square is packed with demonstrators for the third day amid fears on rest could return with renewed vigor to the city if the police move in. this. water cannons and pepper spray used to quell the public fury which proport of the left two people dead and sent strong reverberations across turkey. and. police around the european central bank in frankfurt charging into crowds of protesters we report from the scene where many thousands were demanding and. so a prominent sunni cleric calls for an islamic jihad against president assad. in for the jews and christians just days after syrian rebels were reportedly caught

smuggling sarin gas chemical weapons so horrific it's banned by the u.n. . reporting the f.b.i. suspect shot multiple times during terror authorities claim it was self-defense one of cording two latest reports it's unclear whether he was even. on the look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly here on. crowds of anti-government protest as a pouring into istanbul's taksim square sparking fears of further unrest in the turkish city following two days of fierce street battles at least two people have been reportedly killed and more than a thousand injured. the rock police moved in to disperse the rally with tear gas

water cannons and electric shock battens what was initially a peaceful sit in a snowballed into a nationwide protest involving almost fifty turkish cities. is in istanbul. the streets of istanbul look like a scene from war burned cars makeshift barricades broken shop windows not exactly what residents of the city are used to this protests this is not only for taksim gives a park this is the. policy of governments under pressure. for . for about ten years the current chaos is the aftermath of the protests that gripped not just istanbul but some other cities and towns across turkey prime minister recep tayyip erdogan and syria the increasing islamisation of the country and a major crackdown on the media these are just a few of the problems turks have with their government many feel it doesn't serve

the people but rather works against them you know some of the morning my daughter was beaten because of what she was wearing because her attackers were affiliated with the government the police stood by and did nothing but old. cars from television they moved from here i said why don't you move they got direction from the police they couldn't make. life interviews with peter cook or a journalist and this is the problem because. what happened in turkey was called a disgraceful use of excessive police force by amnesty international water cannons tear gas and pepper spray were all used against mostly peaceful protesters once the police are treated however the crowds turned their anger against the t.v. trucks of the state media accusing stations of failing to broadcast the reality of texting square hundreds of people wounded and talk of several deaths this is the human toll of the clashes on the street. politics is the hottest topic of

conversation even an attempt to record an interview turns into she did debate. experience for me and. i can explain i can explain i will explain my son my grandson after after maybe ten years or five years if we get to here is a quiet sit in by the gezi park people are trying to save the few remaining trees in the middle of the city but now they're saying they're trying to save turkey for murder and his government and say they won't leave until the prime minister does and they stumble it in a ghost archie. and go toward coleman he's an independent journalist author and middle east expert he feels the rest across the country could be the direct result of prime minister against policies abroad i think this is quite ironic that one of the leaders for. finally being confronted with

mass protests in his own country genuine protests on like the armed insurrection. in syria i don't think this is a kind of leader. doesn't seem to listen to anybody. this is a this is a. pretty much. the last few years back he's not using war so i think it's genuine. and on our website you can find live updates on the current unrest in turkey including footage photos and witness accounts from there also take part in the site and share your ideas on the story with us in the comment section or that. dot com. and then to a sturdy demonstration in the german financial capital frankfurt this week took

a turn for the worse when hundreds of riot gear clad officers tore into marching protesters spraying tear gas at will police then drove the marchers into a tighter and tighter area a suppression tactic known as kettling peter oliver was there for r.t. . a planned march that was supposed to go right through the middle of all germany spine until capital only really lasted five hundred meters before police into the splits in a demonstration and see several different parts now the police have told us that this is because they asked people to remove mosques who were marching in the green put on see sarah c n n z fascist campaign is they refused to do that then paint was throwing police responded with with pepper spray now this then ended up with a i was long standoff in the sense at all the front we said many people. in the clashes that broke out sporadically between the police and protesters.

who were standing there suddenly police moved in and they beat some of us and i will stop a street there was no reason for that i managed to get out. from work oh this is your policy not ours now away from me paying throwing in the pepper spraying the idea behind blokey pie i was supposed to show the political leaders of europe that they not happy that they want change and they said that they had a clear message to those leaders in the european union this is book i frankly have been came alongside the release of unemployment figures for the eurozone countries

and they made well pretty desperate reading almost twenty million people are out of work in the eurozone most of them young we're hearing that open almost one in four under twenty five's don't have a job and that's what resulted in many people coming out on on the streets of front to demonstrate. all of the reporting there tens of thousands also took up banners across spain and portugal on saturday to make yet another stand against austerity or not you tube channel you can watch the footage from madrid and lisbon the capitals of the two nations among the worst hit by cuts. artie's you tube channel rocketing to a billion views from the world's era defining disasters to events that continue to change our lives join me kevin zero in for more on how you've helped make our t.

the first global news channel to reach you tube. details have emerged this week called the killing of a chechen u.s. immigrant by an f.b.i. agent it was shot dead during questioning over his alleged link to one of the boston marathon bombing suspects there's been reports suggesting he was unarmed at the time and that contradicts the f.b.i. the earlier claims that he attacked agents with a knife or a metal rod darshan's father says it's hard to believe he was killed in self-defense. the kid from the photographs that was sent to me it's evident he was shot six times to the body and once to the head at the back of the head because it looks like a finishing shot of an assassination to me it looks as if they came to his house like bandits and shot him in cold blood from the photos his house looked like it had been robbed and he was questioned for eight hours without witnesses or

a lawyer no one can tell for sure what happened there until there is an official investigation the agents say my son attacked them mostly but there was several armed and well trained men even if he lost his temper and became violent they could have restrained him or wound him shoot him in the leg all the jamba all the shoulder but what happened was murder complete with a finishing shot maybe my son knew something the police didn't want to come out and they killed him to keep him silent there's no. investigative journalism veteran police officer mike ruppert believes today killing leaves a lot open to interpretation there are two glaring problems with what we have has as an already contradictory account from law enforcement zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero about how the events went down the first of which is the man was unarmed and i will hearken back to my days on the streets in one nine hundred seventy six in los angeles where. olympic medalist juan carlos got

combative with a bunch of police officers not not one of us drew our guns and we were getting thrown around like rag dolls and we were all trained and we were all very very fit at the time so there's a there's an escalation of force scale which was obviously or apparently not followed in this case but my second huge problem with the law enforcement stories he was supposed to be signing a confession to a triple murder i don't care even if if you are the f.b.i. which doesn't have a good reputation you're us somebody is going to sign a confession for. triple murder you have a minute jailhouse in the secure setting and the police officer officers law enforcement personnel around him are not armed because he's in a secure setting this is best for the f.b.i. . horribly mishandled but it sounds to me very much like they went there with the intent to provoke him and stay just shooting standard police procedure everywhere

the world was not followed here thousands assembled to support a whistleblower bradley manning ahead of his d.-day soldier finally faces trial to free is waiting in hall she confinement company can top secret documents showing alleged u.s. atrocities committed aboard. britain draws the attention of the u.n. as it gets him brought in a scandal of following in the u.s. his footsteps but operating a guantanamo style prison in afghanistan or next after the break. a clear image of iraq after inflation. twenty day taxi trip through the country. the roads full of danger. clear evidence from north to south. the route of iraqi tragedy. after the

war waiting for peace. taxi on r.t.e. . live. these continues her pen islamic jihad has been called against syria with

a prominent islamic cleric branding be a said government quote more infidel the jews and christians the call to arms was made by shaikh use of. rhetoric which is millions in the arab world through the old news network which is made the shake is still made while syrian rebel groups refuse to attend an upcoming peace conference in geneva they saw the own going fighting in the syrian province of course with government and lebanese hezbollah troops have mounted an enormous offensive one that now the list say could change the course of the civil war well earlier my colleague rory sushi discussed the past week with autism you see covenant has been closely following events in the water and country . the leaders of the syrian opposition had in fact announced they will not be participating in the u.s. and russian sponsored peace talks they are saying that has been laws involvement in the bloody civil war really complicates things though the group itself is highly divided there's questions as to whether they have the syrian opposition have credibility with the syrians on the ground meanwhile president bashar al assad in

an interview this week said only a referendum would decide whether he should leave power further complicating things is the decision by the european union which agreed not to renew a weapons and bargo in syria the u.k. and france really led this push to dismantle the cargo which prevailed despite opposition from other european union member states those two countries are saying that this would have somehow helped to ratchet up pressure against president bashar al assad some western powers lucy accusing russia at this point of hampering peace efforts over the whole argument about russia supplying assad with weapons how does moscow justify this let's a complex issue russia's plan to ship as three hundred anti-aircraft systems to syria cause a stir this week after president bashar al assad in an. interview said that russia will be honoring its defense contracts further complicating things that the israeli elements the israelis have said that they are strongly opposed to this that they are prepared to use force if those weapons are delivered but we have to keep in mind these are contracts were signed roughly

a year before the syrian civil war broke out in twenty eleven russians are not prepared to console the contracts although the deputy foreign minister has said that this is seen as a stabilizing factor that will deter quote what he called some hotheads from considering to send in foreign forces to intervene in the syrian conflict i do think that russian made s. three hundred myself either is or supposed to be for defensive purposes not offensive but what about the issue of the use of chemical weapons it came up again this week can you tell us more about that it's a bit murky but according to local turkish media reports the turkish government has rounded up about twelve people with suspected ties to the island those are fronts this is one of the rebel groups that's affiliated with al qaida that's been fighting bashar al assad on the ground and at least according to one it media reports they have discovered what they said two kilograms of sarin gas a powerful new york talks and now these are not confirmed reports but they do come amid growing concern of the use of chemical weapons by both sides and the united nations human rights investigators have in fact obtained testimony from on the

ground witnesses who allege that the rebels had used sarin gas now again unsubstantiated testimony but we should it did prompt a response from the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov. we've warned repeatedly of provocations connected with chemical weapons we've also insisted on investigations into any case related to their possible use including the incident reportedly took place near aleppo we're very disappointed that because of political games the u.n. has failed to act on this we expect our turkish colleagues to quickly provide a full report on this latest case this issue ation is too serious for those who constantly talk about the chemical weapons problem to keep playing games around it each and every incident needs to be investigated and. so there you have a the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov calling for an investigation into what obviously is a murky but but serious issue of concern. he's torn

a middle east expert tunick ali says some groups of the syrian opposition are trying everything to provoke a military intervention i think one of the. off some of the fighters combating the regime is to try and create maximum havoc and produce a situation where everyone says we have to have an intervention i mean i recall very well during the first gulf war in iraq there will all sorts of propaganda we close june state are shown to be completely false such as the iraqi soldiers said you know got all supplies to babies in hospitals and so many babies died or no on a larger scale the live saddam hussein and iraq had weapons of mass destruction so i expect anything from people closely allied to the west if the a mr trigger

a military intervention the weapons could start reaching syria but august after the european union lifted an arms embargo against the state spearheading the initiative britain and france despite opposition from other states who were wary those very weapons could be turned against europeans are you going to sign off takes a look at the syrian opposition and those who might be armed on its behalf. since britain and france blocked attempts to extend the e.u. embargo on supplying arms to the syrian rebels there have been growing fears that the weapons could end up in the wrong hands and this is why the syrian opposition is made up of many divided and often competing factions and clearly there is no force that can represent it as a whole there is the syrian national council the national coalition for syrian revolutionary and opposition forces the supreme military council the free syrian army the international coordination committee the. brigade and many more like to

point out that only the n.c.c. says it's open to dialogue with the authorities while all the others have officially proclaimed their goal is to topple the regime the only difference being how extreme their approaches are and here is where these two rebel groups stand out . is officially recognized as a terror organization by the u.s. it's also known for its links to al qaeda and for being among the most highly trained rebel forces currently on the ground in syria and the fire brigade perhaps just as notorious after one of its leading commanders was shown eating the body parts of a dead syrian soldier on video but despite warnings raised by international human rights groups including international and human rights watch the rebels have been receiving weapons for some time now according to western media reports the rebels have received one hundred sixty planeloads of arms shipments from jordan saudi arabia quarter via turkey and then with

a cargo smuggled across the border here with syria but no matter which rebel group or the arms may be destined for it's also widely recognized that they usually end up in the hands of the best trained and most radical brigades. the health of the guantanamo bay hunger strikers continues to worsen more inmates are being force fed through. that as a group of protesters demand in an open letter to independent medical help from different doctors. and still to come this hour schizophrenia man who claims to have killed hundreds has been granted asylum in the u.k. throwing up big question marks over decision making in the immigration system. still to come but first thousands of people gathered in the american city of baltimore in support of bradley manning on the eve of one of the most decisive days in his knife a soldier faces dozens of charges after leaking top secret files including footage of a u.s.

helicopter attack on civilians during the country's iraqi campaign the long anticipated military trial is expected to begin on monday. was that the ronnie. we're at fort meade maryland in baltimore on monday the court martial against by the first class bradley manning will finally begin private manning twenty five year old army intelligence officer is accused of the biggest leak in the history of the united states according to army prosecutors manning is responsible for the lion's share of material that's been shared by the anti-secrecy wiki leaks in the last few years u.s. state department cables watanabe detainee assessment files on iraqi and afghan war logs have all been attributed to private manning and for leaking this material the u.s. government is charging him with aiding the enemy and he could spend the rest of his life in prison on monday however the courtroom here in fort meade in the back with supporters and prosecutors attorneys on both sides waiting for the court martial finally get three years after manning was first brought into custody it was late

being twenty ten with manning was picked up in baghdad transferred to kuwait brought back to united states and spent three years of waiting waiting for this court martial to finally get the sense december two thousand and eleven they've been having pretrial hearings here at fort meade and there's been really them all over the world in support of the soldier according demonstrators this is the largest bradley manning really that's never happened in the three plus years since he's been but if the u.s. military custody people from all over the country gathered here today to really in support of the soldier but there's also demonstrations planned in more than two dozen cities in four compton and some across the world in the next coming days seoul south korea pearl in germany gerano ontario cities throughout the united states and across north america and the rest of the globe are all holding events this week in support of private manning now his court martial will actually begin on monday more than three years more than one thousand days after it was first brought into custody and by the end of the summer his supporters his family his friends are all finally going to know how he's going to spend the rest of his life

. and michael ratner president of the said difficult situational rights and june in a syllogism wiki leaks us lawyer believes washington should look in the mirror and take responsibility for its own crimes exposed by many a problem for me as no one is looking at the accountability of my own government for the crimes committed there only focusing on yes bradley no bradley i support bradley manning i support what he did i support the revelation of the criminality of my own government and i support accountability for my own government why don't they look at the torture centers they set up in iraq why don't they look at the illegal drones are using all over the world that's the accountability we ought to have we shouldn't be taking one young soldier and trying to put him in jail forever we're dealing with these secrets ocracy of criminality of the united states my hope is that the american people will understand through the misinformation disclosed by wiki leaks bradley manning and others the nature of their government and be able to

change that government in a way that makes sense and will about human rights that's my hope the courts and the world i'm orginally that us not been manipulated to do in one day for extensive coverage of bradley manning's trial if you want to delve deeper into the history of the soldiers case and read more about his hellish confinement conditions log on right now to l.t. dot com. this is. a group of hunger striking going to my bay detainees are sent an open letter to their military doctors saying they want independent medical treatment more than one hundred inmates have been refusing food for months in a bid to put an end to indefinite detention without charge and poor treatment and conditions what despite president obama promising once again to speed up the

closure of the camp the situation there has only deteriorated more people are being force fed a procedure considered this torture by the un with the number currently standing at thirty seven where more inmates are receiving medical help as well as he spoke to the father of a guantanamo prisoner who also heads the kuwaiti detainees in guantanamo committee khalid al odah told us what happened to his son after he resorted to starvation my son been there for eleven years no charges again it's against him it is very difficult for him to tell me what's going on there because there is the district shoes for all the detainees not to talk about the conditions inside the camp but i can tell by the way he looks was so skinny this is the first time for him to put some glasses on his eyes. looks he looks horrible.

he could not concentrate while he's talking to me he has i lack of nutrition it affected his body his thinking we are very concerned very concerned about his life. and this week saw britain embroiled in a row about its own guantanamo clone it was revealed that up to ninety afghan nationals have been detained in secret without charge at the u.k.'s camp bastion base as ulti surf and out some of been held there for more than a year. u.k. lawyers described this is a secret facility that was completely off the radar leading some to describe this as the u.k.'s kuantan a murder in afghanistan but it was a firm and speedy response that we saw from the other eighty and from defense secretary philip haven't just the details emerge of the detention facility income and of the legal action launched by u.k. lewis on behalf of some of the detainees there were some pretty damning revelations

from. these detainees being held for fourteen months now the ministry of defense and the defense secretary admitted that between eighty and ninety detainees being held they were very quick thing to try to move away and quash these comparisons with one kind of. main difference is number one the afghan detainees they said were being held. in safety and the second reason that they gave was that this wasn't a secret this is the first time that many in the british public will have heard about this detention facility and the u.k. ambassador spoke out after these revelations saying that this was a principle of national serenity and that the detainees should be handed over to the afghan security forces as soon as possible the question of how to handle detainees has been the most enduring control the sea since the u.s.

led military campaigns in afghanistan and iraq and certainly until these transfers have made this controversy and these compare parazynski. they don't look like they're going to go a. london british germy corben agrees that similarities between june and guantanamo bay are striking. people are collected all rested as enemy combatants held for very long periods and not allowed normal judicial process just as we've gone. and i think that the legacy of two thousand and one of guantanamo. and the extraordinary rendition process is something that's going to live for a very long time international law has been seriously undermined by britain and the usa and their behavior over afghanistan for the past twelve years the afghan

government is supposed to be in charge of the country and those british american and many other soldiers allegedly fighting to protect this government they claim they can't hold prisons over this government they'll be tortured but instead they're held illegally in these two bases. egypt's legislative body is ruled illegal by the country's supreme courts while on the streets brutal executions become of worryingly common and i could police services leading to a spread of vigilante justice that story of this coming up plus. the new gold medals for the search the winter olympics are being unveiled causing ripples of excitement with less than a year before the event takes russia and the world by storm. distraction is one thing the media does very well we all tend to focus on one spicy

issue of the moment and ignore the rest jim those are definitely worth the media attention but let's not ignore the fact that the food people eat around the world is an attack from multiple fronts antibiotics are often overused in cattle which can and eventually sadly will lead to anti biotics resistant bacteria evolving animals are also injected with various hormones which can make their way into our stomachs and speaking of mysterious things getting into our body pretty much any crops and you we are doused with all sorts of pesticides and sit on top of powerful fertilizers which can affect bodies of water far beyond the fence of the farm obviously technology has been and should be used in farming so we all don't starve i get why pesticides exist and why they start giving diseased animals antibiotics but there comes a point where out putting a lot of poisonous food will kill you just as dead to slowly starving will there is a healthy middle ground out there somewhere but if we only worry about just the g m

o's and only win that battle then we'll still be eating food loaded with bad stuff just other bad stuff but that's just my opinion. this is the weekly live here in moscow a schizophrenia man from kenya who claims to have murdered hundreds of people has been granted asylum in the u.k. bring into focus the flaws of the country's immigration system put a book of reports on the uphill battle for the british authorities looking to deport new arrivals who threaten public safety. he says he's murdered up to four hundred people with a machete and his native kenya killed police and taken part in female genital mutilation but a court ruled that twenty seven year old. is free to stay in the u.k.

he arrived illegally back in two thousand and three when the home office trying to deport him he appealed and an immigration tribunals that suffers from schizophrenia and had made up the atrocities he was granted leave to remain in the u.k. because he's at risk of committing suicide if you returns to kenya. if you look at. it is possible for him to. join the fust potentially dangerous individual that the home office of tried and failed to deport jordanian terrorist suspect abu qatada has avoided extradition for over a decade his lawyers argue it's against his human rights to return to jordan where he could face torture.

people but it did happen. it was hard to death in broad daylight by two men wielding meat cleavers the murder of the country the suspects have been known to morrissey's and questions have been asked about whether or not the police could have done more to amend the murder and yes a week later we learned that a mentally unstable man who claims to have killed hundreds of people gets to stay in the u.k. the ruling once again raises questions about who safety the british immigration judges are protecting. auti london. clashes between hundreds of supporters and protests. in the heart of london at least one member of the british national party was injured in fighting and the sixty people were arrested go online to see what happened also at r.t. dot com. russia said it is not afraid to flex its military muscle

announcing its nuclear submarines could well be deployed next year in waters of the south of russia for the first time since the collapse of the u.s.s.r. on the details right now on our website. and also the number of twisters of ripped through oklahoma city killing nine people and slamming into cars and buildings we have the extraordinary pictures and the videos right now. egypt's supreme court has ruled the country's islamist dominated upper house as well as the panel behind the current constitution invalid however they can only be dissolved after a new election date for which is yet to be set confusion and the high levels of power bring chaos in the streets with vigilante justice spreading as police look the other way you may find some of the images and report disturbing. uncrate crowd viciously drug a young man through a street sets his corpse on fire and strings it up video clips like these have

become boringly frequent in brule egypt since the revolution two years ago as citizens increasingly take justice into their own hands almost upper east side on mr a thirty one year old civil servant from the nile delta is one such victim he was brutally murdered and hung from a tree in broad daylight. the crowd thought that he was a thief because he's mentally ill the first blow came from behind on the back of his head and then part of his skull was hacked off the second hit was to his chest and they caught him open arms sabri story is not unique since the two thousand member evolution have been at least seventeen similar lynchings in this region alone the most high profile victim who was killed last week was the son of a leading member of the missing brotherhood's political party security forces for their part say they are unable to control the situation particularly when entire villages are involved in these bitter lanty mobs however local party leader ahmed

shah hearts who personally knew one of the victims maintain security is improving post revolution one of the egypt has experienced one of the best revolutions in history the country is being healed very quickly we're almost in a stable situation there will be security we have a plan for the economy and security of egypt this is little consolation for the families of victims like sabri who have seen no justice. the local security chief said just give me one leg a dog will arrest him in twenty four hours now i was tough on has been dead for fifty days and security director has done nothing. against the backdrop of escalating civil unrest off the revolution many fear this violence is here to stay and that the worst could be yet to come. true for our t. shirt came. from international news in brief heavy rain is cause flooding across parts of western and central europe even cars stranded in houses inundated in

germany two people have drowned over the last couple of days and local authorities are scrambling to put up defenses against the rising waters is also isolated flooding in poland near the border with the czech republic a number of people have been evacuated from their houses. a powerful earthquake measuring six point three on the richter scale the shaking taiwan triggering that left one person dead eighteen others have been injured and residents rushed out into the streets when the jolts began the quake also sparked a gas explosion in the center the odd one to be as reported. the sochi winter olympic games are false to pro chain with less than a year now until they get under way the winners' medals were unveiled in st petersburg this week with some of the best of the russian traditions upon them. give us a glimpse of the spoils that will go to the olympic. now holding up one of these will be the dream of every athlete competing in sochi twenty fourteen which begin

in just a month's time and here in st petersburg the medals were revealed for the very first time to the public the designers hope to capture russia's sense of national identity and character and they've tried to do that by showing the warm waters of the black sea crashing into the ice of krasnaya polyana up in the mountains and if you look very closely you will also notice a patchwork quilt thing here and that is meant to represent the multi ethnicity of russia a record thirty eight hundred of these will be produced and that is because sochi twenty fourteen will be the biggest winter olympics in history and also if you win one of these you will need a very strong net because they do you weigh in at something like over five hundred grams i spoke with jimmy for tuna shanker who chairs the sochi organizing committee and he hopes that when someone does game one of these they will also take away the spirit of russia on a more serious note mr chernyshenko also addressed security concerns and said that the government had taken exceptional steps to guarantee the games would be safe and

secure he also talked about the possibility of a lack of snowfall because sochi has experienced a very mild winter but he has said that tons of snow is now being stored under thermal blankets up in the mountains to cover any shortfall essentially the message is such he is ready andrey farmer r.t. some papers but. what's it for me for the moment in a couple of minutes the leader of one of europe's smallest countries explains his nation's fight for fairness against the e.u. on his doorstep after that of a bout with a new team in twenty minutes from the. a clear image of iraq after inflation. twenty day taxi trip through the country. the roads are full of dangerous. clear evidence

from north to south. the root of iraqi tragedy. after the war waiting for peace. by god taxi on our t.v. . sigrid laboratory to mccurry was able to build a most sophisticated robot which all unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach me the creation and why it should care about humans in the world this is why you should care watch only on the dog calm. i've.

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mr president welcome to our example for talking to us it's been eight years since you took office looking back what have you managed to achieve during those first twelve months and how do you assess your work in general. in the world it was a productive year for me and the serbian government for example we've successfully reduced crime we've also been trying to find a solution to the issue of serbs in kosovo a solution that would rest on two principles first so should be able to live there in peace and second serbia will never recognize the independence of kosovo furthermore we want albanians to stop expropriating land and for serbs to stay where they are i think we've made great progress unfortunately our economy is extremely weak and it will be a long time before we'll see any real improvement a budget relies on consumption not production and this is one area where the government hasn't been able to make any significant headway i hope that the date to

start membership negotiations with the european union will be announced soon that will be a sign of best ability and send a positive signal to foreign investors that would help us repair service economy. so that's a lot of money at the visits of delegations from serbia to russia have become more frequent lately but the talks have been held behind closed doors what is russia's response to service closer ties to the e.u. and those complicated compromises that serbia has to make. serbia will never have as close and as strong relations with the west as russia does cooperation with russia doesn't mean we have turned away from the u. cooperation with the e.u. doesn't mean we've turned away from russia moscow has never told serbia directly or indirectly that it shouldn't cooperate with the e.u. russia wants the serbian government to do whatever it takes to improve the living standards about people we leaning towards europe simply because of our geographic

location we're in the heart of europe surrounded by e.u. countries that's why european standards at the benchmark for us becoming an e.u. member is not important in itself a primary goal is to catch up with the developed european countries and if we succeed the lives of our people will definitely improve earlier relations with the west boiled down to serbia doing what the west says but i refused to go along with such an approach and then drafted a platform which served as the basis for a major very solution in the status of kosovo serbs serbia had to face new conditions regularly being placed on it now we've set out own conditions you must have seen how the talks in brussels went it's no longer easy to twist serbia around their fingers we ready for discussion provided that everything is in compliance with international law and he has a talk with the e.u. now and it crisis what does serb expect from joining doesn't the situation in spain

greece and portugal scare you. to post. well there's no obvious difference serbia is not in the same situation as the u. i'd say that some e.u. countries haven't been honest enough they'd overspend and send freight budget reports to their partners many europeans were spoiled by their governments the e.u. exploited the whole world to provide a better life and huge welfare benefits for its citizens but now the reckoning is overdue there's a time to customs and a time to gather them you may enjoy a free ride for a while but. one day you'll have to pay and now an employee you citizens are at a loss how come they no longer have an extra seven or eight hundred euros at hand how come there are no more social benefits free of charge accommodation electricity or natural gas the situation in serbia is different it would take a long time before the e.u. degenerated into the poverty that we're in at the moment we don't really care about relations.