it's sparking warnings of military action from the u.s. . new year and new worries for europe as the leaders of france and germany meet to kickstart a rescue plan for the euro with strict fiscal controls but concerns grow that now wants a bigger were turned on its investments in. the last twelve months were characterized by political and economic discontent ending in mass protests all across the world next we asked russia's foreign ministry commissioner for human rights what his assessment is of what went wrong in two thousand. 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 tour the implementation of human rights abroad 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 the violence 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 all we reaction and it was not to be ignored so some well 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 to believe this so the reaction of the authorities to those meetings and manifestations there was 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 we've seen on c.n.n. on b.b.c. and other news channels we've seen pictures of wild forceful disruption of those photos and meetings by the police have been quite a number of occasions into. after the terrorist acts of nine eleven and the same as patriot act has been adopted and the next it and there have been quite a number of limitations significantly limitations in good news then on the other hand the function's emperor operatives of the of the f.b.i. and some other lawyer 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 actually 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 casualties significant casualties among the civilian population resulting from the need to carry it is not to be ignored and that is not to be hopefully condoned and maybe internationally so the is very much in the focus of the international attention the human rights council based in june u.s. has established a special commission of inquiry and it is mandated to deal with all human race

wally actions in libya and we can cater a thing as a rational good caper rating with this commission and other countries we are providing some information which we have on the facts or suspect that one resolution is definitely the reason to a national team of you has been mandated to deal with the situation in libya by the u.n. security council resolution one hundred seventy so it is also to please all we know that the levy and the newly been authorities have pledged to come back if our investigation and certain steps have been undertaken of course is by leading. so it is we who welcome and we hope that this particular inquiry will be carried out in an impartial and professional way but 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 members of the of the security council they are not in the mood. to

discuss the if you will the responsibility of nato for the for the civilian casualties which have resulted to continue but a number of other members of the security council very much support our position that all whaley actions all transgressions of 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 and i any closer to bringing the country to consideration 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 hooves 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 where this 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 raise the issue again if you become president again there have been sort of discussions between the administration and the congress. they have been. some 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 that 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 that has been saying that there might be an asymmetrical response to. 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. cases have been politicized in the united states no doubt if you mean in the case of mr wood and mr. will in the case of both. 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 used transgression of international law the norms of international law by the united states authorities with russian citizens 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 know what the practice is what this procedure is being practiced

by the united states but are different to many but there are certain legal instruments which ought to be used to. convince from. the world the council of europe convention which was adopted in major media three. provides for some opportunities to achieve this goal. is a looking into this 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.

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a rescue plan for the euro with strict fiscal controls but concerns grow the limb now wants a bigger return on its investments. i do stay with us here our to kate is here next with the latest action from the world of sports. hello welcome to the latest sports update thank you for joining me coming up. goes fourth two thousand and eight when i'm sure after a seated number for the upcoming australian open three russian women in the top sixteen now that djokovic is the number one man while second coming carry on. he's poised to make a second debut for ask as the gunners host leads in monday's f.a. cup third round tie. for can spell to new york's defense start as the giants cruised past atlanta twenty four to win the n.f.c. wild card game in the n.f.l.

. the first to tennis and maria hsia various been seeded fourth for the first grand slam of the season the australian open which gets underway in melbourne on january the sixteenth while denmark's world number one power line was the outs he believes the women's field of the czech republic's pyecraft quit about the tour as a run through the roost here is one the rivalry is russia's second highest ranking woman insurgents champion comprises a belgian receded twelve lead knocking created history at melbourne park by becoming the first chinese woman to reach a grand slam final she seeded fifth and russia and a thirty eight public chunk of the sixteen. was over in the men's draw world number one novak djokovic who beat andy murray in last year's final he's the top seed ahead of spain's rafael nadal and roger federer of switzerland has been seeded fourth the draw will take place in melbourne on thursday january twelfth well meanwhile mario enjoyed the perfect warm up for that tournament by come to be

beating alexander the follow in the brisbane international final right from the start of the world number four showed his intention to clinch is twenty second title and first under the guidance of new coach the world number one is on lendl the scot one his first three service games without dropping a point on the way to a four one lead faced little resistance from the ukrainian before taking the first set six one while the world number fifteen stirred the crowd into life in the second but it was not enough to stop murray from wrapping it up six three four press the first victory of the new a.t.p. tour season morris focus now switches to the australian open where he's been the beacon finalist for the past two years. while meanwhile canadian milosz radio niche claimed the second tour title of his career after coming back to finally overcome top seed yankovic it's fair. six seven seven six seven six in reykjavik epic at the channel i opened the twenty one year old who maintained his all by winning all his service games during the tournament previously recorded by roger federer in two

thousand and eight which also produced thirty five aces in the final and finally after more than three hours on court the canadian raised his arms and joined relief after winning the match to clinch his first trophy of twenty twelve. football now interior reset to make his second debut for as low as monday night as the gunners host leads in the third round of the f.a. cup arsenal's all time leading goalscorer has rejoined the north london club on a two month loan from new york red bulls the thirty four year old frenchman has a good record against leeds scoring eleven goals in five seasons against the championship club well overall in eight years and then a ibrary on we scored an impressive one hundred seventy four goals in just two hundred fifty four appearances. well the two teams mad at the same stage last year when the gunners needed a replay to go through to the fourth round this time i asked no one in their strongest side their top scorer robin van persie will be arrested while on sunday manchester united won a three two three or a ten man rivals manchester city to knock out the holders rooney head of united in

front after ten minutes and two minutes later city captain vincent kompany was controversially sent off a two footed tackle on money which the crop of later appealed with a hearing set for tuesday while however united took full advantage danny welbeck volleying in after half an hour and rooney headed in the rebound from his own penalty to make it three no by half time it's united to avenge city's six one league victory at old trafford in october but the home side fought back straight after the break through an extended clorox free kick and where though pulled back another following an error from returning substitute paul scholes after sixty five minutes however despite a frantic finale with penalty appeals on both sides of the night. so when. elsewhere chelsea scored three times in the last five minutes as the blues won for no time to portsmouth second of goals from sebastian lawson and james maclean gave sunderland a two no victory at peterborough and chris o'grady snatched the late winner as

league wants sheffield wednesday to beat west ham it had a penalty saved. well following those ties the draw for the fourth round was made in manchester united's reward for winning at city is a trip to arch rivals liverpool in the pick of the sixteen times otherwise arsenal or leeds who play tonight will host aston villa newcastle will go to either brighton only wrexham start to make the short trip to darby what everton welcome for them in an all premier league fixture. and elsewhere the winner of blackness field and bolton will have swung by either m. paid owners or queens park rangers will face six time winners chelsea and following their last gasp one one draw at the league one side premier league rangers sacked manager neil warnock and mark hughes is now the favorite to replace him while meanwhile buzzing all walls will go to sheffield united while there's a tasty ne darby sunderland welcome middlesborough taught them go to nearby what food restaurant take on all those games will take place on the weekend january

twenty eighth and twenty nights. to american football and the n.f.l. now where eli manning threw three touchdown passes as the new york giants cruised past the atlanta falcons twenty four two to win the n.f.c. wild card game in new jersey while the giants defense dominated the game allowing their opponents to school need those two points late in the third quarter next round manning's past ten yards downfield and raised to focus the defense to put the home side seventy two up. and the giants put the game away on manning's third touchdown pass a twenty seven yard to mario manning in five minutes into the fourth quarter the giants travel to green bay next sunday to play the defending super bowl champions the packers who edged them search thirty five last month. and finally to. a sport that is literally press taking the swelling and dangerous past i'm afraid diving is growing in popularity and in russia it's no exception as which if i'm caught for a firm that. the principles of free diving is simple to try to dive as deep as

possible without the use of breathing apparatus and then return to the surface fully conscious however this is certainly not as straightforward as it sounds the top men can dive in excess of two hundred meters and incredibly spend over eleven minutes on the water without taking a breath and rushes natalia after seeing his face is totally feasible the crate training first of all it's a matter of training that trip and hyper happening training and the fact that. much more. than says essentially right that we have to get strong men to tell you choose this point crank signee oga which helps her relax her body and aids her breathing techniques while diving however this meditation discipline also has other benefits when she is i'm taking a dive here when we start might have.

to. have them. tell us. that she's loved being in the ocean she was a child and even represented a soviet union in her teens to swim and however she had a change of career and took a free diving in her early twenty's in the past and used to be a swimmer and i love water. my dear child. and that i was but that. was when i was coming back to. moscow almost a favorite treat. her like last night with that whole thing. yeah at that moment i saw a very beautiful one read back about the first russian feeling that creeps in that playing here of anything and i really have. and i thought well maybe it's time to

get there. now she's turned her attention to teach me a few chances to be in pisco good evening swimming complex in the russian capital thirty six year old saying is it's a sport anyone can take up every person can read them but i have. to wait and make enough time first things start retiring and then things start tending to me that aside from teaching natalia is still actively trying to break new barriers in the sport she swam naked in subzero answered waters with blue the whales well she specializes in perhaps the home of these free diving discipline which involves trying to dive as deep as possible without the aid of flippers and ropes to tell you i used to hold the women's world record of fifty seven metres however she doesn't have any interest in trying to set a new gold ban sed in fact a russian is aiming to tackle one of the country's greatest lakes lake by col this

is my call here and. every engineer in question on. the one hand mind. would say that you have. three back up and hand that trick or intend to create that the timing is very healthy. it's a fascinating sports where one obviously has to be physically fit however as natalia points out the mental side plays just as an important role she may not be interested in trying to break new world records anymore however plenty of boundaries she's trying to break down as she tries to raise awareness of environmental issues through her sports richard dottie. fascinating stuff and that's all small for this palace and they'll be another in just on the.

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