u.s. washington has imposed yet more sanctions on iran over its nuclear ambitions you also preparing to enforce fresh penalties. and back to the rescue the leaders of france and germany get to grips with the continuing euro crisis with the priority named as boosting economic growth and i have three months left to implement fiscal discipline rules agreed at the end of the. last twelve months were characterized by political and economic discontent ending in mass protests across the world next we asked russia's foreign ministry commissioner for human rights his assessment of what's been going on that's our interview next on r.t. . 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 would say very measured like the reaction in some other countries and we've seen to be honest not only in the united states but we've seen libyans 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 is 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 us 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 who seem pictures of wild forceful disruption of those protests and meetings by the police but 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 and there have been quite a number of limitations significantly make their limitations in good news then on the other hand the function's emperor operatives will be on the f.b.i. and some other annoying foresman agencies have been significantly brought up 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 law 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 killing 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 january 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 eating as a rational than k.p. 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 reason to national team of you has been mandated to deal with the situation in libya by the un security council and it was a little mentioned seventy so it is also to please all we know that the levy and the newly been authorities have pledged to conduct a fair investigation and certain steps have been undertaken towards this by leading . so it is with 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 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 what 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 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 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 any way of us from whatever quarter it youth 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 biggest 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 certain discussions between the administration and the congress. they have been. some at least initiatives but. unfortunately the the prison 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 one russian citizen and. of course in terms of international law. this is. the the can tunisian of. the existence of this prison.

definitely a serious problem well in fact american prisons hold several leading 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 there was. there was cases have been politicized in the united states no doubt if you mean in the cases 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 them just in both cases unfortunately what we witness use transgression of international law norms of international law by the united states authorities. russian citizens who have been basically kidnapped in the territory of a third country transported to the to the united states without and you know if you have the russian authorities this is just another way listen it's a very lesion 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 we have to be used. convince from. the council of europe a 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 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 are won that war we agree that 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. thing. to. do 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 in fact this forty foot bridge that. we are counting in proper counting and i think it's threatened by it's cutting off our. it's making real democracy. all but impossible.

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her to. shoot her says shooting. bookstores are naughty a day after the arab league called on all sides of the conflict in syria to cease fire and to implement a peace plan still rages and to his claim at least nineteen people were killed on monday as the government crackdown on protesters continues despite the arab league . nuclear power brinkmanship iran launches a new team in richmond facility after threatening to shut down a vital oil supply route in the gulf is backing off of military action from the u.s. washington has impose more sanctions on iran over its nuclear ambitions but if you also parent in for some fresh penalties. and back to the rescue the leaders of france and germany get to grips with the continuing euro crisis with the priority

named as boosting economic growth now three months left to implement the school discipline rules agreed at the end of last year. that would mourn their stories in fifteen minutes. with all the latest action from the world of sport. rather the latest here are the headlines. goes for two thousand and eight when a shock a very seedy number four at the upcoming australian night and three russian women in the top sixteen novak djokovic the number one man. while second coming jerry on leave poised to make his second debut for arsenal the gunners house believes in monday's cup tie. and drama in denver the broncos edged the steelers in overtime to win that a.f.c. wild card game and set up a second round match with the top seeded patriots. but first to tennis and maria

sharapova has been seeded fourth for the first grand slam of the season the australian open which gets underway in melbourne on january the sixteenth denmark's world number one caroline wozniacki leads the women's field that has the czech republic have tracked it about the tree as a rank of valerie's because when the rover is russia's second highest ranked woman in sevens having a champion comprised of the belgian we seeded twelfth lino who created history at melbourne by becoming the first chinese woman to reach a grand slam final is this precious understudy about the trunk of a sixteen. while i was in the men's draw welcome the one novak djokovic should be andy murray in last year's final is the top seed head of spain's rafael nadal and roger federer of switzerland mari has been seeded for the draw for the tournament which will take place in melbourne on thursday january twelfth. well murray enjoyed a perfect warm up for that event by beating alexander told a pile of to win the final in brisbane right from the start of the world number

four of his intention to clinch his twenty second title and first under the guidance of new coach former world number one yvonne lundell while the scot won his first three service games without dropping the points on the way to a four one lead and faced little resist. from ukrainian for taking the first set six one goal the fifteen did stir the crowd into life in the second but it was not enough to stop murray from wrapping it up six three an impressive first victory of the new season murray's focus now switches to melbourne where he's been the five years for the past two years. well meanwhile canada's milosz ray has claimed the second title of his career after coming back to finally overcome a top seed yankel tapes are of age six seven seven six seven six in the neck in that epic final of the chennai open in india the twenty one year old managed to win all his service games during the tournament a feat only previously recorded by roger federer in two thousand and eight ramage who also produced thirty five aces in

a final round after more than three hours on course the canadian raised his palms of joy and relief after winning a match to two inches first trophy for his twenty two. football now interior henri is set to make his second debut for us all this monday night as the gunners host leads in the third round of the f.a. cup hostiles 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 overall in eight years at that highbury always scored an impressive one hundred seventy four goals in just two hundred fifty four parents is . well the two teams met in the same stage last year when the gunners needed a replay to get through to the fourth round stone arsenal are set to name their strongest side top scorer robin van persie will be rested last sunday manchester united won a three two thriller ten man rivals manchester city rooney wayne rooney that is

headed united in front of after ten minutes two minutes later today captain vincent kompany was controversially sent off for a twofer to tackle on a nanny to the club late to the world with a hearing set for tuesday however you guys took full advantage of danny welbeck volume your. after half an hour and rooney had it in the rebound from his own penalty twenty three no my whole time i submit to a bench city's six one league victory at old trafford the tide back but the home side fought back straight after the break aleksandar kolarov free kick and said where i come back another following an era for returning substitute course goes after sixty five minutes. however despite a frantic finale night at hong kong to knock out the holders. well you know it is reward for winning at city is a trip to ot rivals liverpool in the thick of the fortran time otherwise all snow leaves will have to aston villa newcastle moderates who want to broaden all started to make the short trip to darby profits involved in full of improved premier league

fixture. not elsewhere the winner of the replay between battlefield and ball to move house ones if i that league wants and pay domes all queens park rangers will face chelsea and following their last gasp scramble to draw one one with the dons rangers such knowledge in their warnock not excuses no negotiations to replace him in the meanwhile birmingham or walls will go to sheffield united plus some of the middles press and it will be starving so i'm going to nearby what further west brom take on r h o i was games will take place on the weekend of january twenty eighth and twenty nine. to american football now where a stunning eighty yard touchdown pass gave the denver broncos a twenty nine twenty three overtime victory over the pittsburgh steelers in the a.f.c. wild card game the visiting steelers were leading six mil in the first quarter team to go to. thirty yard touchdown passed denver on top seven six.

home side went on to take a two touchstone lead by halftime however ben roethlisberger rallied his backside scoring ten points in the final ten minutes and levelling the game at twenty three points a feast with a thirty one point jerricho cotchery well that's getting into overtime. where you both stunning throw to demaryius thomas the from coast where the winners victory next appeared to stem this course for the for the season to go into overtime and then next heads to new england for a second ranking against the top seeded patriots on saturday. well meanwhile eli manning threw a three touchdown passes as the new york giants cruised past the under full can sprint people to go in there and have c. wild card game the giants defense restricted their opponents' forays forward while late in the so called to their own actually right and grabbed manning's past ten yards downfield raced through the balkans defense to put the home side seventeen two up and the giants put the game away on manning's third touchdown pass the

twenty seven yard to mario manning and five minutes into the fourth quarter the giants will now travel to green bay next sunday night the defending super bowl champions the packers edge them thirty eight thirty five last month. and finally to one sport that is literally breathtaking the thrilling and dangerous pastime of free diving is growing in popularity and in russia it's no exception which of empathy found that. what the principles of free diving is simple to try to dive as deep as possible with the use of breathing operators and then return to the surface fully conscious however this is certainly not as straightforward as it sounds but 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 with the crate training first of all it's a metro train. trip and i've heard that the training. like

that. which. then says essentially that we have to destroy. the tell you a cheese based point pricing yoga 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. might have. had. to write. that she's loved being in the water since she was a child and even represented the soviet union in her teens as a swimmer however she had a change of career and took up free diving in her late twenty's and the past ten years to be a swimmer white or. why they're here. and

that was that. was when i was coming back to. moscow almost three trees. last night with that whole thing. there at that moment i saw a very beautiful one read that thing about trash and the feeling that maybe that plane. hero. and i really love. and i thought oh maybe. there is. now she's turned her attention to teaching in future asked to be illin pisco good evening swimming complex in the russian capital and the thirty six year old saying is it's a sport anyone can take up every thursday you read them i have. to wave them they cannot die first thirty three a day and then they are intending with me that aside from teaching natalia is still

actively trying to break new barriers in her sports she swam naked in subzero arctic waters with blue 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 or ropes italia 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 world ban sed in fact the russian is aiming to tackle one of the country's greatest lakes lake by col this is my thing here. every engineer on. the one hand mind. you to. see that happen and that trick or intends to read that anything 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 of plenty of boundaries she's trying to break down as she tries to raise awareness of environmental issues for her sport's richard dotty moscow. wealthy british style sun. sometimes. markets why not scandals. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports.

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to. see. they offer the army called on all sides of the conflict in syria to cease fire and implement a peace plan bolland still rages. brinkmanship iran launches a new regime in richmond presumably after threatening to shut down the fight will also probably to go from wanting some military action from the u.s. . and back to the rescue the leaders of france and germany get to grips with the continuing euro crisis as they work towards drawing up tighter fiscal regulations by march.