with the e.u. 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 last year. while the last twelve months were characterized by political and economic discontent ending in mass protests across the world and next we also the russian foreign ministry's commissioner for human rights for his assessment of what's been going on that's in our special 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 be a reaction of the authorities has been very responsible one and i will say very measured well unlike the reaction in some other countries and we've seen the ones 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 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 we've seen on c.n.n. on b.b.c. and other news channels who seem pictures of wild forceful disruption of those photos 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 in good news then on the other hand the functions and for operatives of the of 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 appearing it is not to be ignored and it is not to be hopefully condoned by the international so the use is very much in the focus of the international attention the human rights council based engine 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 get her eating as a rational going caper 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 one hundred seventy so it is also to please all we know that the levy and the newly been authorities have pledged to conduct f.r. investigation and certain steps have been undertaken towards this by the leading of . 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 me or for the what the civilian casualties which have resulted in things 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 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 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 we are 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 the fact 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. this is. 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. those 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. you know 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 i'm just in both cases unfortunately what we witnessed use transgression of international law 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 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

a different to many but there are certain legal instruments we have to be used. from. the council of europe a convention which was adopted in major media three. provides for some opportunities to achieve this goal our lawyers are 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 all want that war we breathe the 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 of free. 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 already we're bridge and. we are counting. properly drowning and i think it's spread by it's cutting off our. it's making the marker see. all but impossible.

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top stories this hour an hour to your day after the arab league called on all sides of the conflict in syria to cease fire and implement a peace plan and violence still rages activists claim at least nineteen were killed on monday as the government crackdown on protesters continues despite the arab league. nuclear power brinkmanship iran north has a new iranian enrichment facility after threatening to shut down a vital oil supply route in the gulf sparking warnings of military action from the u.s. washington has imposed more sanctions on iran over its nuclear ambitions the e.u. also preparing to enforce fresh penalties. 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. three months left to implement fiscal discipline rules agreed at the end of last year. i'll be back with more news stories more developments in this in fifteen minutes from now in the meantime too with the latest action from the world of sport. hello welcome to the sports thank you for joining me and here's what's coming up. area goes fourth two thousand and eight when ashraf a very seeded number four at the upcoming australian open with three russian women in the top sixteen and now that drop of h. is the number one man. while kings of the court of moscow region side think yes rush we get to stay top of basketball's the t.v. . and press taking stuff we continue our look back over the big stories of last year and meet the russians when you can dive deeper than almost every woman on the

planet. at first tennis said 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 then mark world number one caroline does the outs. he leads the women's fails ahead of the czech republic's had tried theatre and as a rank of belarus followed by chirac of the one time two thousand and eight there is one is russia's second highest ranked woman in sevens play now who created history at melbourne park last year by becoming the first chinese woman to reach a grand slam final you see that this while defending champion killed prices in belgium is twelve's and russia's and it's the fear of the chunk that is sixteen pound over in the men's draw world number one novak djokovic is the top seed head of rafael nadal and roger federer andy murray who has been the runner up for the past two years decided fourth the draw for the tournament will take place in melbourne on thursday january twelfth. taskbar and five players recorded double

digits cause as moscow reach inside him thrashed latvian team. by seventy seven points to fifty four to stay top of the. which you can pour with thoughts. coming off the back of the two straight defeats him key would turn in to get two thousand and twelve back on track as bait to calm the latvian i am fit the. they were competing in the league which sees eighteen teams from around eastern europe competing against each other in two groups kim ki came into being counted on top of the group and they look to turn into staving as very got off to a good start with aleksey joining proving to be a particular handful for the visitors and going into the half time break aside from just outside moscow but ready opened up a commanding lead is very would going to be intermission thirty frege twenty one advantage him he continued to dominate in the third was based stretch may lead to

an imposing nineteen doing into the final quarter. riga did try to rally but they were left with far too much to do as him key were able to turn on the style dam a strange. it's very easy to ascend to seven points to fifty four when there is a pretty good win for us especially we entered two thousand and twelve with the two defeats so it was a little bit difficult for us does this mean give us a call for them especially because you have a stretch of game that are very tough especially on the road so this is just doing it as gives us a great coffee yeah it's great to have fun you know we all have to remember sometimes that this is a game and we're we're having fun is something we've done all our life so you know is exciting to see some of the young guys step up and make some great plays in the bar but our team a lot anything a much needed win for him key to manage to snap banner two game losing streak would be to speak sure they continue to dominate to the g.p. least through pain as pain i moved to an impressive ten and one wrinkle richard

pombo we don't see the moscow region. now let's look back to some of the big sports stories of austria and in may russia's tinnies level have not turned the legendary roy jones jr in a big boxing bat here in moscow rather than yon reports. julieann thank you. he might be forty two and bust his best but he soon rated as being one of the greatest players of all time a tourney champ and over four different weights. as ever jewels in the drugs. champ and still beating loudly in the books and. this will it takes to face one of the most deadliest punchers in the division russia's cruiserweight droid in his live with the self-will slow left helping claim sixteen zero to his twenty one wins but i know him out in most skilled with titles

a stake libby did enter the fight is the host favorite but jews brutally proved that he skipped some of the sparkle of his glittering career suits continuous and spectacular at times even look to have the edge in speed but he's younger rival but limited hit hard he's in his youth and power to pull in the former champ and then keep him on the ropes juice remain defiant with a couple of for among the rest of his prime the deuce the most of it did i but expose a finish from the russian who was to decide the butt of a blizzard to poke punches sending jones to the canvas in a new kilt when in the last seconds of the tenth round i don't know how came as a surprise not only for or about to lay off well. i thought about you would manage . to get from around here and the people here the final bell and then it

was called hours and god knows what the others would have said. they would have gone are the right side of the shell shoulder to the festival ron paul missed a good show and he kept his word still he did his best on tanks to the great wrong i've become a better fighter through this bout it. i was constantly trying to hit roy with my left hand counterpunch but always failed the look in his eyes told me that he'd figured out my plan was right hundreds were too fast and spontaneous which worked with my sparring partners but it didn't work with rolling. these never want to tell the supporters in his wait. he's a very powerful a power and i knew it coming here so yes i think he is a pretty tough guy a part of it is a challenge for the title again the girl that alone going to shake his hand with huge respect. a blessing like this for

the legend of boxing would for many boxers rent along with a title robert but in your own party let's go. now let's finish by looking back to another sport we covered in twenty eleven and one that is literally press taking the slow and dangerous pastime of free diving is growing in popularity and in russia is no exception as russia found poor fun at. the principles of free diving a simple way to try to dive as deep as possible without the use of breathing operators and then returned to the surface fully conscious however this is certainly not as straightforward as it sounds the top men can dive an expanse of two hundred metres and incredibly spend over eleven minutes on the water without taking a breath and rushes metallica after seeing his face is totally feasible the crate training first of all it's a matter of training it's a matter of hypoxic and hyper happening training on the second that.

second question and. then says essentially right that we have to destroy meant to tell you cheese basepoint front signee ogun which helps her relax her body and aids her breathing techniques won't. being however this meditation discipline also has other benefits when she is i'm taking a dive here time when we start to mine when i have. anything else that i have and have to trust. that she's living in the old system she was a child and even represented the soviet union in her teens to swim and how invention a change of career and took up free diving in her early twenty's in the past and used to be a sweetheart and i love water from my hair here in china. and

that i was but that. was when i was coming back to. moscow from a safari and treat. my last night with my home i think. at that moment i saw a very beautiful woman freediving about the first russian maybe you know that trains that play here of anything found and i really fell in love. and i thought oh maybe that i made a start. she turned her attention to teach me a few chance to be in pisco that even you 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 they cannot die first they start retiring and then things start tending us women that aside from teaching natalia is still actively trying to break new barriers in the schools she swam naked in subzero oncet walters with blue the

whales while she specializes in pups for homeowners free diving discipline which involves trying to dive as deep as possible without the aid of flippers or ropes butalia 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 pants in fact for a russian is aiming to tackle one of the country's greatest lakes lake by col this is my first call here. to every ship here on. on the one hand mind. that you. see that on the other hand at trick or intention rate that we've been hearing. it's a fascinating sports where one obviously has to be physically fades however as natalia points out it's 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 through her sports richard donte moscow one. by. wealthy british style. markets weiner scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy cars a report on our. day

after the arab league called on all sides of the conflict in syria to cease fire and implement a peace plan violence still rages. nuclear brinkmanship iran will choose a new iranian enrichment facility after threatening to shut down a vital oil supply route in the gulf sparking warnings of military action from the u.s. . back to the rescue the need is a france and germany get to grips with the continuing euro crisis as they work towards drawing up tighter fiscal regulations by march our top stories this hour.