wasn't putting his first stop was in minsk which many saw as an indication that that russia's foreign policy now will focus more on the closest neighbors and the c.i.s. countries many observers also saw this big.

was it puts in his first stop was in minsk which many saw as an indication that russia's foreign policy now will focus more on the closest neighbors and the c.i.s. countries many observers also saw this visit as the beginning of the supposed plan of economic and eastern bloc now off you went afterwards to berlin on a whirlwind visit which lasted for only half a day was going to put an end german chancellor angela merkel who seemed to see eye to eye on the matters concerning syria now earlier in the week u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton said that russia is aiding to the troubles in syria by continuing to support the regime of president bashar al assad to which of course the russian president prepared a response. but russia unilaterally supporting the assad regime. we have longstanding good relations with syria but we are supporting the conflict. i agree with chancellor merkel that our common objective is to be. both russian and german leaders seem to believe that kofi annan speace plan should be seen to progress to fully at the moment it does seem like a strong a by the seemingly

range minsk free. free. free. hold free blog plug in video for your media projects a free media. tom. wealthy british. roles in. the title. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy. financial headlines to name two causes a report. from fans to. t.v. dot com. wife montse h.q. in central moscow and here with the top stories thank you for being with us headlining them from us schools full foreign intervention in syria growing in some western and arab countries leading to fears the food might be used as a pretext for military action that says china has warned against meddling in the conflict said he would unleash even more bloodshed an all out war. despite the expectation that syria would also dominate the russian reuse somebody in some petersburg it was russia's own affairs that are in the spotlight end of the day when commenting once again on the imprisonment of former old. but ima putin reiterated that there was no political interference in the case. and thousands of canadian students returned to the streets to protest against the rising cost of education tw

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as well as hundreds of byelorussian citizens who showed up in central minsk to protest his actions. lukashenko's barbaric behavior and that of his k.g.b. henchmen -- and that's right, belarus still has something called a k.g.b. -- earned him sweeping condemnation from europe and the united states, isolating his nation and hurting his own people. this photograph sadly today, a year and a half after this outrage, lukashenko is still holding this man, this presidential candidate, mikalai statkevich, who was sentenced to six years in medium security prison for having the nerve to run against lukashenko. at least six and as many as 13 other protesters from the election still sit in jail. this is outrageous in europe today or anywhere on the planet, for that matter. it is time for president lukashenko to let this man and these people go. next, mr. president, i turn to vietnam. although our bilateral relationship tons improve with vietnam, we -- continues to improve with vietnam, we cannot ignore the troubling disregard for freedom of speech in that country. it's illustrated by the unfound

we have been able to conduct these cases safely without putting anyone at minsk -- at risk in the immediate area. we need to have faith in what we called the jegreatest judicial system in the world. those who lost faith and the ability went head-long into the facts. >> if i could return to this specific instance here, i recall very well when patrick fitzgerald was chosen, a sitting u.s. attorneys from the northern district of illinois, who conducted a lengthy investigation of the bower valee plame situation. it started with the premise that someone had outed valerie plame -- [unintelligible] that has in fact been vacant for 10 years. our state has tried to negotiate an agreement with the bureau prisons, which faces its own overcrowding challenges to come up with appropriate purchase price, and they agreed on one that has been approved through the state government. one of the contentious issues related to whether or not guantanamo detainees would be transferred to the thompson prison. you sent a letter that suggested -- did not suggest, as stated consistent state law, we will not transfer de

if you remember this, but tom pickering and madeleine i write, and our ambassador was all there in minskso, they started saying that everyone speaks russian -- they started talking in russian. they come over to interpret for me. and about myself, i'm glad jesse helms is watching this. [laughter] [laughter] this is a sign of how much change that not only could you have real dialogue -- bill dialogue between people and countries, which had non-zero-sum interests, even though they were not in a strategic partnership. and that our diplomats could have the kind of knowledge of the other country that previously they only had about us and we didn't have going the other way. i have worked on guantÁnamo for some and she is under -- which was a very scary thought. i disagree with with tom in one respect. i think this demonstration has tried to make what is currently at guantÁnamo lawful, but that doesn't mean it is a good idea. i don't think offshore detention of enemies of the state is a good idea. whether it can be brought within legal rules are not i think that that has been the challenge of th

we have been able to conduct these cases safely without putting anyone at minsk -- at risk in the immediatearea. we need to have faith in what we called the greatest judicial system in the world. those who lost faith and the ability went head-long into the facts. >> if i could return to this specific instance here, i recall very well when patrick fitzgerald was chosen, a sitting u.s. attorneys from the northern district of illinois, who conducted a lengthy investigation of the valerie plame situation. it started with the premise that someone had outed valerie plame -- [unintelligible] that has in fact been vacant for 10 years. i think he did an excellent job, over the job for man of his character. we talked about this on the phone. the suggestion that you cannot find two sitting attorneys they could do this good a job, they have all been approved by this panel. the senate judiciary committee reviewed their qualifications before giving them this authority. i like to ask you, do you believe is necessary as senator mccain is going to request in just a few moments on the floor that we delegate