to move kosovo closer to european integration as well. this is a difficult piece of business. it's a historically complex area, as you know better than most, congressman. i think we are slowly making progress and i'm going to continue to press forward. >> thank you. two things about the western hemisphere, the ranking member. the farc has recently announced it is going to release some of its political prisoners and want people to believe they have reformed. while i'm obviously skeptical about anything the farc says, i'm wondering if you can comment. president santos of colombia said it's a good move in the right direction but not nearly enough. i'm wondering if we could have your thoughts on that. >> well, i think president santos is exactly right. it is a good move, long overdue to end their kidnapping and their illegal detention of innocent people. but there is a lot yet to be finalized. i think the congress and administration of both parties should take a certain amount of credit for plan colombia, for sticking with it, for providing t

of like mind because we went through in the '90s together the similar circumstances in bosnia and kosovo, i would say and in each case, the american entrance i o conflict was late. in my opinion the argument for the united states to be involved and help lead an international effort, which is military, to stop the slaughter in syria are actually greater than they were in the case of either bosnia or kosovo, there's as great as those were, there's the humantarian crisis, he is slaughtering his people and for all we noelle keep doing and not -- for all we know, he will keep doing it. we agree on this, how positive it would be if assad, who is the only ally of iran, is taken down, and how liberating to those that live under syrian pressure, and perhaps this is unique and different and we are not giving it enough weight. in our foreign policy, we have done a lot of things over the years inclu sins which youing i years, including in recent years of trying to regain the confidence of the muslim world much we have here a moment where the arab league, the gulf coordinating council, turkey are out

the presence in countries such as he rocks such as afghanistan such as kosovo. so have some with. what we have in here is video games. and. some of the things that go. with it. is too long to dismiss binet first consume a new gun controls daily. you can see you can buy one being on your first quite a long time and make that age as it will give way for college to someone to do for a long time and done students at never never wanted this job so it had to be infantry for me something i could be moving around constantly doing something active so how do you feel about being supplied to iraq or afghanistan. i'm nervous but i'm ready if i get called to go. i think it be enough to say the experience of it. going to cut down a line of thought. well the u.s. japan security alliance is the cornerstone of america's defense posture in the asia pacific and the united states as both a transpacific and a transatlantic power but we couldn't project that power without the men and women who serve here in japan as we look at the region it is at peace but we have threats like what we hear every day fr

and presence in countries such as he rocks such as afghanistan such as kosovo . so that's. what we have and here is a video games. some of the things that go. with it. is to look to us for a spin at first but soon the trolls daily see you can see again by one being either for quite a long time and made at that age as well to give way pay for college get someone to do for a long time and tons who is active there never want to just jump so had to be infantry for me something i could be moving around constantly doing something active so how do you feel about being deployed to iraq or afghanistan. i'm nervous but i'm ready if i get called to go. thank you be enough to say the experience of it. falling apart by the cloud by the thought. well the u.s. japan security alliance is the cornerstone of america's defense posture in the asia pacific and the united states is both the transpacific and a transatlantic power but we couldn't project that power without the men and women who serve here in japan as we look at the region it is at peace but we have threats like what we hear every

that's not how nato approached bosnia or kosovo or libya. is it now the policy of nato or the united states, for that matter, to tell the perpetrators of mass atrocities in syria or elsewhere that they can go on killing innocent civilians by the hundreds of thousands and the greatest alliance in history will not even bore to conduct any planning about how we might stop them? is that nato's policy now? is that our policy? because that is the practical effect of this kind of rhetoric. it gives assad and his foreign allies a green light for greater brutality. not surprisingly, many countries, especially syria's neighbors, are also hedging their bets on the outcome in syria. they think assad will go but they're not yet prepared to put all their chips on that bet. even less so now that assad's forces have broken homs and seem to be gaining momentum. there is only one nation -- there is only one nation that can alter this dynamic and that is the united states of america. the president must state unequivocally that under no circumstances will assad

by the way same argument back in bosnia and kosovo. we don't cho who they are. they might being al qaeda. what these people are doing is a direct repudiation of al qaeda. al qaeda believes in acts of terror to change things. these people at least in the beginning peacefully demonstrated. i am confident, i am confident that the people of syria that are fighting and dying and being massacred as we speak are not al qaeda. they are people who want the same things that want we fought for a long, long time ago and that we have steadfastly attempted to support over the intervening couple hundred years. >> okay. >> and shame on us, shame on us when these people are being massacred and maimed like they are. i'm not saying america do it alone. i'm not saying boots on the ground. i'm saying we can work with other nations. and by the way i believe some of these other nations will take action and we may go along with it over time because americans don't like to see this kind of thing happen without us trying to assist. >> senator john mccain we'll leave it there. thank you v

three years of talks and concessions from belgrade including a major one but improving ties with kosovo which is recognised by almost all e.u. states candidacy status is just the first step however towards membership now with years of negotiations still ahead but serbian it history expert. says it's only the e.u. that actually benefits from the accession process. the earwigs and really going to give serbia anything but it will be diplomatic answer of you to fuck everything it's already lost a lot its last journey there's pretty much been forced to surrender its claim to the problems of kosovo and it is currently stakeout only on paper it has been forced to it basically subordinate its current policy to brussels and to a lesser extent washington and now i've heard that there is talk from brussels about the necessity for serbia truthful could russia's most favored nation status it would treat people remains the only bit of sanchez government supporters actually speak of the e.u. i'm just me i don't think anybody in serbia honestly expects their problems to be resolved by joining the e.u.

difference between the kind of slaughter that's going on in syria now and the kind that was going on in kosovo and in bosnia, maybe a difference in scale but sort of the same kind of behavior -- actions and -- being taken by the government? >> certainly each situation is unique. but as far as the trend, i would not disagree with your characterization. >> under current conditions, would simply providing arms to the opposition to be sufficient to help them end the violence and to force assad to leave power? >> sir, providing arms is perhaps an option that would be a policy option. i think we would have to do our best to determine who are providing the arms to and follow physicianes's oath of do no harm, to make sure that we're what we're doing is actually going to reduce the scale of violence ultimately. i mean it may go up for a short time. but i think you'd have to look at it very closely, because the longer this goes on, the more potential there is for al qaeda and for basically a full-scale civil war. >> have you seen any evidence that al qaeda is having any significant role in syrian opposi

dismantled completely its last has pretty much been forced to surrender its claim to the problems of kosovo that is currently staked out only on paper it is being forced to it basically subordinate its foreign policy to brussels and to a lesser extent washington and now i've heard that there is talk from brussels about the necessity for serbia to revoke russia's most favored nation status with trade agreements and only songes government supporters which are few and far between actually speak of the event and usually i don't think anybody in serbia honestly expects the problems that result by joining the e.u. especially after seeing their rights and spain and greece and about the euro. twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow and plenty more lined up for you on our web site r.t. thought let's have a quick look now and see what's standing by for you for example the shocking footage of torture being leaked from post gadhafi in libya showing a group of africans locked in a zoo and forced to eat old flags of the country. i know google is at loggerheads with the e.u. the internet giants abilit

we went co- -- to bosnia, went to kosovo. we regret enormously, we didn't do something to stop the genocide in rwanda. if we look back, if we fail to intervene, years from now, and thousands and thousands of syrians have been massacred while we stood by because we, quote, can't address the issue, we can. we're the best military in the world. i understand the strain on american military. i understand the sacrifices made by american families. but i also understand the proudest part of american history is when we have tried to help other people achieve the same goals that we so passionately articulated when we declared our independence. >> two quick political questions. i would be remiss if i didn't ask you about last night's super tuesday results. your candidate, governor romney had a good night, winning the super prize, ohio. do you believe the time has come for the other candidates to get out of the race? >> i would hope so, but i can't tell the other candidates what they should do. they have to make their own decisions. i am

a mandate to a state or a group of states to intervene in the way that we're discussing up until kosovo up until the responsibility to protect report there was no doubt that this was based on the idea of sovereign states having the right to intervene if they felt it was necessary or appropriate i think what are to pay as it's evolved since nine hundred ninety nine and certainly the two thousand and one commission process the way that it sort of aldous that the jurisprudential underpinnings now of the u.n. security council reaching a deliberate reaching a mandate to intervene has shifted from the basic understanding that a collection of states have a right to do something to the idea that states are actually in the position of having some measure of responsibility to do something so i don't think one can dismiss it. i mean whatever if i got a nanny i thought i still feel i'm very suspicious of this because i see geopolitical politics behind it i mean united states invaded iraq without any kind of u.n. mandate ok it and it's about it it was applying sponsibility to protect in some form or

what tony blair called this was muscular humanitarianism i mean that's what he was talking about in kosovo and bosnia and he's done this also in africa where the idea of coming in because of humanitarian crises the willingness to almost unilaterally come in and if you can't get an international agreement and you can't get everybody in the room you do sort of what we did in iraq where you get the leading countries of the world and those can sometimes be you know well salvageable you know where you can get three guys from here and so you send out a couple of dogs you can and you can have their flood running too are we going to see that i think we're starting to see an effort to sort of cobble together a large group of nations who could say this is an international consensus when in fact i don't think we have that now you know we don't have a consensus here in the united states let alone anywhere else in the world now as their way to you think that you can look at what's going on here and try to find the obama administration's foreign policy or really put a word to use an explanation for it r

single way and i think there's an interest in the americans to be in places like bonspiel in khost kosovo the being in turkey right on the turkish iraqi border to being in iraq to be you know afghanistan to being in in this case syria yeah i think there's a lot of people are starting to wonder is this just the next great adventure is this just one we're country sort of in the long domino of countries that we've already seen rolled in and out of or rolled in and stayed in i should say. all right jack i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight and you know with all the talk that's going on looks like this might even come faster or before anything with with iran does there's always a little too much going on thanks so much. all right still to come tonight it's not just google the government collecting your personal information field on a campaign as well so we look at how campaigns across the country are using your personal information for political gain by. the same. people calling what you said for free and fair elections. and we're still reporting from the land where you can hear

in bosnia, later in kosovo, we heard arguments against military intervention, it was said there was no international consensus for action, that the situation on the ground was messy and confused, that it was not clear who we would actually be helping on the ground, and that our involvement could actually make matters worse. we heard all the arguments about bosnia, as you know, mr. secretary, and now we hear them about syria again today. we overcame them in bosnia, thank god and we must overcome them in syria. i want to read how president clinton described boss knee why in 19 # 5. >> no where is a need than bosnia. for four years a terrible war has torn it apart. president clinton went on to say and i quote, "there are times and places where our leadership can mean the difference between peace and war and where we can defend our fundamental values as a people and serve our most basic strategic interests. there are still times when america and america alone can and should make the difference for peace." those were the words of a democratic president who led america to do the right thing,

. >> that is an interesting you wenton with what we through in kosovo. the u.s. does not have to look very far to see real examples of the cost of military engagement. british forces suffered one of their worst losses in a decade when six soldiers were killed by a single explosion triggered the attack happened during a patrol in kandahar province. i am sorry. give we seem to have problems with the sound on that report front afghanistan. let's move to american politics, and for anyone who hoped super tuesday would give super clarity, think again. after voters in 10 states cast their ballots, mitt romney walk away with six and a boost to his delegate lead, but with rick santorum scoring victories in six states doubt still remains, and nowhere was it more down to the wire that and in ohio rigid stand in ohio. >> this is a run away, but he gets no outs for his victories, in ohio spending four times as much as his nearest rival. but tomorrow and we get up and start again, and so we go day by day, step by step. >> appealing to republican hearts and one after the the ot

. >> it is an interesting comparison to what you went through in kosovo. the international community weighs what, if any, action to take against syria. british forces suffered one of their worst losses in a decade today when six soldiers were killed by a single explosion. the attack happened in the kandohar province. >> a landmark british laws. six of the comrades killed in a single explosion. >> you feel it in your gut. it is a sickening below, but what we have led to over the years are that these soldiers are incredibly tough and incredibly resilient. in many ways, it makes their resolve even stronger. >> we have traveled along this route before. but in the surrounding areas on uproariously dangerous. they were on the what was described as a routine patrol. here, then left the road. they were traveling in an armored troop carrier. the warrior is heavily armored, but the explosions are able to cut through the underbelly. the explosion tore through the vehicle, killing everyone at the site. the wreckage of the vehicle at the remains of the men have been re

we intervened in kosovo because people were being massacred. that is part of the president's stated national security policy. we need to act and we need to act with other nations who will join us in this cause. >> you talked about not going unilaterally. the secretary of defense says it's not like libya where there's a coalition of states including arab states, calling for intervection, and the chairman of joint chiefs says the syrian air defenses are much more sophisticated and more difficult to hit. >> we spend almost a trillion a year on the military. we can't take out the air defenses of syria? that's an horrific waste of the taxpayers' dollars. every time that one of these crises happens and i remember well under president clinton, we can't do it. they can always think of reasons not to do it. we led from behind in libya. we were the last ones on board. by the way, the saudi foreign minister called for arming the rebels. there are our nations that are working to help the syrians. those people who watch cnn every night are treated or have t

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i welcome the agreement between belgrade and pristina on kosovo's participation in regular meetings. this is a step forward, and it shows that the way forward is through dialogue. i also welcome the european union's decision to award serbia candidate status. this is a sign of progress and a driver for progress. it is a result of reforms and a driver of more important reforms which can only bring benefits to serbia and to the whole region. and ultimately, i would like to see the whole of the western balkans achieve their goal of integration into our euro atlantic family. and with that, i am prepared to take your questions. >> you know you can just pick up the microphone from next to your seat. >> mr. secretary-general, we just had elections in russia so i would like to ask you if you have any comments to make on the elections and if they change in leadership in russia will affect in any way the cooperation between nato and russia. and my second question is on libya. the international -- commission has just published its report on the violations of human rights in libya. its document s

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in bosnia, later in kosovo, we heard arguments against military intervention, it was said there was no international consensus for action, that the situation on the ground was messy and confused, that it was not clear who we would actually be helping on the ground, and that our involvement could actually make matters worse. we heard all the arguments about bosnia, as you know, mr. secretary, and now we hear them about syria again today. we overcame them in bosnia, thank god and we must overcome them in syria. i want to read how president clinton described boss knee why in 19 # 5. >> no where is a need than bosnia. for four years a terrible war has torn it apart. president clinton went on to say and i quote, "there are times and places where our leadership can mean the difference between peace and war and where we can defend our fundamental values as a people and serve our most basic strategic interests. there are still times when america and america alone can and should make the difference for peace." those were the words of a democratic president who led america to do the right thing,

milosevic would end as a war criminal because of what he did in kosovo. back to the old days, gorbachev when he came to power, he revived and resurrected hopes in the development of russia on a different path. all before that, i suspect you're being a cia agent of influence. i'm proud it was released later on. i was recruited by the cia in 1958, i believe, that's correct. together with another guy. who was also, a student of world war ii veteran. he was also at colombia, we were recruited by the cia. and from that moment on, we would try to push them out of the way and provide free road to the cia. in that sense, and i'm going back to president reagan. played a tremendous role. he would never -- he would when he -- i remember that so well, tear down that wall, mr. gorbachev. despite their friendly, open relationship he was really attached in a human way. was su some point he was too friendly with the united states, and would later be denounced gorbachev as a traitor. he's called sometimes a traitor. no one knows. but that's the thing which happened, but b

each new american president has started his own war abroad first bush went into iraq clinton went to kosovo second bush went to afghanistan and iraq again and president obama went into libya and continues the so-called war on terror and other places like somalia yemen and pakistan but two decades of seemingly never ending war in america mean that war is inevitable did we ever live in a society where war was not the norm but instead the exception joining me now to discuss this is john horgan science journalist and director of the center for science writings of stevens's to technology and the author of several books including his latest the end of war john welcome. nice to be here very very pleased to have you with us what did you set out to prove in your book the end of war. well first of all the reason i wrote the book was because i discovered in doing surveys over the past seven or eight years that the vast majority of people eighty or ninety percent of the thousands of people i surveyed are extremely pessimistic about the prospects for humanity overcoming war and militarism once and for a

our feed the future program closed out efforts in kosovo, serbia and ukraine to reinvest where we think we can generate the biggest impact. this approach is hall mark of our u.s. aid forward reforms. the president has issued a policy directive and the secretary and i launched and out of that came the u.s. aid reform package. those reforms involve investments in science and technology to lower the cost structure in our work and we are starting to see real results from that. new technologies that for example help babies breathe and save lives in the first 48 to 72 hours of birth and very difficult settings are already making a big difference. we focus more on monitoring an evaluation and the american evaluation association recognized our efforts and called them a gold standard for the federal government and suggested that other parts of the federal government may take a similar approach. we are proud of that and this year will be publishing more than 200 independently peer reviewed evaluations publicly on our website so american taxpayers and everyone else can see what results we are gett

nato into libya for regime change when it did no such thing we have libya held up in our on with kosovo and the first gulf war as a good war as a humanitarian war and no explanation of the the number of lives killed by nato and by the u.s. in the process the lawlessness of the war well lawlessness of murdering the the ruler of a country and the che os that resulted so that there is no expectation in the forseeable future of a stable democracy with protection for human rights in libya as might have been predicted from the fact that we could never achieve such a thing with our bombs before. stake a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe a series of lives have rocked almost a dozen the iraqi cities killing thirty nine people and injuring more than one hundred a car bomb hit a crowded shopping restaurant area in karbala eighty kilometers south of baghdad other attacks in the capital and the northern city of kirkuk and two southern towns largely targeted police headquarters the violence comes a day after the mine kind of burst through of u.s. invasion of iraq and th

held up now along with kosovo and the first gulf war as a good war as a humanitarian war and no explanation of the number of lives sealed by nato and by the us in the process the lawlessness of the war the lawlessness of murdering the the ruler of the country and the chance that resulted so that there is no expectation in the forseeable future of a stable democracy with protection for human rights in libya as might have been predicted from the fact that we never achieve such a thing with our bombs before figured out some other stories making headlines across the globe french police say a guy in a deadly attack on a jewish school and to lose was the same that was fired in last week's killing of three soldiers of north african descent a massive manhunt now underway for the killer who shot dead a teacher his two young sons and a schoolgirl or a teenage boy was left seriously wounded or french schools will observe a minute of silence tuesday morning while guards are posted outside religious schools and buildings. the u.n. nuclear watchdog says north korea has invited it to resume monitoring par