nato says it's not going to build a joint anti missile system with russia and doesn't find it necessary to provide moscow with legal counties shield targeting the country as plunges the dialogue into a stalemate. as the alliance runs out of missiles purchased right campaign over libya germany u. turns on its policy is abstaining from the conflict so it can deliver a bailout to its war on iraq. general recommend outages ejected from the war crimes court forcing the johns to enter a not guilty plea on his behalf that it faces charges including genocide carried out in the balkans war some sort of excuse the hague of the one sided just.

international news and comment live from moscow this is good to have you with us this hour russia and nato have failed to reach a consensus on missile defense plans in europe with the and i'm standing firm on its position nato says it's against the joint anti missile shield and doesn't find it necessary to provide russia with legal guarantees that the shield won't be directed against it he's not telling us because he has more from russia city of sochi where the talks have now drawn to climes. russian foreign minister sergei lavrov described. the missile defense shield in europe as long and not going as smoothly as it was expected while seeking a separate press conference secretary general of nato rasmussen has never promised

that those talks will simply happen overnight luvox explains and that's the reason why sectoral anti-missile defense shield reports station of russia is impossible is because nato cannot delegate the security of nato countries to a third party russian foreign minister sergei lavrov said that if the sexual anti-missile defense shield is not a possible option and perhaps there are other ones. we would like to reach an agreement which would allow us to work together without any additional risks that will strengthen strategic stability rather than undermine it we would like to have a guarantee that missile defense systems are not aimed against russia we're not asking for unilateral guarantees we would like all the members of the russian legal council to agree that missile defense will not pose any threat to the security of any of the participants. secretary general rasmussen has said that he sees no need of such a proof and once again try to ensure that i am d.

in here not going to be a threat to russia personally i don't think we need a new treaty is what i think we need is practical cooperation and the best the best reassurance yeah apparently if you so wish that russia could get would be to cooperate actively we want to see two systems that would exchange information. so make the defense of nato territory and russian territory more effect big part of russia will be covered by that and for a missile defense shield and russian president it's unlikely to believe that that could be a potential reason for another arms race on the sidelines of the russian nato council and there was no need to defend russian president anything if. the president of south africa jacob zuma came to preserve new ideas on how to

resolve the conflict in libya their ideas were deprived from the recent summit of their african union and he was here speaking on behalf of the union now their ideas were heard out but it seems that russia and nato are still not on the same page when it comes to resolving the conflict let's listen to what russian foreign minister lavrov had to say which we believe that the arms embargo that was introduced by the un security council is straightforward and it is captured this way in the resolution is applies to libya's in charge territory therefore any arms supplies are violating this resolution as well as any chance to send military instructors into libya to deliver military knowledge and know how all of these cases are covered by the arms embargo and this is our position and speaking of had over this meeting with russia's and void to nato admitted i was and i said that he fears the unknown ground operation is just around the corner and if that happens.

the situation in the region will severely be worse and meanwhile today secretary general rasmussen once again try to reassure everyone about its ground operation is not in nato plans. with civilian casualties mounting gadhafi still in power no into the conflict inside nato has yet another problem crippling shortage of munitions you know answers appeal to germany which has previously resisted getting involved in the conflict to chip in and saudis are going to go discover there are those who believe all too happy to get on board know there's a profit to be made. more bombs wanted just over one hundred days of airstrikes and with just over two thousand bombs dropped by nato allies on libya the mission has run into an unexpected problem a lack of cells to drop where there is demand there is the lie and this is their only has agreed to provide the much needed ammunition previously berlin has abstained from voting in favor of the un security council resolution on libya

a move that surprised some and angered others but it may now be backing out of a decision the germans may not want to participate but are they have decided that the position does not preclude them actually some supplying weapons in this case or systems some believe germany is under pressure from other nato members particularly the united states friends in the u.k. to take a more active part in the libyan campaign at first hand. you know ministries towards the foreign affairs minister don't go into libya it's a very bad conflict it was started by the cia and it's a dirty business don't do this so this is why you voted with russia and china now the backlash from washington is so tough obviously we are under pressure to do something to make up for this decision aside from peer pressure germany may be lured by the possible financial benefits of making its weapons available for

natives use in libya probably germany will get paid for delivering these arms to other crimes but that is normal practice between current nato countries. out of the twenty eight nato members only eight are actively participating in libya with civilian deaths to which nato recently admitted to a shortage of weapons and the ever relentless more market duffy still at the helm they call it may be facing just the beginning of its problems. berlin is in a tough spot on the one hand it has. disappointed nato by refusing to support the mission in libya in march on the other by agreeing to supply bombs it may now lose friends in other places and whatever the real reasons for its contradictory policy may be germany could find that by trying to please everyone it may end up pleasing no one if you go. well to discuss the significance of germany's latest move

we're now joined by middle east expert mikhail he's live now in madrid thanks very much indeed for joining us there on your web cam now germany maintains that it's staying true to its original stance of not getting involved in libya since selling bombs not dropping them what do you make of that argument. but i think it was because he couldn't see the fear. and. insanity. in germany and this has been submitted a little the pressure of them peasants up to this town astounds this school is by far from the moves of the earth because you see. and this is how it's going to speak to eastern and we have to have that kind of like i thought i did divergence between what most of the western countries including. mine was three countries this through because our current you know. united arab

emirates group and the fact that you're going on the outside one of the consistent kind of it is it will be no more easy not so many it's really been seized from. the western countries and this is how we. understood it if you want to be there when you want to be kept for consideration by its allies had to use its stance and this this is how we've seen the sparrow books from a tyranny that it can be kind of on the floor ok just pretty quickly it's not a brilliant line so i can pretty much make up most of what you're saying there make out what you're saying but in terms of germany now getting involved militarily does that mean that actually it's agreeing with everybody else now along with many others that the military action is the only viable option it's the only solution to bringing this conflict into an end in. no i was rather rather to say that there are

there are political elements to intervene in the german decision and it explains the german stance that you can. follow what is going on at least you know i think it's your credit that you're going to have them to have in this newsgroup this any way they couldn't be any military solution been. political but it brought of events your and you alone can speak to the prince when it comes to naval man birth as well as. let's talk about russia's role in this from the onset russia was concerned that this humanitarian intervention might turn into a mission for regime change three months on now do you think that moscow's position has been vindicated. but i think that anyway when most of its sense stands for the beginning it wasn't all right because what we've seen we do loosen of the events in this neat little and the west through and transfer things general rights and to create the un it's written by their own way or their own and this is how i think

that not all the rest of it was on the right i have to say that russia or the tunisians keep on the in its own stance it's one position that i should russia doesn't agree with nato as weapons but it certainly agrees that gadhafi should go but who should replace could that fate really opposition that well this is the most important question who believe that the national interest and transitional council has enough legitimacy and means two equals and new political configuration and to rule the economy the future aspects. i don't think so and by that i am going to post but i also think that the full member assault on gets through to this point and this is how they're trained to deal with this you think it's you know and. i would like to just quickly ask you what about main stories is concerning nato and russia over the missile defense issue. we're now seeing of

course pressures between nato and russia building not only over that issue but also over the war in libya differences over syria what impact do you think this latest stress and strain between the two could have on other issues such as afghanistan. well i think that looking to the russian stance and looking also at what they're really important point which sees the need to as the general whether in libya or in afghanistan what we can understand is that in the county of the short run i can't see or i don't believe that meat will be really able to move freely and to get its russia its own position or its own stance and presenters generally the general indication that you can see what we can see at that meeting we still are certain degree and this is how you try to always hearts dance and some elements are arguments it. has to be relieved that they are the right ones but i

think that any way nobody can see that by all of what is going on we can see that anyway there is a strong mistakes there that begins the need to stress again the need to remember is just one interesting development occurring at the moment thanks very much indeed for your input darren mcmullen middle east expert thanks so much for joining us live there from madrid thank you. nato has deployed commando units in libya to get rid of colonel gadhafi well that's the claim from one of his sons and this comes after another son saif gadhafi spoke exclusively to r.t. saying he believes the alliance wants only to based on libya's riches. these country is a piece of cake rich in the jazz boy and we have more than one hundred million dollars deposits abroad so we have to show you the scale of that. and you have to get. because it is the only obstacle between. a

person and i think it's as simple as that you can check out the full version of this exclusive interview on our website r.t. dot com. the hague war crimes tribunal has entered a plea of not guilty on behalf of a former bosnian serb general and he was ordered out of the court for interrupting the charge and speaking out of turn the former general later complained of having had trouble hearing previously the judge refused to spy on the hearing at the request of another truth threatened to boycott proceedings is rejected the legal team given to him by the court that morning to choose its own defense lawyers well that it is accused of ordering the mass killing of thousands of bosnian muslims during the balkans war carter's country as arab reports many serbs feel the international criminal court is only taking one side in the conflict that. required little town of simply needs in bosnia and herzegovina jilek your houses are being built people go about their business and in the center of the town

a mosque and church sit side by side but this apparent unity is an illusion sixty years ago the entire region was torn apart by ethnic clashes during the yugoslav war and simply needs became infamous when the united nations stated eight thousand muslim men and boys were massacred by bosnian serb forces today and immoral for the deceased. some grounds of a former un military base a sort of benson memorial ground as well maintained and frequently visited by locals journalists and tourists to get boston and the bosnian capital of. a tourist aren't shown are the thousands of serbian graves that line cemeteries all around us that are being it's a region. thousands of people were killed during the balkan wars in the one nine hundred ninety s. but cemeteries like these with entire families of murdered serb civilians only get visited by the very few remaining survivors but only comes here all the time his

entire family lives here he says a bosnian muslim general is responsible so you because you know i was only nine years old when i said already everything i had in life first to kill my mother then my father and brother i was wounded and taken captive they held me for fifty six days and only god knows how or why i survived. but even though i'm going to survive his loss just like that of thousands of people here is being ignored. each was at the hague tribunal and i was supposed to be a witness in his trial but in the end me and about thirty other witnesses were simply cast aside they didn't call us didn't ask what happened to our families and the tribunal only gave him two years in prison. the balkan war so heinous atrocities visited an all sides and perpetrated by all players but the version most often propagated by western media is rather one sided ingraining the serves the

purpose is to. create a rationale for humanitarian and. which. occurred in considerable number. of circuits that so-called precedent can be traced through the years and into today's headlines bosnia iraq afghanistan and most recently libya have all played on really hosting nato troops and u.s. imposed no fly zones but it is very important. creation of. sonora you can make sure in the minds of most people. which was preventable but for whatever reasons so-called international community didn't do anything about it. some might say the journey from sydney need such

a big ozzie via baghdad and kabul could now be traced as a kind of major road map but as with any road paved with good intentions there is only one possible test a nation. carriers are about r.t.e. botany and herzegovina. well coming up in a few minutes we hear an r.t. drawn up to draw down despite barack obama's plan for a massive pullout from afghanistan next year experts claim america is stuck there for years to come and paying for the conflict with blood and money. organizers of a proton a stand in for the tiller have vowed to defy greek sailing back and to push ahead with their humanitarian mission to gaza at all costs a statement came after a number of ships were found to be damaged with activists condemning what they said was sabotaged by israeli security forces the greek government had offered to deliver be surprised to israel as a loser connected television turn as want to prevent the civilian fleet from reaching gaza a similar mission just over a year ago ended with nine people dead after israeli commandos stormed the the

tenor of this campaign a day would help him he's been involved in transporting relief supplies to gaza told r.t. how his own vessel was once attacked in the same way the full interview is coming your way in about ten minutes from now but here's a brief preview for the meantime. we were trying to get to garza on the third day of the of bombardment and invasion so called operation cast lead and we were around at high speed about six or six miles off the coast of life or in the dark five thirty in the morning. cvs and i'm quite certain that the intention was to drown us i believe in speaking the truth about this war because we're dealing with people being tormented for sixty three years. insufficient medical help because the death of lawyers in two thousand and nine has

been detained by authorities at the time that's according to russia's investigative committee which having now finished analyzing the additional medical evidence claimed the prison staff involved will face trial artie's correspondent peter all of us is following the case. the additional forensic medical examination into the death of surrogate magnitsky is now being completed a spokesperson for the investigative committee said the. medical examination revealed that magnitsky heart a preexisting heart condition which had contributed to his death now he also went on to say criminal a criminal case has been opened and charges of failure to provide adequate medical care and negligence are to be brought against staff at the detention facility where so you might meet he was awaiting trial where he's being held waiting trial on charges of tax evasion now this case the death of. in custody while he was awaiting that trial through huge interest all around the world with many many human

rights groups calling for a full investigation to determine exactly what happened that led to his death. well now let's have a quick look at some other international news in our world update thailand's first female prime minister elect. has already announced plans to form a new five party coalition government this comes after her few thought party won by a landslide in sunday's general election taking a clear majority for her four year old is the sister of the country's asked to. have toppled in an army five years ago. a south korean corporal in the armed forces killed fought fellow marines and injured another at a base on the yellow sea close to the northern border a nineteen year old also wounded is now in custody is a motive for what may have been a suicide attack is still unknown south korea stations marines close to the volatile border with north korea. a record barbara has recently

announced afghanistan's straw down plan has been i should say the drawdown plan that he's announced as been slammed by republicans they say withdrawing thirty three thousand troops by the end of next summer is too much of a military risk but oddly ignore lister finds out that the talk of change may just be a symbolic gesture there's no end in sight to the u.s. presence in the country. the aftermath of a taliban attack in kabul. a luxury hotel frequented by foreigners earlier this year taliban gunmen wearing suicide vests storm a guest house used by u.n. staffers. last year another attack on hotels this is where your. examples are strewn through the near decade war familiar aftermath we have any pay down here in the south only now americans heard this declaration before news of the blast we're starting this drawdown from position of strength about u.s.

plans to begin pulling troops out of afghanistan but there are declarations on the ground from afghan activists and military might that's left a different mark democracy never come by a cliche democracy never come by militant gratian democracy never comes by cluster thought by white phosphorus by muscle car by bumping our wedding parties and in washington talk of winding down war in one country does not wind down talk of tackling the global terrorist threat as the focus seems to shift to neighbors should be refocusing resources on pakistan yemen somalia parts of north africa and other locations i've always believed pakistan is more central to what happens in the other states a change in the guard at the department of defense with robert gates retiring and former cia chief leon panetta getting sworn in signals this change of course to critics i see no difference between him and robert gates and for afghanistan we now hear a presidential pledge to pull thirty three thousand troops out by september two thousand

and twelve fully recovering the surge i have now at west point well it certainly sounds like what the american people would like to hear for the first time ever a majority want u.s. troops out of afghanistan as soon as possible fifty six percent or thirty nine percent want troops there until the situation is stabilized you can see the trend is really flip flop. but what is the reality of obama's plans for troop withdrawal that thirty three thousand he's calling for is a minority of the one hundred thousand american troops that are there that's not including another forty two thousand some nato troops and ninety thousand department of defense contractors meanwhile the u.s. has reiterated a long term commitment to the country there certainly has been an agreement that following twenty fourteen there will be some kind of continuing presence. of presence and financial burden some see as permanent observers believe u.s. bases are in the forever future lauren mr archie washington d.c.

. to see what it's like to be a soldier involved in that kind of call it special report coming up in the next hour here on r.t. you know it's time for the latest business news with korea. hello and welcome to business here in r.t. thanks for joining me russia is having to face up to its own banking scandal the former heads of russia's phlogiston their bank of moscow are facing criminal charges after its huge bailout regulators discovered a third of the bank's assets or in bad loans of course are. everybody sort of m v t v took over bank of moscow and discovered bad loans worth knowing a billion dollars which is about one third of the bank's assets but this isn't the first time the bank is involved in the scandal the all the want to involve the building that you see it right next to me which is at the mayor's office and that

was because the former had all the bank of moscow unviable to do was accused of shady loans to construction companies are run by the former mayors right now he has since fled the country and the warrant has been issued for his arrest the bank of moscow now getting fourteen billion dollars which is the biggest bailout in russian history it will be given over a ten year period out of interest rates all half a percent now this amount as three times bigger than the capitalization of the bank and it's smaller than the amount that was given so all of the banks here during the financial crisis forces finance minister has since called for a criminal investigation into the bad loans to figure out who is responsible and what happens. and examiner also from asia's bases says the bailout shows the state is expanding not reducing installments in the banking sector in accordance with the president's program. stayed on bed and skin gene you are very experienced in

progress from brain cancer to water more and more but the recent snorts brain there are significant potential to due diligence before very dubious going to give us whole screen shows where it's. rightfully very first and then the if you could do food you know in the case of for a difficult this would go hard for them. let's take a look at the markets now oil has slightly retreated from early against the market digest contrasting data from the world's two biggest oil consumers on fuel demand prices are being encouraged by european policymakers approving an emergency valve from greece about soft money factoring in from china and ongoing concerns over europe's debt crisis by keeping traders cautious but its reach is trading at around ninety five dollars a barrel and grant around one hundred and eleven. now u.s. markets are closed for public holiday independence day let's cross over to europe where stock markets edged higher on monday london's footsie ended just under half

percent like helped by gains for john would group and british land banks fail go after standard and poor's rating services born on a rollover from greeks that. the dax finished point three percent higher with drug giant pair of the top performer and gaining almost two percent and russian markets closed in the black as well and isaacs at half a percent while the office climbed point six percent stocks were high after europe authorize a long path for greece easing speculation the country's crisis will derail the region's economic recovery now let's have a look at some individual samples on the rise next most energy majors traded in the black heavyweight v t v was putting pressure on financials of the bank for over a percent and the discount it with its newly bought bank of lost after vos was up more than two percent on reports sales a lot of cars rose by a third in the past half year. that's the president has been out on the back of more and just on that about.

twenty years ago are just countries. just so dismissive of. what had been a. general.