joy b. who chills the arm of the that's the case we who took the grand imperial should the torch was to push coromandel you can a with a little closure good to see don't need to go clear brother said the colonel was so chill as used to retreat. week's top stories good duffy must go on g. eight leaders united in their call for the libyan leader the stand down with russia bring to mediate a cease fire and the country's civil. busted move aside washington police arrested a group of activists for dancing at the memorial to thomas jefferson the u.s. they're afraid of. thousands gather in the serbian capital belgrade to show anger over the arrest of general rock largish accused of war crimes during the poles. and georgia's independent stay so blood being washed out of the streets after police clamp down on protesters demanding the resignation of president

saakashvili. hello you're watching the weekly from r.t.r. around the pole the top news stories from the last seven days my name's kevin owen it's ten pm here in moscow and first colonel gadhafi suffered a major blow at this week's g. eight summit in france is russia joined voices with nato allies calling on him to quit they declared his role illegitimate and discussed ways to broker peace there are still differences on syria with russia saying it won't back any u.n. action is in this now reports. new world new ideas host france put that concept on the g eight table at a time when it looks like old ways aren't working a 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 garcia while he. runs to economic ruin never ending war in libya he must go g eight leaders agreed word for word in their declaration about could daffy 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 and accepted and will send an envoy but we are in touch with the it's the new forces in benghazi and representatives are. we haven't broken diplomatic ties but here's a think it's useful in any case because we're trying to make a closer approach is reducing the reasons for the escalation of violence which is still ongoing system we discussed it at the g eight and articulations says that we could not be regime that has lost its legitimacy to people who thought he must step down russia's approach to interfering in the internal affairs of sovereign nations differs dramatically from the west which appears eager to back some countries but

not others it's just to intervene in libya it does not show it is intervening in bahrain those and those rational economic geopolitical and should not about human. nations agreed a twenty billion dollars support package to arab nations have toppled autocratic regimes and are struggling to build so-called new democracies but on the euro there were statements like this. of because the euro everything that goes through is in the future the euro will threaten europe as a whole so while huge spending cuts continue in an attempt to prevent euro extinction so will the mission in libya and because spending billions g. eight leaders. might have reached consensus on khadafi 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 libya the question now what will happen to the rest of the arab world facing

revolts 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 to mascaras doesn't back down something russia is more than likely to oppose reporting from the g. eight and he's now a r t v france so with nato jets intensifying their attacks against gadhafi investigative journalists i'm going to suffer says toppling the libyan leader is not the only thing the alliance is interested in the way it's going i think for nato it's. begin to feel that they're preparing the ground for. ground troops reuters already offices offices and so on inside of libya and you just feel that they're beginning to prepare the way i think ground troops but was originally simply defending civilian targets civilians and cities and so on and now has become much more offensive so the question is the targeting of that office compound

a couple weeks ago the killing of his son and his grandchildren were exactly is this going i think there's a question that has to be asked and i think you get the feeling that this is beyond gadhafi this is much more about strategically placing your forces inside a secure in site a region which is undergoing massive through more libyan rebels leader was stuff told us about that was colonel gadhafi is gone will be no obstacles to peace as he sees it. mere acquirement is one where i get up in the sun should leave libya among those who served in the previous government get a better many reputable people with whom we are really to have a dialogue and they can become members of the executive orders of the future libya it's colonel gadhafi who is an obstacle to all of this in the first place or huge of inserts for treating secure corridors for medicine and food supplies and intervals in need but once he stops doing this for all the prospects of a dialogue will open up to an intermediary.

and we've got the interval of the interview in full just over twenty minutes time here on r.t. for you. the u.s. is playing had plans to build up its military to eastern europe but is telling russia not to worry and you agreement will see fighter jets deployed in poland which moscow says alarmingly close to russia's borders now for part of a u.s. missile defense shield a move in place by twenty eighteen russia's repeatedly called for a joint system but what washington wants to separate missile shield now the g eight summit on friday to me to avert it says he's not happy with america's position and warned of an arms race if no deal is reached for through thoughts of the world would that we go to let's very reach a deal before twenty twenty in the u.s. and he misses our system is finalized you could trigger a new arms race we have to get guarantees that this is tim is not aimed at us no one gave us any such guarantees we're being told it's a get some countries that pose a threat when we are skewed these countries are we keep silent then we are asked do

these countries have dangerous missiles no they do not and who has the new cells russia house and the conclusion is easy it seemed to us not that you couldn't. see that america's reluctance to provide legally binding guarantees about missile defense is end of stalling talks on a joint system some clean air planes divisions within washington. but 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 is them 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 and 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. makes tonight several people have been forcibly arrested in washington for dancing at the thomas jefferson memorial among those held were. present to other coke and she joins us. from washington to tell us exactly what happened there very good evening good to see you so what exactly did happen and take us through it. well you can see from the video footage that what we were doing was entirely peaceful we were expressing ourselves through dance and

actually there to express our objection to a court ruling for monday that the dancing was prohibited because it was not in spirit with the memorial in the way that thomas and thomas jefferson and so wanted to be remembered and i knew right away that that was another absurd piece of government crap and we had to stand up against that and say no that's not acceptable first of all you don't have a legal definition of what dancing is to begin with and i think thomas jefferson would want to be remembered by a place of freedom rather than a place where expression is suppressed yeah that we're just looking at the pictures there of you show them in she saw you being forcibly thrown down to the ground of the police reaction was pretty brutal wasn't just a silent dancing well in the united states you have to understand something about the police force the police force here it's really just the bad apples that give the other five percent a bad name and the police force in america does not exist for public safety it does

not exist and provide for the needs of the people it does not exist to solve crimes or hunt down criminals it exists to generate revenue for the government and control the population and what we did in our demonstration yesterday was the true brutal nature of the police force and the kind of people the kind of thugs the mentality of those that make up that police force the people that think it's ok to body slam somebody and choke somebody because they're doing something that you don't like and their excuse yesterday was that what we were doing was causing a disturbance at the memorial and essentially making it impossible for other people to enjoy the memorial and if you compare that to the disturbance caused by their arrests which led to them shutting down the moral itself down for about thirty minutes they were clearly the greater disturbance yet of i mean as i was highlighting not what you're talking about just now the principle of it the dots and say the police violated their rights to free expression it is called the big business the u.s. constitution that guarantees of freedom of speech and meeting. well you know about the body slam so to be fair i don't know if you saw the part before the body slam

in the video but if you look at what i was doing a lot of people are saying there's no way you could get arrested for dancing because you can't dance and i say. that i don't think it meets the cultural definition of dancing what i was doing well on any legal definition of dancing but if there is some legal definition that says moving a body in a rhythmic way of some kind legally qualifies as dancing i got to give it's of the officers because if you see that video clearly i deserve common yeah you probably get the prizes but no the protests say they can be back next saturday we said we are in clashes then with police i get well as well and again yes i am organizing going on facebook we put it out last night as soon as we got home from this thing as soon as i got out of jail and i want to thank everybody who phoned in to the police department here demanding our release and i think it was responsible for how quickly were we were released given the circumstances there were calls coming in

and flooding the police department before we even got a book so thank you to everybody but really if you want to support this cause if you want to stand up to oppression in the united states if you want to stand up to the police forces out of control join us next saturday at noon at the jefferson memorial all you got it was dance bring your headphones you can rock out for your area stars are going to have a good side because the best revenge in fact i think the only revenge worth having is living well so we're going to go out we're going to have fun we're going to stick it's only again so you know you can't stop us from dancing just because you think it's ok to physically abused people who are doing something that you don't want to be part of a treaty with putting out as well this is the first time the u.s. play so rested one of these employees and i recall i said they did last november and all the tea crew including correspondent kalen ford in a cameraman were detained while filming protests near base in the state of georgia seems to keep happening doesn't it well i don't think it's particularly something that it's r t except as much as it is to any media in the united states that is challenging. because we're talking a c.e.o.

of the mainstream really in the status quo of the government shuts down our throat through the media's propaganda so i mean we had a quarter there from a local n.b.c. affiliate kicked out of the memorial and didn't even report it i mean that's how sad the american corporate media is not what i saw or in the station like r.t. america here in an alternative perspective these guys were there they were filming the interviewed me before the big i don't know i don't care they had their cameramen in there recording this thing and the cost to come out they failed to report that fact or any of the incidents of police brutality that happened because you said it we're showing what went on and not afraid to show your dance movie that and. you serve your career really bad if you're a. all the best to be on the program. ok. thousands demonstrators in the center of the serbian capital protesting the arrest of the former bosnian serb army chief. so you look at these live pictures these

latest coming through you can see many people where it looks a peaceful protest at the moment demonstrators chanting waving flags with the militias portrayed on the outside the parliament building in belgrade where the rally was organized by the serbian far right groups they consider not edgy here or consider what. is the rest of an act of treason activists were bussed in from into grade from all around the country right police on high alert three repeats of violence that broke out when former serbian president but of encourage was arrested denied with killing of almost eight thousand calls me and those winds of trouble and it's a there's no witness addition to the hague to face a war crimes tribunal and this country as i have a report serbia is hoping that handing the jove will lead to place me. in a sleepy serbian village of logic it almost nothing looks out of place. garden or simply visit their neighbors but one house has had far too many visitors in the last few

days and a permanent police guard. initials on the doorstep for the one on call a former bosnian general and allegedly war criminal out come of age it was here that after sixteen years the manhunt for him came to an end now for former bosnian general rockall marcus was arrested belongs to his uncle which is no secret to anyone in this village or indeed the police despite regular visits to this house in all the years that law which was a wanted man the arrest was only made last week and many have already questioned the timing olexiy one report stating that serbia refused to cooperate in the search for europe's most wanted man but most to assume membership negotiations would be cancelled a few days later the foreign affairs records that european union announced her upcoming visit to belgrade and hinted once again at the financial benefits for neighbors deen helpful serbia really wants to be helpful all. repeating

in uni so that the e.u. is some kind of panacea to lose all the problems now if serbia does during the i think it will be the first time in history that a wretch has jumped on a sinking ship capturing europe's most wanted man on the day our top representative is in town is certainly an achievement but will it finally allow serbia to get one foot in the door to the union and larger commission or feel a few said well this is just today serbia is a step closer to being yesterday but they still need to do a major reforms etc with the arrest of a calm law which the ambitions of serbian president boris tadic couldn't have been spelled out any clearer but his european farsightedness has caused him to overlook what's happening in his own country he's a serbian with the serbian blood he's our name he's our general right. the biggest criminal in the studio these feelings have already cost protests to

erupt across the country and judging from past experience namely the arrest of that one cartridge another war crime suspect serious spark of hope but certainly reach a large scale fires up public hearts catchin as our team belgrade serbia. just ahead in a program a controversial curb on illegal drugs russian vigilantes waged their own unconventional war on narcotics people saying that the authorities are doing enough to report on that coming up but also for you on our team tonight. science and research in antarctica is not only done in the laboratories in fact most of it's done out here in the field or in this case the ocean i'm john thomas in antarctica coming up we will get the lives of the scientists here. now though georgia's independence day was supposed to celebrate liberty but there was little freedom of speech for those wanting to hold their government to account for corruption they were pelted indeed with rubber bullets and tear gas as they try to make their

voices heard calling for president sarkozy for his resignation the opposition claims some of the supporters might even have been beaten to death if he sort of first reports on a brutal crackdown on protesters in tbilisi. with thousands of vanity police closing in on all sides and angry protesters letting out wall cries and main street in tbilisi became a battleground water cannons rubber bullets and tear gas to fight indiscriminately into the crowds many people were injured including a number of journalists artes in spanish correspondent was among those caught in the chaos the policemen appears ok he was very aggressive we get people and they start to keep all the people they don't make any arms with nothing and then suddenly being told the pain in my stomach and the kid needed some pain a bullet between a bullet is rubber bullet and he gave me and then i started to. physically go into

the riot police didn't come as a surprise to any of us then it was the scale of the operation that was such a shock. when the police describes the crowds they were following me my friends with the sole goal to kill us journalists it covered in a vendor t. thousand and seven protests that also resulted in violence so the police presence this time was even greater and just. because violence is the most shocking given the age of many of the demonstrators. there's been dubbed by some people the stillbirth revolution an older generation they cannot actually be in the crowd these people are struggling with late pensions and high food prices in the aftermath worried relatives and friends search the hospitals the missing people might think you. know we came to point b. fifty million aged between twenty and forty people there and we don't know where they are we come to hospital but they won't listen and they won't he was getting

information telling us to ask the police the numbers of people injured or arrest this of prefix stream lee hard to care. we know a lot of people who are interested in government giving guys any information about them unfortunately with this event. two more. persons have been on the planet and every day this people are very happy to know until there is there are now international calls for the government to investigate violations of protestors human rights get in its toolbox of freedom of speech many protesters have paid a high price for trying to have their say. i can't trust anyone anymore i'll never come to a protest rally again i just want to be safe and live yet prater says have once again taken to the streets despite wednesday's violence people here refusing to be

silenced. r.t. to police the state look at the story today the president of your party republicans died so gave a gasp she was sixty two passed away early on sunday morning at a moscow hospital doctors say failed to recover from complications after a recent lung surgery was the head of cars here since two thousand and five elliptical cage and republic through its fight for independence from neighboring georgia which had to change three years ago for the next three months ago vice president will take over the country until a new. two hundred fifty people die every day from drugs here in russia alone with wars and public awareness campaigns are partly losing the battle to save lives so armed with their own methods some russian vigilantes are on the warpath against drug dealers because of his rare for national power and they're not always wrong. it 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 we men and youngsters every day in russia alone some are fighting their own controversial battle against the threat cases customers they arranged to meet alleged drug dealers and the one thing you said is fine is suspect is a drug pusher they serve them a black mark and leave them red faced. people have to know their enemies what they look like people will be afraid to go out because the next time police may be there . these guys are not alone in rushing there and conventional methods of fighting against drugs their colleagues from the drug free city movement have been accused of torturing addicts after they used handcuffs to force them to kick their habit they've also marks 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 and 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 but worth it for our border there are a lot of enthusiastic who are striving to eradicate this horrible evil by any means possible but when their actions don't comply with the law the law is against them for sure we can eradicate this evil but only by legal methods the over five million drug users in modern russia past amounts of money has been blown on reducing drug demand and treating addicts as statistics are just getting more and more gloomy. this is how some of the activists apply. to stop the madness threatening the country with warts approved by the march do as they say will have to hide from the

public protest three weeks some are skeptical about their methods are there's even accuse them of really going to put the antidrug vigilantes argue their form of justice is it if it helps save at least one life. our tea. if you like find more about russia's daily battle against drugs we've got more on our website our seed of home while you're there these stories are also get a lot of interest tonight from other people online israel fears an escalation of the border violence in egypt relaxes restrictions its crossing with cars it was announced last week supporters say it will help alleviate the humanitarian crisis in the strip got more calm it was. a bridge in a u.s. prison computer system did the unthinkable it released over a dangerous criminals on the streets of california but some of the trouble for. find out how it happened that our t.v. dot com. world views in brief now afghan president hamid karzai has issued last

warning to american and nato forces after more civilians were killed in a suspected coalition air strike two women and twelve children died in afghanistan's volatile helmand province after nato troops opened fire the target was supposed to be insurgents but instead civilian homes were fired on paper says it was in retaliation for an attack on a u.s. marine base in the region on saturday. over two hundred suspected al qaeda government have taken control of the yemeni provincial capital of zinjibar after two days of heavy fighting the opposition accuses president saleh of surrendering their fears of a terrorist threat that comes after yemen's leader and tribal chief agreed a ceasefire following five days of clashes that have killed over one hundred twenty days of the pressure to go forward months of protests of this twenty year. japan's fukushima. nuclear plant could be hit by a powerful typhoon as early as monday officials say the quake and tsunami damage

facilities not fully prepared for heavy wind and rain some buildings are still wide open it's feared the storm could send radioactive material into the air and sea work has been battling to fix the broken cooling system and all five are now back online. also has voted in favor of legalizing divorce the overwhelmingly catholic nation is the only eve member where divorce is still forbidden by law fifty four percent of voters back to called for now couples to divorce but only after four years of being apart the leader of the yes movement called it a move towards greater separation between state and church. if you ever find yourself in antarctica or dip into the freezing sea probably won't be too high and you must do list but for someone looking to reveal the secrets of science it's all a day's work results in showing promise founder. of dark woods plunge into frigid enter a trick waters certainly is not for the timid put this crew is making this dive

a regular experience all in the name of science. the main purpose of our trip to antarctica 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 here 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. in this case one in the same biological community stretches from a depth of five so 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 some little information just one section of you 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 tightly to

a collection and we can establish whether there have been any changes some animals might have gone and others me have replaced them we can establish why maybe there are some climatic changes that lead to changes among the populations so it'll indicate whether it's got colder or warmer here what they come up with can at times seem a bit questionable if not simply messy while other times their cash is quite clear but in all cases important to their research so what is logged in ships to russia what is then catalog and still sometimes new discoveries are made constantly and cataloguing many new types of muscles my colleagues are doing the same we're always finding new and absolutely unknown species proving that there is still much more work to be done in one of the world's coldest ecosystems in antarctica john thomas or a t. . really interesting series of reports he's put together we've got much more to come of the next few weeks as well for you now in a few minutes we talked to a libyan rebel official to find out how the opposition it sees its future right now

other sport coming up too with kate after that tonight we have a short russian exit of the french open but i'm kevin and i saw the next half hour blocks that are taking this sunday evening the twenty ninth of may here moscow.