to move to south of lebanon for sure this is the world this is also we have to put in mind that there is there is movement and then there are the arab league teams especially see the whole idea of. this in your current order this is a new front if you like is challenging the traditional front which is you know. and the heart of. the. infidelity and that's why this in your front should be destroyed and it is not a secret as a super. adult some are live in ramallah thank you for joining us on our show today that's all the time we have for thank you. afghan president hamid karzai has accused nato of killing eight children in an airstrike on wednesday officials launched a probe later claiming foreign forces wrongly targeted civilians after receiving an incorrect report that the men were preparing an attack in the area the bombing came just

a week after the united states announced it might stop combat operations in afghanistan earlier than expected but the strike could stoke already strained relations between karzai and his western backers over a mounting death toll documentary filmmaker thinks that despite the condemnation civilian casualties in the country will continue to rise he. to have any by ability is legitimacy as an afghan when something like this happens but he is basically a tool of the american occupation there so we can expect any real demands to change from here this kind of thing obviously doesn't win hearts and minds this happens in the same area were afghan soldiers recently killed by french troops important i think because the u.s. is playing a pull out even moving next day for him because of french or are moving their

troops out we can expect more airstrikes and more civilian casualties in afghanistan we already saw two thousand and eleven eight percent. 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 noted they have to pull out decisively because they noted again this. more expert opinion on u.s. actions in afghanistan on our website r.t. dot com just a click away twenty four hours a day you can get there you can also find out about america's massive defense costs for example the u.s. congress has approved eighty million dollars to build a new bunker busting bomb for the order from the pentagon quite. cold water. police went in front of the prime minister's office.

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we're coming to you live from moscow it's good to have you with us today but on the first anniversary of the ousting of former president hosni mubarak egypt's activists have called for a general strike to ramp up the pressure against the ruling military council they want the council to step down immediately saying they are blocking reforms the military has said it won't accept any ultimatum to transfer power in june when the presidential elections assured but many people fear they will stay in power beyond those days kyra post journalist bel truce says egyptians have every right not to trust the military. people are unsure about whether they actually transfer power in jean and so far the military the ruling military council has yet to fulfill any of its promises that said since it came into power also just generally on the streets we're seeing massive human rights violations towards protesters where people are expressing their freedom of speech and we've seeing excessive use of tear gas and

cartouche they call it here which is shots i'm aiming protesters there's been absolutely no reform of the police i was simply fired by the football disaster a few weeks ago which saw seventy four people die so essentially we've seen very little reform since mubarak stepped down and people are basically anxious that nothing will change and it will just slip into a new new dictatorship i think most people here would post it would say or do you say when the revolution never ended but it's called the continuance of the ongoing revolution really since january even after mubarak stepped down this time last year they've been continuous sit ins and protests and violent clashes in egypt security forces pushing protesters pushing for change that they haven't seen yet so. let's get to some other global news for you in brief this hour with the odds he walked up to it's really a price on the gaza strip of life one civilian dead four others injured the man killed was a guard at

a farm the israeli army confirmed the bombings saying they were aimed at sites belonging to terror. groups and word response to a short range rocket attack from gaza. 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 last week after he tweeted that he would not pray for the prophet mohammed clara's condemned his thoughts as a blasphemous twenty three year old could now face execution. popular actress whitney houston has died at the age of the former was found in a beverly hills hotel room on the eve of the grammy awards in los angeles a career was marred by a turbulent marriage on drug abuse north already as of yet to determine the exact. the u.s. army private bradley manning accused of passing secret documents and evidence of

war crimes to wiki leaks as we nominated for the nobel peace prize he's been put forward by a peace research center in the u.s. and an icelandic parliamentary group the twenty four year old is awaiting a court martial in the u.s. sand faces life in prison. but a johns dettori who leads the icelandic nomination says exposing crimes should not be regarded as one bradley manning. because. women who are long whistle on war crimes he's not. a criminal i blow my whistle work crimes or to blow the whistle on any crimes. we feel that. now by these leaks for example the video collateral murder. the world. and in particular repeat the people that have. put their name to the war in afghanistan in iraq through the government need to know what is really going on

there and by knowing what is going on there and we see this and can apply more pressure on our governments to be accountable for the crimes that have been conducted in our lives we do know. about the bradley manning case being because of his in just treatment the records of silencing all the people the courageous people that want to do their civic duty by reporting on crimes the horror of the state or military. all right in just a few minutes here in our see we discuss whether u.s. drone strikes in pakistan are helping the war on terror or hindering it will be after a recap of our top stories in just a moment. resistance

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pursuing a. long list of. tough choice on more. cuts to secure. people angry at already very deep austerity i mean venting their frustration on the streets all week again these are live pictures for you right here. now where we talk to pakistan's foreign minister who explains why she thinks that u.s. drone strikes in a country are only making things worse instead of helping to fight the insurgency here watching what's. 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 a 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 streets and you mentioned. the price of your involvement in afghanistan has been pretty high many thousands of

your citizens lost their lives millions people have been placed there 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 lose. 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 time 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 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 in the one that are 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 alliance 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 a few 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 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 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 are largely 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 domains of international law but even more importantly they are 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 problems 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 mission of one star now in trying to deal with that we have created certain groups which are to be. a challenge to everybody. so again do we want to repeat the mistakes again clearly pakistan doesn't think so and pakistan has categorically said that it is unlawful counterproductive other any then you're seeing your view reasonable vanny is 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 or 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 an unlawful tools is extremely important one and. the compromise in pakistan about that if you look as i said i think this is partially one of the major reasons which is responsible for where 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 approach there. is no doubt of a confrontation the proved to be taking is that all for doing the partnership which

is which is based on mutual respect and based on mutual interest 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. 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 italy. that this is a. single person not in the report but is single country and a single person and pretty much. all the bottle because this is not an accusation or allegation that has been made on part of the specific content that the mentioned were with the taliban of altering teligent agencies i think every intelligence agency in the world particularly the ones which are working in the one cement in

one group or the other and all of them at some level and this does are now pretty much out in the open because people are openly talking about talking to these people 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 the game 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 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. 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 don't leave your 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 their 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. piers.

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