identity crisis nato set to meet in lisbon for a summit to figure out where the cold war alliance is going in the twenty first century. bringing democracy to others u.s. style with us 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 a pair to revolutionize the country's attention system.

this is r t coming to live from moscow i'm marina josh welcome to the program now tackling its identity crisis by presenting a new strategic vision is the goal of the nato summit which is set to open in portugal created 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 doesn't it identity crisis for

a while we can severely by the seemingly endless afghan war with nato members growing weary and countries such as canada and the netherlands pulling troops out the power of the block is in question. in many of the places in the world with the. lack of. ability to transform. the depths and perhaps the consequences of a growing group of now twenty eight nations driven together but still largely led by the interests of one states who's trying to use need to. 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 from 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. probably the 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 burning 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 i would dated 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 may as relations with russia and their common challenges are also expected to be in focus of the summit that although u.s. russian ties have improved recently but little rotter deanna johnston 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 cap mills and opened possible resources the united states is carrying out military maneuvers in the baltic clue who's only up to solution could be russia and in 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 don't really know exactly what the policy is now here's a peek of the peculiar case of a russian businessman labeled as the merchant of death which will be covering a victim now going head to head with the u.s. justice system as russia calls for a star investigation. now as the death stricken united states struggles with the economic downturn war 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 reports of 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 and most adept 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 don't have countries that are going to be intervened in to assure that the outcomes would be pleasing to two washington 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 our 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 from 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 and yes 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 compassed our team washington d.c. thing jacob horn burger 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 is 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 the us government has no more commitment to democracy than to 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 we'll tell you how a canary put a russian woman behind us find out why she's serving in three years and how she could get a second chance as russia reviews its criminal code. russia's foreign ministry

says it wants to get a fair trial for businessman victor borge the alleged gun runner claims he's been put under severe pressure by u.s. authorities to admit 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 book the trial will begin on january the tenth 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 the russian citizen and 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 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 what you're. willing to stress to the u.s. authorities are very serious and. russian citizen we have nothing to conceal you we do consider this case is anything of the we want to see this investigation. as to the questions raised by the u.s. he will be given. to students who are the they are 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. . i just reporting from new york and in a few moments r.t. brings the report from the scene of the world's worst nuclear accident investigator turned novelist for the environment and whether it has the potential to unleash another task of. russia's criminal code is undergoing a make over with many of the country's prisons overflowing authorities are introducing new methods of polish meant this means that most petty crime criminals and first time offenders but not have to serve long sentences are just that some of

these prisoners will say they're 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 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. canary bird seed in 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 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't put 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 we can instruments which are too late for meter crane we need to balance say the 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 who have stumbled a reason to fall. if a person goes to jail following some silly act of 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 would 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 glowing ass positioning system and it's not yet ready neither is the legal system with law enforcement not yet capable of the required fishable 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. and more world news and brings us our here in our to the task doesn't he have thrown rocks at u.n. troops amid riots anger grows on for a dollar

a gallon gas fired tear gas canisters some of whom are using less spreading out of the scenes earlier in the week two people were killed in protest so far more than a thousand people have died from the alberich. over thirty men are missing following a blast at a coal mine in new zealand emergency services rushed to the scene after reports of a massive explosion at the pike river coal mine which is on the west coast of new zealand south island two workers have surfaced from a different part of the plant and officials say they do not yet know how many casualties there are or what caused the blast. a human rights committee has can damn the first election in twenty years calling it unfair the vote held two weeks ago was won by a party have been supported by the military opposition parties claim the outcome was rigged and boycott of the polls pro-democracy politician on song suchi was freed last week after spending fifteen of the past two decades under house arrest

her party got the most votes in the last election but this was not recognised by the ruling military judge. a landslide triggered by heavy downpours in colombia has killed four people rain swollen rivers have burst their banks the storm crops roads and thousands of homes in twenty eight out of thirty two colombian provinces it's the worst when the season has claimed one hundred thirty eight bytes the rainfall is expected to continue throughout the weekend. ron marz in chile have confirmed the first discovery of a planet in the milky way that came from another galaxy two thousand light years from earth the jupiter like world and the star of closely orbits came from a nearby dwarf galaxy billions of years ago scientists say this alien planet is now nearing the end of its life and could help better understand the ultimate fate of earth and the demise of our solar system. the church noble disaster may have been

the worst nuclear accident in history but scientists are warning of an even greater threat only a fraction of the nuclear material the reactor contained was expelled by the explosion back in eighty six massive amounts of lethally contaminated debris remain buried at the site as lakes here shifting now reports. almost quarter of a century since the chernobyl fallout a special confinement structure called the circle is still preventing more radioactive emissions into atmosphere this structure the circus was built in nine hundred eighty six just months after the disaster that your noble nuclear power blog back then experts predicted 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 solution 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. we believe that the nuclear fuel under the sea configures is no longer a solid mass like it was twenty four years ago that now is more a three layers of dispersed dust so she's a person should go for good scraps because he is very powerful explosion 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 was allowed to store 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 good 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 the new safe confinement should provide the safety environment for the work in far the project's initial cost was thought to be half a billion euro now sources in chernobyl report that three. has almost doubled but in the fight for the continent safety no some 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 church some say that it may be dismantled there's 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 to knowledge used to this day which would allow this to happen. see reporting from the church noble

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the rate of increase in efficiency labor productivity energy efficiency and other efficiency indicators. we believe that at least at this point in time the medium term perspective. with potential to increase efficiency even faster than the rate of increase in the real value or for all this will keep us on the safe side real not to experience a new negative consequence so far or require a dollar. and you can see the full version of this interview with presidential. spotlight hosted by al gore next tuesday here in arctic. now is take a look at how the markets are doing asian stocks and make this out of the nicky's a quarter of a percent higher leading the gains are exporters helped by. the hang sang it's hitting the wrong one and a half percent amid reports that china may raise interest rates the serious friday to cool inflation. and the russian markets finished in the black on thursday all

the blue chips were higher on the on the my six burbank was again the top gainer two point six percent in the black and the t.v. was not far behind up more than one percent russia's biggest mobile telecoms group m.t.s. saw its profits slide five point seven percent in the third quarter the net total came came in at four hundred seventy five million dollars however this was better than the average analysts forecast m.t.s. said sales revenue during the period group 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 movements and high loan interest. the world's top titanium producer a vis much has revised its development program according to the company c o speaking exclusively to our team u.k. we wouldn't says the global titanium market has already rebounded from the bottom

of the economic downturn. he had almost no pride in the action and i think that the global titanium market is past the bottom of the trough vs m.p.r. 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're going to subpoenaed an even more substantial growth of around twenty percent in two thousand and eleven he said back in two thousand and seven the company agreed on a program aimed at increasing capacity to forty six thousand tons of titanium production pretty here and has postponed this because of the crisis when do you plan to achieve this goal national concept that one 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 ince 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 in 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 you get to go to 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 amps 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 play. 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. that's all the business news from now on the back with more in less than one hour trying. to.

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