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i'll tell you about korea's believes russia has little to fear more of progress at . ten am and the russian capital you're watching r t with the arena joshua welcome to the program tackling its identity crisis by presenting a new strategic vision as a 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 concern. loren lister now 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. in many of the places in the world where. as 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 a divided states is trying to use need to. tries to use need.

to fulfill american missions yet everyone feels the strain 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. though. because you consols and you know the global problem with the military. 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 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 need 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 was dated and without a major rethinking of its goals policies and missions and alliances looking for a new place in the world may find itself. the answer. fumbling along without one born lister r.t. lisbon portugal. neda's relations with russia and their common challenges are also expected to be in focus at the summit and although u.s. russian ties have improved recently political writer dan johnston believes there

are still a lot of cold war era thinking 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 opened possible resources the united states is carrying out military maneuvers in the baltic clue whose only opposition could be russia and 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 at the peculiar taste of a russian businessman labeled as a merchant of death which we'll be covering a bit later in the program i think to i'm going to have to have what the u.s.

justice system as russia calls fourth star and best gauge. as the dad stricken the united states struggles with economic downturn more americans are beginning to wonder where all their taxpayer money is going the u.s. is funding too costly overseas wars bailing out private companies and banks but that's not all things are says john hopkins reports on how washington is investing its cash and 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 a democratically elected leaders from him in most a dock 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 revolution 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 are going to have countries that are going to be intervened in to assure that the outcomes would be pleasing to to 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 and perhaps they were before. have we learned some lessons learned. argue bet do we do it better you bet is it still just as high 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 and 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 us citizens are unaware of the fact that that's how their money is 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 was a lot of people to despise us to have our team washington d.c.

and take a poor worker a president of the future 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's bringing 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 and start to now awaken within the american people. and

a little later i would tell you how can they report a russian woman behind bars why she served three year sentence and how she could get a second chance as russia reviews its criminal code. russia's foreign ministry says of wants to get a fair trial for a 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 town's next year as the latest from new york and 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 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. willing to stress to the u.s. authorities are very serious and. russian citizen we have nothing to conceal we do consider this case. anything of the we want to see this investigation.

he would be. su students who were there the me we have 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 south a set 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. . right of ordinary reporting pramod york there just a few moments are to brings your report from the scene of the world's worst nuclear accident we've seen the threat is for the environment and whether it has the potential to unleash another catastrophe. this time 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 criminals at first thought of fandor us may not have to serve long sentences are met some of these prisoners who say they were 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 extrude aspect of russia's legislation has been questioned by many including the country's law makers

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 you can't put someone in prison because the chicken our legal system is with these things and effectively there are harsh punishments for small misdemeanors and in some cases when instruments which are too late for meter crane we need to balance the system because despite recent statistics crime is on the rise. add that to overflowing prisons abysmal health conditions on the inside tough reintegration 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. a reason to fall. if a person goes following some. of the 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 catarina r.t. moscow region. take a look at some other stories from around the world here on our team for pastors in haiti is throwing rocks at u.n. troops amid riots is anger grows over a power right police fired tear gas of demonstrators some of whom accusing the spreading of earlier in the week two people were killed in protest and so far more than a thousand people have died from the break. twenty seven 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's south island two workers have surfaced from a different part of the special say they did not yet know how many casualties there are at or walk across the blast. a un human rights committee has been damning

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 claim the outcome was rigged and boycott of the polls pro-democracy politician on songs which she was freed last week after spending fifteen of the past two decades under house arrest her party god the most votes in the last election but this was not recognized by the ruling military john to. a landslide triggered by having downpours in colombia has killed four people including a fifteen month old baby rain swollen rivers have burst their banks destroying crops roads and hundreds of thousands of homes in twenty out of thirty two people on the provinces it's the worst rainy season in decades and has claimed one hundred thirty eight lives the rainfall is expected to continue throughout the weekend. astronomers in chile have confirmed the furthest coverage of a planet the milky way the cave from another galaxy two thousand light years from

earth the jupiter life world and the star and closely orbits are believed to be part of the group of stars known as the helmi stream scientists say this alien planet is now nearing the end of its life and could how better understand the ultimate fate of earth and the demise of our solar system. the chernobyl 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 reactor contained was expelled by the explosion back in one thousand nine hundred six massive amounts of lethally contaminated debris remain buried at the site as 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 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 the sea configures is no longer a solid mass like it was twenty four years ago there now is more a three layers of dispersed dust so should the presence of course because crops we can see a very powerful explosion of 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 girls 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 eat. a final stay at the new safe confinement should provide the safety environment the works in far the projects initial cost was thought to be half a billion euro now sources in chernobyl report that few. 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 chernobyl some say that it may be dismantled there is 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 exclusion zone in ukraine and don't forget to log on to our website r t dot com where there are always more stories for you but here are some of my catcher i. think hitting the silver screen the story of the miraculous crash landing of a couple of plane carrying seventy two passengers as it was traveling from russia's far east to moscow will be turned into a film. plus one of russia's greatest riders for ordered us to live for many years in st petersburg i was actually born and moscow and go to r.t. dot com and explore this first home.

and right now it's time for a business update with karina malakand. hello and welcome to the program and here are the main stories this hour the weakness of the dollar has raised concern with some of the us his biggest trade as trade partners washington has been accused of trying to steal a competitive edge by intentionally devaluating its currency but presidential aide a kind of a college believes russia has little to fear. what is important is a three to four appreciation of national currency is not. to 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. would potential to increase efficiency will foster the rate of increase and you will you or will.

keep. it real not to experience a new negative consequence so for read. you can see the full version of that interview with presidential aide of our coverage on spotlight hosted by al gore knob next tuesday here on r.t. . and now let's take a look at how the markets are doing asian stocks are mixed this hour the nikkei is a quarter of a percent higher leading the gains are exporters helped by weaker yen banks sang is setting around one and a half percent amid reports that china may raise interest rates as early as friday to call inflation. here in russia the markets open friday's trading session in the black the r.t.s. is trading point three percent higher than my six is still closed but on thursday it finished in the black as well bank was again the top gainer two point six percent higher and we could be was not far behind up more than one to help us out.

which is the biggest mobile telecoms group m.t.s. saw its profit slide five point seven percent in the third quarter and that toll came at four hundred seventy five million dollars however this was better than the average analysts forecast 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 movements and how loan interest. now the world's top titanium producer vs m.p.o. a visit has revised its development program according to the company's c.e.o. speaking exclusively to our team we wouldn't says the global titanium market has already rebounded from the bottom of the economic downturn. at the most of no point in the auction i think that the global titanium market is past the bottom of the trough vs m.p.r. as the play 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 going to subpoenaing 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 i 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 b.s. m.p.r. is the only vertically integrated holding with titanium grain at the input and finished products at the output there are no through violence in the world china is increasingly becoming an active player in the titanium market how has this changed 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 india goes 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 of these are the companies like boeing goodrich and rolls royce additional to this fully corresponds with their amps to cut costs and look and in some sense that this will require investment but in the following three to four years as now we'll get more advanced products less 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 yet that's all the business is for now but to log on to our website r.t.

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