a visit by a british prime minister to russia in six years worth tens of millions of dollars were signed during david cameron's one day trip to the russian capital. and in kosovo ethnic tension is rising after pristina seized two border checkpoints to enforce a ban on imports from russia the move has sparked outrage with local ethnic serbs who claim their rights are being violated by kosovar albanians. well when times are hard heritage is at risk of the un head of protecting historical sites and relics tells r t why social upheaval is threatening the world's most valuable sites. you know bocal the you know secretary general it's really great to have you with us

now well over two centuries ago george byron reflected and asked and saluting you would think that two centuries later and twenty first century is because we think we're more civilized things are better but are they really better for instance in egypt or libya i would say definitely much much better of course a very very ekta comparison says the danger of thing but let me first say that the overall concept the feeling of the necessity to preserve the chimp culture. of course it's an old one but at the same time we have it has the need to have you know reading and meaning so i believe we are very successful on the whole of course you mentioned something also very important that approach in the plea we see conflicts we see internal strife. we see

a war and very often. such monuments which are on the world carried picture least or even important monuments we try not to see it on the world here if you are being affected by the destroyed or damaged or there are some disputes and of course it's only deplorable that this is happening now or to really want to accentuate a libya just because it's on everybody's mind right now do you know this for us because sites there have been damaged or bombed from the very first day man for size this of the conflict i have raunch the appeals to all the involved parties. i have spoken. then that to nato i have spoken also to be to believe me and so i have appealed to the libyan people. to preserve this monument. to the i called to end of the conflict who will be sending commissions there but there

is another aspect also when so true in such cases which i think is important apart from damaging monuments. as an aftermath of of such a conflict it's another tendencies emerging and another i would say very unfortunate it's muddling i will get to that later but i really want to ask you. after something like this happens one joined a call flaked cultural heritage is destroyed or damaged does anyone answer for that is anyone persecuted for that afterwards i can't say that situations have very different. situations for example in some of the african countries subjected by conflict and let me take to give you another example a similar case but rather from of domestic point of view of domestic social strife or civil war in fact and this is the democratic republic of congo where we

have for their children parks which i described on the world heritage list and in fact they represent an incredible important goal sole. means of securing a bio of diversity and players who are trolling the climate change. there even after and i'm talking particularly of the view i'm going to park early to see in the east part of the country where most of the violence and civil war was waged in the now i hope the situation is of course improving and we could be in the pealing for a long time to the government when i say we. i mean the world heritage committee and also me is that the general to the government will take concrete measures and now finally does change already together with the prime minister at the very brought them confidence he. drafted the joint plan for preserving of safeguarding

of this important than parker gold the concrete measures so for doing decreasing violence for. educating some of the warriors who were there participating combat educating them and giving them the feeling that preserving it's very important to peace for their own interests to try to interest to reintegrate them in society it's a very complex issue that's why i say that to situations have deeper and i know that you and you know it's going general always appealed to protect the cultural heritage different countries but just organization actually has to mean its or the arsenal to do it to protect it we don't have we have not because we don't have a book casks or something like that but in very many cases similar cases and in this separate let me just mention haiti because it's a different there but it's once again a natural disaster to be pretty worse effect on the world heritage we work with the

partners there on the few who are in fact intrusted with the practical day to day i would say business of put securing. the order and the record structure in the particular country you've mentioned another huge problem which is smuggling them to quit is now some estimates have it that the turnover from smuggling antiquities is almost as big as track trafficking human trafficking and arson arms sales is that really the case you're entirely right that the trafficking of objects of. approaching the thing nowadays equals the traffic for human beings. drax and it's a very alarming new tendency in a situation that we're seeing all over the world and that's why we are very much committed to strengthening international cooperation through the one nine hundred seventy in the school convention on the prohibiting the ability the trafficking of

cultural objects it's important to secure more ratifications to this convention nowadays we have more than one hundred twenty countries that have it here to this convention and there are positive tendencies in the international corporation these last two years some of the countries that represent the biggest markets open or cultural objects like belgium and the netherlands so i have read the fight to the convention literally a year ago we are cooperating fully with the. new also plan and then with some of the big auction houses i personally visited recently the headquarters of this christie's and we decided to start the corporation in terms of capacity building of sense of sensitizing the public opinion and all the stakeholders we work with the of course we've been there probably be international customs union and i believe that encouraging the international cooperation them of countries by

concrete examples of returning said objects of. i have felt so personally assisted a very moving ceremony when kennedy returned to my country of origin of all get it twenty one thousand objects illicitly exported from the country to can the debt and this return this corporation was based on ninety seven thousand escrow convention there was no other legal way of doing it while you sat that major auction houses have been very responsive to your appeal question remains who are the smugglers and while. people who buy those objects well i mean the smugglers are. just saying so out of this a smuggler said i'm doing the smuggling of arms. for human beings and otherwise unfortunately all the illegal trafficking is the most i would say call but i stand

there always people on both sides of the who are doing that but the important thing is called the countries. of origin to have the means and the only and the capacity to curb this smuggling in on the other side also ethics to have the moral norms also all of the different parts to do it not to do it in fact we have done that we have. drafted a called the vet fix. a trade for cultural goods i think this is very important that it's taken on board by all the different and then of course the national legislation to have the respective. introduction of norms international legislations sold that then such smugglers supper security impunity in this case is a very bad signal to think there is a connection between arms sales drug seeking and smuggling antiquities well.

i think yes we have read nearly seizing the reports and of course because these are a big money as you said and. very valuable things and as long as there is such an interest in that that there might be only yes what do you think is the money from sales use for it could be used to finance new wars for instance yes i mean like all the go out there smuggling it's corruption. of course it's also conflicts it's it's horse it's all different kinds of illegal activity yes but what is most important is the. deprives the whole country of their heritage it deprives people of for their identity. after all the day they are robbed from their identity need i would say a long term perspective on the feelings and culture in these countries so you can

crawl away. you can throw away weapons somewhere but you can't. and what is lost in terms of carry. you can then find to substitute by something called base contents thank you very much for this interview thank you also for this interest.

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living in fear of. presidents. expressing. european missile defense. to the. security. agree to disagree. is to focus on business. british prime minister to russia six years worth tens of millions of dollars were signed during david cameron's one day trip to the russian capital. and in kosovo i think tension is rising after pristina seized two border checkpoints to enforce a ban on imports from serbia the move has sparked outrage with local ethnic serbs

who claim that their rights are being violated by close tomorrow. and up next all the sports highlights. hello welcome to the sports news and here are the top stories. chapmans go tear down is the late grace helps lead go top with some pizza backside come from two goals down to tribes three two it will be him in the russian premier league. lot better centrals australian born adam dunn is the sec to start the engine block that gave up both misses out as russian made their squad to choose days world cup game against italy. big day for little england some little boost his claims for europe into a card with a one stroke victory at the russian challenge cup. but first

a football and in the russian premier league a late brace from dummy helps the need to go top after the st petersburg side came from two goals down to try and streets. the home side went ahead after five minutes thanks to a retaking prince and that's not true the israel midfielder made no fuss about the second spot kick then raced through the first half is a nice and russian goalkeeper just after five years after growing in pain after a clash on saturday to seize the moment to blast time or been second from long range on a favorite later substitute says but within five minutes the man showed off often launched the senate's comeback the midfielder finishing off a tanker last of its free kick and within eighteen seconds of minutes that mr tries to snatch the ring from his knees into gets an a to point at the summit in the persian gulf helped along the build up to the match winning goal three thirty two the chance for that is met. how about earlier tapes got missed the chance to take

a three point lead it isn't that all men have to fight back taking one one to know your stuff. but the home side ahead after just five minutes in its streets besides did finally now. it's eleven an hour later the league's top scorer say to do vs capitalized on some woeful defending to set his sights blushes one goal it finished the recent ensured to sky to set. and inform the moscow made good use of tapes gus slip up to go second with a screener found one over on talk just as he done week before the plane strike out anything got on and grabbed the outlet just ten minutes ten families that he would cross because some shelf made it to nurse fifteen minutes after the interval for having the side chick completed the drubbing with a head down so minutes from time to the provider in this one. was spotted last are transmitting clearly a set of three november farewell much of their form

a term as manic captain and that i take on of now the ones midfielder david is a was scored his first goal for the red once after only three minutes for twenty four less was in the sake of it and just inches wide having been his last hurrah then ireland star aiden mcgeady not his first since his return from injury just before the half hour mocked. by that. time the pitch to a standing ovation for the first half. then with ten minutes ago some assigning emmanuel and then a captain wrapped up the scoring with the second goal in as many games the yard as no substance you see this one three. while another game is that islam should call five time two first off penalties as lucky if one four nil oust attack and fail the book or that struck off the fourteen minutes to give c'mon a one mil win over the big spending on g.b. . while i bring the english premier league wayne rooney scored his ninth goal of

the season as matched united once we want to find chelsea because two points clear at the top of the table for also strikeout emmanuel adebayor i also track a second off basis talking and one for alex time to nine i'm late. fault charlie adam and martin special sent off one of the schools still one will follow the scores twice in the second half to come back from two goals down to draw two two and launched the city and sunderland had all their goals within the first fifty eight minutes as they thrashed stoke four nil. now two thousand and seven motor g.p. champion casey stoner has led a repsol honda one to you at the arab and grand prix in spain to claim his eights win of the year and extend his lead at the top of the season standings well crashes came sick and fast an hour again but the leaders steered clear star that had started from pole and never relinquished them into a game at the end of the first lap teammate dani pedrosa came in second out of

defending champion for veterans i responded is now forty four points adrift of stone overall with just four races left in the calendar. every new zealand world cup day returns russia have announced their squad for their second game against italy in else launches day and the best starting lineup includes australia and the coaching staff of made for changes to the team that lost thirteen six to the united states in their open up on thursday with their self who impressed after coming on as a substitute in that game will start at number eight which means the thirty eight year old. the oldest player in the tournament moved to blindside fined for not interested in it off and said ok top off but it's dropped to the bench one rave reviews for his performance against the americans i can't speak for now who she explains why the loosehead prop isn't in the next starting fifteen. push a little more. he's got a minor injury so we've decided as we still have to be games to play it off to be to match that's why we opted to keep him out took the first one which won't even be

on the bench. a role with andre eszterhas still out australian born adam burns will win his first full count for the russians as a car has been hampered by injury since the. when i lived in new zealand overstay i could play a part in those were my two games and burns who is nothing hails from russia was delighted to start for his the doc to mention. play international rugby and playing in a world cup it's been a lifelong dream. last week often feel that we're coming into being. this week on camera. would like to help russia as much as i can and play to my potential so with russia's next pool match kicking off against italy on the polis week of the first day off since arriving in new zealand two weeks ago and which i found poor feet took the chance to join some of the squad on a fishing trip. it's been a hard slog for russia's players so far at the rugby world cup training session

followed by training session coach ride followed by coach ride however the squad was given a rare treat a day off to enjoy some of the wonderful sights of the picturesque region of which lies a top of the site file and first of all. a number of the players took up the opportunity to go on a fishing trip and the props a gaping hole of excelled against the united states last time outs it was just a relief to get out of a hotel environment. well it's already annoying having to steam the hotel for long periods if you like a dead cargo you look only at the t.v. there is no entertainment in the hotel and it's nice to fish and to calm nerves adam burns russia's law who qualified to play for the bears for his grandmother who was russian was more successful than most unlike his colleague in the packs a game he couldn't have been happier being out in the great outdoors i was like you go that far away it's called a merry chase never seen one before obviously the seal and fish. got out of your

design well apparently we're having for lunch now in the buggy so we'll see what the qualities are. of flesh and. so you can. official of your love of being a stray. it's a passion that we have. we share and. love being on the water and generally fishing is one thing that comes naturally to me. but food was a welcome change for the players have been used to the same diet for the last three months while the squad members even got to eat some of the fish bait kautz burns could have quite a promising career as a fisherman if he ever decides to give up rugby or when he retires the local crew were on hand to teach both players who were less than comfortable with a rod in my hands oh of of he needed no introduction just a post about like to fish but i do not often get the chance in russia when i have

free time there was to be one last treat for the players afraid of catching their own dinner was not enough mob resounds is home to a large part of dolphins you seem to take great interest in the russian boats much to the players delights well they've been varying degrees assess amongst the players in terms of how many fish they have managed to catch but most important thing it's been a wonderful relaxation break for players as it takes their minds off for a world cup one of the scenic parts of new zealand but never less attention will now turn his match against italy where the team will start training in earnest on monday richard humble feet r.t. picton new zealand. and finally to golf where the russian state of the european challenge tour came to an end with englishman some little wrapping up his third tour victory after a tight battle consenting but off reports. some little had made a big move up the leaderboard on the third day of the russian challenge cup as the englishman climbed sixteen places to take is share all believe with sweep bel-air

medical and last three years florian pregnant the thirty six year old was in search of with third challenge to a women on the final day which would secure him a place in the all important top twenty and a card to to return. for the european tour and the londoner and mixed five birdies in two bogeys on the front nine to extend his leap meanwhile lils compared to a down to johnston who was fourth before the final round dared to put some pressure on the leader with a needle on the fifteenth in the long buried part of the eighteenth challenge to a real key johnston was trailing to a little break just a stroke. and little had to make at least four on the last hole to secure a victory but he made no mistake and with two points finished the closing round with a sixty eight to collected check for forty thousand euros extremely happy are played really well this weekend and i really enjoy myself some fantastic venue. for to

come back again and i fear maybe it will be a main european tour of and it's a fantastic place and delighted to win sam played well. for under so there is not bad in a shot for undersell first place or well despite a poor performance on the final day time if only it would still manage to increase his overall lead at the top of the rankings with five events still to go and top twenty finish is still up for grabs for those old goran cards on the european tour complain but out of our team. and that's all sports news i think.

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