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as cold and hate. identity crisis mayor said to me to lisbon for a summit to figure out where the cold war lines is going in the twenty first century. bringing democracy to others u.s. style with u.s. money american slam their government for the billions of taxpayer dollars funding regime change abroad which they say is only backfiring on them. and no prison time for petty crimes is what russian lawmakers are proposing as they prepare to republish night as the country's intent is to.

be out of the russian capital you're watching r.t.m. arena jascha welcome to the program tackling its identity crisis by presenting a new strategic vision is the goal of the nato summit which is set to open in portugal creative more than sixty years ago to counter the cold war threat of the soviet union the alliance is now in a search of a clear contemporary goal as artie's lauren lyster reports. it's the biggest and oldest military alliance in modern times but when you think about what it's places in the world today. the answer. the answer doesn't come easily and not just for one speechless american official decades after the cold war ended with no common enemy originally supposed to define i defend western europe against the soviet union nato allies have been at a loss for a new one and at a loss for a clear purpose of identity crisis for

a while we can severely by the seemingly endless afghan war with nato members growing weary in countries such as canada and the netherlands pulling troops out the power of the block is in question. many of the places in the world. for. the depth and perhaps the consequences of a growing group of now twenty eight nations driven together but still largely led by the interests of one of the united states is trying to use in the. directly tries to use need. to fulfill american missions yet everyone feels the strain and with goals not laid out since before the attacks on nine eleven which drove the alliance into war there's not much that's concrete to guide an organization seemingly in crisis which is just one reason why now when lisbon this

meeting matters here at the nato summit the alliance will try to buy for modern relevance with the promise of new strategic goals but also here in lisbon are another group of international critics who believe that there is no place for nato and the twenty first century reiner brown is planning an anti nato protest you know i think there is no place for major i think there is no place for me who lives any longer in the world because you can and you know the global problem with military. not and nato is now looking to an old foe for help solving its problems with all drop which has now emerged as a basically a one of the leading global players it's impossible for nato to deal with such. issues like the war on going war in afghanistan they're looking to russia for help with supply routes in fighting the drug trade and now an organization that famously touted

a mission of keeping the russians out and the americans in needs the russians in afghanistan to help americans get out i'm not sure what nato is in the twenty first century and i think it's outdated and without a major rethinking of its goals policies and missions and alliance looking for a new place in the world may find itself and. the answer. fumbling along without one more in mr r.t. lisbon portugal. made his relations with russia and they are common challenges are also expected to be in focus of the summit and although u.s. russian ties have improved recently political rider danna johnstone believes there are still a lot of cold war era sinking in washington. i don't see really that the united states has decided that confrontation with russia is pointless why then is it building up forces in the arctic bringing canadian and scandinavian forces

into armed force whose only purpose could be to confront russia over resources in the arctic assuming that the arctic ice caps mills and opens a possible resources the united states is carrying out military maneuvers in the baltic clue whose only opposition could be russia and then the black sea again it's a double thing they say one thing and they do another and it's impossible since it's a big bureaucracy the pentagon you don't really know exactly what the policy is what you're actually going to live from moscow here's a peek at the peculiar case of a russian businessman labeled margin of dan we'll be covering a bit later in the program how big the bullet is now going had to had with the u.s. justice system as russia calls for a thorough investigation. as the dad stricken united states struggles with the economic downturn more americans are beginning to wonder where all the our taxpayer

money is going the u.s. is funding two costly overseas wars bailing out private companies and banks but that's not all are you john have us reports on how washington is investing its cash in revolutionary ways. this is what u.s. backed regime change used to look like back in the days in a bid to ensure u.s. political and economic interests were safeguarded cia backed coup d'etat was announced the democratically elected leaders from home in those adak in iran to sell the door again day in chile. by the one nine hundred eighty s. the reign of terror that blazed across latin america by washington's henchmen was too much for most people to stomach to replace the overt support for dictatorships a new concept for regime change was born one that sounds and looks better democracy promotion dr william robinson is the foremost expert on regime change to democracy promotion he wrote the book promoting poly arche in america. eastern europe with

the velvet revolutions in africa in the middle east or really all over all over the world and so the us set up these different mechanisms now for penetrating the civil societies and the political systems that didn't have countries that are going to be intervened and to assure that the outcomes would be pleasing to do washington's foreign policy objectives we do this through surrogates and we do this through non-governmental organizations and we do it through people who are less suspecting of the evil that may lurk behind their actions then perhaps they were before. have we learned some lessons of that guard you bet do we do it better you bet is it still just as highness as it always was you bet so while the goals remain the same it's no longer the cia but the u.s. agency for international development and its partners spearheading this effort like the cia usa id the national endowment for democracy and the slew of similar organizations receive funding from congress millions and millions of u.s.

taxpayer dollars go every year into funding for political organizations who campaigns in different countries around the world that promote u.s. agenda and most u.s. . ascends are unaware of the fact that that's how their money's being spent to meddle and influence and interfere in other nations affairs the concept of facilitating regime change to democracy promotion has garnered widespread criticism not just abroad but also here at home just terrible we used taxpayers' money to go over and use our military and our cia and these programs to say this is what you ought to do and influence and there's no authority for that it doesn't work it teaches a lot of people to despise us to have compass our team washington d.c. thing. take a hornberger president of the future of freedom foundation says funding regime change abroad is threatening the u.s. economy this is essentially u.s.

foreign policy and has been for many decades it's a foreign policy that's based on interfering in the elections and political affairs of other nations with the intent of bringing people into the imperial fold of the us empire but the us government has no more commitment to democracy than those two dictatorship they supported saddam hussein throughout the eighty's we're looking now on the horizon at the prospect of governmental bankruptcy this is a government that is spending one point three trillion dollars more than what it. is borrowing massively we now know that the fed is inflating massively you would think people start saying hey do we really need to be doing this especially when it's affecting our financial and economic wellbeing and hopefully that those that type of thing you start to now awaken within the american people. and a little later in the program we'll tell you how a canary put a russian woman behind bars now why she is serving a three year sentence and how she and many other petty criminals in russia can get a second chance. russia's foreign ministry says it wants to get

a fair trial for businessmen big the alleged gun runner claims he's been put under severe pressure by u.s. authorities to charges of arms trafficking and terrorism which he has denied after being extradited from thailand earlier this week he is now in solitary confinement in a new york prison moscow says it will offer consular help to boot the trial will begin on the tenth of january of next year as the latest from new york. the case surrounding viktor bout has been quite a tug of war between russia and the u.s. and the presidential aide to dmitri medvedev recently spoke out saying that the charges that the u.s. have leverage against victor boot a russian citizen a serious and russia would like for those charges to be thoroughly investigated and russia is providing assistance to victor boot but russian officials have

underscored the fact that that does not mean or should not be translated into a meeting that moscow believes victor boot is innocent or guilty they are just trying to make sure that everything is going according to plan and no laws are being violated and russian officials also said that they have nothing to hide in this circumstance the situation they're being very transparent and some have accused the u.s. of not being very transparent when it comes to picture boots extradition from thailand to new york you're. willing to stress to the u.s. authorities of some very serious and. russian citizen we have nothing to conceal we don't consider this case is anything of the we want to see this investigation. all the questions raised by the u.s. he will be given. their the me we are claiming he's innocent moscow is also accusing washington of

a double standard so we have to remember boot forty three year old russian citizen is being accused of smuggling weapons to fork rebels that would have been used to kill americans yet russian officials say that washington did provide georgia with several weapons many weapons that were used during the war in the setting in which hundreds of civilians were killed so obviously a very contentious and sensitive situation surrounding victor and right now many are speculating about the fact of whether we can get a fair trial in the u.s. . very important reporting there and in a few moments r.t. brings the report from the scene of the world's worst nuclear accident the threat for the environment and whether it has the potential to on the least another catastrophe. before that russia's criminal code is undergoing a make over with many of the country's prisons overflowing authorities are

introducing new methods of punishment this means that most petty criminals and first time offenders may not have to serve long sentences are. met some of these prisoners who say they are hoping for a second chance the fourteen hundred women serving time here have one thing in common at some point in their life they all made a bad choice well you know paul i went over to my friend's house to get some minor back that he owed me but he refused to pay out so he didn't have any so so is canary bird sitting there and i took it as collateral leader the police came and said i stole it after breaking and entering the price for a stolen canary bird bus instead of that i was sentenced to three years in prison and i'm currently serving out my first. this extruded aspect of russia's legislation has been questioned by many including the country's lawmakers a system of alternative punishment for a lesser crimes in the works with people found guilty of minor law violations facing fines and house arrest rather than jail time used up to get only you can

speed someone in prison because they still too chicken our legal system with these things and effectively there are harsh punishments for small misdemeanors and in some cases commitments which are too late for me ger cranes we need to balance a system because despite recent statistics crime is on the rise. add that to overflowing prisons abysmal health conditions on the inside tougher integration into society after serving time and the true nature of this problem becomes even more evident even financially that reform makes sense according to official data over a million people are currently imprisoned in russia with twenty percent serving up to three years for misdemeanors substituting their jail time with house arrest will free up the prisons lessen the burden of taxpayers and most importantly not give people that stumbled a reason to fall. if

a person goes to jail following some silly act of his or other certain circumstances because he comes out as a lifelong criminal but we have relevance to the backslide amounts to thirty to forty percent at the very least i mean almost half of them later become criminals. but there is much to do before these amendments get implemented into the legal system the electronic surveillance bracelets for example will rely on russia's glow nass positioning system and it's not yet ready neither is the legal system with law enforcement not yet capable of the required fishel surveillance the proposition to stop throwing those found guilty of minor crimes behind bars is something that the women in this penitentiary can definitely get behind but even if the law is implemented the people serving time now may have to face the fact that they will have to serve and pay their debt to society in full without enjoying the benefits of an alternative punishment catron as our r.t.

moscow region. some more world news in briefs or hear or task these capital have thrown rocks at u.n. troops amid riots as anger grows over cholera epidemic police fired tear gas at demonstrators some of whom accuse the un for spreading the disease earlier in the week two people were killed in protest and so far more than a thousand people have died from the outbreak of the disease. a un human rights committee has been damn me on march first election in twenty years calling it unfair the vote held two weeks ago was won by a party heavily supported by the military opposition parties claimed the outcome was rigged and boycott of the polls pro-democracy politicians on songs that she was freed last week after spending fifteen of the past two decades under house arrest her party gaz the most votes in the last election but this was not recognized by the ruling military john to. a landslide triggered by heavy downpours in colombia

has killed four people rain swollen rivers and burst their bags destroying crops roads and thousands of homes and twenty eight out of thirty two colombian provinces it's the worst rainy season decades and has claimed one hundred thirty eight lives the rainfall is expected to continue throughout the weekend. the mexican government is auctioning off thousands of luxury goods seized from drug lords extravagant items an offer of a two day sale in mexico city range from diamond rings to private jets the auction is expected to fetch millions of dollars which will then be funneled into a combat in crime mexico's drug industry has a turnover of around forty billion dollars a year and has been responsible for over thirty thousand deaths since two thousand and six. the terror novel disaster may have been the worst nuclear accident history but scientists are warning of an even greater threat only a fraction of the nuclear material the reactors contain was expelled by the

explosion back in eighty six massive amounts of lethally contaminated debris remain buried at the site as a next year she asked finds out almost a quarter of a century since the chernobyl fallout a special confinement structure called the circle for gas is still preventing more radioactive emissions into atmosphere this structure the circle for this was built in nineteen eighty six just months after the disaster that you know build nuclear power blog back then experts predicted that this would last for only twenty years until two thousand and six that is but it was strengthened and improved extending its lifetime for five more years the biggest question is how much nuclear fuel remains under the surface some experts believe that there is none as most of it did very polarizing to the atmosphere and was spread around the chernobyl exclusion zone but many experts believe that there are ninety five percent of nuclear fuel still remaining under the surface and that could be tons and tons of nuclear material that. we believe that the nuclear fuel under this account for gross is no

longer sold mass like it was twenty four years ago that now is more like three layers of dispersed ernest so should the presence of gopher go screwups we could see a very powerful explosion at the facilities as powerful as a nuclear one. in order to avoid another catastrophe europe invested in the building of a new confinement in two thousand and seven french company another article was allowed to start the construction of an arch like steel structure to cover the facility three years later the project is underway with more than five hundred engineers building the new circle for gas next to the contaminated plant it won't be just the frame yeah it will be a technological complex as multi-functional crane system will be installed inside the new structure eight. finals cap the new safe confinement should provide the safety the works in far and the projects initial cost was thought to be half

a billion euro now sources in chernobyl report that figure has almost doubled but in the fight for the continent's safety no sum is too much the new confinement is expected to be completed by the year twenty thirteen and is expected to last for another hundred years the only question is what is the fate of the nuclear power plant in chernobyl some say that it may be dismantled under this new dome but that is only a speculation for now we only heard that this is a process which may take another seventy years and there are no technologies to this date which would allow this to happen. r.t. reporting from the church noble exclusion zone in ukraine. and remember you can always log on to our website r t a call for more on any of the stories that we're covering for you here now network but here are some that my cat hitting the silver

screen the story of the miraculous crash landing of a tuple of plane carrying seventy two passengers as it was traveling from russia's far east of moscow will be turned into a film. plus one of russia's greatest riders ever thought or just to get steve lived for many years and seen it as a bird but was actually born in moscow to go door to door on and explore his first home. all right that brings up today here in our team at all the latest business news heading your way in just a few moments. for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. would

be soon which would brighten if you knew about the song from months to impression. good morning and welcome top business poets have been good to have you with us the witness of the dollar has raised concern with some of the u.s. his biggest trade partner washington has been accused of trying to steal a competitive edge by intentionally devaluing its presidential aide a cut of that coverage believes russia has little to fear. what is important is that the rate of appreciation of national currency is not higher than the rate of

increase in efficiency labor productivity and energy efficiency and other efficiency indicators we believe that at least at this point in time the medium term perspective. would potential to increase efficiency even faster than the rate of increase in the real way you of robel and this will keep us on the safe side it will not experience the negative consequence of or we. you can see the full version of that interview with presidential. spotlight. that's on tuesday here on r.t. . now let's take a look at the markets asian stocks up makes this out of the nikkei is a quarter of a percent higher leading the gains are exporters helped by weaker yen. shedding around one a half percent and met reports that china may raise interest rates as early as friday to cool the place. and the russian markets finished in the black on thursday

all the blue chips were higher on the my sixth grade bank was again the top gain a two point six percent in the black and b. to b. is not far behind up more than one percent. russia's biggest mobile telecoms group so its profits slide five point seven percent in the third quarter the net total came in at four hundred seventy five million dollars however this was better than the average analysts forecasts and he has said sales revenue during the period grew by more than ten percent to a little under three billion dollars the company's chief financial officer explained the decline in the headline figure due to exchange rate high loan interest. the world's top titanium produce. has revised its development program according to the company's c.e.o. speaking exclusively to r.t. . says the global titanium market has already we bound it from the bottom of the

economic downturn you do is to brood in the ocean i think that the global try to a new market is possible to move to try. as the player which controls a third of the market is also recovering two thousand and ten has become the turning point volumes are increasing and we are into superior even more substantial growth of around twenty percent in twenty eleven. back in two thousand and seven the company agreed on a program aimed at increasing capacity to forty six thousand tonnes of titanium production pretty here and has postponed this because of the crisis when do you plan to achieve this goal national concept that and development concept till twenty fifteen implies a shift from the role materials market to the manufacture of more advanced products in areas of industrial titanium i should point out that vs n.p.r. is the only vertically integrated holding with titanium grain at the input and finished products at the output there are no quibble and in the world china is

increasingly becoming an active player in the titanium market how does this change things to. china as a new player on the titanium market started by producing products for use in the industry but it's now moving into the production of titanium products that are sold to the public this is resulted in some dumping of products which has had the familiar effect of lowering prices there are proposals to create a special economic zone the so-called titanium valley in russia what difference will this make. the idea originated in two thousand and six. we felt that we needed to create new production plants here a free economic zone is a good way to attract financial and technological investment who has already shown interest and what should be done to attract more firms. first of all we're inviting our partners and our boys these are the companies like boeing and us goodrich and rolls royce this fully corresponds with their aims to cut costs in some sense that this will require investment but in the following three to four years they will get

more advanced products plus the list of incentives provided in the free economic zone is extensive and attractive especially from those companies already interested in investing in the russian federation yet that's all the business is for now let out of that well why next hour and you can always find last hours if you log onto a website that r.t. dot com slash business. the.

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