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the most they be her to marry collection the load of clothes and. maidens hotels believe that there is a movie don't read isn't shit and it was fun it's what they promised. bracing to catch up with the president and nato gathers for a summit in lisbon to try and tackle its post cold war identity crisis. bringing democracy to others u.s. style with u.s. money american slammed their government for the billions of taxpayer dollars funding regime change the broad push they say is only backfiring. and russian lawmakers are set to leave the country's overcrowded prisons by granting minor offenders the chance to stay out of jail. here in business u.s. federal reserve chairman ben bernanke you defends the decision to print six hundred billion dollars however many developing countries are concerned

a weaker dollar will threaten their own economies but russia has little to fear that and more in our business program. you're watching r t coming to you live from the russian capital welcome to the program now nato soul searching summit is to kick off in portugal on friday the alliance is developing a new strategy to taco. identity crisis it was craven sixty years ago as a military bloc opposing the soviet union well almost two decades after the end of the cold war nato is still looking for a clear contemporary goal of the sort of ports. 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 other 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 of the united states is trying to use need to. directly tries to use nita as his daughters in the 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 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. no place for nato in the twenty first century reiner brown is planning an anti nato protest you know i think there is no place for nato i think there is no place for me who lives any longer in the world because you conned solve any of the global problems with military not and nato was now looking to an old foe for help solving its problems with. which. emerged as. basically

a one of the leading global players it's impossible to deal with. 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 was 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. the answer. fumbling along without one boring lister r.t. lisbon portugal. russia and nato have been disagreeing over how the illegal drug trade in the ghana stand should be tackled moscow insists the alliance should start

eradicating poppy fields which nato is reluctant to do again vice rector of the russian foreign ministries diplomatic academy says the problem should be dealt with more effectively. some people in the west some militarists to this is they think that many people who are against independent drug production so if you take drugs from them they will go to terrorists and of course russia cannot accept this kind of strategy and we put pressure on the west to fight the drug trade because it's a good evil for us and i think that recently we've had some achievements we had joint operations with nato countries against drug producers difficult work looks right at the drug problem is not only for us it's also for europe with us also for america we have to do something for this person take drugs from them and give them some of the choice or just go watch like it used to be done in burma in thailand with those people who used to rely on drug production later some of them became just peaceful normal presence well here's a peek at the peculiar case of

a russian businessman labeled as the merchant of death recovering a bit later victor boot now going head to head with the u.s. justice system as russia calls for a thorough investigation. and as the death the stricken united states struggles with the 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 artes gian have his reports on how washington is investing its cash 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 latin 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 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 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 and two funding for political organizations from campaigns in different countries around the world that promote u.s. agenda and most us in. sens 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 hope that our team washington d.c. thing. jacob hornberger 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 does 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 well being and hopefully that those that type of thing you start to now awaken within the american people. that was jacob moore burger from the future of freedom foundation now still ahead for you this hour a second chance at freedom petty criminals could soon walk out of prison find out why their terms are being cut short and who's behind the initiative. russia's foreign ministry insists that businessmen of victor boot should be tried fairly in the united states the alleged gunmen are claims he's been put under severe pressure by u.s. authorities to admit charges of arms trafficking and terrorism which he has denied all after being extradited from thailand earlier this week he's now in solitary confinement in a new york jail is facing a sentence from twenty five years to life in prison his trial is set to begin in january next year artie's marina portnoy reports. 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 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 we do consider this case is anything of the we want to see this investigation. of the u.s. he would be given. to students who were there 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. 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.

. artie's marina portnoy reporting from new york there and in a few moments r.t. brings you were poor from the scene of the world's worst nuclear accident we investigate the threat of mobile is for the environment and whether it has the potential to another catastrophe. russia petty criminals and first time offenders may get an early release from prison but this comes after government calls to reform its criminal code to stop their sentences and avoid prison overcrowding. explores the alternatives in store for some of these inmates. 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 up so he didn't have any. canary veterans 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 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 someone in prison because. 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. and that overflowing prison is 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 would free up the prisons lessen the burden of taxpayers and most importantly not give people. a reason to use it to a. certain circumstances because he comes out as a lifelong criminal but he said we have relevance to. the forty percent. i mean almost half of them would become criminals. but there's much to do before these amendments get implemented into the legal system the electronic surveillance bracelets for example. positioning system and it's not yet ready neither is the legal system with law enforcement not yet capable of the required visual 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 and here's some more world news for you in brief this hour protesters in haiti's capital have thrown rocks at u.n. troops amid a riots as anger go so her call at had to make police far tear gas of demonstrators some of whom accuse the u.n. for spreading the disease earlier in the week two people were killed in protests so far more than a thousand people have died from the outbreak. 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 south island five workers have surfaced from a different part of the plant officials say they do not yet know how many casualties there are or what caused the blast. a landslide triggered by heavy downpours in colombia has killed four people including a fifteen month old baby rain swollen the worst have burst their banks destroying crops roads and hundreds of thousands of homes in twenty eight out of thirty two colombian provinces it's the worst rainy season in decades that has claimed one hundred thirty eight lives the rainfall is expected to continue throughout the weekend. astronomers 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 at close the orbits are believed to be part of a group of stars known as the tell me stream 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. that your 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 one nine hundred eighty six massive amounts of lethally contaminated debris remain burned at the site as alexei or chef ski reports. almost a quarter of a century since the chernobyl fallout a special confinement structure called the 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 you know will 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 the sea configures is no longer a solid mass like it's lost twenty four years ago there now is more of three layers of dispersed dust so she is a person 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 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 goods next to the contaminated plant it won't be just the frame yet

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 in the works in far the project's initial cost was thought to be half a billion euro now sources in chernobyl report that fear. it 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 technologies to

this day which would allow this to happen. and see reporting from the church noble exclusion zone in ukraine well don't forget to log on to our website r t dot com well there are always more stories for you and there are some that might catch or i get to the silver screen and the story of the rattle as crash landing of a caring seventy two passengers as it was traveling from the russia's far east to moscow open turned into a hill. one of russia's greatest writers field are just a yes king lived for many years in st petersburg but was actually born in moscow you can go to our dot com and explore this first home.

well kerry has here now with the very latest from the world of business. hello welcome to the program here our main stories this hour u.s. federal reserve chairman ben bernanke he has defended the decision to print six hundred billion dollars saying it will boost the world economy critics say the u.s. wants to intentionally devalue the dollar in order to steal a competitive edge in international trade may developing countries have raised concerns that a weaker dollar would threaten their own economies but presidential aide arkady that quote which believes russia has little to fear what is important is that the rate of appreciation of the national currency is not. great to offer 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 deal where you all for all will you and this will keep us on the safe side it will not to experience a negative consequence so four or require a dollar. now you can see the full version of that interview with presidential aide arkady dvorkovich on spotlight health by al gore north acts tuesday here on r.t. . now to other stories russia's business sector has become more open in the last year that some according to a report by standard and poor's that has just been revealed the survey of the nineteen largest public companies showed moderate growth in transparency in the country that's despite fears that the global economic meltdown would make companies more likely to conceal financial information now to discuss the issue we're now joined by said planet but i did not director of government services at standard and poor's thank you for coming in to see it is that so one factors are driving the

transparency growth when you've just identified from what we saw in the past year number one financial transparency has become more efficient more companies report their financial results according to international financial standards and u.s. gap and that is one of our main criteria and they have become more speedy about it about half of the company is reported. by april which is pretty early if you look at the history of our research and since the reporting requirements of our regulators are also gradually becoming more strict the company has. compiled these results according to international accounting standards and why not to publish them early if you have the most ready for the other area which we saw became more transparent is remuneration after several scandals out there after

several large loud scandals in the west with bonuses our company is. believed that it is a good practice for them at least to report the system how they remunerate their top executives and their board members and also the leaders of the groves have become. the electricity companies so the sector of electricity companies after the completion of us reform. and each one of them have found has found the new owners finally they have time energy and probably good reason to start thinking about better management practices about building a better governance system and transparency is part of that so can you just name the sectors that are least most transparent from your point of view every year we have the same standard picture. telecommunications sector is more transparent than others and machine building and engineering is the least transparent why. i guess

because telecommunications are technically more advanced sector and they have a lot of international partners they're just more used to be more open like one of one of the largest companies in our market m.d.'s and they all have international shareholders they're used to it they don't see any. danger from disclosing what's going on in michigan building historically this is like defense related area so they're more closed and they're usually linking to strategic industries we tell the story there and is there some kind of a link between the size of the business and its transparency meaning a big company it goes both ways we have large companies which have very transparent and those companies are usually traded in the international stock exchanges like group is for the second year the leader of our table and we have a company is in the similar industry big russian companies would believe that it's

not necessary for them be transparent because they have other leverage is to get additional financial resources while the smaller company is there is one group of smaller companies that have to rely on the international financial markets so they have to go and ask international investors for money and. to pay for this financial resources by telling the market participants what they're going to do with this money that they're going to raise in the market but the other group of smaller company is still in the early phase of their development and they're still inexperienced with communications and also often transparency involves costs if you're hiring an international order it costs you money if you are publishing a report a glossy nice book all of your annual report in english it also costs you money so for a small company it's a budget issue as well as. your business ethics issue right now i have one more question but i think we're running out of time so thanks very much for coming from

here. but. thank you that was a bit long but it's not a director of governance service at status and poor's now stock markets in europe are trading lower on friday markets are keeping a watchful eye on events out of ireland and wary ahead of possible china policy tightening the footsies down point three percent with a one point four percent drop for sage group miners are also weaker german equities are making a long bright spot a day after the ducks closing high for two thousand and ten and here's a look at the russian markets here they're trading high enough to a new session the r.t.s. is up point four percent is also in the black all the blue chips are gaining nearly half a percent bucking the trend though is. that our trading in the red. and that's our business update for now be sure to join us in less than one also more business news here on our.