as lithuania takes its turn ahead of the organization for security and cooperation in europe algor enough talks to the country's foreign minister about the challenges ahead spotlight coming up after a short break. culture is that so much different and there's a huge musician apparently minute mark with a dilemma democracy versus stability can egypt powerful are the us and it's ours. hello again welcome to spotlight the interview show on r.t. . my guest on the show is on the jubilee this. year is now topping the organization for security and cooperation in europe not an easy task if we remember the problems they have to tackle the human rights abuses in bella ruse the situation in the transnistria in the garden and selwyn and so forth what's their fresh look at those problems let's ask the lithuanian foreign minister. it's . always see the office from deloris accused the country's leader alexander lukashenko fall play during recent presidential elections that cost the office its license and the always see chairman says little hope mr lucas shango can be talked into changing his mind by the

show is on our jubilance lisa wayne here is now topping the organization for security and cooperation in europe not an easy task if we remember the problems they have to tackle the human rights abuses in. the situation in the transnistria in the garden and so on and so forth what's their fresh look at those problems let's ask the lithuanian foreign minister. just. people we see often some deloris accuse the country's leader alexander lukashenko fall played during recent presidential elections that cost the office its license and the always see chairman sees little hope mr bush angle can be talked into changing his mind but the lithuanian foreign minister drawn a sociable is optimistic about the fact economic sanctions can have a mains and he's also optimistic about the frozen conflict in trans am hoping something finally change for the better. minister welcome to the show thank you very much we'll spotlight my pleasure well. has assumed the chairmanship of the sea and one of the burning issues is the situation in neighboring neighboring to lithuania also of course to russia where the

resolution by the parliamentary assembly of the council in europe there is aleutian by the organization for security and cooperation in europe we always see and bio you other international organizations who understand that settlement can only be reached gradually and that occupying its territory of another state is absolutely unacceptable. then go see sions on the caspian sea convention could you tell us why the negotiations are so difficult and why this convention is needed at all what are the factors holding it back why the negotiations have lasted for so long. convince a fatalist national what let me start with a little prelude describing the background of this issue after the disintegration of the soviet union several new states emerged in the caspian area as only natural the legal regime that existed in the caspian area since the times of the soviet union and iran had to be modified taking into account the mergence of us here by john because us done japan is dan plus of course the russian federation and iran in this context negotiations began with the purpose of defining the legal status of the

it includes all of europe so the right place to have that discussion is in vienna at the organization for security and cooperation in europe that brings together everybody who is interested and we're not opposed to that discussion but the secretary. and will has said that he doesn't believe we need a new treaty says james path of nature as deputy assistant secretary general for political affairs and security policy spotlight we'll be back shortly after a break so stay with us and. lead. led. her her. or . streets still keep secrets but time to feel. something outside the key to stuff like. to. welcome back to the spotlight i'll bring all of in just a reminder that my guest in the studio is james path or i nato's deputy assistant secretary general for political affairs and security policy mr pastor i will i have another quote here well maybe it will be the last quote for today but there were lots of quotes something john mccain said a couple of days ago for two years mostly out of deference to russia defensive arms sales have not been authorized for georgia this has to change says mccain at a minim

it includes all of europe so the right place to have that discussion is in vienna at the organization for security and cooperation in europe that brings together everybody who is interested and we're not opposed to that discussion but the secretary. that he doesn't believe we need a new treaty says james a path of right nature as deputy assistant secretary general for a political the first and security policy spotlight will be back shortly right after a break so stay with us you know. her . her. her. this history still keeps its secrets but it's time to reveal. the soviet style. licks. the latest in. the future. the official. from the jobs to. life on the. video on demand. my old cars. are s.s. feeds now with the palm of your. t. dot com. welcome back to the spotlight i'll bring all of in just a reminder that my guest in the studio is james a path through i night i was deputy assistant secretary general for political affairs and security policy mr potter i will i have another quote here well maybe it will be the last quote for today but i have lots of questions send to john mccain said a couple of

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our relations with the european union we also work together within the framework of the organization for security and cooperation in europe we pay a great deal of attention to the idea of european security as you know president to get it has put forward an initiative to sign a treaty on security in the year of atlanta that we are confident that it's necessary to create a solid legal foundation for providing equally guaranteed security for all countries on the whole i'm pleased with today's negotiations and expecting an interesting discussion on a number of other regional and international issues. and although this hasn't always been an easy diplomatic and political relationship it's always been a good business relationship and the two sides seem keen to build on that of course we saw the deal between b.p. and sniffed and that was mentioned in a speech that mr left made earlier today and he outlined some areas in which he thinks that russia in the u.k. can cooperate to develop russia's economy he's talking about things like finance the financial sector this to be built up in moscow the nano tech i

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for data protection lobbyists who say that all the private information collected during the census will be available to practically any organization that requests it pay me use under any statute. only use by the security or intelligence services for national security purposes any use for the pursuit of crime any use in pursuit of an e.u. community organization so any e.u. rules that information can be passed over so it's essentially any government use whatsoever the computer of his being abolished and u.k. government agencies don't exactly have a great track record when it comes to safeguarding information three years ago a file containing secrets terror related documents was left on a train more recently the national health service lost the medical records of tens of thousands of people thanks to lockheed martin's involvement in the censors be hard for the u.s. authorities to lay their hands on that information if they wanted data from the census is used by the government to award grants to local councils and recognize new groups in society a census run by lockheed martin raises grave concerns in britain about ethics and international security if a lot of people boycott that says it will make it inef

when under spog rasmussen was looking for closer ties with the collective security treaty organization made up of former soviet states the us was quick to veto the idea of.

for the revolution. the level of organization is astonishing. in one room, editors prepare a daily newspaper. in another, slick pr operation. preparing videos for the outside world. there's security and committees organizing food distribution. they're even helping families track down loved ones abducted by the gadhafi regime. today, they're free, people are pitching in, celebrating, but the people say libya won't know real freedom until gadhafi is well and truly gone. >> an extraordinary look inside the opposition tonight. and as we reported at the top of the broadcast here, the strongest words yet from president obama. the words come just one day after the obama administration froze all libyan assets here in the u.s. john hendren is in washington tonight with more on what the president said. john, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, david. it's an extraordinary statement. president obama is demanding that moammar gadhafi step down immediately. this came after a phone call with the german chancellor angela merkel in which both leaders, we're told, expressed deep concerns over what they called the brutalization of the libyan protesters. the white house issued a statement in w

when under spog rasmussen was looking for closer ties with the collective security treaty organization made up of former soviet states the us was quick to veto the idea after a private dialogue with the u.s. representative to nato rasmussen took all mention of the two organizations growing closer out of his address to the alliance in two thousand and nine but why would the us try to pressure its allies. as one of nato is key players the u.s. tries to prevent the alliance from growing too close to the russia in the former soviet bloc because the region is of strategic interest to america but they of course would prefer to build exclusive bilateral relationships the strong ties between two military organizations such as nato and the c.s.c. is not in u.s. interests. this is an odds with the image of the alliance tries to project a strong union where every opinion matters even the people in the street understand that washington is calling the shots so. left right left right we're much. this is what is happening in reality that people know the documents published so far haven't exactly unco

security. they check i.d.s for what organizer organizered what would be a million person march. >> why are theeparating? >> the women and men check. like the airport. >> reporter: what you are checking for? >> bombing. >> reporter: this has been nonstop all day. it's certainly the biggest protest this city has seen since they began a week ago. this is more like a block party than angry demonstration. people holding signs. people who wanted to talk to tell us their hopes and dreams. do you think he did anything good for egypt? >> yes, he did. he is a tragic figure. he started out honorable, good and well. and then at the end, his concentration of power, his grip on power, it's bringing this country down. >> reporter: and of course the looming question for everyone in egypt, when mubarak leaves what comes next? >> it's very confusing and it's also -- we really want to see someone from the opposition come out and take an opportunity to show the people. the people want a voice now. >> reporter: as darkness fell, groups were singing songs and venders were selling balloons. a sign of celebration her

for a million protesters to come to the streets. as russia's security services claim they know may have organized a moscow airport bombing a video of chechen extremist don't whom are threatening an attack surfaces on the internet. meanwhile right next to russia's most wanted terrorist stands a man who appears to resemble the main suspect in moscow's airport suicide bombing . in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie welcome the landmark arms treaty between russia and the u.s. to reduce their nuclear arsenals has now officially in effect the sides launched the new start agreement at a special ceremony at the security conference in munich. was there. words put into action a historic exchange of ratification documents and the new arms reduction treaty between moscow and washington is officially in force and when it comes to the button that has worried us the most over the years the one that would unleash nuclear destruction today we take another step to ensure it will never be pushed.

is the department of homeland security organized correctly, and is it too huge for one department? >> it is organized correctly in the sense that we have taken all of those departments that were merged and put them under kind of a five-part framework that really allows us to manage counter-terrorism, border security, land, marine, and air, and forcing immigration laws. -- enforcing immigration laws. the mission areas, and increasing benchmarks, that is the way to move it forward. >> secretary janet napolitano has been our guest on "newsmakers." we will be right back. brian, what did you learn from the secretary? >> well, one issue i learned is that there is not going to be a mandatory employer verification program requiring all of the employers to check the immigration status. i asked her about that. >> were you surprised by that answer? >> no, i was not surprised. >> eric lipton? >> isc submenu is better versed -- i see someone who is better versed. therefore more able to answer questions more comfortably than on in her tenure, when she got into a little trouble with some of remar

there were charges that "the times" was a treason organization for publishing scoops on the national security agency electronic surveillance of terrorists and terrorism suspects both at home and abroad. there were demonstrations outside "the times" that called the times the al jazerra times. then in 2011, we have wikileaks and the dump of state department diplomatic cables. again, their accusations of treason, denouncements, proclamations of possible prosecutions from officials, probably blowing smoke for public consumption. let me say right here, i don't advocate going timesless" i don't think it's treasonless, although i don't think it's sense of postnational patriotism is the same. i think we'll get into that later. i certainly don't think it should be bombed, as ann culture said. i read the times since i was a kid. i was crowd early to be published prominently in it. i consider "the times" an important national resource, albite a dangerous one, and one the new yorkers that prefer to it simply as the paper. i'd wonder down to get the next day's edition. if i was out of town and couldn't fi

is the department of homeland security organized correctly and is it too huge for one department? >> it is orget -- organized correctly in that we have taken all those departments and directors that were merged and put them under a five-part frame work that allows us to manage counterterrorism, border security land, marine, air and enforcing cyberspace, which we did not talk about, and resiliencey and the ability to respond in disasters. we found you can take all the various mission areas of the department and then create benchmarks, and that's the way to move the department forward. >> janet napalatano is the third secretary of the department of homeland security. she's been our guest on "newsmakers." we'll be right back with our reporters. >> thanks. >> brian bennett of the "l.a. times" what did you learn from secretary napalatano? >> i learned one issue, there is not going to be a mandatory employment verification program requiring employers to check the legal status of employees any time soon. i asked her about that, and it seems that the u.s. is not ready to roll something ou