no has been quick to condemn scum 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 continued on 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 guarantee its interests they don't care about democracy meanwhile even those on the streets protesting against car share the council's concerns about the engineers motives the usa has had a hand in chips policy making for years but the whole n.t. and your campaign has become the first serious disagreement between america and the countries your story takes 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 bigger you can see it over there this is in council of the armed forces or

scofflaw 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. cairo. here with r.t. still to come this hour despite mounting civilian deaths and plans for early withdrawal the number of nato airstrikes in afghanistan could actually be increasing explain why in a few moments. here over some van and for others the u.s. army private accused by washington of treason received a nomination for the nobel peace price. fair and transparent that's how people in russia want to see the upcoming presidential election in march polling stations across the country are being equipped with web cams to avoid any wrongdoing but a group of proactive citizens has decided using technology alone is not enough

you've got this kind of explains how they're planning to secure honest voting. 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 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 street demanding fair elections with marches presidential votes just around the corner events are unfolding quickly where. people want to vote responsibly the internet where their votes go they want political competition independent courts in media forming the voters league is not meant the idea was floating in the air the voters league was officially founded in january by a group of journalists bloggers activists reuters and other public figures and

stay with us blake t.v. host and now activist. or the head of a charity fund and blogger. also known as dr. other school martha ordinator of the blue buckets movement fighting for equal rights on roads. everyone was moved our leaders 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 little to another candidate businessman mikhail prokhorov has already struck

a deal with the leak you have to go and willing to authorize one hundred fifty thousand league observers we've also arranged to put together a unified database to keep track of the election polls 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 if limitations not to take 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 there 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 of 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. the afghan president hamid karzai 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 armed 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 this strike could stoke already strained relations between karzai and his western backers over a mounting death toll documentary filmmaker clay clay bourne thinks that the spike the condemnation civilian casualties in the country will continue to rise. he. in lead by ability. of the workers happens.

he is tall of the american occupation so we can expect any real change from here this. obviously goes up when parts of. this happened in the same area were. killed. because the us is playing a pall at the movie next day or because of the injured are moving your troops out we can expect more ex-pro two more. games to you are a start two thousand and eight. two thousand. 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 because they know that again. more expert opinion on u.s. actions in afghanistan is on our website dot com online all the time they can also find out about america's massive defense costs the u.s.

congress has approved eighty million dollars to build a new bunker busting super bomb with the order from pentagon marked urgent. brussels farman pour cold water on plans to raise the retirement age as they soak policeman in front of the prime minister's office for more on that story and plenty of others to r.t. dot com. top page and some other international news in brief for you this hour israeli airstrikes in the gaza strip have left one civilian dead and four others injured a man killed was a guard at the farm the israeli army confirmed the bombing saying they were aimed at sites belonging to terror groups and a response to a short range rocket attack from gaza. malaysia has deported a young saudi blogger who is wanted in his home country for his remarks on twitter the journalist spotted. rage in the kingdom last week after he tweeted that he would not pray for the prophet muhammad clerics condemned his thoughts as

blasphemous the twenty three year old could now face execution. pop legend and actress whitney houston has died at the age of forty eight the performer was found in the beverly hills hotel room on the eve of the grammy awards in los angeles a career was marred by a turbulent marriage and drug abuse before it is have yet to determine the exact course of. the u.s. army private bradley manning accused of passing secret documents and evidence of war crimes to wiki leaks has been 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. and faces life in prison m.p. but to get to john's doctor who leads the icelandic nomination says exposing crimes

shouldn't be regarded as one. bradley manning deserve this honor because he has been criminalized 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 that. by these leaks for example the media calero motor. the wall. and particularly pete you people that have. put their way 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 accountable for the crimes that have been put out in our name so we do not. let the bradley manning case

be part of his 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 states or or military. in a few minutes we'll be discussing whether u.s. drone strikes in pakistan are helping or harming attempts to bring stability to the border region with afghanistan that'll be after a recap of the week's top stories with me in just a few moments from now stay with us live here in moscow.

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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 qaeda through the support of the opposition. other top stories this hour police in greece fired tear gas into crowds of protesters we're bringing you live pictures from athens at the moment where those protesters are once again rallying outside the parliament nor makers are set for a tough choice of more public to secure

a one hundred thirty eight billion euro bailout. and 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. so that's a summary of our main stories here in this week's edition of the weekly up next i'll talk 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 fight insurgency that is next. she's the youngest foreign minister in the world 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 in 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 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 people have been very placed there 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 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 understands 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 afghanistan not instability in the stand 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 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 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 afghanistan and not what is important is whether of one the stand is when they were not because the goal of the u.s. and pakistan and the region and all the forty eight countries which operate in 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 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 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 do it 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 soviet invasion of a 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 then you're seeing 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. is absolutely no compromise in pakistan if you look as i 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 approach their approach that we taking 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 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 at least that this is a. single person not report but is single country and a single person and pretty much. all the bottle because this is not a new position allegation that has been made in pakistan the specific contents that the mention were with the taliban of outer intelligence 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 level. 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 in the game 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 pakistan of us born in the case of military strike against iran we would strongly 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 stepping 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 the military intervention against assad regime we support no military intervention against in the region because we feel that the independent sovereign a teetotaller indignity of a country are important aspects and there in trying in many many places now what we need to ensure the international community is is that violence from any side is not

given our 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 inpatient beds not on the third emergency

department beds and not enough nurses to man those that take care of all the people who are ok 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 venture as a firefighter i didn't want to tour your house and i started out going to just do firefighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the florida problem is medical but they had a rescue couple weeks ago waited four hours for big i've waited sometimes three hours but i was it's a same francis and we went for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall with a patient 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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from the streets of canada. china operations are the day. top stories this hour in our t.v. arab league debates how to bring stability back to syria while the free syrian army says it expects official recognition from arab states there are also reports that western countries could be propping up al-qaeda through their support of the opposition. police in greece far to get into crowds of protesters who are once again running outside the parliament lawmakers assert for a tough choice of more public cuts to secure a one hundred thirty billion euro bailout. and iran's president promises to reveal major advances in its nuclear program saying teheran would never stop enriching uranium iran insists is only pursuing atomic energy for peaceful purposes despite

the long list of western sanctions imposed against it. from me in about fifteen minutes from now including a live analysis and reports from syria that's in the next hour in the meantime dmitri joins us next with sunday sport. hello there all the ladies from the sporting world in r.t. in the next eleven minutes. could have a company again and in this sport and. not gone for long reports claim former england coach fabio capello could be bound for russia to take charge big spending. in boss lee alexander's zuckoff screw wins the world cup in the form competition. and the west defeats east in the challenge cup title of russia's youth hockey

league. football first they called in two sources in russia fabio capello could become the next manager of. the talent resigned from his job as head coach of the english national side earlier in the week the sixty five year old arrived in the russian capital on sunday and is holding talks were about carlos about taking over as head coach at a family outfit the club will hold a press conference on monday which is believed to concern the future of current coach. remembered below resigned after the country's football association went against his wishes and stripped of the captaincy richard one point flits caught up with toilet to coach one g.'s neighbors terry gross in the last year of the dutchman believes that russian probably will provide capello with a great challenge if he decides to take the reigns at one of the world's richest for the.