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with russia doesn't necessary to provide moscow with legal guarantees the shield won't be targeting the country. germany on its policy of abstaining from the conflict so it can deliver a. general. guilty plea on his behalf places charges including.

russia and nato a failed to reach a consensus on missile defense plans in europe with the alliance standing firm on its position nato says it's against a joint. doesn't find it necessary to provide russia with a legal guarantees that the shield won't be directed against it. because it has more now from russia city of sochi where the talks have now drawn to a close. russian foreign minister sergei lavrov described talks on a missile defense shield in europe as long and not going as smoothly as it was expected while speaking at a separate press conference secretary general of nato rasmussen has said that nato never promised that those stocks will simply happen overnight luvox explained that the reason why a sectoral anti-missile defense shield with participation of russia is impossible is because nato cannot delegate the security of nato countries to a third party russian foreign minister 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 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 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 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 reassure. guarantee if you show wish that russia could get would be to cooperate activity

we want to see two systems that would exchange information. to make the defense of nato territory and russian territory effect a big part of russia will be covered by that anti-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 a meeting within the russian president's meeting with a very different the president of south africa jacob zuma liking to present your ideas of how to resolve the conflict in libya you were deprived from the recent summit of the african union and he once here speaking on behalf of the union now the 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 is 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 all these cases are covered by the arms embargo and this is our position and speaking of had all of this meeting of russia's and boy to nato admitted our voice and said that he fears that and on the ground operation is just around the corner and if that happens. the situation in the region will severely worsened meanwhile today secretary general rasmussen once again try to reassure everyone that surrounds operation is not in the plans. with civilian casualties mounting gadhafi still in power no into the conflict inside nato has yet another problem

a crippling shortage of munitions you know and has appealed to germany which has previously resisted getting involved in the conflict to chip in and discover those who believe all happy to get on board know there is a profit to be made. more bombs wanted just over one hundred days of their strikes and with just over two thousand bombs dropped by nato allies in libya the mission has run into an unexpected problem a lack of sales to drop where there is demand there is supply in this case germany has agreed to provide the much needed ammunition bria slate berlin has abstained from voting in favor of the u.n. 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 they have decided that the position does not preclude them actually subline 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 main 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 lured by the simple financial gain of making its weapons available for natives use in libya probably germany it will get paid for delivering these to other countries but that is normal practice between countries even between 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 in the everleigh a small 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 only being 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 as protracted intervention in libya has yet to yield the desired result even as the alliance battles accusations of violating its un mandate but a peace mission was never high on the coalition's priority list that's according to political blogger rick ross off. but what it suggests is nato obligations override national it's goods or national interest international law germany for

whatever reason wisely certainly from its own for a good deal of joining the breath the nations are russia china india and brazil in the security council on march seventeenth and abstaining on you i'm very solution one thousand seven hundred three however the war is actually on it's a hundred a day right now iraq is to characterize thirty thousand nato air missions over a country of six and a half million people including what nato itself acknowledges is five thousand combat missions if it's not a war. you know this is not simply a question of the are protecting libyan civilians from or the government violence and so forth this is a concerted long term military action of some kind different direction from a nuisance on or making off organization is nothing but that you know the presented it as. a peacekeeping force because occasionally it has you know united nations saying. authorization to participate in certain actions since it is described as

the journal nature of nato it's the world's only military or it's one that is in charge of the two major wars in the world right now 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 any treaty organization. nato has deployed commando units in libya to get rid of colonel gadhafi that's the claim from one of the sons this comes after another son saif gadhafi spoke exclusively to on t.v. saying he believes only to feast on libya's riches. these country is a piece of cake rich. and old on one hundred billion dollars deposits abroad so we have to be skinny. and we have to get used to because it is only between. us. i think it's as simple as that. check out the full version of

this exclusive interview on our website at r.t. dot com. the hague war crimes tribunal has entered a plea of not guilty on behalf of former bosnian serb general. 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 and not a true friend to boycott proceedings rejected the legal team given to demanding to choose his own defense and it is accused of the mass killing of thousands of post of muslims. are reports that he feels an international criminal court is that you take sides in the conflict. liquid little town of sibling meets in bosnia and herzegovina delic you houses are being built people go about their business and in the center of the town

a mosque and a church sit side by side but disappearing 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 of the deceased sits in the grounds of a former un military base the city but it's a memorial ground as well maintained and frequently visited by locals journalists and tourists who get boston from the bosnian capital of. what the tourist arm shown are the thousands of serbian graves that line cemeteries all around the seventy eight's a region. 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 the took away everything i had in life of first to kill my mother then my father and brother i was wounded and taken captive and 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 spin thousands of people here is being ignored it 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 in blaming the serbs the

purpose of that is to set the stage and create a rationale for so called humanitarian interventions which in the occurred in considerable number. of structure and it's that simple precedent can be traced through the years and into today's headlines bosnia iraq afghanistan and most recently libya have all played on really host 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. soon might say the journey

from sibling meets 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. castree knows are about r t bosnia and herzegovina. well coming up in a few minutes here on our drawn out drawdown despite barack obama's plan for a massive point in the next year experts claim america is stuck there for years to come and paying for the conflict with blood and money. that story come before us the former i.m.f. chief and potential french presidential candidate dominique strauss kahn is about to face new sexual assault allegations a french writer who claims he attempted to rape her in two thousand and three has decided to press charges this follows the case of a new york hotel maid who also accused of sexual assault but case was badly weakened the prosecutors admitted her credibility has been compromised. socialists fear the new allegation could ruin his chances of running for presidency he might

have become the target of a political gain provoked by his popularity both in france and the broader that's a view of paul craig roberts is a former assistant treasury secretary under the reagan administration and a former wall street journal at. the french press has reported that strauss kahn said before he ever came to the united states. that he expected sarkozy to pay some french woman a million euros to bring sex charges against him and he said that was because he was leading the sarkozy in the polls for the trench presidency and that he stressed crime said that would be a circus his response and the french press has taken a serious i think he got in trouble because he began questioning the i am house use of its power to force the cost of the bailout banks onto the backs of just ordinary

people and started questioning that he was meeting in the united states with the economist joseph stiglitz who was a big critic of that way of bailing out banks and i think he was sending signals that upset. the financial community so it may have helped it with ordinary people but made it to target for. the establishment. barack obama's recently announced afghanistan drawdown plan has 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 artie's lorna's to finds out that the talk of change may just be a symbolic gesture as 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 on a guesthouse used by u.n. staffers. last year another attack on hotels this is rather every year. examples are strewn through the near decade more 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 of military might that's look to different mark democracy never come by a question democracy never come by military invasion democracy never come by cluster bomb 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 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 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 about ghana's down as soon as possible fifty six percent while 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 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 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 lauren mr r.t. washington d.c. insufficient medical help cause the death of. two thousand and nine who was being detained by authorities at the time that's according to russia's investigative committee which having no finished analyzing the additional medical evidence claimed the prison staff involved will face trial. the additional forensic medical examination into the death of surrogate magnitsky as now being completed a spokesperson for the the investigative committee said the. medical examination

revealed that magnitsky had a preexisting condition which had contributed to his death now i 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 stuff at the detention facility where he was awaiting trial where he's being held at awaiting trial on charges of tax evasion this case the death of. in custody while he was awaiting trial drew 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. that's a quick look at some other international news in a town and first female prime minister elect. what has already announced plans to form a new five party coalition government this comes after her typo he won by slide in

sunday's general election taking a clear majority forty four year old is the sister of the country's else to pm should i watch and all the coup five years ago. opposition activists in syria say security forces are raiding hells isn't detaining people in the central city of hama which was the scene of massive protest over the weekend at least twenty have been injured in monday's crackdown with tanks deployed on the outskirts of the hometown city this just days after three hundred thousand protesters in hama held the largest demonstration against syrian leadership since the uprising erupted in the city government was late sacked for reportedly failing to suppress the demonstrations. well for the moment i'll be back with a summary of all my new stories about eight minutes from now in the meantime we talked to a british antiwar activist about his personal attempts to break the blockade of gaza sorry exclusive interview next.

today i'm talking to dr david how pain who says he's dedicated his life to fighting for justice in the treatment of others he's very many opposed to the wars in iraq and afghanistan and in two thousand and three dr helping filled a boat with food and medical supplies and sailed it to gaza selling his own house to pay for it to help and that voyage was a success and you've made subsequent trips to gaza since then has the situation

improved at all. bottle you know that eighty percent of the people live below the poverty line to find does one point six dollars per head per day and fifty percent are unemployed a big factor in that is there's no port so they cannot change goods and. they were burning building a porch the french with saudi money on the stand in about and in two thousand that was bombed just as paul's bombed i think around the same time as the start of the second thought or so you can see that the internment camp can't make money very easily well it is very ingenious and they are very industrious you've tried to help the people of gaza in a variety of different ways and particularly more recently have been met with official stonewalling and in some cases violence tell me about your journeys that well the most dramatic incident obstruction was on the

thirtieth of december two thousand and eight when myself and fifteen others with a british master of the motor yacht was trying we were trying to get to gaza on the third day of the. visual so-called operation cast lead or better described as operation drive off i can explain and we were rendered high speed about sixty six miles off the coast to haifa in the dark five thirty in the morning. at an instant seize and i'm quite certain that the intention was to drown as your trips to gaza have often been very difficult what is it that motivates you i don't like giving up. a dog it isn't a family life we never told lies in our family and to be quality is to tell a lie so that keeps you going it's little because i can't get back there but all in some other way try to exert some influence with words only perhaps. for the people

and for elsewhere. in the world where a mother cannot cradle her baby on her breast in peace and nurture the child until its becomes an adult all over our world we're producing chaos particularly the israeli u.s. and u.k. axis i call it that there's no question and the people who call the shots are in israel every control israel is the whole ruddy a lot including the rafa cage which is the stance be under the egyptian troll it is israelis who tell you your gyptian what to do and it is still happening both bus loads of palestinians a few days ago i'm told when to get out perhaps for medical treatment with the relatives i don't know what they control that they control a lot so we had of great is really going in my wife and i were treated we were treated better than the palestinian women tell you but it was still very

distressing indeed to make a fifteen hundred mile journey have. valuable stolen car airport i'm fairly certain that was commissioned it wasn't just a chance theft if you know what i mean and then a five hour car journey at speed to rafa and then to be told you can't go in and big hell there for two and a half hours and coming out they would let us out laura it would they said the journey allows you to enter this thing from embassy in london but it doesn't allow you to go out this is all the nonsense you come across professor gabriela shalev who's the former israeli ambassador to the u.n. says that palestinians have nothing to gain from a un resolution that recognizes a palestinian state what's your reaction to that well i think there's a lot of words that really whatever happens whether they make a declaration of support of the majority of the general assembly which doesn't mean much anyway security council holds all rules wrongly in my view if they declare that they'll find some other word tormenting them to be proud blunt about it i

believe in. speaking the truth about this war because we're dealing with people being tormented for sixty three years we now know with certainty that nato is killing civilians in libya including children as a consequence of its operations british forces are involved here's accountable and he is responsible the people who are accountable first and foremost are the leaders and this is why for the destruction of iraq and over one million people the maiming of over two million blair and straw or and who can campbell the cabinet as a general call themselves they should be at the hague now behind bars whilst assemble the evidence along it really and the same happens now i just see mr cameron in the house on your television monitor here and he will be held responsible for what has happened he's talking about upping the ante things like that he needs killing more civilian job the not that accurate and using massive

weapons things like the. bomb one ton one ton this is sixty plus years from the second world war and the nuremberg principles is unbelievable and you hear the ribisi talking about an even tones this is all very ordinary do you think that britain's reputation for press freedom does the bottle the printing media i don't really talk i do used to support the borning star but they have a certain amount of the presiding stuff not directions that go home i wish adventure the television d.p.c. salute. i would so much a channel for other trades to watch i think it's we are in with the vortex sucks for the larger and we're somewhere that could it we're in in the bottom and. that today is helping thank you very much thanks very much.