international news life this is us he was me your leadership of our thanks for joining us the u.s. and romania have signed a joint missile defense pact in washington they greenland allows america to install missile interceptors in the country expected to be deployed in around four years it's part of an american project to build a broader nato defense shield in europe which has been the cause of serious disagreement with moscow again education are reports. what they've signed this part of america's revamped plan to build a missile shield in europe with elements of it deployed in different countries in eastern europe romania will host america's land base this time so we interceptors the shield will be unfolding fairly close to russian borders needless to say that's always been an irritant in the relations between washington and moscow the new u.s. missile defense plan that we're talking about is the four state plans of the first two stages envisioned these elation of a some three interceptors of lower capability and the last two or higher capability

is the last to that especially by the russians the more advanced ones because russians have a different analysis of the weapons that the so-called rogue states happen what they don't happen in moscow doesn't want the system to be eventually directed against russia the war of words on missile defense has been going on for quite some time with washington saying we need powerful missile interceptors against a possible attack from some dangerous state they usually maybe ran and were screened in moscow saying why would you need interceptors when i was at those ropes they don't have what russia does russians have been quite persistent a few years you know saying ok if it's not against us let's build a missile shield in europe together and the response they get is always a no a polite no but no they say yes we will cooperate but not on equal terms to that question and say then give us legally binding going that the defense is going to be used against us to the sites of earth it's the mere effectiveness of the shield is now in question last thursday for the first time the u.s.

tested its advance to send one interceptor missile and it failed to hit a target by the way the federation of american scientists recently come up with a report that calls for a review of america's missile defense plan based on the inconsistences that they see between its goals the report touched upon two very interesting points a the effectiveness of those interceptors is arguable from a scientific point of view and b. that it could push the russians and possibly the chinese to try and restore some kind of balance by arming themselves more. i had access from the humanist movement john to mass as they build up of military power in europe plays a vital teacher conflict the fact that obama. scraped the bush plan big hope brought a lot of hope here in the czech republic here in europe unfortunately what we see now is a movement in a different direction and we see a movement that goes again in the way of armament again in the way of using our

force if we build up more military equipment here in europe we are moving closer to a conflict there are much much more dangerous weapons of mass destruction around the world nuclear weapon so i think that there is a real threat and some henschel hypothetical threat could be north korea or iran yes of course we have to deal with those threats but we have to do you accordance with important since we started criticizing the original plan also president bush and later president obama czech government and i think also the years government changed tactics i mean openly talking about the negotiations that have been going on between the united states and the other governments check of remains a romanian government and earlier they are now holding most of these talks in secret and they released very few information so not very much is known and therefore there is not a lot of opposition. the rebel national transitional council has given residents of the besieged strongholds two days to evacuate or face full scale a tug meanwhile fighting continues as rebels claim they've made gains in some of

the areas still holding out as loyal to the former regime and the interim leader of the national transitional council. in his first public speech since kadar he was ousted has actually been and still is trying for a civil democratic state based on moderate islam meanwhile honesty international has called an authority to prevent human rights abuses it's alleged that but sons have committed atrocities but over twenty six hundred killed since the uprising began in february but some people in the capital say they only free so the revolution they're seeing on certainty and fear as always he's more if emotional reports. few free tripoli just comes to chanting to celebrate the birth of. all reminders of a recently overthrown dictatorship prosecutor asked what used to bring nightmares to some four decades. shoshu for his

curly hair we call him because his hair is so long and he doesn't cut it it's ugly actually but someone else smiling leaving the post gadhafi freedom is nothing but the main role is a crime has been the rest of three times in the last two weeks rebels interrogated him and took his documents the reason the twenty seven year old copilot says is his family's ties with gadhafi his regime we cover his face and change his name in supposedly free libya this man is afraid of being thrown to jail again over even killed you can see above wars are more graphic but you can see both blood wars on the board could be a national icon for what they are talking about democrat. this is not democracy a crime says libya didn't get rid of a dictatorship but only fell into another one of the rebels' weapons in a city where the gun has become a common accessory just like

a cell phone and where one can only cross the town's numerous checkpoints with an obligatory a large bar to the winners this is a reality not hard to believe you. know everybody we are happy we are freedom good that feels good run away this is not true believe me because they are fair to all have a good laugh are turned back to tripoli you see the same people same people same personalty they are supporting a revolution can bring much of which comes after you is often different. those who drove egypt three all these years who are still on the streets this week and seven months after talking president mubarak and three acolytes of progress on the reforms libya's future too is too far from here the post gadhafi libyan capital has been the scene of euphoria with celebrator a gun fire and singing heard here around the clock for more than

a fortnight already like all parties however some believe they could be serious hangover after wards in the form of retribution and uncertainty as to how the future country will be governed regional r.t. tripoli libya. this is so ahead for you this disaster site seeing today is adventure is truly is on fast times experience so the exclusion is twenty five days off to china nobles and you get in on the last of the government says the tour as i go. and read the path for a long battle with the debt crisis as german chancellor angela merkel says that here is own countries should stick together to save greece and stop they don't know if that. latest on the developing story in afghanistan now where at least nine people have been killed and twenty three wounded in an ongoing taliban a talkin of a government district that's according to reports coming out of the camp so the american embassy and nato led coalition headquarters in kabul have come under heavy

fire several of the sites in the city are also toxic including police stations on the press t.v. channel insurgents stormed and occupied an empty high rise building from the back and they have fired guns and rocket propelled grenades going and nato forces have surrounded the block and several sections are reported killed but at least one remains inside the building this comes just weeks after twelve people died in a tacan the british counsel's office in the same district and we spoke with pakistani law based at the end he things that time highlight nato has failed me it will be hearts and minds of good people. this is no longer about just old tired of gone coliban or just groups of terrorists doing there is a tremendous support from people on the ground to these kind of attacks i mean this particular attack for example would not have been possible without people in the neighborhood people who have facilitated these attackers the terrorists to carry

out this attack and this would not have been possible and of course we have the attack on the british council and many more before that so obviously understand is not a stable and i think you do see more and more of you see. more and more u.s. troops actually withdraw from afghanistan how can you really start to use attacks if you if you have a huge segment of your population really sightline nicely and actually punished over the past eight nine years ten years you know. israel's refusal to apologize for killing nine pro palestinian teka shocks of its own a gaza ship last year has isolated the terrorist state that's according to turkish prime minister and that's counted as the relations between egypt and israel plunged to their lowest point in decades after an angry mob stormed the israeli embassy in cairo last friday public anger in the arab country has been soaring after five egyptian security force members were killed by israeli troops in a border clash last month however israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu said his country's peace treaty with egypt still stand consenting as are currently

preparing a bed for united nations membership despite tel aviv and washington's opposition prime minister everyone has also spoken in favor of palestinian statehood on his cairo visit texas political commentator. told r.t. that israel's approach is leading. israel now is getting away from the notion that it needs rational democratic allies in the region and this isolation now taking place because israeli calling israeli decision makers on the political level are choosing even to to if you will believe those allies by refusing to apologize for turkey for what has been taking place since mali marmara incident and also chilling the. soldiers inside and hoping to get away with what has been. against them certainly puts

for forward the new israeli image in the people's. country to continue all the action on the seas while the world around them in their near vicinity is is really changing. germany has called on the euro zone members to stick together dealing with the deepening debt crisis saying that a greek default is not an option for a quick solution germany to angola merkel was speaking to trying to. shop down monday and then down and she's day of the fears of greece declaring bankruptcy the latest concern was triggered by comments from petitions and own admission saying athens could exit the greek government announced new spending cuts what to billion euros last sunday in a bid to me state requirements for the next installment of the e.u. bailout rescue package financial journalist demetri coffin is says however that is

no easy way out of finance. there are different ways that. the european central bank and the e.u. could go about dealing with a default of greece or an exit of greece portugal or some of the peripheral countries they could break the euro into two different types of euro it but the fact that no one is willing to talk about that option openly and kind of admit that that's where we are with an unsustainable debt like greece has and now the fact that you have a country of the size of italy which is no longer really able to access the markets the way they're accessing it for the markets but the u.c.b. is in their buying italian spanish debt so the fact that you have these countries on able to issue debt paper on their own is frightening for the european union for the eurozone there is no real exit mechanism from the euro if you're part of the view and you are you're part of it supposedly for life ok and so we saw how chaotic it was when argentina. default on its debt and exit of the dollar peg in the case of greece it's not even a peg they've given up their currency their french banks that are that are

potentially on the hook with a lot of greek debt now who's exposed to those french banks then who's exposed the banks very close the french banks a lot of the banks prefer an environment like they've had now which is we can lever up as much as we want doesn't matter and if we lose we just get bailed out there they have structurally adjusted their business model and their profit making mechanism to this new environment which has been perpetual bailouts that we've seen since one nine hundred eighty. in the mean time lack of confidence in his ability to deal with that huge deficit is also growing making grow and to china for a possible way out top level talks were held with beijing about china potentially buying some of the country's debt meeting with the head of the biggest chinese sovereign wealth fund c i see for talks but denied asking for any help for buying a ton of bonds this comes as the government in rome is expected to approve a crucial austerity package this week in order to save fifty four billion euros and it includes increasing sales tax making changes to pensions and imposing

a special levy on the rich. thousands of people have gathered in the central russian city of yaroslavl to pay their final respects to the ice hockey player alexander he died in hospital five days after the plane crash that killed always the whole locomotive team last week had been the only team member to survive the disaster the twenty six year old stuff that says they have family friends and fans gathered at the team's home stadium in the us loud for a vigil and he's on a days after one hundred thousand paid tribute to his colleagues who died the plane carrying the a. hockey team to their first match of the season crashed shortly after takeoff from their home city killing forty four people a crew member that disasters only survivor the calls of which are still under investigation. for us take a look at some other stories from around the world. school bus and the pakistanis

are killing children and the driver was taken into a fourteen year old students home when the gunman struck there have been no claims of responsibility with that tongue so far northwestern pakistan is torn between government supported tribal always under islamist militants with links to al qaida have carried out hundreds of out tunks against civilians in recent here is. two passenger trains and buses collided in the studio. people know who are the people and wounding two hundred and twelve some of them critically the crotched who plays during rush hour while the passenger bus drove around trussing barriers and attempts to save time and was hit by a train it's rarely ended a plot for the experts down derailed and hit and another that was going the other way. sex abuse victims have submitted claims to the international criminal. probe into the sixteenth and top cardinals to be investigated for possible crimes against humanity vatican officials are being accused of negligence

in. supervising freeze and turning a blind eye to sexual crimes against children thousands of individual cases are brought each year but the court has never before opened a single formal investigation to the council of church. has been dubbed one of the most unusual tourist destinations and twenty five years after the true noble nuclear disaster the exclusion zone around the plant seems to have been pulling the crowds in rather than keeping them out the ukrainian government however recently banned excursions to the contaminated area immediately geishas officials were pocketing money from the business but is also has an exterior shaft discovered with fourteen levels of radioactivity there are new plans for the area. these cars were once heavily affected by nuclear radiation now the radiator for a different reason part of an exhibition in key of dedicated to the clean rubble of the nine hundred eighty six chernobyl fallout over the museum in ukraine's capital

kiev has become one of the top tourist attractions especially in april this year when the world marked the twenty fifth anniversary of the disaster but for those craving for the first hand experience looking at the exhibition here has not been enough. and there is an adventurous alternative to contaminated zone around. over the decades tourists have been floor can hear more than ten thousand of them each year that's why forbes magazine named the dead zone one of the world's most exotic tourist destinations. former resident of the goes down a has been organizing for several years he told us that visitors are always fascinated by what they see their motivations for making the trip have always varied. people have different reasons.

some want to see what an apocalypse could look like kind of someone to feel the history. of their childhood like the atmosphere of the soviet union has been preserved but for me it's more important not why they come here it's what effect it has on them. but since june that this radioactive tourism has been suspended the prosecutor general's office conducted checks and ruled that the emergencies ministry had broken the law with these trips as well as making an unhealthy profit every tourist to the zone has been paying around a hundred u.s. dollars to do so equating to a multi-million dollar revenue every year. the ministry to inform the government of every dollar earned by these trips we know that a lot of money has been made but we have no idea in whose pockets it ended up why not put the money into the budget and use it to solve the problems of. the ministry

is defined it says it stuck by the law it claims these troops are a vital way of educating the world on how to avoid such disasters the chernobyl zone will never again be inhabited but experts say it could still serve other purposes. due to decontamination procedures almost half of there has acceptable levels of radiation that's why we can use this watch on a composite spaces to build solar and wind power stations and even grow be a fuel that the emergencies ministry has now filed a lawsuit in a bid to resume tours through the contaminated zone and the court is expected to start hearings in mid september ukraine's thirty kilometers and you can hear wasteland will remain closed to the public until then but the debate remains very much open. from kiev. in ukraine. as the new leaders try to restore security where there's growing concern about the massive number of weapons on the streets. they challenge of design.

with all the talk about diplomacy and the power of the gun still remains the primary means of solving international conflicts to discuss the current state of arms trade and arms trafficking we're now joined by the former u.n.

expert on those issues brian johnson thank you very much sir for being with us today let's start with libya in the beginning of the uprising of the revolution whatever you call it there were concerns that there may fall into the hands of terrorists has already happened. because it's easier for guns through. most of the guns. in the nine hundred ninety just. in the hands of criminals as much as in the hands of terrorists. by being legally married and legally so with at some point. in the case of libya. a lot of the rebels were until fairly recently also regarded as being in league with al qaida and some. yes it is so that is similar to what they might do with them that is you know i'm going to say some code they call character the motto of

which would is always you take an interest in what happens in libya and once you get support for the revolution of any sort then you tend to do some control of some of the individuals within it is now prior to the uprising russia was one of the main suppliers of rappers to libya. but as far as i know it was not the only one and some of the countries that are now waging a campaign a military campaign against colonel gaddafi are also supplying weapons to his regime quite openly yes because it's interesting isn't it that if you look at the the moral record to the west in these things is notable for the good we've seen to intervene in. iraq and libya because they've got something we want i don't see anyone having any great desire to go and invade syria and disperse the president thought so maybe he's got nothing no what he wants you know so i think that's where real politic comes into play but yes there was a decision taken for whatever reason to support the libyan uprising even though the

same countries did go to the security council and get a resolution which in part imposed an arms about you they then went a long long way beyond those terms of reference you could argue the bombing campaign itself was pushing the envelope of what sort of measures do you think the libyan authorities the elite been authorities could take in order it's here to crazed. percentage of votes for them the population i mean maybe buying them out there or are offering some sort of surrender campaign or find buying guns back is a city that says there's not a good i mean i've been bold and several sort of buy about campaigns for guns but they're now discredited when there's one occasion i was working i want to browse a bit on the congo going to go twenty years ago in there and i forget the price but we were paying seventy five dollars shall we say a gun when the problem was only the start of the congo river you could buy all of the fifty books so people were actually bringing guns for the country became

a sort of business becomes a business this is a run to the can get the bounty so they then tried different ways around this by saying well as a community as a child there was a village if you owe us a weapon surrender for us we'll build you when you build shelter or you post a small stuff like that so that seems to work better in some ways i have to say that the problem of getting weapons at the circulation is much more difficult than people tend to think when in kosovo it just failed totally it was a very very expensive campaign and that was it was embarrassing you know everyone looked like a look at it like meant it in the end with it is easier not to get guns of the circular. contro nomination because i'm going to sion is happy it's both. and you can have more success and there's no point having a gun if you're going i mean ition so many ways so domination is the key to controlling lawson's weapons at the common good of a nation the dumb gun is no good to them ok fine i have a question regarding their recent allegations or theories that some countries may

be. illegally selling arms to the rebels i know that the french have a pretty dropping weapons to some rebel groups and i posted separately which is on the face of it's a breach of the security council resolution which one can only deplore. particularly when a permanent member of the security council goes wrong frothing resolution they voted for i think it's a very about show but you know real the real world is sometimes not so last place to be in. a british foreign secretary back in the eighteenth century said the ones that britain has no permanent friends when you could and its interests i think that's true of every country is true of russia is true of us true to americans on the french so people will look to their interests. as they say who wrote that song but yes it's about thing with the the united nations system is not perfect but i work in it and for it and i want to work has failings but by going to specter that

nothing else which is the best system we have and i think it's is better he unfortunate with a member state of the security council but then he ignores the resolutions they voted for us french also told us thank you very much for it's a pleasure. to .

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