certain variations but mostly the picture is the same it's impossible to say anything now it's too early to draw any conclusions we've got too little information just one sectional view working out of the coastal waters of antarctica will not only help scientists identify the types of animals living here but by coming back over time they can study subtle

changes in the environment and how the animals are affected by those changes in three to five years we will repeat our data collection and we can establish whether there have been any changes some animals might have gone and others may have replaced them we can establish why maybe there are some climatic changes that lead to changes among the populations so it will indicate whether it's called colder or warmer here what they come up with can at times seem a bit questionable if not simply messy while other times their catch is quite clear but in all cases important to their research so what is logged in ships to russia what is then catalogue still sometimes new discoveries are made constantly that we're going cataloguing many new types of muscles my colleagues are doing the same and we're always finding new and absolutely unknown species proving that there's still much more work to be done in one of the world's coldest ecosystems in antarctica sean thomas forty. well the seans antarctic expedition reports

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