nato and russia move closer to ultimate partnership. problems security structure in europe and cooperating on afghanistan dominated talks between made us cheap and the

russian leaders in moscow. president obama could be facing a tougher challenge pushing through his reforms including his foreign policy agenda after the democrats lose their hold over congress in the midterm vote. iraq mourns of the victims of the deadliest wave of sectarian violence in months amid concerns that once well sunni's are being drawn back into the insurgency. broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow this is we're certainly glad to have you with us russia has a reaffirmed its readiness to create a joint missile defense system in europe with nato but only on an equal basis the reassurance came after a meeting in moscow between the russian leadership and nato's chief. has been following the high level talks. both nato and moscow realize that

a new global security strategy is needed for the twenty first century and it is time for change it is time that nato and moscow boost the partnership now nato is an organization that is currently facing serious challenges has an identity crisis analysts say that north atlantic alliance has bitten off more than it can chew and its and in afghanistan in particular nato so wants to read itself always cold war one sided identity ross wilson is a moscow today for talks all the two main issues the first one is anti me so to france in europe recently nato invited russia to participate in that system but the kremlin keeps asking hard questions on what role would be given will it be just a mere observer of the new technology or will it the to supply a to b. in the new system as a hands on mom but will it to dissipate in the entire process starting from

construction to activation of this system well sergei lavrov today says that of course the. new system will be discussed in detail cheering the upcoming russian nato summit in lisbon in two weeks' time but he said that russia sees that its agreement to accept the invitation is only possible if they take part in the system as equal partners look the condition of. nato is a serious organization everything that comes from the organization is taken very seriously by russia as a nation have a clear understanding russia's participation in this project is possible and will be based on equal footing before we go into this project this work should be carried out before leaders of our state take decisions well russia is currently providing nato with crucial support in afghanistan it provides a military supply routes for the afghan war and just recently russia to part for the first time a. in many years in a president

a joint open ration against. several drug producing with more interest trucks were hundreds of millions of dollars were destroyed for russia so brazen with nato on hand to drop policies in afghanistan is one of the top priorities because after almost about confused hiring hands up in russia russia and nato acknowledge of course that there are fundamental disagreements that still divide russia nato ties have been slowly recovering after russia repelled georgia's military invasion in seoul the setting in august two thousand and eight been there is sun city or tornadoes moving east woodside it's nice to see it as one of the top threat states national security but it seems that chances are high that the two sides could push it was said bottom similar to that the the united states and russia pushed a while ago but ross wilson said that the two sides should not treat each other as cold war anime's anymore but rather like modern day partners the right approach

would be true develop a true strategic partnership between nato and russia and focus on the areas where we are faced with the same security challenges areas where we share she cured she conscious and show my approach would be the pragmatic true to go for a true strategic partnership made us blueprint for change also says further cooperation with russia a top priority but most go is pushing for more than just words from nato dimitri from the russian council on foreign and defense policy says russia is ready to expand its cooperation with nato in afghanistan on certain conditions. brussels seems to seems like linking expansion of its support of nato operations in afghanistan to nato support of russia is that your agenda as i said is first and

foremost signing a legally binding agreements with nato that limit expansion of u.s. and nato military infrastructure i mean troops at the territories all of you still in central europe and nato is quite reluctant about supporting the russian initiative but still i think the sides could agree on first expansion of russia's support of reconstructing the old soviet era economic infrastructure the terrorists or afghanistan secondly russia can sign agreements with nato france the real to the troops to afghanistan through the russian territory and for ice russia can expand its supports of training of gamble leask or anti-drug sports i think these are the possible areas of the group. the democratic party has narrowly managed to retain a majority in the senate in the u.s.

midterm elections but the house of representatives is now in the hands of the republicans with congress now divided between the two parties that we much harder for obama to move forward with his reforms including foreign policy and security agenda u.s. radio host scott horton says obama's goal to rid the world of nuclear arms could now be undermined. democrats in order to get the republicans in the senate to sign on which the democrats still control the senate but by less of a majority now but you need two thirds stratify a treaty and in order to get the republicans to sign on to the start treaty they basically had to add so many amendments and riders to the thing that it basically allows for the creation of brand new generations of hydrogen bombs dozens and dozens uncounted new facilities for manufacturing hydrogen bombs more submarines more air power. and they've changed the accounting methods for the nuclear warheads in such a way that actually the united states doesn't really have to reduce their stockpile of nuclear weapons hardly at all so they've turned what ought to be the most

important issue in the world the mutual. reduction of american russia's nuclear weapon stockpiles towards zero and turned it into a farce turned it into a way for republican congressmen to get bankrolled so that they can run again next time and keep the companies that manufacture nuclear weapons and or make the parts for the manufacture nuclear weapons in business at the expense of the rest of us and at the risk of our entire species in fact and with russian lawmakers now saying they want to reconsider their support for the strategic arms reduction treaty the landmark agreement could be hanging in the balance state duma foreign affairs committee has recalled an earlier recommendation to ratify it they have now to assess the most thirty amendments to the treaty made by the us senate foreign affairs committee obama and medvedev signed the new agreement in prague in april. of from the russian federation council hopes the reset in russia u.s.

relations will not be affected there is nothing wrong. with that i would relations with the republican party. and all the criticism all the republicans against star three agreement for example were once criticism of the against russian position or russian views of the star three agreement but the against the position of democratic government during the negotiations and against against obama. primarily so i think that reset is not in danger. you can catch the full interview with me in the spotlight later on thursday. now our web site is also keeping you up to date twenty four hours a day here's some of what you'll find online right now at our teen. hope is running

low for women in afghanistan a shocking number fall victim to domestic abuse and violence with the suicide rate on the rise despite international efforts. and the moscow landmark metro unveils a new attraction as it turns one of its stations into a public museum for more head to our team dot com. russia is mourning the death of a veteran of post soviet politics no may have been in the one nine hundred ninety s. no may have been was russia's prime minister during the difficult transition from communism in one thousand nine hundred three russia and the us created a joint commission on economic and technological cooperation it was known as the so-called gore have no may have been commission that also dealt with the use of plutonium extracted from nuclear weapons. also served as presidential representative on the balkans during the yugoslav war in the last few years he was russia's ambassador to ukraine weathering strained relations between kid of moscow

. a famous russian anti-drug enforcer who authorities want to jailed for up to twelve years has been sentenced to two and a half years probation you go to the beach called tackle the drug problem in the urals by forcing addicts into rehab but his methods were criticized as inhumane despite winning huge public support artie's further has more. discussed today then looking for you but of course he has been found guilty kidnap and legal at attention of these limits that's the bitch called the action for. you as part of that take me to help pick up forcing people to quit and fight that addiction and this case really showing nationwide attention even president but they did come and sing out it was saying that the case needed that closer attention and many supporters have been saying that i fall for it being punished which coach i

actually have been commended for his action scene a lot of a lot of the public reaction has been a very positive towards this i did a full simply fighting drug addiction i've never seen it with pitch of operating efficiently to get help and the main foundation city without a new question but. the people who actually live that have seen the positive effects of this action said we had to leave it to you question but just over a month the guy at the people who is taking to the chief ten years ago there were no gays and so the talk of taking with. you know people who are afraid to get their breaks that their children live in they say that now there's been a. very very positive impact and even more interesting that some of the drug addicts at least like to. see the treatment that themselves the thirty's methods are incredibly harsh that actually they were this chap eagle

carried out over two hundred operations against drug dealers as a result the mortality rate has hugged the gypsies are afraid to sell drugs and consequently don't bribe you for it is clearly the authorities that didn't like that took addiction. hope that this is just it's better out thirty thousand people a good. unofficial statistics say that the. drug addict in russia. a drug addict is an issue that needs to be tackled. brazil's new president dilma rousseff valid to intensify the government's efforts in fighting rampant poverty but despite advances made by her predecessors hunger and unemployment are still the reality for millions of brazilians but know the downtrodden are sidestepping government and leading their own fight for change from the ground up lauren lake to reports from sao paulo just a simple life tending your own garden. growing your own food it's

a simple life worth fighting for even if you've built it illegally six times they've tried to kick us off and together with the church and with some politicians we've been able to appeal standing your ground because another life one you've worked to escape is always in sight not far from where you toil these are the favelas they are the slums in brazil it's the way the majority of the poor live in this country and where here are just a stone's throw away on a settlement this is where a group of people now live off the land in a commune as an answer to the poverty and joblessness in the slums of brazil is the largest country in south america and almost half of the farmland is controlled by just one percent of the landowners and there's a lot of activism to a huge social movement in fact behind changing that. misty struggles so brazil can do radical agrarian reform so that we can settle the land and get rid of property pushing to get all poor brazilians like the forty families living here back to the

earth after they were pushed off by the world. when the green revolution led by powerful foundations and governments like the us turned farming in the developing world into an expensive and high tech agricultural industry with this revolution huge businesses occupy the land and this has been happening since the one nine hundred fifty s. and they've been kicking small farmers off the land they kick them off and they send them to the city saying that the cities need workers. but the cities didn't need all those workers so while the land became a means to produce and export food for the world to consume benefiting the few people who controlled it it was lots for the large landowners the bank owners and the multinational corporations small land workers like these lost their jobs to technology or lost their land going into debt trying to compete and were left to starve or today it is very much an oppressor capitalism is becoming a monster because wherever the market or product is the principal focus everything

or everyone else ends up excluded but everyone's included here in their own collective socialist solution a model of their dream for brazil at. home we want wealth distribution for the poor and the workers we want land distribution the green revolution of their own. a simple life worth fighting for lauren lyster r.t. south paulo brazil. a brief look at some other international news this hour the government in greece has is spending international mail deliveries for forty eight hours after a series of letter bombs were found in athens some were sent to foreign embassies while three were posted to germany's chancellor the italian prime minister and the french president police have already charged two men and are now searching for five others suspected of involvement in extreme left wing group is thought to be behind the attempted attacks. iran has denied reports that an execution is

imminent for a woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery earlier this year the mother of two sentence was suspended after the case sparked international outcry however the authorities said she could still be hanged for murder the iranian foreign minister has reportedly told his french counterpart that no decision in the case has yet been made. a volcano in indonesia which began erupting the last week has unleashed its biggest blast yet sending a huge amount into the sky reports say this latest activity from mount merapi was three times as powerful as the initial blast ten days ago about seventy five thousand people have already been evacuated from the area near the volcano and more are fleeing from their homes at least thirty nine people have been killed since the balkans began. authorities in central serbia have declared a state of emergency after a five point four magnitude earthquake killed two and injured up to one hundred

people more tremors are expected around the town of crawley about where buildings were badly damaged and electricity and water were cut off. iraq has been rocked in the wake of its a bloodiest week for months at least ninety one people have been killed and over two hundred wounded in a series of attacks centered around baghdad's shia neighborhoods a series of blasts came just two days after al-qaeda militants took a christian congregation hostage a resulting firefight left fifty eight dead with a total u.s. pullout scheduled before the end of next year despite escalating violence many iraqis say they feel abandoned and it's forcing some to join the enemy one sunni militia group praised by the u.s. for its help and providing security is now falling back into the hands of local warlords and al qaeda possible but. there is still a force to be reckoned with tens of thousands of sunni muslims angry at the shiite

iraqi government known as the sons of iraq four years ago they were won over by american dollars to fight al qaeda one of the strains they live in the neighborhoods in which they keep watch of in we did a great service to iraq some where members were working with the terrorists before they joined us and they give us information about the armed groups but despite attempts by the iraqi government to disarm them in communities like this they continue to patrol the streets because they insist iraqi soldiers just can't keep the peace. and security forces sometimes just turn a blind eye to what's going on there's lots of human rights violations and there aren't enough human rights organizations defend and protect people. but all these paramilitary groups upholding the rule of law or are some of their activities questionable as suggested in the four hundred thousand iraq documents released by wiki leaks in one account has sons of iraq leader is said to be responsible for the murder of innocent civilians conducting insurgent activities under the guise of

a sons of iraq leader extortion and rape. everything has a positive and a negative some leaders use their position for settling trouble scores stockpiling weapons making money and killing innocent civilians but the majority brought stability for them and. but that majority also feels abandoned by an america which armed trained and paid them and despite big promises less than half of the ninety thousand strong force has been given work or absorbed into iraqi security forces this man is one of the few who has but he's afraid to reveal his identity. to talk after the americans were finished with his groups after iraq was secure being no longer supported us especially when the iraqi government charged early theirs with crimes a lot of the leaders have lost trust in the american and iraqi government and they're afraid that by working for them they might face charges and or assassination. iraqi

security officials say hundreds of sons of iraq members have returned to al qaeda and that many of the thousands now in the iraqi government payroll secretly aid the insurgency for observers like hamid deal iraqi security forces are running a losing race to keep up to speed to either integrate the groups or to be able to secure iraq without them and i think that how that the training given by the u.s. was not complete and it never will be because america wants iraqis to keep beating them they don't want to rock to build a strong army and that way they can justify staying in the country and making sure iraq is never strong enough to control the region. in army bases like those iraqi federal police are trained in intelligence the tactical side exploitation. medical anything like that they do patrols counter i see is that for many iraqis what the americans left behind was destruction and devastation it will take

a lot for them to rebuild the ruins of their minds. armed and dangerous these paramilitary groups struggle to find a place for themselves meeting some observers to warn that while they might have been used for short term military gains in the end they could be the roadblocks to peace policy r.t. baghdad. next to find out how the iraqi military will cope with of the challenges ahead are general mohammed al askari a spokesman from iraq's ministry of defense. but

now i have general mohamed i'll ask an adviser and spokesperson with the iraqi ministry of defense so thank you very much for joining us here are not going to come back to the american soldiers have left by and large the majority do feel confident that the actual soldiers and the iraqi security force is able to keep the situation so calm and. it is a good question it's worth talking about the readiness of the iraqi security forces because the number of american troops left in this country is less than fifty thousand it's important the americans go on what's also important is the timing the timing of implementing this phase of the agreement was put forward by the minister of defense why did he choose this time each timing has

a meaning there are steps that need to be taken so that the iraqi forces will be ready by december thirty first twenty eleven we believe that we will be ready enough to have full security control at that stage and for all the american forces to leave iraq as well you say that the timeframe was given by the racoons and not motivated from the american side. well that if the recent departure of american troops was because washington wanted to improve a bomb. as pitcher so walked or if it was because of american pressure or desire it doesn't matter to me as an iraqi as an iraqi i welcome the american withdrawal and i wish that we will be ready by the thirty first of december twentieth levon to say goodbye to the americans for good because we will be fully ready to take over as a rocky's we cannot accept that the americans will stay in iraq of a good i don't care for the reason but we will not let anyone stay in iraq for

a long time and the timing issue is very important having timetables is critical because they serve as a pressurizing factor all musts we have to meet each deadline we have to improve the level of the iraqi security forces the difference between iraq and afghanistan is that we have put timetables for everything we're doing the afghans and not doing that they were lying on the americans and nato to do things for them. how well trained have your soul to school by the americans. and how the current iraqi soldier is different to the soldiers we had before two thousand and three today's iraqi soldiers were young during the two thousand and three war but they were also trained on russian weaponry like for instance on the russian tank later iraqi soldiers were trained on american weapons which are different to most but we still have a lot of russian made technology here and many pilots who were trained on russian

planes so we need their help to keep training them the americans may be in charge of getting our soldiers ready whenever we get another expertise from for example france or russia we go to those countries and we get the help that we ask for that . there have been targets that security forces are now off well trained enough just two hours ago there was a bomb not far from that. do you think that you were on the incumbents. pullback itself is a core cause for what they are not untrained but the training they receive is not enough when the americans came the borders were open to terrorists and violence spread the americans dismissed the iraqi government did not think to form an iraqi army before two thousand and four and it was too late because the terrorists were already and we got volunteers we gave them brief training and sent them to the

field they were combat soldiers with not enough training the bombs that are going off in iraq today and not a measurement for how well the soldiers were trained the bombs were going off even when the united states was in the country we need better intelligence who's behind these bombs and how they managed to still carry them out with the. at the moment the iraqi security forces one and there has been a law that's been put forward to reintroduce conscription i think that this law will be implemented. and i feel this compulsory service has not been approved yet it's still a draft only the retirement law was approved for now we don't need compulsory recruitment because when we ask for example for ten thousand volunteers we have at least one hundred thousand young people coming to volunteer so we don't need it the countries need compulsory recruitment when they need soldiers and they don't have them besides we don't have the facilities and equipment to train all these

personnel when we have them in the compulsory recruitment we have enough soldiers for now in the future when iraq is stable enough and investment will start coming in the young men will go towards civilian projects by that time we will be having a lack of personnel and by that time we will need the compulsory service. general thank you very much for joining us on our back of it wants. the admiral knew he was. a passenger liner sailing in the black sea. august thirty first nineteen eighty six. twenty three twenty. five kilometers off shore. crashes.