there this is very much a dangerous one of the rhetoric this is especially led to prosecutors raiding seventeen offices of advocacy groups forty three activists including americans germans and egyptians are now facing trial for illegally using foreign funds to promote and arrest in the post mubarak country activists however claim they are the victim of scarves reluctance to give up power with dreaming the people about with their brights but the scaf looking for enjoy. some agent against the regime and all the mind the round up of activists has also not a sign of u.s. transportation secretary ray la hood further fueling tension between cairo and washington. isn't simply because. of them in a sort of plans for. i don't think that. anything at all so this is a game and there it was military aid to egypt reaches one point three billion dollars annually has been very serious there has been weeks to condemn this car

when in the days of blank checks are over or they condemned mubarak tons of times but at the end of the day the eight continued on flowing that the poor mother support also continue flowing we don't buy or washington's so-called support for democracy here in the middle east and washington wants to step in always the situation as much as possible in order to get in to its interests they don't care about democracy meanwhile even those on the streets protesting against car share the council's concerns about the engine whose motives the usa has had a hand in tips policy making for years but the whole n.t. and your campaign has become the first serious disagreement between america and the countries of your story to cairo wanted to send washington and message that it's no longer the silent dog it was under mubarak but an independent state which will last so the right any outside interference some doubts though they really minute the end to military movement growing have

a big if you can see it over there this is in council of the armed forces or scaf now running egypt is in a very vulnerable position and this nationalistic pronouncement may just be a nationalist show put on to calm the people down and to win back a shred of credibility. here if you know. in cairo. twenty minutes past the hour now here in moscow you're watching t. it's good to have you with us still to come shortly here despite mounting civilian deaths and plans for an early withdrawal the number of nato airstrikes in afghanistan could actually be on the rise we explain why in a few moments. fair and transparent that's almost. but on russia i want to see the upcoming presidential election in march polling stations across the country are being a quipped with webcams to avoid anything from going wrong but a group of proactive citizens have decided now that using technology alone is not

enough. to press going off explains how they're planning to secure honest fighting . 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 years 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 votes just around the corner events are unfolding quickly with . people want to vote responsibly and with the internet where their votes go see what you want political competition independent courts and media forming 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 and bloggers activists all artists writers and other public

figures and statements wayne tedious leg t.v. host and now activist. the lady. or the head of a charity fund and blogger who does any of the also known as dr lisa. or other school ordinator of the blue buckets movement fighting for equal rights on roads for everyone. our league is an opportunity to gather people who are not indifferent to what's happening to more people with a similar position there are 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 candidate. asking them to cooperate with the week and even though the project is less than a month old everyone has so far agreed including pledging to look into another candidate businessman mikhail prokhorov has already struck

a deal with the leak years ago and willing to authorize one hundred fifty thousand league observers would also arrange to put together a unified database to keep track of the election point because 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 really important not to cross the line and observers not only are positioned it is serious so for the mutations not to take sides in the political process. he's got the league's founders say they'll shut the organisation down if it ever starts turning into a political movement cleaning 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 voters league 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. afghanistan's president hamid karzai has accused nato of killing eight children and then strike on wednesday officials launched a probe later claiming foreign forces wrongly targeted civilians after receiving an incorrect report that many were preparing an attack in the area the bombing came just a week after the united states to announce that it might stop combat operations in afghanistan earlier than expected but the strike could start already strained relations between karzai and his western backers over a mounting death toll documentary filmmaker clay clay bourne things that despite the condemnation civilian casualties in the country will continue to rise. he had to put on a certain pretenses to have any viability is a legitimacy as an afghan woman or something like this happens. he is basically

a tool of the american occupation there so we can expect any real demand change from here this kind of thing obviously doesn't win hearts and. this happened in the same area were asked in saudi recently killed french troops important i think because the u.s. is planning to pull out the movie next day or because of the injured or moving your troops out we can expect more airstrikes and more civilian casualties in afghanistan you are a start 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 this. and a more expert opinion on u.s. actions in afghanistan always available for you at our website r t v dot com there

you can also find out about america's massive defense costs for example the u.s. congress has just now approved eighty million dollars to build a new bunker busting super bomb with the order from the pentagon that mocked as urgent. and brussels of firemen poor cold water on plans to raise their retirement age as they soak policeman in front of the prime minister's office have more on that go to the dot com. let's get some other international news for you in brief with the r.t. world update israeli airstrikes on the gaza strip of left one civilian dead and four others injured the man killed was a guard at a farm but israeli army confirmed the bombings and said they were a response to a short range rocket from gaza and targeted sites belonging to terrorist groups. malaysia has deported a young saudi blogger who's wanted in his home country for his remarks on twitter

the journalist sparked outrage in the kingdom after he tweeted about prophet mohammed last week clara's condemned his thoughts as blasphemous the twenty three year old could now face execution. on. this. popular agenda and actress whitney houston has died at the age of forty eight performer was found in a beverly hills hotel room on the eve of the grammy awards in los angeles the career was marred by a turbulent marriage and the use of drugs authorities have yet to determine the exact cause of death. all right on the way here on r t why america's secret war in pakistan is doing more harm than good and we hear from pakistan's foreign minister in just a few minutes but first i'll be back with the headlines in just a moment see you shortly.

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it's only pursuing atomic energy for peaceful purposes despite the long list of western sanctions imposed against it. and the greek parliament is set for a tough choice on more public cuts to secure a two hundred thirty billion euro bailout package but people are already deep austerity have been venting their frustration on the streets. now coming up next here on r t we talked to pakistan's foreign minister who explains why she thinks that u.s. drone strikes in her country are only making things worse instead of helping to actually fight the insurgency. she's the youngest foreign minister in the world but 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 follow sort of unitary approaches. in how we want to rid the street 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

dollars but we often hear criticism about pakistan's role. but they're just 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 not been treated fairly by anybody for that matter. because pakistan continues to. stand 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 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 stone is 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 not instability and 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 alliance with 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 a white anything. the results are not that impressive as of yet 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 whether the u.s. is succeeding or is winning in the understand not what is important is whether of one the stand is winning one not because the goal of the u.s. and pakistan and the region and all the forty eight countries with operation of understand is to make of understand with 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 their 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 two means 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 be you're creating five more targets or ten more targets in the militancy that it breeds in the for doing that

it gets to the militants to attract more people to join the ranks we are today in pakistan suffering from the consequences of what you know many other powers of the world decided to do in that region to rid itself of the. a 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 to be. a challenge to everybody so again do we want to repeat this to mystics 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's 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 tools is extremely important one and. the no compromise in pakistan if you look at that said i think this is partially one of the major reasons which is responsible for we are today and pakistan as a country. considers itself to be a sovereign country considers to be an independent country has therefore decided. to hold terms of engagement because 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 of course the key to the approach that we do king is not that of a confrontation the proved to be taking is that for doing the partnership which is which is based on mutual respect and based on mutual interest just last week.

and her reports 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 single country and a single person pretty much. in all the bottle because this is not a new accusation allegation which has been made in pakistan the specific context the dimension where with the taliban of all turning teligent agencies i think every intelligence agency in the world particularly the ones which are working in of on some intense diets with one group or the other and all of them at some. and this

does are now pretty much out in the open because people are openly talking about talking to this but i think just creating you know this is something which is not even worth a comma and 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 of one son 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 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 would pakistan respond in a case of military strike against iran we would strongly ask all 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 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 you support a military intervention against assad's regime we support no military intervention against in the region because we feel that independent sovereign the territorial integrity of a country are important aspects and there in shined 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. for syria off an area that they're selling with. their money. if you want to have sex go and have sex.

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the headlines on r.t. the arab league debates how to bring stability back to syria while the free syrian army says it expects official recognition from arab gulf states there are also reports that western countries could be propping up al qaida through the support of the opposition. iran's president promises to reveal major advances in its nuclear program saying to iran would never stop enriching uranium iran insists it's only pursuing atomic energy for peaceful purposes despite the long list of western sanctions imposed against it. by the greek parliament has set for a tough choice on more public cuts to secure

a one hundred thirty billion euro bailout but people angry at all are already quite divided over the austerity cuts and have been venting their frustration on the streets. time for the sunday action all the sunday sports now with dmitri. but of the sports on are two things who are joining us this coming up in the program. not golf along reports claim former england coach harbor capello could be bound for russia to take charge of expanding. in alexander's of course through the world cup in this competition. and the west defeats in the challenge cup title of russia's new hockey league.

but to a start with russia's dmitri has claimed a bronze in the minutes eighth world cup staging controller to finland the twenty four year old. only twice on all the four shooting ranges last start time for car france forty five seconds at the finish it took silver with fruit and i says well gold went to the legendary beyond that norwegian beat his closest rival by eighteen seconds and misses during shooting. staying with winter sports where in the course crew has won the world cup in the four men competition the russian team led by as you call finished third at the final stage in calgary but that result was enough for him to sort the overall standings though the day belonged to germany as the crew of much similar aren't one this stage is blocked eventually came home and in the final standings team germany two.