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start on t.v. dot com. nato says it's not going to build a joint missile system with russia doesn't find it necessary to provide moscow with legal guarantees the shield won't be targeting the country it's plunges the deeper into a stalemate. as the alliance runs out of strike campaign over libya germany u. turns on its policy of abstaining from the conflict so you can deliver a bomb to its war on ice. general recommend outages ejected from the war crimes court forcing the judge to enter a not guilty plea on his behalf and that it faces charges including genocide carried out in the balkans war. the hague of one sided justice.

international news and comment live from moscow this is. russia and nato failed to reach a consensus on missile defense plans in europe with standing firm on its position nato says it's against a joint missile shield and finds it necessary to provide russia with legal guarantees that the shield won't be directed against it. has more now from russia city of sochi where the talks have drawn to a close russian foreign minister sergei lavrov described talks on missile defense shield in europe as long and not going as smoothly as it was expected to see carol . separate press conference secretary general of nato rasmussen has said that nato never promised that those stocks will simply happen overnight lover ops explains that the reason why a sectoral anti-missile defense shield with the participation 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

a sectoral and say missile defense shield is not a possible option and perhaps there are other ones. used we would like to reach an agreement which would allow us to work together without any additional risks and agreements 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 nato council to agree that missile defense will not pose any threats to the security of any of the participants. secretary general rasmussen has set out he sees no need of such a proof and once again to try to ensure that i am dealing in here not going to be a threat to russia personally i don't think we need new treaty is what i think we need is practical cooperation and the best the best reassurance guarantee if you show wish that russia could get would be to cooperate actively

we want to see two systems that would exchange information. to make the defense of nato territory and russian territory more effective big part of russia will be covered by that and fire missile defense shield and russian president dmitry medvedev believes 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 move from the russian president's meeting with a very different and the president of south africa now jacob zuma came to present new ideas of how to resolve the conflict in libya the ideas were deprived from the recent summit of the african union and he was here speaking on behalf of the union now their ideas were her doubts 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. 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 it applies to libya's entire territory therefore any arms supplies are violating this resolution as well as any attempts to send military instructors into libya to deliver military knowledge and know how these cases are covered by the arms embargo and this is our position and speaking of had over this meeting of russia's and boy to nato admitted our voice and said that he fears that unknown ground operation is just around the corner and if that happens. the situation in the region will severely be worsened 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 when to the conflict inside nato has hit yet another problem

a crippling shortage of munitions in lance's appeal to germany which has previously resisted getting involved in the conflict to chip in and. those who believe all happy to get on board now 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 shells to drop where there is demand there is supply and this case germany 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 good 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 sublime 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 our you know ministries toward 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 go there so this is why you voted with russia and china now the backlash from washington is so tough that obviously we are under pressure to do something to make up for this decision aside from peer pressure germany may be alerted by the possible financial benefits of making its weapons available for nato's use in libya probably germany will get paid for delivering these to other country but that is normal practice between can't even be in 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 the coalition 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 high 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 negotiate. for months on nato protracted intervention in libya has yet to yield the desired result even as the alarms battles accusations of violating its un mandate but a peace mission was never on the coalition's priority list that's according to political blogger rick ross off. but what it suggests is nato obligations override national spirit and concerns national interests international law roger

many for whatever reason why it is always certainly from its own or you. join the nations russia china india and brazil in the security council on march seventeenth and abstaining on you under a solution nineteen seventy three however the war is actually you know it's a hundred a day right now if iraq was to characterize the thirty thousand nato air missions over a country of six and a half million people including what nato itself acknowledges as five thousand combat missions if it's not a war. you know who did this it is not simply a question of protecting libyan civilians from the over the government violence and so forth this is a concerted long term military action of some kind of aggression from a nuisance and we're making our organization is nothing but that you know the presented as. a peacekeeping force because occasionally you know as you know the united nations so far off the reservation to produce

a page in certain actions and disguise the true nature of nato it's the world's only military it's one that is in charge of the two major wars in the world right now and those in afghanistan and libya i think you know we can dispute you know minor points of contention but i think we should not be confused about what the nature of the more of them are the treaty organization. nato has deployed commando units in libya to get rid of kind of get half a mile of the plane from one of his sons this comes off to another son saif gadhafi spoke exclusively to us here dotty saying he believes the alliance wants only to feast on libya's riches these country is a piece of cake rich for the guys. and we have more than one hundred million dollars deposits abroad so we have to share this cake thats it. and we have to get mr gadhafi because he's the only obstacle between

us and the think it's as simple as that. check out the full version of this exclusive interview on our website at www dot com. the hague war crimes tribunals entered a plea of not guilty on behalf of former bosnian serb general recommend outage the accused was ordered out of the court for interrupting the judge and speaking out of turn the former general later complained of having had trouble hearing previously the judge refused to postpone the hearing at the request of another to threatened to boycott proceedings he's rejected the legal team given to him by the court demanding to choose his own defense lawyers and that it is accused of ordering the mass killing of thousands as opposed to muslims during the war bottom of this country as are the reports many serbs feel the international criminal court is only taking one side in a conflict like. liquid little town of sibling meets in bosnia and herzegovina who looks at daily you 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. became infamous when the united nations stated eight thousand muslim men and boys were massacred by bosnian serb forces today and the moral for the deceased sits in the grounds of a former un military base the sort of thing it's a memorial ground as well maintained and frequently visited by locals journalists and tourists who get boston and the bosnian capital of. what the tourist aren't shown are the thousands of serbian graves that lined cemeteries all around the region. or. thousands of people were killed during the balkan wars of 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 know i was only nine years old when this had already struck away 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 but on a 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 on all sides and perpetrated by all players but the version most often propagated by western media is rather one sided in blaming the serbs the

purpose of that is to set the stage and create a rationale for so-called humanitarian interventions which indeed occurred in considerable number. of structure in it so 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 unwilling hosts to nato troops and u.s. imposed no fly zones it is very important in the creation of the. scenario to make sure that in the minds of most people. was drawn aside which was preventable but for whatever reasons the so-called international community didn't do anything about it. some might say the journey from sibling needs it to benghazi via baghdad and kabul could now be traced as

a kind of nato road map but as with any road paved with good intentions there is only one possible destination. castros are about r t bosnia and herzegovina. coming up in a few minutes drawn out drawdown that despite barack obama's plan for a message from afghanistan next year experts claim america is stuck there for years to come and paying for the conflict with blood and money. at stores dot com the first the former i.m.f. chief and potential french presidential candidate dominic strauss kahn is about to face a new sexual assault allegations a french writer he claims he attempted to rape in two thousand and three has decided to press charges this follows the case of a new york hotel maid who also accused transcon of sexual assault case was badly weakened after prosecutors admitted her credibility had been compromised from sconce fellow socialists fear the new allegation could ruin his chances of running for presidency want to discuss the situation now joined by pier gunnar he's

a professor of political science at paris western university until the force thank you very much indeed for joining us firstly why do you think this latest alleged victim waited so long to bring these challenges well actually says she was discouraged by her mother is connected to the socialist. also this woman is connected to a friend of straw scan stuart and his second wife. in a t.v. interview she had mentioned should been sexually assaulted by a stroke but nothing came of it. and then she decided it. just before. the american one the american case. became apparent in the media and that she also decided not to go to the u.s. to testify against her. so it's something which has been talked

about but not decided in court the fact she wanted to jump on the back of this new york case which now we see could be breaking down do you think that these charges her charges could actually go the same way. well it also depends on you know the kind of lawyers he uses in france it is all depends on the facts of the case because in new york apparently if you believe the media there were many substantial lies and phone calls to a drug deal and saw. there as the case in front seems to be different but the only thing i know of course is what i've read in the media. where they're difficult to prove something happened a long time in the past also sometimes and sorry something we also see in the media is the speculation that this was a political assassination of strauss kahn and so cozy could have been behind what do you make of those allegations well actually you know one has to be very careful

with conspiracy theories unless you have facts and you know for sure or some facts that you cannot deny then you can have a theory which is substantiated otherwise you have hypothesis so it is possible that somebody was behind this thing but it's also possible that no one was behind it. i think we should not rush to judgment ok terry narry leftists who nevertheless are on the sites or on the next presidential election now do you think now strauss kahn if this case doesn't go ahead do you think there is a chance that he could stand for the presidency. well actually if it's totally exonerated there's a chance they could come back but. probably this left a mark it's difficult to know how it's going to play on because if is exonerated he can come back as a hero then some other people may feel this guy has too many.

sexual stories and so on that put him in a french public in the french media a bit more forgiving than other nations over those sort of scandals. so far. yeah quite true quite true. but there's a distinction between you know the real scandals when a woman is raped or way a woman is attacked and the private life of politicians you know it's very difficult to strike a balance between the two for example you know there was this guy in the united states and autographing pictures of himself on the net. no one knew it was his private life bad taste and certainly not. something which is. to be approved by a case very different from political implications right just briefly we've got to finish in just a moment but you from your point of view political scientist he has been described as a brilliant political operator clearly is going to big challenge now if he does want to return to politics do you think though if he doesn't go for the present the that

he could survive and stay on in politics or if he doesn't would that be a big loss to french politics. well actually i'm not a great fan of his mind he was sent to be further to the left than his but i think . if he doesn't become president it could still probably become a minister even prime minister very interesting thank you so much peter for joining us peer going to a professor of political science at paris where university for thank you welcome thank. barack obama's recent in the arts afghanistan drawdown plan has been slammed by republicans they say that would draw thirty three thousand troops by the end of next summer is too much of a military risk but obvious lauren lyster finds out that the talk of change may just be a symbolic gesture as there is 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 every year. 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 a position of strength about u.s. plans to begin pulling troops out of afghanistan but there are declarations on the ground from afghan activists of military might that's left a different mark democracy never come by a completion democracy never come by military invasion democracy never comes by cluster bomb by white phosphorus by muscle car by bumping our wedding parties and didn't 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 afghanistan a change in the guard at the department of defense with robert gates retiring and former cia chief leon panetta getting sworn in signals of this change of course to critics i see no difference between 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 we're covering the surge i announced 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 well 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 all 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 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 two thousand and 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 lorin mr r.t. washington d.c. . let's now have a look at some other international news this hour tony first female prime minister elect looks you know what has already announced plans to form a new five party coalition government this comes after her if you type party one boss learned slide in sunday's general election taking clear parliament treat majority forty four year old as the sister of the country's ousted pm what toppled in the army five years ago. corporal in the armed forces killed four

fellow marines an injured another at a base on the yellow sea close to the northern border the nineteen year old also wounded is now in custody his motive for what may have been a suicide attack is still unknown south korea stations marines close to the volatile border with north korea. opposition activists in syria say security forces are raiding howells's and detaining people in the central city of hama which was the scene of massive protests over the weekend at least twenty have been injured in monday's crackdown armored tanks deployed on the outskirts of town city is just days after three hundred thousand protesters in hama held the largest demonstration against the syrian leadership since the uprising erupted in march the city gov was later sacked for reportedly failing to suppress the demonstration. new twenty four minutes past the hour in the russian capital i'll be back with the some of our main news stories in four minutes from now or i should say maybe five in the meantime the business news is next with kareena.

i don't walk into business i'm going america russia is having to face up to its own banking scandal the former heads of russia's third largest lender bank of moscow are facing criminal charges after its huge bailout regulators discovered a third of the bank's assets were in bad loans and of course or has the details. everything is sorted when v t p 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 one involved 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 and be able to do was accused of shady loans to construction companies are run by the former mayors wife 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 of a russian history that will be given over

a ten year period at an interest rate all half a percent now this amount is three times bigger than the capitalization of the bank and the smaller than the amount that was given to all of the banks here during the financial crisis process finance minister has since called for a criminal investigation into the bad loans to figure out who was responsible and what happens at alexander morales a from ages b.c. says the bailout shows the state is expanding not reducing its dominance in the banking sector in accordance with the president's program. continue very experienced integration bring concerts a quarter of more and more material so it's notes but in significant the pension due diligence before very dubious kind of deals hoping that. shows where it's. right. and they need to do food in the queue so for difficulties will go to help for. now let's take a look at the markets oil traded near

a two week high after the european union also rises a loan payment for greece light sweet is trading at ninety five dollars per barrel brant crude has gained as much as point four percent trading at one hundred and eleven dollars per barrel. u.s. markets are closed for public holiday independence day in europe equity markets closed higher on monday at london's footsie ended just on the percent of the black held by gains for john edwards group and british land company banks fell though after standard and poor's ratings services warn on the rollover debt and russian markets closed in the black as well buys it at half a percent while reality has climbed point six percent stocks were high after loan paid for greece each speculation countries prices will do way over the regions because i'll make recovery now let's have a look at some individual moves on the minus six most energy majors traded in the black heavyweight p.t.b. was putting pressure on financials the bank fell over a percent amid

a scandal with its new people bank of moscow and more than two percent of reports sales of lot of cars rose by a third of us how are you. that's all the business here is what i find most always in a website how to dot com slash business thanks for watching. culture is that so much of a given to each musician has the power of finding the right to mark what has really

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