continuous sit ins and protests and violent clashes with egypt's security forces pushing the protesters pushing for change they haven't seen yet. live here in moscow within twenty four hours a day still to come this hour despite mounting civilian deaths and plans for an early withdrawal the number of nato airstrikes in afghanistan could actually be increasing we explain why in a few moments. and here are some villain for others the u.s. army private accused by washington of treason receives a nomination for the nobel peace price. those stories still to come but first 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 as decided using technology alone is not enough you've got to sort 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 and 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 votes just around the corner events are unfolding quickly when . people want to vote responsibly and to know where their villages go they 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 bloggers activists artists writers and other public figures and statements made tedious like t.v. host and now activists who want to get ready for africa or the head of a charity fund and blogger he does any of that bianca also known as dr lisa.

or other school martha corden a tour of the blue buckets movement fighting for equal rights on roads for everyone was moved to 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 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. together unified database to keep track of the election political news 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 of the political process. the league's founders say they'll shut the organisation down if it ever starts turning into a political movement 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 promised from the 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 moscow afghan president hamid karzai accused

nato of killing eight children in an airstrike on wednesday officials launched an investigation 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 comanche filmmaker clay claiborne's thinks that despite the condemnation civilian casualties in the country will continue to rise he. to have any viability in 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 french troops on ports and i think because the u.s. is planning to pull out even move the next day for him because i think there are moving your troops out we can expect more airstrikes and more civilian casualties in afghanistan we already saw two thousand and eleven eight percent above 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 if they have to pull out decisively because they noted again it's up. more expert opinion on u.s. actions in afghanistan is on the web site free dot com that's 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 but the order from the pentagon marked urgent. and also on the web site

a year of rebuilding has pulled japan from the rubble these pictures show the streets immediately after last year's earthquake and tsunami what they look like today personal stories of survivors and plenty more of these images available for you right now at r.t. dot com. time now for some other international news in brief israeli air strikes on the gaza strip have left one civilian dead four others injured and killed was a guard at the farm israeli army confirmed the police say they were aimed at sites belonging to terror groups and were 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 sparked outrage in the kingdom last week after he tweeted that he would not pray for the prophet mohammed clerics condemned his thoughts as blasphemous the twenty three year old could now face execution.

pop legend a mattress whitney houston has died at the age of forty eight a performer was found in the beverly hills hotel room on the eve of the grammy awards in los angeles her 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 an icelandic parliamentary group the twenty four year old is awaiting a court martial in the u.s. and faces life in prison and pete bit of good to your daughter who leads the icelandic nomination says exposing crimes shouldn't be regarded as one bradley manning. because. him and most who are

long whistle on war crimes it is not a criminal act to blow the whistle workaround or to blow the whistle on any crime and we feel that. by these leaks for example the media calero mode or. the wall. and. people that have. put their way to war in afghanistan and iraq through their governments need to know why this meeting going on there and by knowing what is going on there and we see this in can apply more pressure on our governments to be accountable for the crimes that have been put out in our names we do not. have the bradley manning case be the person appears in just treatment in the course of silencing on the people the courageous people who want to do their civic duty by reporting on crimes.

or or military. well that's all for me for now i'll be back with a recap of our top stories for you in just a few moments stay with us live here in moscow this is.

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here in the russian capital top stories now the arab league is calling on the un to create a joint peacekeeping force for syria as the group aims to mount pressure on president assad the free syrian army says expect official recognition from arab gulf states. at least five buildings were set ablaze amid mass protests in greece is set for a tough choice of more public cuts to secure a one hundred thirty billion euro bailout. also reporting that iran's president promises major advances in its nuclear program saying tehran

would never stop enriching uranium iran insists its only pursuing atomic energy for peaceful purposes despite the long list of western sanctions imposed against. with another recap for fifteen minutes from now in the meantime we talked to pakistan's foreign minister who explains why she thinks that u.s. drone strikes in her country really making things worse instead of helping fight insurgency that's our special interview next on r.t. . 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 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

garst 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 very high in having stability in that one is 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 lands 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 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 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 whether the u.s. is succeeding or is winning in the understand 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 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 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 demeans of international law but even more importantly the 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 four do that it gives 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 do. 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. is absolutely no 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 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 reassess the whole 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 do king is not that of a confrontation the putative 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 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 and pretty much. all the bottle because this is not an accusation or allegation that has been made in pakistan the specific contact that the mention were with the taliban of all turning to a little insurgency is i think every intelligence agency in the world particularly the ones which are working in the one cement in 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 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 we 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 shown and that dialogue should be considered to be the only via forward and it would have disastrous let me go to war at least it pakistan feels it would have disastrous results for the region what about syria do support the military intervention against a side regime we support no military intervention against in the region because we feel that independent sovereign the details are told 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. for the culture. this could get. rid of resistance. 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 beds and not enough nurses commandos. to take care of all the people who are here the only real health care

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stories this hour on r.t. the arab league is calling on the un to create a joint peacekeeping force for syria as a group aims to melt pressure on president assad the free syrian army says it expects official recognition from arab gulf states. at least five buildings have been set on fire and mass protests in athens as lawmakers debate tough new austerity cuts ordered by the e.u. and i.m.f. in return for a one hundred thirty billion euro bailout to keep the country afloat these are live pictures from the center of the greek capitol where demonstrators have been moved away from the parliament building with police firing tear gas into crowds as i say

live pictures there from athens. and iran's president promises to reveal major advances in its nuclear program saying tehran 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. back with more on all of those stories more developments for us and fifteen minutes from now in the meantime it's the latest sports news with dimitri. hello there all the latest from loose boxing world on our team in the next eleven minutes or so it's very tempting again and it's been the bullets are. not going for a long route ports claim former england coach fabio capello could be about for russia to take charge at big spending and. in

play i looks on there's a corkscrew world cup in the competition. and west defeats in the challenge cup title rushers properly. but football first according to 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 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 future of current head coach john remember reside after the country's affordable association went against his wishes and stripped of the captaincy richard portraits caught up with that code.