in courts and media forming the 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 artists writers and other public figures and statements made in tedious like t.v. host and now activist but one of the ladies asked or the head of a charity fund and blogger he was idea to be 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 but is more than most 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 ways to move 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 league 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 the check and the election points 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 critically important not to cross the line and observers not on their position it is serious so if the mutations not to take sides in the political process. it is the least founders say those shut the organisation down if it ever starts turning into a political movement claiming they were 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 karen that it's believed just me secure enough to effectively monitor the vote in more as long as it avoids taking sides and protects its neutrality hugo is going to have already moscow. afghan president hamid karzai accuse nato of killing eight children and astrakhan once a day 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 chai could stoke already strained relations between cause i and his western backers over a mounting death toll documentary filmmaker clay table saying that despite the

condemnation civilian casualties in the country will continue to rise. he. j. have any viability any legitimacy as an afghan woman or 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 happened in the same area were afghan soldiers recently killed french troops important i think because the u.s. is planning a pull out the new movie next day for him because the injured are moving here to south we can expect more air strikes in most of the actions in afghanistan you are a start 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 know that they have to pull out safely because they know that again it's up. to us all the private bradley manning accused of passing secret documents and evidence of war crimes to weaken makes has been nominated for the nobel peace prize has been put forward by a peace research center in the u.s. and an icelandic poem entry group the twenty four year old is awaiting a court martial in the u.s. and faces life in prison and. needs they are frantic nomination says exposing trials shouldn't be regarded as one private manning to serve his honor because the. criminal or long whistle on war crimes he's not. a criminal act to blow the whistle on war crimes or to blow the whistle on any crime and. we feel bad. by these leaks for example the video calero motor. the wall. and particularly pete you people that have.

put their name to war in afghanistan and iraq through their governments need to now i wish me to going on there and by knowing what was going on there then we citizen can apply more pressure on our governments to be a comfortable with all of the crimes that have been put out in our names we do not and let the bradley manning case be because of his in just treatment being a chorus of silencing all the people the courageous people who want to do their civic duty by reporting on crime spear corporates state support or military. let's check some other international news stories in brief for you this hour is rated as strike on the gaza strip left one civilian dead and for those injured the man killed was a guard at a farm this really army confirms the bombings saying they were aimed at friends

belonging to terror groups and were a response to a short range rocket attack from gaza. rescuers have pulled a five year old girl alive from the rubble of a house flattened by a massive avalanche that code ten people a southern course of an official say she was found buried under ten meters of snow after officers heard her voice and a mobile phone ringing the avalanche hit the village of estelle it sound saturday destroying several houses rescue outfits for one bus is still missing have been suspended for a time due to bad weather and subzero temperatures. the grammy awards have paid tribute to pop legend and actress whitney houston has died at the age of forty eight she was found in a room at the beverly hilton hotel on the eve of this ceremony is sure was to attend in los angeles despite massive global success for over three decades her

career was marred by a turbulent marriage and drug abuse an autopsy has been performed but no information on its findings has been revealed at the request of detectives investigating the case. and. that was the news for this hour our interview with pakistan's foreign minister is coming up next after another quick look at the headlines.

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welcome back to our tease it will clear the headlines. the greek parliament gives the green light to new sort of harsh austerity cuts demanded by the u.s. and the i.m.f. before they handed over a hundred and thirty billion euro bailout that this podcast protests in the center of athens which saw dozens hundreds of clashes with police has rises torched buildings and looted shops. the arab league calls on the you are integrated joint peacekeeping since for syria that there when i was a show ends to mount more pressure on president assad and damascus has rejected the

proposal that. underground promises to reveal major advances in its nuclear program which it is says is for peaceful energy part this is despite the long lived the western sanctions imposed against it. and the next hour he talks to pakistan's foreign minister who explains why should things that you are as drone strikes in her country are only making things worse instead of helping fight insurgency. she's the youngest foreign minister and of all 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 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 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 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 in that one is to 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 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 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 on 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 logically 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 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 powers of the

world decided to do in the region to rid itself of the. a challenge that appeared in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine which was the mission 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 the mistakes 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 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 to continue 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 there. is no doubt 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 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 allegation that has been made in part with the specific context that the mentor with the taliban of all turned into little insurgencies i think every intelligence agency in the world particularly the ones which are working in the one some indian style 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 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 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 stepping 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 support the military intervention against assad's 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 shined in many many places what we need to ensure the international community is that violence from any side is not given lunch is not allowed to. move forward thank you very much for

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but football first according to sources in russia father capello could become the next manager of. the italian 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 stripped of the captaincy richard one poor flits caught up with it who coached neighbors terry gross last year and of the dutchman believes the question from a lake will provide her with a great challenge people decide to take the reins on the world's richest. it was a great experience. to work with them.