we want to have a solution where they are india and pakistan are you know parties where they call put it towards peace stability and prosperity i think part of the problem that the rest of india perhaps has with the problem is that the calls for independence the calls for hours are the do you think more realistic approach might be perhaps the proposal which was put a couple of years ago about the autonomous open borders between this part of kashmir and the pakistan administered kashmir i mean you talk about the musharraf see i think we understand that yes i mean there are strong political. ideologies and on on on every side of the dispute india pakistan bush me what we are saying is that our position is the south right to self-determination is and is non-negotiable because that is the right which did which gives us the authority to determine our future but if they decide to model a dialogue a started we will go with our position and even the result is musharraf for pointing you know if you look at it it was basically aimed at trying to reach an interim solution for

india's. diplomacy on p5, but not pakistan. was just curious as we look at 2011. >> would you like to go first? >> i think basically, i'm one of those who admires what india has done. i think what one would like to do is indian, you know, take on the responsibility of the power in that area; right? and each out to his neighbors; right? and not repeat, you know, -- or belabor or beat box where this thing is at. i think pakistan definitely realized there is need to engage with india. i think pakistan is looking forward to that. i think every time something comes up, the leadership has taken on. i think perhaps india and diplomacy there has been lacking. india diplomacy has not shown the maturity. if you remember, i talked about china. china has a lot of problems. you know, et cetera, et cetera, it is an active order problem. but yet it came. and obviously here's the stories about the united states, you know, propping up india for china. yet it moved to establish those economic links between the limited transfer. i think that is wh

talk about the process and that is rig zack in your field for the last so many years that yes india pakistan have talked about kashmir many times but it has been you know there is no process in motion as far as the two countries are concerned the perception here in kashmir is that you can't have talks on the one hand and killings on the other hand for the last five months we have seen what happened you have lost hundred twelve you said you all noncombatants students but there doesn't seem to be an accountability for the government sites if the government of india is saying that we are going to have a solution or a conduit of a solution in the next two months the fact is of the wood it doesn't know anything about that so if this statement is to mean anything let the government of india address some of the issues which we have given to them it's going to only survive if india pakistan and the world community are going to support the whole thing. and you can watch that full interview in around ten minutes time right here r.t. . now to some other stories making headlines from around the world th

of india address some of the issues which we have given to them it's going to only survive if india pakistan and the world community are going to support the whole thing. to watch that full interview in a little over an hour's time right here on out. now to some other stories making headlines around the world thieves steal oil because the powerful pipeline explosion accident killing at least twenty eight people injuring more than fifty twelve children the blast sent rivers of far through the streets of homs is east of the capital further blasts one of the main explosion in a ghost town burnt out houses authorities say the thieves lost control of the oil because of the high pressure. iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki. he is set to unveil a cabinet saw from parliamentary elections all the major factions will be included along with kurds shia and sunni arabs each candidate will still have to be approved by the parliament but in the end a long period of political deadlock. freezing weather and severe snows continue to cause massive disruption in the u.k. and across europe london's heathrow air

india's. diplomacy on p5, but not pakistan. i was just curious as we look at 2011. >> would you like to go first? >> i think basically, i'm one of those who admires what india has done. i think what one would like to do is indian, you know, take on the responsibility of the power in that area; right? and each out to his neighbors; right? and not repeat, you know, -- or belabor or beat box where this thing is at. i think pakistan definitely realized there is need to engage with india. i think pakistan is looking forward to that. i think every time something comes up, the leadership has taken on. i think perhaps india and diplomacy there has been lacking. india diplomacy has not shown the maturity. if you remember, i talked about china. china has a lot of problems. you know, et cetera, et cetera, it is an active order problem. but yet it came. and obviously here's the stories about the united states, you know, propping up india for china. yet it moved to establish those economic links between the limited transfer. i think that is

also, a look at the conflict between pakistan and india over the kashmir region. you will hear from regional scholars and the head of pakistan's largest securities firm. this is one hour 40 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> good morning, everyone. i'm shuja nawaz, director. on behalf of the council i would like to welcome all of you to our final event for 2010. a very eventful year, particularly for the region that we cover, greater south asia, which includes geographic south asia, the gulf, a ron, afghanistan, and central asia. i am delighted that joining me here today are two experts on the region, a visiting scholar at the carnegie endowment in washington. he is advertised at carnegie as an expert on afghanistan, but i would expand that to include pakistan because he is one of the few people that has actually traveled and knows well the border region between the two countries. his research is focused on security and political development in afghanistan and particularly the role of international security assistance as well as looking at what would constitute

lived studies and work indeed india, pakistan, lebanon, the united states and mexico. she is the editor of living in america. poetry and fiction by south asian american writers. encounter people of asian decent in the americas her novel, braided tongue was published in 2003. i introduce rashne. >> i'm reading from a selection from a longer narrative. memory is no longer confused. it has a home land. from a farm by the late ali. sometimes the circle breaks and the woman meets the child. face-to-face. each one seeing for the first time her strength in the other. a poem by jenny. [inaudible]. after more than a year of e mails and phone conversations, amy,ling and i met at the university of wisconsin in madison. it was sometime during the mid 1980. calcutta was very hot, said amy. i wondered how our conversation about asian american literature veered to calcutta? calcutta was very hot but i got my first doll there. we spent some time in calcutta when we fled to the united states. the doll didn't look like me blond hair and blue ice bought from calcutta. she comforted me wh

in my generation, very few people in india really knew about pakistan. the internal life of the country. and very -- and vice versa, very few pakistanis were able to have any real knowledge of india and each of them had a demonized version. readers in pakistan said it was interesting to them to discover contemporary india was like and readers in india said the same thing about the pakistani parts of the book. and so it became a book that's been interpreted or explained the partition countries to each other. no, i never felt pakistani. as far as muslim my family technically an indian muslim family and some were very devout. my grandfather was a very devout muslim and went to the pilgrimage of mecca and spent his whole life praying five times a day and so on. my own family was very secularized. and i was brought up in -- they were very cosmopolitan people, my parents and not ticking observant to anything. the most islam that got into our house was that we didn't eat pig. that was it. and maybe once a year my father would take me to the eve prayers so the eq

including those that are not signatories to a nuclear nonproliferation treaty particularly israel india pakistan north korea that was left wing british m.p. jeremy corp. this week saw another major security crisis on the korean peninsula north korea warned it is ready to start a nuclear war if the south continues with military provocations seoul has been conducting a live fire military exercises next to the border with the north and in disputed waters north korean t.v. has shown soldiers who reportedly took part in the shelling of a south korean island last month they say it was in response to south korea's aggressive war games four people including two marines were killed in the attack it is believed to be the worst escalation of tension on the peninsula since the war sixty years ago an expert on korea glyn ford says event no one is provoking a war deliberately but the situation can easily spiral out of control. the danger is if we have new military exercises at sea because the problem is the land border is very clear the sea border is been arbitrarily and unilaterally is stopped by the south k

other countries any of the permanent five members of the un security council or countries like india pakistan israel and perhaps north korea that may have nuclear weapons what it does is though by the u.s. and russia that have ninety percent of all of the world's nuclear weapons by showing that they are taking another step toward significant reductions this does put pressure on the others to become more transparent and to be more willing to engage on what they can do to move toward nuclear disarmament and i mean this treaty will definitely affect russia u.s. relations so now moscow and washington have achieved a central goal in the so-called reset in relations what could this mean for cooperation between the two powers in other areas beyond the military arena. i think it's very significant it is in effect this kind of success it's contagious and will spill over into other areas we have the u.s. russian nuclear cooperation agreement which has gone beyond the number of days in which the senate could have object objected to it so that has gone forward there are other trade agreement possibilitie

including those that are not signatories to a nuclear nonproliferation treaty particularly israel india pakistan north korea. north korean soldiers who reportedly took part of the shelling of a south korean island last month sept young gang was provoked by souls war games it's the first time northern troops have spoken publicly about the violence they appear in a talk show on state television marking him the audio of nineteen years as the country's top military commander i have the anniversary of john young warned it would launch what i call the sacred nuclear war against the south the president promised retaliation if attacked last month north korea shelled the south island. killing four people in response to the drills in the area analysts warn more military exercises would risk disturbing the already precarious balance on the peninsula. the danger is if we have new military exercises at sea because the problem is the land borders very clear the sea border is been arbitrarily and you know actually established by the south koreans along the northern limit line which is not recognized even by th

problems lies not just within the borders but outside the borders, particularly with its neighbors, india, pakistan, and others. >> thank you very much indeed. let us take a look at some of the other stories making headlines. it wikileaks founded julian assange will hear shortly whether he is free or must remain in jail in london. he has been in a british prison since last week after sweden issued a warrant over allegations he sexually assaulted two women there. joining me to -- -- discuss the lettuce is the director of the international bar association. what do you make of all this -- did bail and then appeal? does he have much chance to get out on bail? >> i do. i am surprised he was not permitted bail -- with the circumstances and the assurances the defense has given the court, i would have expected he would be given bail. the magistrate judge re-hearing that agree to that and now it is being appealed. i expect that the high court judge would agree with the magistrate that a judge and permit him to be on bail. there will be a lot of restrictions on his movement but nevertheless it would permit h

including those that are not signatories to nuclear nonproliferation treaty particularly israel india pakistan north korea. votes there from a from british m.p. jeremy colbert in north korea soldiers who reportedly took part in the shelling of a south korean island last month has spoken publicly about the attack they say the act was in retaliation to seoul holding live fire military exercises in disputed waters for south koreans were killed in the shelling of a border island over a month ago since then souls' been holding more military drills provoking stark warnings from the north pyongyang's military chief says the country will launch a retaliatory nuclear strike if the south keeps firing on the border it is the worst tension on the peninsula since the war sixty years ago an expert on korea glyn ford told us a new war is unlikely but it will remain a possibility as long as the south keeps testing the most patients the danger is if we have new military exercises at sea because the problem is the land borders very clear the sea border is been arbitrarily and unilaterally established by the sou

security council or countries like india pakistan israel and perhaps north korea that may have nuclear weapons what it does is though by the u.s. and russia that have ninety percent of all of the world's nuclear weapons by showing that they are taking another step toward significant reductions this does put pressure on the others to become more transparent and to be more willing to engage on what they can do to move toward nuclear disarmament. we'll be bringing you more comment analysis of the start treaty approval from leading experts throughout the day here on our t.v. of course you can always log on to our team dot com and leave your comments we'd love to hear from you. china says it will help struggling european economies combat their debt crisis the offer came at an economic forum in beijing the e.u. is china's largest economic partner but cooperations been challenged by europe's ailing financial health economist marco pietra polies says beijing support is not a permanent remedy for the block this extends china's political influence in europe by making a lot of european states dep

including those that are not signatories to nuclear nonproliferation treaty particularly israel india pakistan north korea democrat strategist told me the new treaty wasn't easy for the senate to ratify but it could bring a nuclear free world a little closer one of the debates that made no sense was the republican saying that it wouldn't when this allows inspections on both sides and that's really what counts as reagan always said trust but verify and this treaty gives a very strong verification apparatus it was an amazing development that the president would get seventy one votes when only sixty seven were required for the supermajority and the reason for that is finally the republicans have decided all but only after the election that it's time to govern not to play partisan politics the fact that we're willing to cut is a moral statement that the world will pay attention to and it gives credence to the dream from reagan to obama and all the secretaries of state in between from both parties that perhaps someday we can have a nuclear free world that really is the objective that we all want an

including those that are not signatories to nuclear nonproliferation treaty particularly israel india pakistan north korea. the signing of the start treaty has been labeled by president obama as being the most significant document in decades on friday russian president dmitry medvedev will give his thoughts on this and the year's other key moments it'll be at the annual meeting between president medvedev and the heads of russia's leading t.v. channels will be covering this for you on friday and of course will be available any time on our website. as i click away there and there is plenty to watch here is what's online right now. christmas is well and truly coming to moscow as fifty cent is from around the world hit the capital for a gift giving spirit come see the seasonal spirit come alive at r.t. dot com. and chapman who is from being a world renowned sexy spy to a leading role in russia's next generation politics all the details on. the. north korea says it's ready to use its nuclear deterrent and what it calls a sacred war against the south the north defense minister a statement was report

india's. diplomacy on p5, but not pakistan. i was just curious as we look at 2011. >> would you lke to go first? >> i think basically, i'm one of those who admires what india has done. i think what one would like to do is indian, you know, take on the responsibility of the power in that area; right? and each out to his neighbors; right? and not repeat, you know, -- or belabor or beat box here this thing is at. i think pakistan definitely realized there is need to engage with india. i think pakistan is looking forward to that. i think every time something comes up, the leadership has taken on. i think perhaps india and diplomacy there has been lacking. india diplomacy has not shown the maturity. if you remember, i talked about china. china has a lot of problems. you know, et cetera, et cetera, it is an active order problem. but yet it came. and obviously here's the stories about the united states, you know, propping up india for china. yet it moved to establish those economic links between the limited transfe i think that is what

including those that are not signatories to nuclear nonproliferation treaty particularly israel india pakistan north korea the treaty is slow but sure ratification is winning all round support with peace campaigners saying it was served as a key trust building measure. it's all in the back being deployed weapons those are the ones that are on notice ready to fire from twenty two hundred down to fifteen hundred and that's good but what's even more important is that we re in still all our ability to inspect each other's nuclear weapons facilities which expired with the last start treaty last december we now we haven't even been able to see what russia is doing unless it can't see what we're doing so this new style i will add this to have inspections and verification this is very important simple trust so that we can actually go to disarm them and the other very good things about start is that it so is that the u.s. and russia can make that deal and that we now have to move forward. we'll bring you more analysis of the start treaty approval in the u.s. from leading experts throughout the day we'r

including those that are not signatories to a nuclear nonproliferation treaty particularly israel india pakistan north korea. we'll bring you more analysis of the start treaty approval in the u.s. from leading experts throughout the day and we're also on the story online where you can give us your reaction just click on over to our team dot com also on our site right now prime minister putin he shows young judo a trainee's that you can't beat a black belt even at fifty eight as he takes to the mat in st petersburg to show them a figure to about how it's done. in the us and of chapman moves from being a renowned sexy spy to a leading role in russia's next generation politics details online at r.t. dot com. north korea says it's ready to use its nuclear deterrent in what it calls a secret war against the south the north's defense minister a statement was reported by state media the minister accused solo deliberately stoking tension by staging successive joint military drills with the u.s. and with the u.s. next in your thoughts i did all this territory as he said the latest exercise one of the lar

including those that are not signatories to nuclear nonproliferation treaty particularly israel india pakistan north korea and how about the other established nevers of the nuclear club france and britain do you think it would do well for them to enter into a tree like this. absolutely in the case of britain the number of nuclear warheads has been significantly reduced but the government is spending a great deal of money on preparations for the replacement of the trident nuclear missile system after two thousand and fifteen and i think it would do well if britain joined in the general trend and said that we are not going to renew the tried nuclear missile system instead we're going to go forward to look for look for a world free of nuclear weapons and in turn hear some of the wires that you had mentioned how much of a difference can this make to those countries that could be stepping up nuclear capabilities such as enron such as north korea. what it surely must be a very important message to all of them that if russia and the united states can come to such an enormous and significant agreement

including those that are not signatories to nuclear nonproliferation treaty particularly israel india pakistan north korea. well the signing of the start treaty has been labeled by president obama as being the most significant document in decades on friday russian president dmitri medvedev will give his thoughts on this and the years of the key moments it with the annual meeting between president medvedev or the heads of russia's leading t.v. channels and we will be covering that of course for you on friday and will be available anytime on a web site at our home and if you had them there's also plenty to take in as well as a quick look at what we've got on line if you want a brand new look site r.t. dot com chris wow and truly coming to moscow there we are fifty sciences around the world hitting the capital for a gift giving spree if you tell me your feelings what's the seasonal spirit couple . other story we brought yesterday from the shop and moving from being a world renowned sex spy to a leading role in russia's next generation politics details about that when. people call. now the story o

>> it's all about india and as long as there's this india/pakistan rivalry, the pakistanis continue toee the taliban as proxies they can use to stop india from coming in and making inroads in afghanistan. you know, richard holbrooke was trying to do this. he was trying to sort of reduce tensions between india and pakistan. there are assurances that we can make to the pakistani maybe ask the indians to back off in afghanistan. the pakistani military is a rational actor. they don't agree with the taliban. they're not secretly islamists so i think there is a solution. you know, i think we have to keep trying, and it's this regional dynamic that will stabilize afghanistan. >> so while he's thinking geopolitics and his particular area of reporting. >> yes, exactly. >> captive there and still, you're having to go about your daily work as a photo editor at "cosmopolitan" chatting with your colleagues. >> yes, exactly. >> how did that -- i mean, how? >> it was very tough. actually two weeks into the captivity, yeah, two weeks in i told the editor in chief and she kept that secret throughout. s

i mean, i have no doubt that the people of pakistan, like the people of india, would want the two countries to be at peace with each other. but the precondition for it must be that pakistan ceases to harbor terrorist groups which it launches against indian targets. has to stop. and until that happens, there really can't be a good relation between the countries. >> host: this tweet comes in from emanuel. what are your opinions on wikileaks, julian assange and the interpol arrest warrant for him. >> guest: well, you know, i don't know -- i mean, i don't know the rights and wrongs of the arrest warrant, you know? it's easy to, it's ease i -- easy to believe that somebody's after him and trying to, you know, frame him. anybody with even a moderate degree of paranoia could believe that that was true. but i don't know, is the truth. i mean, interpoll presumely takes -- interpol presumably takes seriously the issue of arrest warrants, and all i can say is we have to wait and' about that -- see about that. about the wikileaks revelations, i would say as a note of caution that it's important for all

maybe i'm missing something here, but a cousin of the unequal relationship between pakistan and indiao me that pakistan has spent a quarter of a century building terrorist groups and still supports them across the board. so, i mean, let's call facts facts here and not talk about how pakistan needs to form a counterterrorism force. pakistan is in the terrorism business it seems to me. >> i think you are absolutely wrong. can you imagine my giving you -- to kill myself. what you are saying the isi is funding the terrorist to kill isi versus. the most people that have been attacked and pakistan today as far as personnel and families are concerned are the army and the isi so what you are saying is, and the isi officer 90% by the army so what you are saying is here's a group that says okay fine, here is the money. arm and train yourselves and come and kill me, right? that is nonsense. yes, i agree with you. many years ago and there is no doubt about it, pakistan was not in the terrorism business but in the business of supporting the freedom fight within kashmir and there is ... it. summerl

one was the reporting of faked wikileaks in pakistan for propaganda against india. pakistani news agency fabricated a report that said there were cables reporting on india meddling in pakistan. when it was learned that this was indeed a complete fabrication, the newspapers that ran the story were forced to apologize to of their readership to maintain credibility. the on-line news agency itself said it regretted the release of the story, and it noted the consequent erosion of public credibility. but i think this was a rather bizarre case and not likely to happen again. wikileaks, when it comes to the diplomatic cables, are most helpful when they involve sensitive relations like the one for between the u.s. and pakistan. interestingly, i think the pakistan cables, but, ever present a case in which people, the public can see how complicated and difficult it is to pursue diplomacy in the country in which the leadership is so for a grant -- fragmented. this is the kind of thing people know already pared people but seeing it in black and white i think certainly brings the

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we don't have a treaty with england, india, pakistan. we don't have to have a treaty with you. we're bringing our numbers down anyway. and you're bringing yours down anyway. but we'd like to have a treaty, but we're not going to limit our missile defense. and the russians signed that treaty. so now we come and they start the same bluster against the obama administration, but, unfortunately, they gave in. these negotiations started early in the year. the treaty negotiations started in march of 2009. and by september of 2009, president obama unilaterally announced, to the shock of our polish and czech allies, that we're not going forward with the polish site. much to the delight of the russians, who'd achieved a significant victory in a negotiating point that had gone on for many, many years. so to say that this treaty has nothing to do with missile defense is not correct. and, did the russians say "thank you," we're so glad that -- we'll be glad to work with you on the treaty? no they still wanted language in the treaty that put them in a position to walk away from this treaty a

they're way ahead of india, and pakistan. it's an impact to stabilize the population there. also, um... excuse me. you know having hard cover thing fighting terrorism with education i've learned from islamic scholars. in the koran it's implicitly stated in the holy koran when a young mangos on jiha d and this is a spiritual endeavor to seek knowledge. it could also mean he's going into a group. but he has to get blessings from his mother first and if he doesn't do that it's shameful and disgraceful. after 911 the taliban had a high desertion rate and they were trying to get recruit groups to fight against intervention and coalition and they went in literally impoverished societies because educated women refused to allow they're sons to fight in theal bonn. you have a less educated mother here. single parent in the difficult system. the higher education a women has the more likely her son is to go on with education rather than getting into violence and drugs and certainly she won't condone her son getting into a gang or drugs. i've sometimes been criticized for that because t

they're way ahead of india, and pakistan. it's an impact to stabilize the population there. also, um... excuse me. you know having hard cover thing fighting terrorism with education i've learned from islamic scholars.

they're way ahead of india, and pakistan. it's an impact to stabilize the population there. also, um... excuse me. you know having hard cover thing fighting terrorism with education i've learned from islamic scholars. in the koran it's implicitly stated in the holy koran when a young mangos on jiha d and this is a spiritual endeavor to seek knowledge. it could also mean he's going into a group. but he has to get blessings from his mother first and if he doesn't do that it's shameful and disgraceful. after