violence erupts in the serbian capital belgrade as police clashed with the far right protesters are outraged that you arrest a former bosnian serb general ride home water for war crime. fighting for the rights of dance activists highlighting concerns over freedom of expression arrested for getting down at the jefferson memorial in washington. reviewing the past week's top stories peacemakers g eight leaders say it's time for gadhafi to go away as russia agrees to mediate a cease fire in libya to end the bloodshed. and the 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. six am in moscow i met treasure 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 arrived home logic a rally outside the parliament in belgrade was organized by serbian far right groups who consider him a lot of hero and his arrest treason our correspondent catarina zorra has more. so all is quiet in the serbian capital belgrade right now but of course earlier that was not the case a meeting of some ten thousand people in the very heart of belgrade just outside the parliament building turned violent at some point with youths is throwing stones

bottles and firecrackers at the riot police riot police started throwing out the flames back and at that point a decision to disperse the crowds boys 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 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 rocks just flying through the crowds at the riot police heading that riot police doing everything they could to separate the crowd of course for a containing them easier and they did that previous past it was into too long before the riot was actually over and it once again we marveled at the efficiency of the local authorities they cleaned up the streets and in

a matter of minutes all of the overturned of rubbish bins all the broken the glass and 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 brought them out that is of course expecting to hear what the court will decide what's turning 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. belgrade exploded in violent protest said 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 protests but of course while serbia official belgrade celebrated the

capture of former policy in general about the logic 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. and this week the 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. the initials on the door stanford you are on call a former bosnian general an allegedly war criminal that out. it was here but after sixteen years the manhunt for him came to an end the house of former bosnian general ratko marsh 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 wattage was a wanted man the arrest was only made last week and many have already questioned that timing q 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 rep of the european union announced her upcoming visit to belgrade and hinted once again at the financial benefits for neighbors deemed helpful in serbia really wants to be helpful. to the e.u. is some kind of promise. problems now. i think it will be the first time in history that a wretch has. a sinking ship captured europe's most wanted man on the day a top representative is in town is certainly an achievement really finally allow serbia to get one foot in the door to the union and larger commissioner feel like he said well this is just today serbia is the step closer to the thing yesterday

but they still need to do major reforms that cetera the arrest of dot com a lot it's the ambitions of serbian president boris tadic couldn't have been spelled out any clearer what his european farsightedness has caused him to overlook what's happening in his own country he's a serbian with a serbian blood he's named he's a general right it's. hard to choose to believe he's 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 the one car gets another war crimes suspect serious spark of hope but certainly a large scale fires of public interest catherine as our of our team belgrade serbia . several people have been arrested in washington for dancing at the jefferson memorial among those held was r t america presenter adam talked with my colleague kevin no one earlier he says the police weren't there for public safety but control

the population. you can see from the video footage that what we were doing was entirely peaceful we were expressing ourselves through dance and 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 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 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 of the memorial and essential or making it impossible for other people to enjoy the memorial and if you compare it to the disturbance caused by their arrest which led to them but shutting them down for about thirty minutes they were clearly the greater disturbance we had a reporter there from

a local move and d.c. affiliate kicked out of the memorial these guys were there they were filming the interview before the event they got it all on camera they had their cameraman in there recording the say and the costs could come out as well as highlights and i go by what you're talking about i just know i was on principle of it the dobsons say the police violated their right to free expression it does put in the us constitution that guarantees of freedom of speech and meeting 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 guy legally qualifies as dancing i gotta give it to the officers because if you see that video clearly i deserve. eight world powers have united to call for colonel gadhafi to step down as this week's g.

eight summit in a french resort town 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 it reports. new world new ideas host france put that concept on the g a table at a time when it looks like the 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. never only war in libya he must go 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 and accepted and will send an envoy and we are in touch with both sides the new forces in benghazi and representatives of gadhafi we haven't broken

diplomatic ties i think is useful in any case because we're trying to make closer approaches which use only reasons for the escalation of violence which is still ongoing we discussed it at the g eight not declinations says that we could go after you 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 should choose to intervene in libya it does not suit is to intervene in bahrain those and those rational economic is geopolitical it's not about. do it 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 which could also go up because the euro a zero everything that could threaten the future of the euro will threaten europe

as a whole so our huge spending cuts continue in an attempt to prevent euro extinction so will the mission in libya and the spending of billions create leaders my. have reached a consensus on it 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 wasn'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 damascus doesn't back down something russia is more than likely to oppose reporting from the g. eight and he said no way r t v france emerging economies are speaking up in favor of cancelling the right of and throw in a european as the head of the international monetary fund stressing that the new

cabinet it should be chosen on merit president medvedev emphasized that developing countries should get a fair shot moscow has expressed support for the chief of stance national bank in march in his interview with our team said that changes that will see the overthrow of europe's monopoly may be just around the corner. is very nice a message that the developed countries and the european countries would like to maintain the status quo which is not necessarily for i think some changes and for. some probably do not go far enough. some say i.m.f. policy helps the strongest and pushes the weaker economies deeper into crisis in the next hour cross talks peter lavelle asks his guess whether this is the case. is the political tool of the west or an unfortunate necessity of the western

european heads fifty plus the next thirty is likely to be european as well i mean that's clearly. the fact that america which has less than five percent who is population as it. is clearly undemocratic if governance of the i.m.f. were to be completely democratic it would be run like the united nations and it would be much less effective i think that emerging markets have earned. the right to have a man in one of their own as a measure director of the i.m.f. and it's for a bunch of reasons and none of them are democracy. the u.s. is pushing ahead with moves to strengthen its military presence in eastern europe with planes to deploy a fighter with plans to deploy fighter jets in interceptor missiles and poland by twenty eighteen america has moved to allay russian concerns about the plan to site

missiles on its borders and two thousand and eight the us side a treaty with poland paving the way for an american anti-ballistic missile shield to be based there those plans were scrapped a year later to boost relations with russia this time at the g eight summit president medvedev warned of an arms race if the situation isn't resolved to russia's satisfaction. horsley that's at the border unless we reach a deal before twenty twenty and the u.s. anti missile system is finalized it could trigger a new arms race we have to get guarantees that this system is not deter us 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 ask do these countries have the interest missiles no they do not and who has the missiles russia has to the conclusion is easy is saying to us not that you go into a from the arms control association tells r.t. that us russian collaboration defense will be at risk if washington doesn't address

moscow's concerns. 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 nato and the united states need to make a joint statement to russia saying that this is tim is not aimed at you this is tim is no danger to you it's focused on dangers and threats from middle east not from russia there is the obama administration which is 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. stay with us here on r t still ahead a controversial curve in the drug question vigilante of ways that vigilantes wage their own unconventional war on our particular saying authorities aren't doing enough plus. when the research and exploration is done the guys here have to have something to do and i'm john thomas in antarctica and coming up on our team we explore the daily life around billings mountain station. but first georges independence day was supposed to celebrate liberty but there was little freedom of speech from those hoping to hold their government to account for corruption they were pelted with rubber bullets and tear gas as they tried to make their voices heard calling for president saakashvili his resignation the opposition claims some of their supporters may have even been beaten to death or he sara for

a report sort of brutal crackdown on protesters in tbilisi. with thousands of vanity police closing in on all sides and angry protesters letting out war cries and main street and civil e.-c. became a battleground. water cannons rubber bullets and tear gas to fight indiscriminately into the crowd many people were injured including a number of journalists are teasing spanish correspondent was among those caught in the chaos the policeman appears ok he was very aggressive with it people and they started it all the people they don't make any answer or nothing and then suddenly being sold the pain in my stomach and the kidney with some pain a bullet it kind of bullet is probable and they gave me a name and started to. deploy 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 dispersed the crowd as they were following me my friends with the song goal to kill a. journalist see covered in a vendor t. thousand and seven protests that had also resulted in violence so police presence this time was even greater and just as. the violence the more shocking given the age of many of the demonstrators. there's been tops by some people the silver revolution an older generation they can be in the crowd thirty's people are struggling with life and high food prices in the aftermath worried relatives and friends searched the hospitals for missing people. who told them we came to point fifty million aged between twenty and forty people there and we don't know where they are we come to a hospital but they won't let us in and they won't give us any information telling

us to ask the police the numbers of people injured or arrested have pretty extreme lehi or to care. we know a little people who aren't will have been interested and government is giving us any information about them unfortunately with this event. two more. persons have it . and the three people here is the key to until just this there are now international coups for the government to investigate violations of pretenses human rights to the next two weeks of freedom of speech many protesters have paid a high price to trying to have their say let me out of that i can trust anyone anymore and never come to produce truly again i just want to be safe and. yet pretenses have once again taken to the streets in spite when spain's violence people here refusing to be silenced and the police the

president of the pazin republic has died serving a bag with sixty two he passed away early sunday morning at a moscow hospital doctors say he failed to recover after complications from region of recent lung surgery but alex was head of five causing it since two thousand and five he led the caucasian republic through its fight for independence from neighboring georgia which it came three years ago for the next three months forgot his vice president will take over will take over the country until a new leader is elected. for more stories you can always log on to r.t. dot com here's what's a click away right now belarus as president alexander lukashenko offers a recipe for settling a currency crisis shutting out russian and other foreign media. at a glitch in a u.s. prison computer system releases more than a thousand dangerous criminals on to california streets find out how it happened and r.t. dot com. two hundred fifty people die every day from drugs in russia alone with laws and public awareness campaigns apparently losing

the battle to save lives so armed with their own methods some russian vigilantes are on the warpath against drug dealers artie's we're here for a notion to reports they're not always welcome. it said all is fair in love and war and perhaps even more say in the war on drugs drugs that kill two point five million people every year cross the globe and almost two hundred fifty men women and youngsters every day in russia alone some of their own control version of battle against the threat cases customers they arranged to meet alleged drug dealers and once they use it is fine as suspect is a drug pusher they serve them a black mark and leave them red faced. people have to know their enemies will do work like this people will be afraid to go out next time 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'd used handcuffs to force them to keep their habit they've also marks drug dealers houses to shame them in a 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 but 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 of the public taking the law into its own hands is an unwelcome trend the work of the border there are a lot of enthusiastic who are striving to eradicate this horrible evil by any means possible 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 there are over five

million drug users in morden russia past amounts of money has been blown on reducing drug demand and treating addicts but statistics are just getting more and more gloomy. this is how the moscow acted. trying to stop the madness threatening the country with well it's approved by the mob do as they say will have to hide from the public for at least three weeks some are skeptical about their methods agas even accuse them of who's going to put the end to drugs and entities all give their full move just days is worth it if it helps save at least one life. most. turned out of some other stories making headlines across the globe violent clashes have swept across southwest yemen with rebel forces gaining ground across the region and taking control of the provincial capital designed your bar clashes follow two days of heavy fighting in which twenty six people were killed one hundred fifty injured president ali abdullah saleh is refusing to step down despite

the wave of popular protests and militant attacks sweeping the country. afghan president hamid karzai has issued a last warning to u.s. and nato forces after more civilians were killed in the suspected coalition air strike two women twelve children died now afghanistan's volatile helmand province after nato troops opened fire the target was supposed to be insurgents but instead civilian homes were fired on nato says it was in retaliation for an attack on the u.s. marine base in the region saturday. u.s. space shuttle endeavor is to start its back to earth from the interactional space station and shuttle commander mark kelly thank the station's three crew members for their help on endeavour's final voyage to install a rate attacked or this brings to a close america's thirty year shuttle program after endeavor landed wednesday retired become a museum. of life at the bottom of the earth might seem secluded and lonely but

scientists working in antarctica found a few ways to warm themselves during a long pole or nights or tease sean thomas experiences a day in the life of the south pole research station. billings townsend station it is one of seven permanent russian research stations in antarctica but it's not just the location that makes this place special life here is anything but ordinary. people you know touch you you have to have a well developed instinct of self-preservation instincts of camaraderie if you don't have them you won't be able to help each other because in critical situations here people are more open your kind you're always go to each other but there's a lot in the each summer around forty people call this place home and only sixteen people live here year round each day is run according to a strict schedule business hours are between eight in the morning and ten at night where researchers work in their labs and in the field while the rest of the crew work around the clock to replace morning. every year is getting better

and better and early life and everything else we renovate all our buildings and machinery is getting newer and we hope the new people in the team get to use the average person living and working in antarctica to earn their own house or whether you're a scientist or researcher a mechanic or even a journalist you have to do chores and if they gathered together to clean up the bank. long hours added responsibility and isolation from civilization certainly can take its toll on a person. so finding time to relax in antarctica is just as important as the work. initializations and it's i always have something to do when i need to relax and enjoy playing well we don't have a school here to buy alcohol to me i have my hubby here that i can always get busy with i still have some unfinished months and i've set to go for myself to finish them. and as billings hausen is a true russian station life here wouldn't be complete without a traditional banya i would not only does the telling tales and crew keep each

other company do you when there's a need for even more culture there is outreach to the other stations as well. actually. station russian station didn't go then it is the wrong place to get crazy to get you know mad about being lonely. and i'm talking about because here we have lots of different international but he would hit all of our trainees q.n. or why in france korea and france all very trying to keep one big family and many people working together to make their home at the bottom of the planet seem more comfortable in antarctica sean thomas r t. e z. and if you might as we hear from the libyan rebel official to find out how the opposition sees its future right now but first the headlines stay with us.

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