cartouche they call it here which is charts and maiming protesters there's been absolutely no reform of the police as it exemplified by the football disaster a few weeks ago which saw over seventy four people die so essentially we've seen very little reform since mubarak stepped down and people are a basically anxious that nothing will change and that will just slip into a new new dictatorship i think most people here would say or they do say that the revolution never ended but it's called the continuous or 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 with egypt's security forces pushing for protestors pushing for change that they haven't seen yet. with r.t. we're currently live from moscow with the twenty four hours a day still to come this hour despite mounting civilian deaths and plans for an early withdrawal the number of nato air strikes in afghanistan could actually be creasing we explain why in

a few moments. and hero for others the u.s. army private accused by washington of treason receives a nomination for the nobel peace prize. the first fair and transparent that is help people in russia want to see the upcoming presidential election in march polling stations across the country are being equipped with webcams to avoid any wrongdoing but a group of proactive citizens has decided using technology alone is not enough here to pick out 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 and to know where their votes go they want political competition independent courts and 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 orders writers 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 for everyone. our league is an opportunity to gather people who are not indifferent to what's happening the more people with a similar position there are the better the league's main goal is to ensure fair

elections it's 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 i'm 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 protocols 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 a position it is serious so if limitations not to take sides in the political process. the league's founders say they'll shut the organization down if it ever

starts turning into a political movement claiming 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 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. afghan president hamid karzai accused nato of killing eight children in an airstrike on wednesday officials launched an investigation later claimed foreign forces wrongly targeted civilians after receiving an incorrect report that all men were preparing an attack in the area the bombing came just a week after the nazi states and else it might stop combat operations in afghanistan earlier than expected but this strike could stoke already strained relations between congress and its western backers over

a mounting death toll documentary filmmaker clay claiborne thinks 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 war will something like this happens but 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 minds this happened in the same area were afghans saudis are killed by french troops on ports night because the us is playing nepal at the movie next day for it because the rangers are moving your troops out we can expect more airstrikes and more civilian casualties in afghanistan we are a start two thousand and eight percent of bar 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 know that again it's up. more expert opinion on u.s. actions in afghanistan is a lot website for the moment r.t. dot com there you 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 would be order from the pentagon marked urgent. and also in light of the moment a year of rebuilding has pulled japan from the rubble these pictures showed the streets immediately after last year's earthquake and tsunami and what they look like today. personal stories of survivors and more of these images for you right now at r.t. dot com. some other international news in brief this hour israeli on the gaza left one

civilian dead and four others injured the man killed was a guard of the farm israeli army confirmed the bombing saying they were aimed at sites belonging to terror groups and were a response to a short range rocket attack from gaza. has deported the 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 muhammad clerics condemned his thoughts as blasphemous the twenty three year old could now face execution. pop legend an actress whitney houston died at the age of forty eight is found in the beverly hills hotel room on the eve of the grammy awards in los angeles a career was marred by turbulent marriage and drug abuse authorities have yet to determine the exact cause of death.

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 in iceland it parliamentary group twenty four year old is awaiting a court martial in the u.s. and faces life in prison and people to get to john's daughter who leads the icelandic nomination says exposing crimes shouldn't be regarded as one bradley manning. there because. women who are long whistle on war crimes it is not. a criminal i blow my whistle work arounds or to blow the whistle on any crimes we feel better. now by these leaks for example the video collateral murder. the war. and in particular the p.c. people that have. put their name to the war in afghanistan in iraq through the

government need to know what is going to go in on there and by knowing what is going on there and we the citizens can apply more pressure on our government to be accountable for the crimes that have been productive in our lives we do know. about the bradley manning case being because he is in just treatment to be the course of silencing all the people the courageous people that want to do their civic duty by reporting all crimes the corporate state or military. shortly we discuss whether u.s. drone strikes in pakistan are helping or homing attempts to bring stability to the border region with afghanistan will be able to recover the week's top stories with me in just a few moments stay with us this is all to moscow. russia

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let's go to this is on the top stories now the arab league is expected to call on the un to create a joint peacekeeping force for syria as a group aims to mount pressure on president assad the free syrian army says it expects official recognition from arab gulf states. police in greece far to go into crowds of protesters who are once again running outside the parliament will make is a set 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 to iran would never stop enriching

uranium iran insists it's only pursuing atomic energy for peaceful purposes despite a long list of western sanctions imposed against it. will be back for another summary for in fifteen years from now the meantime we talk to pakistan's foreign minister who explains why she thinks that u.s. drone strikes in that country are only making things worse instead of helping fight 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 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 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 thousand of your citizens lost their lives millions people have been very placed there estimates that it cost your country around seventy billion 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 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 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 the 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 whitey thing. 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 whether the u.s. is succeeding or is winning in the understand are 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 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 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 demeans 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 to be 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 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 its 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 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 as a country. considers itself to be a sovereign country it 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 the approach that we taking is not that of a confrontation the prudes that we're 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 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 report but single country and a single person and pretty much. all the bottle because this is not an accusation allegation that has been made on the specific contents that the mentor 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 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 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 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 settled on the negotiation table that there should be flexibility and that dialogue should be considered to be don't live in a 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 dignity 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.

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union. sources are known to the arab league is expected to call on the un to create a joint peacekeeping force for syria to do things to mount pressure on president assad the free syrian army says it expects official recognition from arab gulf states. policing grease fire to gas into crowds of protesters who are once again running outside the parliament will make his ascent for a tough choice so more public comes to secure a one hundred thirty billion euro i know. but 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

a long list of western sanctions imposed against. them for those stories for in fifteen minutes from now in the meantime it's all the way to sports news with dmitri. hello there all the latest from the loose boxing world on our team in the next eleven minutes or so between the top and again and in the bulletin. not gone for long route court claim former england coach fabio capello could be bound for russia to take charge at big spending and much color. in looks on those of course group the world cup in the form when competition. and west defeats in the challenge cup title russia's popularly.

but football first according to sources in russia father 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 saturday and he's holding talks were about carlos about taking over as head coach at the premier league outfit the club will hold a press conference on monday which is believed to concern the feature of current head coach john remember reside after the country's affordable association went against his wishes and st john terry of the captaincy richard portland's caught up with that who coached neighbors terry gross last year and the dutchman believes the question from a lake will provide her with a great challenge to decide to take the reins on the world's richest forward. it was a great experience. of the world.