of almost or even if they now decide to beat europe to its bye. bye by cutting off their oil now because we need this time to find alternative suppliers if they cut the supply now we want to be able to find them there will be a huge recession in europe. iran insists that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes repeating data was open to talks with major world powers for political analysts coming things out of iran has already been tried and found guilty. all the inspection by nuclear agency. found that iran is actually weaponize in their system they are actually following the nuclear agreement there is no violation to that end but no matter what they saying that sanction are coming because the suspicion there. no matter what they are justifying or opening their facility there is some judgment already been rendered against your rant and i think

before six months we might. heading into a major confrontation in the burgeoning of. civil society is stepping into the front line of russian politics with the aim of keeping the upcoming presidential election fair and transparent these cigarettes 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 i just cannot 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 since scores of these files have flooded the internet and even though most of the allegations are still to be proven in courts 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 g.d.s. clegg t.v. host and now activists. have already asked for the head of a charity fund and blogger liz idea that bianca also known as dr lisa. cordoning of the blue buckets movement fighting for equal rights on roads for everyone was moving as 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 leagues 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. gether unified database to keep track of the election through two cols according to its founders around ten thousand observers are needed to ensure a fair election in moscow alone. it's great that the civil society wants to be more active but it's clearly 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. it is the league's founders say they'll shut the organisation down if it

ever starts turning into a political movement claiming they are keen to work with all candidates equally there is 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 promise from 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 off r t moscow. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world israeli air strikes in the gaza strip have 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 homs you need the israeli army confirmed the strike saying they had to target sites belonging to terrorist organizations. police in bahrain

fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse hundreds of anti-government protesters in the capital manama 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 a country heads towards the first anniversary of a brutally crushed protest against king hamas rule. is written five newspaper journalists have been arrested over alleged payments made to police and public officials the owner of news international says he's committed to keeping the tabloid newspaper the sun running the investigation is part of the country's phone hacking scandal that came to light last year it revealed that for some journalists it was common practice to monitor the private voicemail messages of celebrities. legendary pop singer whitney houston has died at the age of forty eight the six time grammy award winner was found in a beverly hills hotel room on saturday the performance struggled with drugs and alcohol problems later in her career and and tour of rehab last year with already

have yet to determine the exact cause of houston's death. my little. aide to add in children were killed by a nato airstrike this week according to the country's president in a statement comment cards i condemn the aerial attack by 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 an already strained relationship between karzai and his western allies and it a mounting afghan deaths health documentary filmmaker clay clare born thinks that despite a condemnation civilian casualties in the country will continue to rise. he had to put on a certain pretenses to have any viability is a legitimate see as an afghan who was something like this happens but he is

basically a tool of the american occupation there so we can't 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 do you suppose we killed troops unfortunate i think because the us was playing a pull out of the movie next day for it because of the injured 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. 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 again as. how we can mix has and 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 spent more than

a year behind bars awaiting trial in the u.s. has now been nominated for the nobel peace prize put forward by an icelandic parliamentary group which said he should be recognized for exposing a war crimes brigade. a member of parliament thinks manning has played an important role in helping to tackle crimes committed by governments. bradley manning deserves this honor because he is in criminalize or along the whistle on war crimes it is not a criminal act to blow the whistle on war crimes or to blow the whistle on any crime and we feel bad. champ by these leaks for example the media calero motor. the wall. and particularly pete you people that have. put their name to war in afghanistan and iraq through their governments need to know what is really going on there and by knowing what is going on there then we

citizen can apply more pressure on our governments to be a comfortable at the core of the crimes that have been put in our names we do not. have the bradley manning case be the person appears in just treatment to be the course of silencing all the people the courageous people who want to do their civic duty by reporting on crime spear corporates state or or military. how bring you every cab of this week's top stories and today's headlines after the shocking.

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really happening to the global economy with. the global financial headlines. here's a look at the top stories the arab league is set to decide its future efforts on syria as violence escalates on 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 mubarak's ousting with thousands of protesters calling for an immediate step down by the ruling military council other generals are clinging on to power which they refused to give up until at least june. the people

of greece have marched on the streets in anger over a new set of cards as a government struggles to keep the country's economy afloat parliament is now due to debate a draft bill on a stair any measures demanded by the e.u. and the i.m.f. . and the russian civil society take center stage in politics as a group of 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 and transparent election. and now we talked to pakistan's foreign minister here were buying har who tells us why the united states' war on terror is actually doing more harm than good. 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 put 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 there garstin involvement in afghanistan from 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 will 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. treated fairly by anybody for that matter because pakistan continues to lose pakistan continues to lose in terms of economic costs 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 is stable one stands pakistan and the first country to lose from in you know unstable 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 and the one is to not instability in that one stan 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 yet 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 the understand or not what is important is whether of one the stand 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 killing 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 under full and have north resolution to be used within the domains of international law but even more importantly counterproductive to your objective of getting this region rid of militancy 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 problems 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 one star now in trying to deal with we have created certain groups which are today. 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 its 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 luke lee currently no compromise in pakistan about that if you look at as i 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 do 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 on part of the specific context of the mentioned were with the taliban of outer intelligence agencies i think every intelligence agency in the world particularly the ones which of world. some indian styles 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 or 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. piling its pressure on that country which is your neighbor and longtime partner. how pakistan of us born in the 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 no good you know can be settled on the negotiation table that there should be flexibility. 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 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. from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand severe problem is not enough in-patient beds not enough urgency department

and not enough nurses commanders there to take care of all the people who are the only real health care system that we have in the city of los angeles is the los angeles fire department in fact when i started my ventures for further i didn't want to do and i started out going to just do firefighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the for the problem it's medical. for hours for i waited sometimes three hours i was it's a safe. rance is in lynnwood for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall of patients and we have a federal law that mandates that you can't turn no one away who seeks care in an emergency room. we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least.

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the arab league is set to decide its future after its own 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 egyptian on the first anniversary of a bar southlake with thousands of protesters calling for an immediate step down by the ruling military council but the generals are going 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 cards as of the government's struggles to keep the country's economy afloat parliament is now do the debate a draft bill on

a sturdy measure demanded by the e.u. and the i.m.f. . and russian civil society take center stage in politics have a group of public figure steps up to monitor the upcoming presidential vote was backing from all of the candidates the goal of the so-called voters league is to shore a fair and transparent election. that's the top stories of the week and sports next with paul. hello welcome to the world of sport here we're not saying here's what's coming up. making a racket russia given a lifeline in that davis cup tie with austria knowledge of federer switzerland what washed by the u.s. . mission impossible underdog zambia prepared to face the well meaning favorites the ivory coast in the final of the two thousand and twelve africa cup of

nations. and puffing people always tiger woods is four shots behind me to charlie way going into the final round of the pebble beach national in california. but first to football where reports in both the russian and british press claim that former england manager fabio capello could be in line for a move to the russian premier league with big spending and g. capello resigned from his job as manager of the three lions this week after the football association went against his wishes and st john terry of the captaincy and reports claimed the italian could be in line to replace manager unity classed as john douglas don club with the russian season resuming next month seventh in the table and six points off a champions league spot general director allan sosias has already been sacked fuelling speculation crassness john could be next and announcement will be made on monday. watch this space now to tennis and to russia have been given a lifeline in the davis cup.