hearing is still completely wrong this title is based on the previous resolutions of the parliamentary assembly of the council europe which defiance of the the conflict is a war between russia and georgia and this is wrong and i don't think that the this approach has led the parliamentary assembly anywhere it is still outside it does not contribute anyhow to the. peace process in the region he just makes comments and i feel story bold there because i believe that the potential of the parliamentary assembly of the council year of the potential of the council of europe is much bigger than the previous reason lucian sent us who will participate in these hearings i am not sure the georgians will participate but we will participate and definitely we will insist that further on the next steps would absolutely involve people from and representatives from our presidents also c.t.o. and another comment i want from you before the end of the show it's sunbelt the roost in the beginning of the show we mentioned that this is also one of the main political political intrigues of this new year well the the re

a london based little animals thanks very much indeed for joining us here on our team the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe has followed in the european parliament's footsteps with these sanctions what will they include do you think. it's most likely to. call for the same sanctions as there and as you mentioned previously had been in place. if we recall they were posting two thousand. six. after march elections and they basically imposed travel ban on high ranking belorussian off the shelves as well as freezing the financial assets of look at shankar and members of his regime. one of the points was calling for direct nation of the chairwoman of the central elections committee because she was allegedly involved in vote rigging there's also a provision that provides support for a student and generally easing travel to european union for a common belorussians to establish closer ties we citizens of european union are talking about those citations imposed back in two thousand and six he's still there so the sanctions haven't worked is it likely that these sanctions will work and we wil

country investigate the abuse allegations of security forces against demonstrators instead parliamentary assembly council of europe has called for new sanctions against bellary so for its violent treatment of the opposition president lucas shango has said that he would retaliate if any action was taken against the country the e.u. boycotted his inauguration with many countries opting to distance themselves from the ceremony if. russia and the u.s. are set to begin scrapping their deployed nuclear arsenals the new strategic arms reduction treaty was finally ratified by both sides this weekend should come into force in a matter of days it was just it was signed by president obama and medvedev back in april so what took so long to get started or he's ever piskun all has the details. after more than a year of hard line negotiating and ten more months of internal dispute it's finally done moscow and washington are stripping down their nukes first the state duma and then the federation council gave the bill the green light now that it's signed by the president only a formal exchange of ratification doc

investigate the abusive actions of the security forces against demonstrators instead of the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe has called for new sanctions against deloris over its violent treatment of the opposition president lukashenko has said that he would retaliate if any action was taken against the country the e.u. boycotted his inauguration as with many countries opting to distance themselves from the ceremony. well you're with r.t. and still to come on the program this week marked holocaust remembrance day find out why some believe that many questions still remain unanswered over what exactly took place during the nazi occupation of europe. russia and the us are all set to begin scrapping their deployed nuclear arsenals or the new strategic arms reduction treaty was finally ratified by both sides of this week and should come into force within a matter of days it was signed by presidents medvedev and obama back in april so what took so long to get it started. explains. after more than a year of hard line negotiating and ten more months of internal dispute it's finally done mos

the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe is calling for new sanctions against the by the russian leadership follows december's disputed election which saw president alexander lukashenko often dubbed europe's last dictator stay in power in their protests that followed the vote six hundred people were arrested some of whom were badly beaten and london based political analyst needed to give our guns the you will not apply financial pressure . he would probably do when the sanctions hurt where it hurts most and that economy however the chief european diplomat catherine ashton has already indicated that the european bloc is not interested in imposing sanctions that would hurt the economy and thereby their livelihood of the russians when the european union openly says that they are going to fund student and. media outlets for a position and then he's actually using this for his own advantage cheese thriving on these statements and saying that look. i was right all along that these are agents of the west and they are trying to unseat to me but in reality things are not as black and whit

the majority of the parliamentary assembly in the council of europe supported this report now did this come as a surprise to you. know that didn't because i think they simply had no choice this was a report they themselves had commissioned the council of europe and credit to them for commissioning it to beaver and its conclusions they were bound to accept with obviously the albanian and their supporters delegations being against i think most fair minded people would have to have to see the the for this report and the necessity to continue the investigation that it's begun is not going to happen no do you think there will be a continuation of the investigation do you really think the european union is going to be interested in this bearing in mind it's a support for kosovo in the past. well the council of europe is a little bit wider than just the european union members themselves which is probably why this report has seen the light of day we should remember that the european union has really got has got a poor record in terms of establishing the truth of what of the yugoslav situation

appointment of the following members of the house to the united states group of the nato parliamentary assembly. the clerk: mr. turner, ohio, chairman. mr. shimkus of illinois, mr. shuster of pennsylvania, mr. miller of florida, mrs. emerson of missouri, ms. granger of texas and mr. bilirakis of florida. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to section 4-a of house resolution 5 112th congress and the order of the house of january 5, 2011, the chair announces the speaker's appointment of the following members of the house to the house democracy partnership. the clerk: mr. dreier, chairman, of california. mr. fortenberry of nebraska, mrs. biggert of illinois, mr. conaway of texas, mr. buchanan of florida, mr. boustany of louisiana, mr. wilson of south carolina, mr. roskam of illinois, mr. crenshaw of florida, and mr. diaz-balart of florida. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to section 201-a-2 of the congressional budget and impoundment control act of 1974 2 u.s. code 601 and the order of the house of january 5, 2011, the chair announces that the speaker and president pro temprary of the senate hereby

we have two parliamentary chambers in westminster but also parliaments in scotland, assemblies in northern ireland and wales and we're vooved in the european parliament in brussels. we've got one tv channel and c-span has three. we've dwooped website with eight video streams, allowing us to cover at the same time all those different chambers and it also gives the space for select committee hearings to be running at the same time. so across a single home page screen, you can begin to see the relationship that exists between all of these parliaments and assemblies and the first time that's been possible, it's quite a feat to have eight videos running in the same box on the same screen. the other thing we were anxious about is it's difficult to navigate your way around this material to know who said what about what, to find things, to -- really you have to be an expert researcher to be able to find your way. so the democracy live has an incredible clever search mechanism which will take you to the exact moment in the video where somebody has spoken a word in a debate in any of these chambers