agreed in december what concerns mount a cash cow germany is on a power grab in return for its investments. well the last twelve months were characterized by political and economic discontent anding and mass protests across the world next week ask russia's foreign minister is commissioner for human rights for his assessment of what's happened. thank you very much for joining us today in two thousand and eleven we've seen a number of human rights violations taking place throughout the world and you want to throw the implementation of human rights a broad so today i would like to talk about those issues that caught your attention in two thousand and eleven but first of all i want to start with domestic issues and what is your view on the protests that took place in russia after the parliamentary elections in the country under some of the fourth does extremely important to stress that the reaction of the authorities has been

a very responsible one and i will say very measured well unlike the reaction in some other countries and we've seen even so not only in the united states but we've seen in the for instance last summer in the united kingdom obviously it was quite a serious challenge to the authorities definitely it was not to be ignored but also what was some sort of always reaction and it was not to be ignored so some of our partners tried to teach us some lessons of democracy we tell them that we are absolutely ready to listen to good advice but we are not ready for some sort of lecturing some are saying that the u.s. government's reaction to the occupy movement is going to result in further limitation limitations of the rights of the us citizens do you believe this so the reaction of the authorities to those meetings and manifestations there was a rather rude able to see and we've seen it in the united states i mean the famous

no movement occupy wall street it also spilled over to some western european countries and we've seen him c.n.n. on b.b.c. and other news channels we've seen pictures of wild forceful disruption of those protests and meetings by the police have been quite a number of occasions into the. after the terrorist acts of nine eleven and the famous patriot act has been adopted and the next it's and there have been quite a number of limitations significantly limitations on good use them on the other hand the functions emperor operatives of the of the f.b.i. and some other annoying foresman agencies have been significantly broader so it is well known that the american human rights organizations are not satisfied with the situation and let's now talk about the so-called arab spring for a little while and how is she going to react to the apparent abuse of human rights in libya will be raising the issue in different formats and unfortunately during

the period of armed conflict in libya there have been quite a number of aliens of international humanitarian norms and international humanitarian law both by the forces loyal to moammar gadhafi and by the forces loyal to the then opposition forces and also they have been careful to significant casualties among the civilian population resulting from the nato appearing it is not to be ignored and it is not to be hopefully condoned by the international game so the use is very much in the focus of the international attention the human rights council based in when us has established a special commission of inquiry and it is mandated to deal with all human race wally actions in libya and we can create a rating as a rational going to be rating with this commission and other countries we are providing some information which we have on the facts or suspected human rights

violations definitely the reasons are national team of you has been mandated to deal with the situation in libya by the un security council resolution mentioned seventy so it is also to please all we know that the levy and the newly been authorities have pledged to come back to f.r. investigation and certain steps have been undertaken towards this by leading up. so it is with you welcome and we hope that this particular inquiry will be carried out in an impartial and professional way you know that quite recently this issue has been discussed in the u.n. security council. upon the initiative of russia and unfortunately some western countries the members of the of the security council they are not in the mood. to discuss the if you call the responsibility of nato for the for the civilian casualties which have resulted in peace but a number of other members of the security council very much support our position

that all whaley actions all transgressions or international humanitarian law committed in libya are to be thoroughly investigated and those responsible are to be brought to justice what about syria how do you assess the work of the monitors of the arab league there i any closer to bringing the country to conciliation as you know we do very much support the peace initiative by the league of arab states. it has several components. it is. very important elements dealing with the prevention of international interference in the syrian affairs. also another element is the need to immediately stop violence in any way of us from whatever. comes or might go. another element definitely use the need for the political down in syria we have

submitted a draft of a security council resolution in new york in the security council which calls for the decision of violence by whomsoever in syria it is extremely important to stress that the violence unfortunately violence has come not only from the from the government forces from from the army and police but violence and significant violence has come also from all sorts of. extremist elements those who try to hide behind the backs of peaceful peaceful demonstrators let's just go back to the united states president barack obama promised to close shut down guantanamo bay and he still hasn't fulfilled his promise yet he is running re-election campaign do you think american people will forgive him for that and will he i raise the issue again if you become president again there have been sort of discussions between the administration and the congress. they have been.

at least initiatives but. unfortunately the reason is still there. yes fully agree that the administration has failed to close it down there are certain internal political complexities there but the but the fact is defect the president continues to operate on the as far as i remember. it's one hundred seventy one prisoners are still there kept there including by the way one russian citizen and. of course in terms of international law. the the continuation of. the existence of this prison. definitely a serious problem well in fact american prisons hold several illegally dating russian citizens how is russia going to address that issue and is there still hope

for those people and. also has has been saying that there might be an asymmetrical response to. this issue so is there any chance for those people to come back home we hope so. it's not easy at all legal terms it's not easy unfortunately in political terms because of those. those cases have been politicized in the united states no doubt if you me in the case of mr wood and mr. will in the case of both. of the. investment has not been i mean the. formal indictment has not been announced yet. so we've been obviously. reiterating our position on this case to american leagues in the case of. we have expressed more than once our position that we consider the. sentence too severe we consider it and just

in both cases unfortunately what we witnessed. transgression of international law and the norms of international law by the united states authorities with russian citizens who have been basically kidnapped in the territory of a third country transported to the to the united states without in you know if you will the russian authorities this is just another way allegiance of a leash and of the consular convention which exist between our countries and we are adamantly against. extraterritorial implementation of national laws and that's what unfortunately we you know what the this practice is or this procedure is being practiced by the united states but a different to many but there are certain legal instruments which ought to be used . from. the council of europe

a convention which was adopted in maine to make it three. provides for some opportunities to achieve this goal our lawyers are looking into this and definitely we as diplomats we continue to. stress at this point to the to the americans you know very very clear we thank you very much we thank you very much thank you. this is our time. to reclaim the american dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth that out of many we all want that war we breathe we hope. to me the american dream is to live in peace and prosperity and freedom and a government under socialism is not a government a free. man

you. have very motivated out cross the country who are activists who are willing to fight for what they think is right for themselves but the fact is forty four bridge then. we are counting. properly drowning and i think it's spread by it's cutting off our. it's making real democracy. all but impossible. no it's not about spilling blood. it's the war of the barricades from one side

and fears blockade from the other. invisible border has cut people from the land for twelve year. the conflict that divided serbia into two hostile parts is still not over. if they shoot something inappropriate for public they can easily be shot. casualties of war ok. i wish it would never happen but it has happened. in a war a t.v. camera becomes an unnecessary what destroys their own safety all foreign nationals including journalists and inspectors should leave. and this clear what happens with such witnesses i got on my site. many checks.

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pressure and some. friends don't talk t.v. don't come. the arab league urges an end to brutality in syria but doesn't want you want involved however the group itself has come under criticism for failing to stop the violence while many of the troubled country just want to return to peace. again a standing man's accused of the tory is wrong prison within a month that's half of those held in the us wrong facilities say they have been repeatedly abused and tortured. and your survival is back on the agenda where the region's first couple due to meet in berlin to discuss implementing fiscal discipline rules agreed in december but concerns mount a cash cow germany's out of the power grab in return for its investment. speed lines here in our back to the top of the hour the meantime though here's ports of

date with kate. hello welcome to the sports and these other top stories battle of manchester wayne rooney schools twice and pulls gold returns for retirement as united winning three to a ten man city to knock out the holders in streaming down a tie on the next bench and have a pull. up andy murray enjoys the perfect preparation for the australian open with a straight sets victory over how xander build apollo when the brisbane international. lions tamed drew brees throws three touchdowns to meet the new orleans saints to an n.f.c. wild pod picture of the detroit in the n f l. but first a football of the sawka variety wayne rooney scored twice as manchester united survived a riveting fight back to win three to attend our rivals manchester city to knock

out the holders in a pulsating f.a. cup third round of the against the run of play rooney headed united in front after ten minutes and it got immediately worse the city as captain vincent kompany was controversially sent off for a two for to tackle on monday which the club later announced they would appeal however united took full advantage of danny welbeck volley and then further in front of the half an hour and rooney headed in the rebound from his own penalty to make it three no by half time but it looked to exact some revenge the statistics wanted to create a traffic tobar but the home side fought back straight after the break through and found a lot of free kick. back another following error from returning substitute scholes after sixty five minutes however despite a frantic finale is penalty good for both sides we wanted to go through to the first round. chelsea scored three times in the last five minutes

is that these one for now it's time to portsmouth the second half goals from sebastian lawson and james maclean gave sunderland to nose with peter brown and chris o'grady snatched the late winner as least one sheffield wednesday beat west found it had a tendency saves twelve following those times the draw for the fourth round was made and manchester united's reward for winning at city was a trip to arch rivals and the support you take of the sixteen time is otherwise also for leeds to play on monday because after the last minute also move go to either brighton wrexham stark make sure tricky darby everton rock and fallen in an all premier league fixture. elsewhere the winner of michael steele's bolton's replay would have swans they want either empty dons or q.p.r. will place six time with chelsea. wolves will go to sheffield united as a team. ne obvious sunderland welcome to talk of getting me if i want food and respond take on all those games will take place on january twenty eighth or twenty

nights. probably means i'm paul scholes decision to come out of retirement was announce an hour before kickoff at the end he had stadium and he played the final half an hour of that group in cup tie the thirty seven year old had called time on his glittering career at the end of last may i was coaching at old trafford he made his united debut in one thousand nine hundred ninety four and went on to make six hundred seventy six appearances when ten premier league titles the f.a. cup three times and the champions league twice however the sixty six capping the midfielder has now chosen to carry on playing until the end of the season before his injury had former missing darren fletcher and gone cleverly in midfield. tennis now and andy murray has enjoyed the perfect warm up for the upcoming australian open with a comfortable victory over alexander dog in the brisbane international final right from the start of the world number four showed his intention to clinch his twenty second title and first under the guidance of new coach former waterborne of on lendl the scot won his first three service games without dropping

a point on the way to a four one a little resistance from ukrainian before taking the first set six one the world number fifteen instead the crowd into life in the second it was not enough to stop murray for wrapping it up six three four an impressive first victory of the new a.t.p. tour season murray's focus now switches to the australian open has been a big finals for the past two lives the first grand slam of the season starting the sixth and. also want to thank. mr learned think you got there somewhere hiding. out first week with your team and you know it was good i really enjoyed it so will bring more success in the future. fine. thank you very much the crowd the whole week not just for my matches but for . all of the matches it is pat you know it makes a huge difference when everyone comes out sports events and really really appreciate it thank you look forward to coming back. living on to the n.f.l.

now where drew brees drew for four hundred sixty six yards and three touchdowns to lead the new orleans saints to a forty five twenty eight n.f.c. wildcard victory over the detroit lions new orleans to set a new season mark a total yards of six hundred twenty six weeks from the previous record set fourteen years ago greece fired the ball downfield fifty every henderson the quarter in his stride running for a forty one yard touchdown as new orleans went seventeen fourteen ahead in the fourth quarter brees made a forty one yard pass. edge of the end zone to downs later at three hundred the ball often yet thomas took it in for the game serious cool so the saints beat the last forty by twenty eight to advance the second round of the playoffs now come to san francisco to take on the forty nine ers next saturday. now let's continue our look back over some of the big events of last year and this time

it's the turn of swimming in october american style michael phelps took just two goals from six races at the world cup stage here in moscow while russian world record holder kenny cata teach again did perform to his best winning the one hundred meter butterfly comes in but out of his that. despite we're going to be form where i have to billow point is plan to use me for in time olympic champion michael phelps produced almost an identical santa result on day two of the world cup in the russian capital in the two hundred metres freestyle the twenty six year old american was overtaken in the last fifty by john the world record holder paul be there month and had to settle for silver. and phelps competing in moscow for the first time frame to make it to the boredom in the one hundred metres butterfly where world record holder you gain you can out the skin ripped first place to the delight of the home crowd. you mean you have all of the it was very important for

me to win today so i can say i want to beto and know my aim is to win a war and by that i mean the london olympics. however just as he did on the opening day felt showed his competitive desire as he bounced back to claim gold in the two hundred metres backstroke after being fourth for the first one hundred fifty metres then american found a burst of power and managed to surge to victory it's all working on some of the small things to really get to the end of the year being able to tie together some of the stuff where the starch turns under waters have i can do that as many times i can leading off in the feel of a child and form a session right here for the london olympics and just nine months away in berbera ations are well underway for the swimming event however there are still four stages to go before the end of the world cup even press fondant and swimmers alike were too mature to gauge who will be queen xing the gold medals at the twenty twelve games is a bit of a o.t.

. let's move to the golf course russia's only female professional golf or memory of the trauma of the syrian moscow last autumn preparing for a tournament in south korea but she took the time to talk to our business correspondent consenting to tap off about her colorful life on and off the course. might even is arguably one of the biggest commercial attractions in women's golf since you turned professional in two thousand and six if you want to five year old muscovite remains the first and only russian plane full time on the ladies' european tour following an impressive amateur career that included victories in the russian austrian lithium and slovenian championships. because i got to go on tour and i was the only russian player and i was there all the girls were half of them were english british and australian and it was quite kind of tough to get myself like good mates and you know in the end of the day they're playing as well the germans showed great improvement in her second year on the tour with her career

best finished tied for fifth way since being enforced a degree a low round of sixty six in dubai as a result to shaun and finished fifty fifth in the games in two thousand and eight still have been placing so far and despite having some injury problems she's doing dishes and has lots of goals to achieve with her new coach definitely play for another five years because of my back i don't know how well my body will give me a chance to play golf but there we set up some goals when it went to the eighty and hopefully get ill wind down there with a major i can go. professional golfer who spend most of their time travelling from one tournament to know that we can be the hardest part of the job however well in search of success some ladies european tour's many funny stories have a reason they're said to like area i don't mind to say the kid is a cheap hotel and i put my pajamas on i want. to throw came back and my

room was completely locked so inside so he had to go because it was going a way out so i went outside and all the guys are like oh uncle we go through with this now. despite bringing mourners to results over the last two years the trauma stays up to. and focused on golf however the one meter seventy six told brunette directs a lot of attention not only with her performances on the way but obviously also because of her appearance i'm not trying to attract my attention i'm trying to bring something more in golf and that the girls who are low play fame elderly here and is getting better and better now so a girl as attractive girls beautiful girls get into gulf there john no it isn't pining in a sport which is widely considered to be a hobby for wealthy people in her homeland and there is still a long way to go before being accepted as a mainstream sport in russia but with the likes of virtue of the country couldn't

ask for better ambassador to lead the way it's only about out of her cheek. and that's all the sport i think.

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the arab league urges a man to brutality in syria but doesn't want the u.n. involved while many in the troubled country just want to return to a piece. of ghana sandman's the keys to the tory is program prison after those held in the u.s. wrong facilities say they were used and tortured. and euro survival back on the agenda as the region's first couple meet a berlin amid concerns cash cow germany's on a power grab in return for its investments.