for the euro and that can happen because of the. political move it's now become an economic issue and can have even more. destructive effects if the iranians decide to say the strait of hormuz or even if they now decide to beat europe to it by. by by cutting off their oil now because we need this time to find alternative supplies if they cut the supply now we want to be able to find them there will be a huge recession in europe. and civil society stepping into the front line of russian politics with the aim of keeping the upcoming presidential election fair and transparent leading figures and members of the public are joining forces and most importantly they seem to have the support of all five candidates as well as the voters are going off has the details. it doesn't take long to find videos of alleged violations during the recent parliamentary vote in russia just

a couple of clicks is enough and scores of these files have flooded the internet and even though most of the allegations are still to be proven in court tens of thousands of people have been taking to the streets demanding fair elections but marches presidential vote is just around the corner events are unfolding quickly with. people want to vote responsibly and to know where their villages go they want political competition independent courts and media forming the voters' league is not our achievement the idea was floating in the air the voters league was officially founded in january by a group of journalists bloggers activists artists writers and other public figures and statements made tedious like t.v. host and now activists. have already asked for the head of a charity fund and blogger he was eighty at the bianca also known as dr lisa.

cordon a tour of the blue buckets movement fighting for equal rights on roads for everyone was moved to our league is an opportunity to gather people who are not indifferent to what's happening the more people with a civil position there are the better the league's main goal is to ensure fair elections is published a list of initiatives on the web divided into groups that everyone can be a part of public discussions and online votes are the key instruments and letters have been sent to all presidential candidates asking them to cooperate with the league and even though the project is less than a month old everyone has so far agreed including pledging middleton another candidate businessman mikhail prokhorov has already struck a deal with the leak you have to go on willing to authorize one hundred fifty thousand league observers we've also arranged to put. together unified database to keep it from the election because according to its founders around ten thousand observers are needed to ensure

a fair election in moscow. it's great that the civil society wants to be more active but it's really important not to cross the line and observers not only are positioned it is serious so if limitations not to teach sides in the political process. the league's founders say those shut the organisation down if it ever starts turning into a political movement they are keen to work with all candidates equally there's no doubt society has changed more people want to have more influence on russia's political life perhaps that's why it took less than one month for the vote was leaked to establish ties with both the authorities and the opposition and with the help promised from the candidates the league just may secure enough access to effectively monitor the vote in march as long as it avoids taking sides and protects its neutrality is going to moscow i'll take a look at some other stories from around the world israeli airstrikes on the gaza strip has left one person dead and four others wounded warplanes fired missiles at

three different areas just after midnight on saturday the first hit a field east of gaza city with another landing near the israeli border and a third near the city of han unis the israeli army confirmed the strike saying they had targeted belonging to terrorist organizations. police in bahrain have fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse hundreds of anti-government protesters in the capital no injuries were reported but witnesses say at least one protester was detained violence has been on the rise over the past few weeks as the country heads towards the first anniversary of a brutally crushed protest against king its rule. legendary pop singer whitney houston has died at the age of forty eight sources say the six times grammy award winner. or was found in a beverly hills hotel room on saturday the performer struggled with drugs and alcohol problems later in her career and her rehab last year with ortiz and he had

to determine the exact cause of houston's death by the. afghan children were killed by and nato airstrike this week according to the country's president in a statement on the cars i condemn the aerial attack by a foreign forces officials launched an investigation later claiming nato forces wrongly targeted civilians after receiving false reports of militants in the area it came just one week after the united states announced it might stop combat operations in afghanistan earlier than expected but this strike could worsen our already strained relationship between karzai and his western allies and the mounting death toll documentary filmmaker play a clear born things that despite its accommodation civilian casualties in the country will continue to rise with. the. to have any viability is

a legitimacy as an afghan woman or something like this happens but he is basically a tool of the american occupation there so we can expect any real demand to change from here this kind of thing obviously doesn't win hearts and minds this happens in the same area we're afghans so if you simply kill french troops unfortunate i think because the u.s. is playing a pull out of the movie next day for it because the rangers are moving their troops out we can expect more airstrikes and more civilian casualties in afghanistan we already saw two thousand and eleven april sixth. of two thousand and ten in terms of civilian casualties i'm afraid we're going to see that trend continue in two thousand and twelve precisely because they know that they have to pull out safely because they noted the game is up now we can fix has in the past published many more afghan war revelations which were allegedly obtained from u.s.

army private bradley manning the twenty four year old has spends more than a year behind bars awaiting trial in the u.s. has now been nominated for the nobel peace prize but put forward by an icelandic parliamentary group which said he should be recognized for exposing war crimes but get a young a member of parliament thanks manning has played an important role in helping to tackle war crimes committed by governments bradley manning. on her because. women who are blown the whistle on war crimes he's not. a criminal act to blow the whistle on war crimes or to blow the whistle on any crime. we feel that. these leaks for example the video mode or. the wall. people who have. put their way to war in afghanistan and iraq through their governments need to know

i wish me to going on there and by knowing what was going on there and we see this in can apply more pressure on our governments to be a comfortable for the crimes that have been put in our names we do not. let the bradley manning case be because of his in just treatment being a chorus of silencing all the people the courageous people who want to do their civic duty by reporting on crimes or. states or or military. a u.s. drone attack killed tan suspected militants in pakistan on wednesday it was the fifth strike by american forces in pakistan this year coming up later in the program pakistan's foreign minister tells r.t. that drone strikes are actually damaging to the war on terror here's a preview. this region has some serious problems but into terrorism and pakistan has always maintained that it is important to have collaborative joint

efforts to be able to rid this region rather than follow sort of unitary approach. in how we want to rid the streets and in our view drones are not only completely illegal. and have north resolution to be used within the domains of international law but even more importantly they are counterproductive to your objective of getting this region rid of militancy and terrorism and extremism because if one strike leads to getting you target number one or target number three today you're creating five more targets with ten more targets in the militancy that it breeds in the in the for that it gives to the militants to attract more people to join their ranks. and brings up to date here on our to recap our top stories coming your way short one.

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welcome back you're watching r.t. coming to live from moscow let's take a look at the top stories of the week as well as the latest news stories the arab league is set to decide its future efforts on serious violence escalates and the u.s. gathers a coalition of the willing against damascus hundreds of people have reportedly been killed across syria over the past week. the spirit of revolution returns to egypt on the first anniversary of the bark's ousting with thousands of protesters calling for an immediate step down by the ruling military council the generals are clinging on to power which they refuse to give up until at least june. the people of greece

have marched on the streets in anger over a new set of cuts as the government struggles to keep the country's economy afloat parliament is now due to debate a draft bill on a series of measures demanded by the e.u. and the i.m.f. . and russian civil society take center stage in politics as a group of public figures steps up to monitoring the upcoming presidential vote with backing from all of the candidates the goal of the so-called voters league is to ensure a fair and transparent election. as we have lines here in r.t. next we interview we bring you the interview with pakistan's foreign minister car on the challenges facing pakistan. she's the youngest foreign minister and of all that has to deal with some of the toughest security challenges he not rabani khar pakistan's foreign minister is joining us now on r.t. thank you very much for your time minister it's been more than ten years since

pakistan joined the u.s. military operations in afghanistan do you think that was the right thing to do you see if. you would you know things look very different but of course. the collaboration that pakistan has had in the last ten years pakistan has bit of a heavy price for that but it is also a fact that pakistan inhibits the region inhabits the region and will continue to have the street and and this region has some serious problems the region has some serious problems but into terrorism and pakistan has always maintained that it is important to have collaborative joint efforts to be able to rid the streets and rather than for law sort of unitary approaches. in how we want to rid the streets and you mentioned. the price of your involvement in afghanistan has been pretty high many thousand of your citizens lost their lives millions of people have been

replaced there are estimates that it cost your country around seventy billion u.s. dollars but we often hear criticism about pakistan's role. but their guts to involvement in afghanistan found the american side do you think the united states treats you fairly. i would like to answer that question by seeing the. two solid robust partnership is that each able to live or operate within the bounds of what is. believed to be you know what has been agreed treating fairly is concerned i think pakistan has in this particular case not been treated fairly by anybody. for that matter because pakistan continues to lose continues to lose in terms of economic cost in terms of the social cost i think sometimes that is not emphasized on enough so we continue to lose in many many ways

but some times the rule that is that is put on pakistan is a rule which is understandable which defies logic so to speak because if the first country to benefit from a stable understands pakistan and the first country to lose from in you know unstable of understand is also pakistan so pakistan stick a very high and that is what is commonly believed that yes pakistan sticks are very high but pakistan sticks are very high in having stability in that one is to not instability in the understand so we have maintained and we stated very clearly that it is really for the one people to determine what course of action they want to take in any way possible whether they want to have strategic lands with a country a country b. it's a sovereign country we must respect them as that but pakistan's rule in any way can only be there to support of i think saying that pakistan is cause of the problem and is creating trouble is an imaginary solution it is an imaginary blame it is an

imaginary looking for an answer but the real solutions to real problems have to be faced you know on the ground now as we all know that the united states has been taking on a lead role in this military operation. why do you think with all its military power and the resources that are invested into this campaign why anything. the results are not that impressive as of here they could be i think i'm not the right person to answer that question it should be somebody from the us administration i want to question to be right i don't think it is important with the us is succeeding or is winning in afghanistan or not what is important is whether of one stan is winning or not because the goal of the u.s. and pakistan and the region and all the forty eight countries which operate in the understand is to make of understand when if i may come back to the issue of american criticism for just one question president obama said in a number of occasions that one of the reasons why the united states is using drones

to file for your territory and to hit targets on your territory is because the pakistani authorities allegedly. are not in control of that own land and my question is. why pakistan tolerating the use of military technology that are hitting targets on pakistani land that ultimately oftentimes lead to the loss of life among the pakistani citizens this is one of the major problems that keeps us from achieving our successes in our view. not only completely illegal and awful and have north resolution to be used within the domains of international law but even more importantly they are counterproductive to your objective of getting this rich region rid of militancy and terrorism and extremism because if one strike leads to

getting a new target number one or target number three to do you're creating five more targets or ten more targets in the militancy that it breeds in the in the for doing that it gives to the militants to attract more people to join the ranks we are today in pakistan suffering from the consequences. you know many other powers of the world decided to do in that region to rid itself of the challenge that appeared in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine which was the soviet invasion of a one star now in trying to deal with we have created certain groups which are to be. a challenge to everybody so again do we want to repeat the same mistakes again clearly pakistan doesn't think so and pakistan has categorically said that it is illegal under full counterproductive other any than ears in your view reasonable

values that pakistan could take in case of drone attacks beyond forcing it's concern or a distraction my question to you is it just an issue of some countries allowing. greater freedom and greater perth far off foreign policy tools than others that would be a very unfair world and i hope that's not a world that we are moving towards and therefore the questions of illegality and under full. is extremely important one and. we currently no compromise in pakistan about that if you look at as i've said i think this is partially one of the major reasons which is responsible for where we are today and pakistan a country which. considers itself to be a sovereign country to consider to be an independent country has therefore decided to reassess the whole terms of engagement because for to us it is very clear that this is not part of the terms of engagement now if that clarity is required

elsewhere i guess the parliament will be in its right to be able to define it but please mr approach that we're taking the approach that we're taking is not that of a confrontation the prudes that we're taking is that of forging a partnership which is which is based on mutual respect and based on mutual interest and just last week. and her report was leaked to the media that pakistani security forces and maintaining contacts with. terrorism and extremist organizations that are operating in afghanistan as far as i understand there was ever an. allegation that they're supporting them financially. is this true first of all this is not a new to report we were told by need to at least that this is a. single person not in the report but is thing in the country and a single person and pretty much. all the bottle because this is not

a new accusation or allegation which has been made in pakistan the specific context of the mention where with the taliban of outer intelligence agencies i think every intelligence agency in the world particularly the ones which were. some indian style with one group or the other and all of them at some level and these guys are now pretty much out in the open because people are openly talking about talking to these people so i think just creating you know this is something which is not even worth a comment quite frankly the united states is expected to withdraw its troops from afghanistan and a matter of a few years is pakistan looking forward to that event but you see again they came here with some goals and objectives we would hope that most of those goals and objectives are met at least partially met and we would hope that when they leave in the understand afghanistan is a better place than when they first came but the long term presence of foreign

troops in the region is always always counterproductive. yes but we would also be very very mindful of what is the situation on the ground when they leave because instability more instability is clearly something that this region cannot cannot afford i'd like to switch gears a little bit and ask you about iran you know the west now piling its pressure on that country which is your neighbor and longtime partner. how would pakistan respond in a case of military strike against iran we would strongly. countries to desist from any option which is military. because this region has already seen too much and we do not want any further destabilization. we feel very strongly that these things can be you know can be settled on the negotiation table that there

should be flexibility shown. and that dialogue should be considered to be the only via forward and it would have disastrous let me go to pakistan feels it would have disastrous results for the region what about syria do support the military intervention against assad's regime we support no military intervention against in the region because we feel that independent sovereign the integrity of the country are important aspects and there in trying to in many many places now what we need to ensure the international community is is that violence from any side is not given lunch is not allowed to. move forward thank you very much for a time minister thank you.

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to. see. the arab league is set to decide its future africa on a serious violence escalates and the u.s. gathers a coalition of the willing against a massive hundreds of people have reportedly been killed across syria over the past week. the spirit of revolution returns to egypt on the first anniversary of mubarak's ousting with thousands of protests. calling for an immediate step down by the ruling military council but the generals are clinging on to power which they refused to give up until at least june. people of greece have marched on the streets in anger over a new set of cuts as the government struggles to keep the country's economy afloat parliament is now due to the beta draft bill. demanded by the e.u.

. and russian civil society take center stage in politics as a group public figure steps up to monitor the upcoming presidential vote with backing from all of the candidates the goal of the so-called voters league is to ensure a fair transparent election. where the top stories and sport is next with paul. hello welcome to the sports headlines here on alex he is good to have you company here's what's coming up. making a racket russia going in there in that davis cup tie with austria old roger federer switzerland the whitewash by the usa. perfectly poised tiger woods is four shots behind me to cheer on the way going into the final round of the having

drinks national in california. and mission impossible underdogs on the prepared to face overwhelming favorites ivory coast in the final of the twenty twelve africa cup of nations. but we begin with tennis and team russia still alive in that davis cup tie with austria they say after a dramatic doubles win on saturday made it to one going into the final day of action. and mikhail youzhny defeat would mean russia facing a playoff to keep that place in the world group however they came through a five set epic against alexander pile on the living. down in the final set the russians euro someone play from somewhere to complete a remarkable comeback seven six six seven seven five three six six four the final school. well all means that russia need to win both their of singles on sunday alex bottom of judea faces you can melt.