the balkans are both hopeful and cautionary tale of the modern world.everyone needs a sense of identity. we need to be able to define ourselves in boxes which enable us to feel tangible and to draw distinctions. man, woman, white, black, african-american, asian, old, young. [laughter] student-teacher. our whole minds work to categorize a blurred reality into categories. and then humanities repeatedly gets in trouble when the categories become more important than the underlying humanity. all this genome research shows we are not 9.5% the same. and the balkans for a searing experience for me because here were people who are biologically indistinguishable who were of different religious faiths and cultural traditions because of an accident of history where the ottoman empire stopped, where the holy roman empire stopped, where the slavic empire stopped and all of a sudden that was all that matter. mattered. it mattered so much that people could kill each other and have no regard for whether their children lived or died. and so, i think that is at the root o

we, of obviously, want to see te balkans joined. think we all share the view that the future for the western balkans is in these transatlantic structures, and we will work hard and keep that door open for the countries to participate. but it's also true, and it's something that president obama has stressed and secretary clinton, is that this is not a club. this is an alliance which is fighting a war in afghanistan that has serious security challenges and that we expect just as we can help provide security by their membership in nato, they also have to be in a position to contribute. and so the bar is only the bar of making sure that as they come into these institutions, that they can contribute. and that it's not just being done to help them along their course. and i do think this is one of the fundamental challenges that we face because the international community had a great deal of responsibility, and the united states took responsibility to help bring an end to the conflict in bosnia and in the balkans, and we share a strong com

the balkans are hopeful and cautionary tale of the modern world. everyone heeds a sense of identity. it is tangible, african and latin americans. student teachers. our whole mind work to categorize a blurred reality in the categories. then humanity gets in trouble when categories become more important than the underlying humanity. all this genome research shows we are 95% the same. the balkans where a searing experience for me because here were people who were biologically indistinguishable who were of different religious faiths and cultural divisions because one accident of history where the ottoman empire stopped and the roman empire stopped and the islamic empire stopped. and all of a sudden that was all that mattered. it mattered so much that people could kill each other and have no regard for whether their children lived or died. and so i think that that is at the root of all the problems everywhere else. that lead to violence. many years ago i read a book of years ago by robert wright who is most famous for having written the moral animal whi

denied that there is any cause and effect relationship between depleted uranium and the so-called balkan syndrome you have just pledged most need to authorities have agreed in the years since one nine hundred ninety nine no indications have been given as to whether or not any medical follow up has been done on the soldiers supposedly exposed to depleted uranium in kosovo and member states about the precautions to be taken when it comes to depleted uranium in the gulf we have not been able to see any indication of any medical problem from those who had the highest exposure who were in or on to be able it was struck with acquited uranium they about half the crew survived those kids after and those that survived have not been able to see any medical problem now nine years later. and they had we know the highest exposure who pleaded uranium of anyone who served in world cultures that so much as i know it was recorded on it. drawing battle lines over collective bargaining puts america's democracy dentals in the line of fire but is this move the red tape rolled back. wealthy british. market wh

denied that there is any cause and effect relationship between depleted uranium and the so-called balkan syndrome just because most nato authorities have agreed in the years since one nine hundred ninety nine no indications have been given as to whether or not any medical follow up has been done on the soldiers supposedly exposed to depleted uranium in kosovo and member states about the precautions to be taken when it comes to depleted uranium in the go. we have not been able to see any indication of any medical problem from those who had the highest exposure who were in or on a vehicle that was struck with the polluted uranium grade about half the crew survived those it's half tied and those that survived have not been able to see any medical problem now nine years later. and they had we know the highest exposure to the pleated uranium of anyone who served in the gulf. yes my name is daniel schmidt this is joining us on the we're here to make a short presentation of all that we can fix project. the first. in the fourth day anything to get information out about the real world. to him war

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into small states of the global power that isn't something anyone can be grateful for parker says balkans expert always a pleasure to have you on the program thank you. well the coalition acting in libya is made up of nato members but the alliance itself is not officially involved as of yet the europe correspondent for c daniel bushell's in brussels for us tonight where nato is deciding what its role is going to be. we're in day two or two of the nato meeting here in brussels and the first decision yesterday made was to enforce a no fly zone over libya airspace the next is to prevent the use of radar and air defenses by colonel gadhafi his regime and then to stop the eastward advance of gadhafi into the rebel strongholds now this is where the group problems begin because of course colonel gadhafi does not have to just use he can also use ground troops and the risks the escalation. that is really on all fronts something that really america with this iraq experience doesn't want to get into and only now are they discussing about putting humanitarian issues first of course this was the key i

resulted in the breakdown of yugoslavia as a country that balkanization of weapons that this is all this the subsidy bet is not expect that it should not happen in libya but when somebody there a machine is on the ground or air strikes are in place there are also so many ended consequences cut that you can see in a certain sense that the ball the ball of fire is simply that his hands now because he has already promised in a way that we don't know if he has enough military forces for that to give them the mediterranean if he could he could attack not only at the area of expert could he could start terrorist operations or terrorist linked operations in the european mainland in strengths and in italy because the nato planes would basically coming from french and italian bases and of it in tehran which saw all sorts of any kind of consequences are at play and this could get really really messy and this is something that the u.n. and nato to moral i'm not sure they are revealed for all these unintended consequences and we will of course keep our eyes on this as you say this goal of fire had t

i think it's really important that you brought up the situation in the balkans back in one thousand nine hundred nine the nato approved deal that happened there were the situations i mean there are starting to be a lot of similarities we've got you know well down those of us back there we've got khadafi here there are two leaders that are. stubborn keeping their position and there's also this violence that's happening do you think similar outcome will happen here as then usually yes the similar outcome usually has to do with people having to be a little runt of all the violence from both sides whether it be nato or whether it be ongoing with g.m. but i would suggest to bring something new to the table that we have to see the overriding agenda of the global power it needs that i think are driving the decisions in london and in france and in space and in the united nations because what we've been seeing over the past three months in all of north africa and the better part of the middle of the middle east is an attack forward gene change and this all has one thing in common by getting rid o

retired general wesley clark commanded nato during the wars in the balkans in the 1990s. >> the u.n. security council resolution says no occupation by foreign military troops. but that doesn't mean you couldn't put, let's say, air and naval gun fire liaison coordinating teams on the ground and use those folks to support the rebels, if it comes to fighting. or taking out gadhafi's forces. >> the united states essentially lit a fuse that's easier to light than it is to extinguish. because the limited steps that we are doing are unlikely to be the end of it. if they fail, the united states and the world are going to be on the hook to do a lot more. >> reporter: and finally, what is the end game? it might be clear who we're fighting against, moammar gadhafi, a long-time weirdo and thug in the region, a boogie man in the middle east for decades, but who are we fighting for? >> one of the lessons of the last few years of iraq and afghanistan ought to be we need to be doubly careful of getting involved in these military situations when we are not fully knowledgeable of the situation. sure,

issue of the parking variance is are concerned because the intent of section 242 is to limit the balkan mass of new construction. particulate on steeply sloping lots. -- particularly on a steeply sloping lots. a modification of the plan will reduce the need for a parking variance. there have been no other parking variances in our neighborhood for new construction in the last several years. only for renovations, where the existing building made it impractical to construct more garage space. that means that everybody else who builds in our neighborhood manages to comply with section 242. the argument they should have a variance because the code is out of date is frivolous. the commission would not consider this argument for other cases. it would amount to spot the zoning on peralta avenue, since all nearby properties have to comply with the parking regulations. this property is not on a transit corridor. there is one bus six blocks down the hill. that is not a transit corridor. in summary, the east slope design review board believes a reduction in the size and scale of the buildings will

balkan peninsula, alpine region a chance of snowfall today. fairly settled picture for the rest of europe. the winds will be strong across the skand knavian peninsula and norway could see snow. three in stockholm and three in warsaw. cold but not the frigid temperatures we have been seeing the past few days. that's a look at the weather conditions for now and i will leave you with your three-day outlook. here's one of our lead stories this hour. new zealand's government says it will end rescue operations in the earthquake hit city of christchurch, the country's ministry of civil defense and emergency management informed reporters on this on thursday. it said the hopes of rescuing anyone else alive from the rubble are gone and the focus is now on recovery. authorities say they have so far recovered the bodies of 161 people. they say the final death toll could reach 240. >>> and we'll be back with more news in 30 minutes. i'm gene otani in tokyo . this is rainwater .. collected from the roof and sent through underground pipes into this 1500 gall

and in to inland areas of spain and the balkan peninsula, too, looking at further flurries to fly again today. really starting to pile up in some of these areas. as for highs 3 in stoke hole, 7 in berlin and vienna and 13 degrees and rome and 9 in madrid. that's a look at your weather for now and here's your three-day outlook. >>> we'll be back with more news in 30 minutes. i'm gene otani in tokyo . çç

and own over toward the southeastern corner winds still very, very strong across italy and the balkansthat slow-moving system still with us, bringing unsettled weather torch of turkey. there is going to be plenty of snow to contend with because of the cold air aloft. looking at snow for athens today with strong winds. 4 degrees in warsaw today. 9 in berlin. and it turns much milder out toward the west into double figures for london and paris with sunshine. all right. here's your extended forecast now. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> we'll be back with more news in 30 minutes. i'm gene otani in tokyo. a

in the balkans, in india and in bangladesh, in the north caucasus in south asia, in north america and europe, and in sub-saharan africa these preachers, ngos, and doses of saudi cash have for decades prepare the ground for al qaeda and its allies. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> on february 16 of this year, the borders bookstore group declared bankruptcy. joining us now i'm booktv to discuss the impact of this bankruptcy is sarah weinman who is the news editor of publishers marketplace. ms. wyman, how did borders get to the point of declaring bankruptcy? >> well, i think it's been a long time in coming. certainly the last three years particular quarter after quarter, borders has been losing money. they've also gone through a number of management changes, especially at the top. they've gone through something i think like for ceos in the past four years, but this story can also date back to the beginning of the 21st century i suppose, things like putting their website out and they didn't reclaim it until 2008. their strategy was never at the same level

then we'll be talking about snow for the alpine region as well as the inland areas of the balkan peninsula12 is your high in rome today. 10 expected in athens. minus 3 in kiev. then 1 for warsaw. cold in moscow, minus 7 degrees. all right, that's a look at your weather for now. i will leave you with your three-day outlook. >>> taking a look at our lead stories. as worries grow over under rest in the middle east, crude oil futures have hit $100 a barrel in new york. buy orders increased on tuesday as market players became more concerned about future oil supplies on news that iran security forces clamped down on anti-government protesters. iran is the second largest oil producer among opec member countries. the crude futures topped $100 a barrel in after hours trading for the first time since last wednesday. looking at the new york stock exchange, share prices plunged on tuesday amid growing worries that higher oil prices may slow down the world economic recovery. the dow jones industrial average average closed at 12058, down 168 points from the previous day. >>> u.s. federal reserve chairma

. >> i believe that force can be justified on humanitarian grounds, as it was in the balkans, or in the other places that have been scarred by war. inaction tears at ouconscience and can lead to more costly intervention later. >> according to casey, the principles draw heavily from the just war tradition, which says there must be a just cause for such intervention. >> what people need to be looking for, particularly with respect to libya, is to what extent are war crimes being committed, are innocent people being directly targeted, is there something approaching genocide occurring on the ground at this point. >> reporter: once that has been determined, thnext questions are who s e auority forapproving a inrvention a whoas t reonsilityf caying it out? >> simply because you may have a justification for intervention, that doesn't answer the "who" question. should france be the one who intervenes? should saudi arabia intervene? should the arab league? should the africa union? there are a lot of regional entities there that may actually have some resources that could be applied militarily. >

i the arrest of out of and carrots in two thousand and eight started the balkans the muslims rejoiced. at the massive protest actions involving thousands of people were held in the streets of serbian towns. up. today some serbian youth organization still take advantage of any pretext to demonstrate their support for carriage up even sporting events are politically charged quite often fans will chant the name of out of an carriage rather than cheer on their different team. player this is a double standard they use one standard when judging muslim. isn't cornets any different standard for serves there is no reason what they offered us right in the face of resisting corporate interests defense of all serbian teams must stand up for him altogether or the other. can to thousand eight hundred of them carried it was brought before the hague tribunal which was founded for the express purpose of investigating war crimes committed in the former yugoslavia. since around of this disappearance i have heard files of stories claiming he's either dead or arrested to go seriously a home has suffered a

american people we are not going to find ourselves in another situation as we did in the '90's in the balkans and in rwanda. as of yesterday, his own director of national intelligence, james crocker, said in testimony in front of congress he said, look, the way things are going now carks daffy's going to prevail and i think that -- gwen: which was not exactly on message. >> it was not on message but it, you would assume, would be the best reflection of what our own intelligence is telling us, which does shugget there is some urgency toward getting together some kind of international effort and if not the question becomes what is the united states willing to do? >> the president was quick to deal with that when he was asked about it at the press conference and said, well, that may be a reflection of the fact qaddafi has greater forces, armaments, et cetera, all of which is correct but that's not policy and policy is set by the president. but we're still waiting to see exactly what that policy is going to look like in a week or two. gwen: how difficult is it for a president who has such a crowd

from the my aquarius to grenada panama somalia the balkans haiti kuwait iraq and more we had no idea a year before any of these missions that we would be so engaged he said i originally yeah exactly that's exactly the reaction i had because i read the transcript originally and didn't realize that this was heard of his tired sarcasm he's basically saying we have a perfect record of getting it wrong well again i think is overstating the case and saying that we didn't predict a lot of these things that would happen but the fact of the matter is this is rather ironic use an intelligence officer lose his job i can tell you i work with this man you know he said he said gorbachev would be succeeded by a star witness the russians would never leave afghanistan so he got a lot of other people you know representing the blame here well he you know i mean basically he's getting ready to leave i mean he in that same speech which you played the clip earlier he said you are to have your head examined didn't he. can't have it both ways so maybe he won't once he leaves will have time to well i mean ba

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think this was a humanitarian crisis on anything like, say, the scale of arewanda, dull fewer or the balkans. >> since you mention darfur, it's clear to most americans, certainly to her that we, the u.s., have not stepped up in darfur as we could or certainly as one might argue should. i'll let you decide what word you want, but could or should, we have not stepped up as we might in darfur and yet we jumped right into libya. my radio partner on sthiley and west, professor cornell west said this on our show the other day, richard, where there are artichokes in libya and not oil, is that cynical on his part. how did we decide to jump into libya so quickly but can't step up our game in a place like darfur? >> we don't want to have a long conversation on darfur. the united states could have gotten involved. what made it complicated was the splintering of various groups and the fact that you had two separate conflicts, one in the south and one in darfur in the west. and some of the things that you might have done to deal with darfur could have led to the unwinding of the north-south agreement. it

look at the last ten years you can see the number of immigrants in greece and a lot because of the balkan wars and lot of refugees came to austria. and also from turkey we are for a lot of for immigrants coming to austria having expectations from healthy europe at the lights and on the other hand you can see that austrians don't have so many children so this is more or less the problem where we are it's a moment that we have to recognize as austria that we will have of course a lot of immigrants also in the future just to stabilize our economic super to have to transfer all saw to make our social system secure for the future but on the other hand we have to pay more attention to integration of people from other countries coming to australia and this is what we have to do we have we have started in our governmental discussed this issue and i'm sure we will have a lot of efforts in the next year you know many people would argue that multiculturalism is dead in the kingdom it is there in germany what do you make of it in our striking thing it could be there any time soon if you have to look

during the balkan to r.t. world news twenty four hours a day kerry johnston the top story now fresh explosions and gunfire have been heard in tripoli overnight as international coalition forces continue to bombard libya the country's state television is reporting further civilian casualties for the allied airstrikes in support of slayers across developments for us. it was a massive explosion here in the capital city of tripoli it sounded like it was coming from the south of the city i cannot see any smoke from where i'm standing at the moment but we are hearing reports of smoke in the southern parts we're also hearing reports of explosions around the compound of gadhafi there have been rounds up and a quarter gun fire we are hearing from coalition forces that they had hit one hundred and twenty four targets they are saying that this operation is a sexist since the coalition forces have conducted is strikes daffy's a force has not been in the skies and that they've managed to stop the advancement of his ground

and starts he's going to see it circling the reports the events in libya echo nato bombings in the balkans twelve years ago. in march seasons change sunshine invites americans onto the streets american politicians invite themselves to foreign countries. march nine hundred ninety nine the u.s. and its nato allies bomb yugoslavia armed forces joined our nato allies and air strikes against serbian forces responsible for the kosovo march two thousand and eleven america's next democratic president and a new coalition of the willing attack libya the u.n. security council passed a strong resolution but the man's and up to the violence against others. there authorizes the use of force it was sanctioned by the un security council in contrast to the bombings of the slavia there was no such green lights in the one nine hundred ninety nine when the bombings were led by nieto the first time the military alliance atop the sovereign nation and moderate a member posing no threat to the group similarly libya poses no sternal threat and there are other striking parallels between the conduct of these wars th

on the first images of the balkan struggling to stabilize the situation of japan's fukushima power plant which reports say three more of the so-called nuclear summarises have been exposed to dangerous levels of radiation. and we're continuing our coverage of the latest developments in libya next as we sit down with one of russia's most renowned experts an arab and islamic history professor vitaly no one kid says the root cause of the crisis lies in the fact that colonel gadhafi lost his sense of reality in dealing with major powers that check coming right out. well mark of our people was never a darling of the roseburg just two months ago the walt was pretty profitable doing business with him now tripoli is under aerial bombardment they believe there is hiding in one of his bunkers and nobody really knows what's going to happen next to discuss that we are now joined by one of brushless leading political analysts the director of the instance that is in city of the russian academy of sciences. thank you very much for your time sir now so much has happened in such a short period of time and

prime minister overseeing a serious of agreements concerning the construction of the pipeline in the balkan country archies correspondent has the details. it has been a rather good week for south stream project so far and today a deal is expected to be signed between washing company gas from and libyan company lead on a joint venture to implementing this levin ian section of the south stream project which will talk their gender oh for prime minister britons visit to slovenia earlier german company bast has joined the venture intending to invest two million u.s. dollars in an where fifty percent stake in the project together with a challenge company any and french company e.d.f. for the deal has significantly improved the image of the projects and the gas pipeline will deliver gas to the south over europe from russia by passing ukraine which is previously proved to be an unreliable transit country the construction will begin in two thousand and fifteen it just three years after that the pipeline will be able to operate in its full capacity article from the local reporting from slovenia throu

missiles are the voices against the intervention also gets on the other side of the arab league says the balkans is told it's a really and some sort of protecting. washington maintains its intervention will be limited and that it's going to move to the pain that it is raising fears that america's for military premise with the full consequence of schools as it did in iraq and afghanistan. also this are japanese in poor state and global cultural. and radiation rate pain while the number of dead from the songs to rise is more than eight thousand consistent struggle to prevent until now that's something which officials say that would do something to. tell you it's in there all the way to sports. thank you kerry is based as this part of date live from our to you thanks for joining us and here is what's coming up russian football were being moved to the russian premier league summit for a day at least. girls make. last night of the. sky into the size of game seven to set up a western conference finals series against looking like steve. and also i. say twentieth when they're all beating rafael the doll

law of forces from kosovo nevertheless balkans expert marco gay sick says humanitarian missions are rarely justified. they only justify themselves in terms of their abilities or achieve the aims of the intervenors which are always strategic designs of position themselves into occupation positions in strategically vital areas of the world so in terms of how they benefit the local population the answer is not at all in fact they're always very negative afghanistan in one thousand nine hundred ninety intervention then later as later thirty years and still ongoing instability in one nine hundred ninety nine still a fake state of desperate poverty and desperate crime in iraq it's already iraq we know another nightmare we should remember that the resolution calls for dialogue it requires two sides both to be around in order to engage in that dialogue so it shouldn't be about getting rid of colonel gadhafi we need dialogue we need a ceasefire we've got bombs instead the bones are not necessary for the peace what we need is a cease fire for the peace and that really should be the aim of the missio

in the balkans, in india and bangladesh, in the north caucuses in south asia, in north america, in europeand in if saharan africa. these ngos and doses of saudi cash have, for decades, prepared the ground for al-qaeda and its allies. do the salktys realize this? -- saudis realize? of course they do. we must always keep in mind that the only attack saudi leaders disapprove of are those that occur inside the kingdom. a final point to make on the relationship outside the arabian peninsula is that saudi activities abroad relieve al-qaeda of the need to fund, staff and manage a humanitarian, educational health services wing like those that are run by hamas, hezbollah and the muslim brotherhood. and, therefore, bin laden is allowed to focus on spreading his organization and planning military activities. bin laden, al-qaeda and their allies and those they inspire, then, are a third of the persian gulf threats, and they are, i think, the most dangerous to the united states. they are the most dangerous not because they are more powerful than the united united states, r because her supported by all

already drawing parallels between the being the air strikes of other us no good relations in the balkans iraq and afghanistan the fear is that it's going to take a severe loss of innocent lives because experts. such missions usually rational civilian interests. but they only justify themselves in terms of their ability to achieve the aims of the intervenors which are always to teach it designs of position themselves into occupation positions in strategically vital areas of the world so in terms of how they benefit the local population the answer is not at all in fact they're always very negative in one nine hundred ninety nine still a fake state of desperate poverty and desperate crime in all that entire area iraq we know another nightmare we should remember that the resolution calls for dialogue i it requires two sides both to be around in order to engage in that dialogue so it shouldn't be about getting rid of colonel gadhafi we needed dialogue we needed ceasefire we've got bombs instead the bombs are not necessary for the peace what we need is a cease fire for the peace and that reall