how would international journalists flood to achieve every green little free to. the. violence erupts in the serbian capital belgrade as police clashed with protesters outraged over the arrest of former bosnian serb general right called raj a war crime. fighting for their right to dance activist highlighting concerns over the freedom of expression all arrested for getting down to the thomas jefferson memorial in washington. reviewing the week's top stories peacemakers g eight leaders say it's time for gadhafi to go as russia agrees to mediate a cease fire in libya to end the bloodshed. and we report on the georgian independence day rallies demanding the resignation of president saakashvili that

ended in several deaths after demonstrations were brutally put down by government forces. five am in moscow i matras are bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on r t thousands of demonstrators are in the center of serbia's capital protesting the arrest of former bosnian serb army chief radko melodic outside the parliament in belgrade they organized was organized by serbia the far right groups who consider a hero and his arrest treason our correspondent kelli arena as are about as more. so all is quiet in the serbian capital belgrade right now but of course fairly or that was not the case and meeting up some ten thousand people in the very heart of belgrade just outside the parliament building turned violent at some point when.

the youths growing stones bottles and firecrackers at the riot police riot police started throwing things back and at that point a decision to disperse the crowds was made they were a very efficient but also quite brutal in their dispersal we saw some people getting beaten with police the taunts being detained and we know that a number of people were injured but i actually saw some people whose faces were covered in blood most likely from being hit by one of the rocks that were flying overhead a large amount of bricks literally bricks huge drops just flying out of through the crowds at the riot police hitting that riot police doing everything they could to separate the crowd of course for a containing them easier and they did that briefly passed it wasn't out too long before the riot was actually over and it once again we are told that the efficiency of the local authorities they cleaned up the streets in

a matter of minutes all of the overcurrent rubbish bins all the broken the glass everything that was on the streets was gone in a matter of minutes and order restored but some riot police forces still remain in the heart of the serbian capital monitoring the situation but outcome of that is of course expecting to hear what the court will decide concerning his appeal against his potential extradition to the hague the court's decision is due today of course on that matter and we do know that a repeat of last night's violence is possible of course keeping in mind events of a few years ago with the arrest of former political leader out of belgrade exploded in violent protests and it could be possible that a similar thing could happen which is why many have actually said that it is possible the serbian officials will extradite him as quietly as possible so in order to avoid. protest but of course while serbia official belgrade celebrated the

capture of former boss and general about claude h. as a great victory for this country a necessary step for serbia to come to terms with its past and hopefully open the door into any future for most of the people of this country the arrest is nothing but a betrayal. in the sleepy serbian village of laws that have almost nothing looks out of place people 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 you on the uncle of former bosnian general an allegedly war criminal radical modish it was here that after sixteen years the manhunt for him came to an end the house of former bosnian general rock on luggage was arrested belongs to his uncle which is no secret to anyone in this village or indeed the police but despite regular visits to this house in all the years that watch was

a wanted man the arrest was only made last week and many have already questioned the timing a leak u.n. 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 rep of that european union announced her upcoming visit to belgrade and hinted once again at the financial benefits for neighbors deemed helpful serbia really wants to be helpful. that. is some kind of. the problem now if serbia goes during i think it will be the first time in history that a wretch has jumped onto a sinking ship captured europe's most wanted man on the day our top representative is in town is certainly an achievement but really it finally allowed serbia to get one foot in the door to the union. commissioner feel like he said. well this is

just today serbia is a step closer to the thing yesterday but they still need to do major reforms that cetera for the rest of the ambitions of serbian president boris thought it 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 serial b. and we deserve human blood he's a man he's a general right it's. hard to choose to believe he's the biggest criminal in the city these feelings have already cost protests to erupt across the country and judging from past experience namely the arrest of out there on another war crimes suspect serbia a spark of hope but certainly to a large scale fires up public congress catchiness r t belgrade serbia several people have been arrested in washington for dancing up at their office and memorial among those held was r t america presenter adam polk i should talk with my colleague kevin knowing he says police were there for public safety but to control

the population. you can see from the video footage that what we were doing was entirely peaceful we were expressing ourselves through dance the police force in america does not exist for public safety it does not exist to 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 was exposed to the true brutal nature of the police force and the kind of people the kind of thugs the mentality of those who make up that police force the people who think it's ok to vavi slam somebody and show 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 morial and actually making it impossible for other people to enjoy the memorial and if you compare it to the disturbance caused by their arrests which led to them shutting the memorial itself down for about thirty minutes they were clearly the greater disturbance we had a reporter there from a local move and b.c.

affiliate was kicked out of the memorial these guys were there they were filming the interview floor of the event they got it all on camera they had their camera man in there recording this thing and the cops kicked him out as well as highlighting i go by what you told him i just know i was a principle of it in the dunces say the police violated their rights to free expression it is called to think those in the us constitution that guarantees of freedom of speech meetings 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 said. 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 dance you know i gotta give it to the officers because if you see that video clearly i deserve. a world powers have united to call for colonel gadhafi to step down at this week's g. eight summit in the french resort of deauville russia has stepped up pressure on

the embattled colonel with president medvedev saying moscow would help broker a peace deal in libya or he's a nice and now a 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 save tens of thousands of civilians and garcia will he be known as the man who brought france to economic ruin neverending war he moscow g eight leaders agreed word for word in their declaration about gadhafi saying he has lost all legitimacy though 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 both sides the new forces in benghazi and representatives of the broken diplomatic ties do you

think it's useful in any case because we're trying to make closer approaches to reducing the reasons for the escalation of violence which is still ongoing we discussed it at the g eight and declaration says that it could not be regime has lost its legitimacy 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 has to intervene in libya it does not show it has to intervene in bahrain those and those rational is economic is geopolitical it's not about human. nations agreed a twenty billion dollars support package 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 it's called all sit up because the euro everything that could threaten the future of the euro will for us in europe as a whole so all huge spending cuts continue in an attempt to prevent euro extinction

so will the mission in libya and perspective of billions g. eight leaders in. every consensus on could afi but can the west now afford to push pick and choose politics even further russia's deputy foreign minister claims a resolution on syria once even be read let alone signed by russia after the disaster in the be at 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 the mass chaos doesn't back down something russia is more than likely to oppose reporting from the g. eight and he says now a r t v france. has fierce bombing raids continue day and date over libya middle east analysts are made by darwin tells r.t. his opinion on how to bring the deadlock and were close there has to be political

solution to this crisis. look. of the car. who was the accused the who. should or. the. mission. in. the libyan rebels that are most stuff our dog tells our t.v. that once colonel gadhafi is out of the way of being or obstacles to peace. no army

requirement is one more get up and the son should leave libya among those who served in the previous government that are merely refutable people with whom we are ready to have a dialogue so that they can become members of the executive orders of the future libya it's colonel gadhafi who's not so good all of this in the first political future events us from creating secure corridors for medicine and food supplies going to those in need but once he stops playing this role the prospect of a dialogue will open up through an intermediary. that interview coming your way in the next hour here on our king. the u.s. is moving ahead with is pushing ahead with more straight as military presence in eastern europe with plans to deploy fighter jets in interceptor missiles in poland by twenty eight team america has moved to allay russian concerns about the plan to state missiles out of supporters in two thousand and eight the u.s. side a treaty would hold it in the way for an american anti-ballistic missile shield to

be located those planes were scrapped a year later to boost relations with russia this time of the g. eight summit president medvedev ward at an arms race if the situation is not resolved to russia's satisfaction. unless we reach a deal before twenty twenty one the u.s. anti-missile system is finalized you could trigger a new arms race we have to get guarantees that this system is not a guitarist no one gave us any such guarantees we're being told is to get some countries that pose a threat when we ask you these countries are they keep silent then we also do these countries have thing just missiles no they do not and who has the new sounds russia has the conclusion is easy is saying to us. if you could stay with us here on r t in the next fifteen minutes efforts to look at how president obama's middle east peace plan left both israelis and palestinians unhappy plus. scientists all over

the world are debating global warming is it happening or is it not i'm john thomas in antarctica and coming up on our t.v. we explore what people down here are saying about the subject. but before we go to that georgia's independence day was supposed to celebrate liberty but there was little freedom of speech to those hoping to hold their government to account for corruption they were instead pelted with rubber bullets and tear gas as they tried to make their voices heard calling for president saakashvili his resignation opposition claims some of their supporters may even have been beaten to death or he sarraf earth reports on a brutal crackdown on protesters in tbilisi. with thousands of founded police closing in on all sides and angry protest is letting out. the main streets in tbilisi became a battleground. to cannons rubber bullets and tear gas to fight indiscriminately into the crowds many people were injured including a number of journalists teasing spanish correspondent was among days cool in the

chaos the policemen that be is ok they was very aggressive we get people they start to keep all the people they don't make any arms with nothing and then suddenly being told banging my stomach and relate the need some kind of booted it's been a full of these rubber bullets and they gave me and then they started to run this included to the riot police didn't turn as a surprise to any of us that it was the scale of the operation that was such a shock so. disperse the crowd as they were following me my friends with the song girl to kill as. tennessee to have it in a venditti thousand and seven protests that had also result. in violence so police presence this time was even greater and just as. the violence even more shocking given the age of many of the demonstrators. there's been tough people the silver

revolution and all the generation that really be in the crowd these people are struggling. right there in the aftermath worried relatives and friends searched the hospitals for missing people. we told them we came two point two million between twenty and forty people died and we don't know where they are in the country they won't let us in and they won't give us any information telling us to the police the numbers of people injured or arrested have proved extremely hard to gauge but we know a lot of people who are arrested and government giving us any information about them unfortunately this is. two more. persons have. never read this people have been here. until. they are now international calls for

the government to investigate violations of protesters human rights talks 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. yet protesters have once again taken to the streets despite wednesday's violence people here refusing to be silenced. to police the. president of the abkhazian republic has died serb it certainly was sixty two passed away early sunday morning at a moscow hospital doctors say he failed to recover from complications from after recent ones are very rough was the leader of hard. since two thousand and five he led the caucasian republic through its fight for independence from neighboring georgia who cheated cheat three years ago for the next three months but options vice president will take over the country until the leader is

a left. for more stories you can always check out our t. dot com here's what's online right now. ellery says president alexander lukashenko offers his own recipe for a subtle in a currency crisis shutting out russian and other foreign media outlets. and a glitch at a u.s. prison computer system releases more than a thousand dangerous criminals on to california streets i doubt how it happened. stalled middle east peace talks have once again driven a wedge between israel and its main ally the us israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is flatly rejected barack obama's call to return to pre-one thousand nine hundred sixty seven borders with the palestinians refusing to withdraw from occupied land as are he's got a chicky on reports a resolution is on likely to come soon given america's seemingly less seeming unwillingness to challenge its part. president obama's calls for peace and

a two state solution fell on deaf ears both with israelis for many from the mere mentioning of going back to pretty nine hundred sixty seven border lines is unacceptable. so much. because these loans are essential and with the palestinians who believe there is nothing but words in what the u.s. president has said is that of a fraction of pressure on it in you know the prime minister of israel or of israel's government. it's like a process it's like a lose lose things like it's very whole way it's like we are here the right things being said what kind of implementation addressing the powerful pro israel lobby in washington president obama has made sure to reaffirm that no pressure would be put on israel to advance the process and he's proposed solution was just the friend's advice cannot be imposed on the parties to the constant. no vote at the united nations will ever create an independent palestinian state and the united states

will stand up against efforts to single israel the united nations or in any international forum israel's legitimacy is not in order but analysts say the contradiction of words and deeds has been a constant source of global frustration about the us foreign policy in the middle east one example the obama administration has called these really settlement expansion illegitimate but when he came to actually voting at the un security council to condemn the settlement expansion as illegal the us the resolution the failure of the united states to deal effectively with the israel palestine issue. the president made a very strong case that we should not tolerate. private rulers we do nothing when they do all these things for the palestinians. pretty hard in terms of our credibility. internationally and that's not important

as surveys suggest president obama's ratings in the muslim world are as low as ever experts say the inconsistency with which the u.s. react making different episodes of the arab uprising is to blame president obama's speech on thursday was seen as a way to reach out to the arab wars and say the u.s. supports men and women of the street as opposed to suppressive rulers but it seems he's worth resulted in more confusion about u.s. policies particularly when it came to these really palestinian conflict. said what he said and in the last speech for. most of the palestinians feel frustrated this is also i was living in the. media. also. so i don't know who is happy i don't want. speaks to president obama is facing pressure from both the international community that has long been suggesting

the two state solution of the nine hundred sixty seven border lies is part of that solution and he felt like it's will we try and that proposal and really stake president obama's attempts to please both the international community and it's will seem to have resulted in yet another nonstarter in the east peace process i'm going to check our reporting from washington marty. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe violent clashes housewife across southwest yemen with rebel forces gaining ground across the region and taking control of the provincial capital is that interim or clashes follow two days of heavy fighting of which twenty six people were killed and one hundred fifty three president ali abdullah saleh is refusing to step down despite a wave of popular protests and militant strikes across the country. afghan president hamid karzai has issued a last warning to u.s. 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 upon nato says it was in retaliation for an attack on a u.s. marine base in the region saturday. the u.s. space shuttle endeavor starts its last journey back to earth from the international space station shuttle commander mark kelly this station is three crew members for their help on endeavour's final voyage to install a cosmic ray detector this brings to a close america's thirty year long shuttle program after endeavor lands wednesday to retired will be a museum piece thank you senator. the world's i.c.'s continent but scientists say at the great at the rate glaciers glaciers are melting antarctica could soon be home to some lush green valleys are he's trying thomas travel to the bottom of the earth to find out why the world's coldest climate may be getting hot under the collar. each week pull out move a little of hikes to the billings house and doom 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 gleason years are changing in size points or change in climates i know we know that since the middle or the end of the nineteenth century the majority of glass years are receding and means there is a general warming over climate it's 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 the sea which forms fresh water where the surface of the sea water pressure water is lighter so there is some problems with mixing of the water coral which could possibly influence a structure of. plankton zooplankton and krill are the main source of food for the

majority of life in antarctica clearly over the last thirty years in this region the amount of ice which is critical for coral survival in the wintertime has declined that means that the area may not support the amount of cruel in the future it has supported in the past penguins species delhi penguins and chinstrap penguins are declining in this region principle we do know 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. i mean indicator on the glass here is that equilibrium lane altitudes it's the altitudes where the accumulates the minds of snow equals the males of their minds if they sell to choose gets higher it means that the climate is getting warmer and if the altitude gets lor and means that the

climate is getting colder since two thousand and six this sounds huge 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 we have to keep in mind we don't have a situation where climate changes in the same way all over the planet it's somewhere it's getting warmer somewhere it's getting colder and somewhere there are new changes of toll have 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 this can also change though not all scientists agree on the levels of climate change most believe that it is becoming increasingly more important to monitor what is happening on our southernmost continent antarctica is a truly spectacular place it is changing rapidly and more knowledge about what is changing and why can only help all of us understand all the

areas of the planet that are going to change in the future so we might have a chance of being prepared for whatever comes down the line in antarctica sean timeless martini. stay with us here on r t i'll be recapping the top stories in a couple minutes.

more than a month. in one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is and charge it up and people have to be aware that they are far away from civilization showing thomas discovers what makes sense arctic is so special and instructive for many wildlife in antarctica is opposing and from the. expedition to the bottom of the earth are extremely. welcome for the. tomorrows top choppers come to moscow with dashboards digitized radar upgraded and automated guided by gyroscopes propelled by powerful new engines russian motors ready to move to the field. we've got the future coverage.