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change every green lol he told in talk of. racing to catch up with the president 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 slander government for the billions of taxpayer dollars funding we've seen change abroad which they say is only backfiring on them. and a russian lawmakers are set to leave the country's overcrowded prisons by granting minor offenders the chance to stay out of jail.

you're watching r t coming to you water 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 tackle its identity crisis it was created sixty years ago as a military bloc opposing the soviet union now almost two decades after the end of the cold war nato was still looking for a clear contemporary goal lauren lists are reports. 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 of the power of the block is in question. in many other places in the world we're seeing 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 is trying to use nato. directly 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 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 in the twenty first century reiner brown is planning an anti nato protest no 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 all drop which has now emerged as a basically a one of the global players it's impossible to deal with. 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 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 boring mr arty lisbon portugal. and we are now joined here in the studio by sergei struck on political commentator from the commerce not newspaper to discuss the upcoming nato summit thank you very much for joining us and it's now a nato seems to be trying to reinvent itself so what is the future of the alliance do you see more cooperation between russia and nato let us hope that nato would not in your own bicycle as the russians see the jokes aside definitely what is clear

that need to ease at the crossroads and the old security doctrine is already obsolete the new security doctrine has not been worked out there are different voices that are different groups of interest so it would be quite a tortuous process i would say that this is something like a middle life crisis for you if you compare me to america but i hope it will be our car ok now you are mentioning some obsolete documents they will be talking about will do you expect some practical results to come out of the summit between russia and nato what frustrates me is that we expect something more than just to president idea or to create a comprehensive european security pact because whatever we hear now sounds actually like no the which is yes the second thing is that we want more elaborate explanation what need it expects from us when they propose a story in june differences which we want needed to spell out at that least for

threats and challenges and finally of course we have to clean a deal on afghanistan this is important for you and this is the most promising part . of the silent when we speak about russia's interests ok you just mentioned deal with regarding afghanistan now this is one of the biggest challenges for nato at the moment now it's almost been ten years since the start of the war and there is a bit of a war weariness going on now can the alliance survive it with if it withdraws from the region without achieving its goals. definitely this is an uphill battle for the need to. i think it's quite natural that after the years of uncertainty of the years of heated debate whether we have to cooperate with russia it would need to finally we decided just not to step in and get a start but to. the stage of cooperation and in practical terms to ensure that transit routes for the needed troops this is that this is where

important because pakistani roots already reask this is this is this is where you where the practical question and this is not only the question about containers of dollars about helicopters it bears also important political meeting because right cooperating in of getting started we restore the atmosphere of confidence which which was so really under guard during the war in georgia ok another point that you brought up there is of interest between russia and nato is that of the joint missile defense project now can we expect this to happen any time soon well i don't think in the forseeable future we can reach an agreement on that because well nato is proposing us the parade and we say first we have to understand if we step into this project what are the threats and challenges or what are the targets you see i think that. are best suited to meet mr and boys in that was right when he

said they are invited this is as if they're inviting us into a dark room and we don't know who has switched all the wide and whether there was a new captain destroyed so let's find or the the answer to this question is for us ok well now russia is a one of the biggest arms exporters very recently it's also been weapons from nato countries that could this be a sign of new trust between the two that definitely best what i was betting you because i don't want to specify too much on the military or technical aspects let the military analysts do things right. it was clear that when we sell weapons to nato like me bring to one of the couples. as you know the deal has been discussed not finalized all if we buy weapons from nato it means that we can see that ourselves it's not like cold war dressers but we are really emerging as full fledged partners and this is qualitatively different situation ok thank you very

much for your insight i was surrogate struck on political analyst from reconnaissance newspaper thank you very much. now as the data 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 as well as bailing out private companies and banks but that's not all artes if you had half 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 a 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 poli arche might an american. 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 and to assure that the outcomes would be pleasing. to 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 the evil that may lurk behind their actions 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 amos 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 to 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'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 values 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. our team washington d.c.

. and still ahead for you this hour a second chance at freedom russia may be criminals could soon walk out of prison find out why their terms are being cut short and who is behind the initiative. russia's foreign ministry insists that businessman victor boot should be tried fairly in the united states they allege gone wrong or 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 early. or this week he's now in solitary confinement in a new york jail spacing a sentence from twenty five years to life in prison his trial is set to begin in january next year you know port eye has the story. the case surrounding victor boot 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 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 the. only thing of the we want to see this investigation.

all the questions raised. he will 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 that target and right now many are speculating about the fact of whether victor boot can get a fair trial in the u.s. that was artie's marina portnoy reporting from new york and in a few moments r.t. brings you a report from the scene of the world's worst nuclear accident investigation rapture

noble in this for the environment and whether it has the potential to unleash another catastrophe. or russia's 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 unfair sentences and avoid prison overcrowding. explores the alternatives in store for some of these animates 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 so so he's canary bird seed in there and i took it as collateral leader the police came and said i stole it and 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 extraordinary specter 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 to get. someone in prison because the. 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 use it. if a person goes following some. of the certain circumstances because he comes out as a lifelong criminal but we have really been statistics. to thirty to forty percent at the very least 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 will rely on russia's 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 and here are some more world news in brief this hour protesters in haiti's capital have thrown rocks at u.n. troops amid riots as anger grows over a cholera epidemic police fired tear gas of demonstrators some of whom accuse the new way of spreading the scenes 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 still 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 at least two 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. astronomers in chile have

confirmed the first discovery of a planet in the way that came from another galaxy two thousand light years from earth to jupiter like world and the star it closely orbits are believed to be part of a group of stars known as the hell new string scientists say this alien planet is now a nearing the end of its life and could help better understand the ultimate fate of earth and the demise of our solar system. now that your noble 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 nine hundred eighty six a massive amounts of legally contaminated debris remain a bird at the site as artie's alexei pushkov ski reports almost a quarter of a century since the chernobyl fallout a special confinement structure called the circle is still preventing more radioactive emissions into. this structure the circle for this was built in ninety

six just months after the disaster that your noble nuclear blog then experts predicted would last for only twenty years until two thousand and six that is but as you can see from here it was strengthened and improved extending its lifetime for five more years the biggest question is how much nuclear fuel remains under the circle for some experts believe that there is none as most of it did very polarized into 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 on. there's a circle focus and that could be tons and tons of nuclear material. we believe that the nuclear fuel under the sickle for gross is no longer a solid mass like it's lost twenty four years ago that now is more of three layers of dispersed dust so should the presence of course because collapse we could see a very powerful explosion or 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 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 environment for the works in far the project's 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. at sea reporting from the church noble exclusion zone in ukraine. well karina is here now with all the latest in business . my. hello and welcome to our business program and we go straight to the top story trade between former soviet states has accelerated choppy this year at a meeting of c.i.s. prime ministers in st petersburg but even put in said that thirty percent increase was evidence of improved cooperation the customs union of russia belarus and cuts

down forms a new core of regional trade and as a political reporters there are hopes this round of talks will resolve some of the teething troubles. russia belarus kazakhstan are gearing towards full scale integration and speeding up the next phase of their customs union the single economic space with a free trade area and a common external trade policy the meeting of the prime ministers of the three countries is taking place within the framework of the u. region economic community which also includes kyrgyzstan because to moldova or of india and ukraine some of these countries are also showing interest in joining the customs union now the key document which is expected to be signed today is a final agreement on the single economic space of russia belarus and kazakhstan which is due to start functioning next year and to provide more mutually beneficial opportunities for its members in a free trade area now i'd like to remind you that the customs union of the

trilateral union of russia belarus and council which came into effect this year has been designed to simplify the movement of capital between the member countries under a unified tariff and customs territory now the creation of the customs union has stirred up the long lasting negotiations on russia's accession to the world trade organization after russia said it would see the accession in a joint. account now according to russia's president would be its a few questions remaining in the negotiations with the european union on the matter and they should be solved quickly at the same time the first year of the customs union has revealed some serious discrepancies currently existing export duties on russian ballerinas almost brought the countries to an oil war well it's annually buys about twenty million tons of russian domestic prices for two years is only a fraction of it at home most of it is being refined. to europe at much higher

prices feeding the belorussian budget now today's meeting may finally put an end to the conflict as the russian prime minister. and has promised to lift all the duties for balance on russian soil once all the documents on the single economic space are scientists. tell us take a look at the markets european stocks extend their losses on friday after china's central bank raised bank required reserves the footsie is down point nine percent a solid lower by mining shares such as rio tinto and b.h.p. billiton both down two percent german equities are marking the long bright spot a day after the dax hit a new closing high for two thousand and ten now here in russia the markets are trading higher in afternoon session the r.t.s. is up point four percent demise its though has reversed a negative and is trading a quarter of a percent lower all the blue chips are in the red on them isaac's spare bank is the biggest loser shedding under one and a half percent bucking the trend though is look and gas. japan's this son is to buy

a ten percent stake in after vos that's according to him is a they had a russian technologies which owns twenty five percent of russia's biggest carmaker . your own agenda and is going to buy a big stake of ten percent and after about us russian technologies will suddenly turn fifty percent and it seems the other six percent will come from troy victorino may so even stake in the near future. our u.s. federal reserve chairman ben bernanke 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 to seal a competitive edge in international trade and many developing countries have raised concerns that a weaker dollar would threaten their own economies but presidential. believes russia has little to fear. what is important is that the rate of appreciation of

the national currency is not higher than the rate of increase in efficiency of 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. just a reminder that you can see the full version of that interview with presidential vote corps which on spotlight hosted by al gore that's all tuesday here on r.t. and that's our business update for this fall will be back with more in less than fifteen minutes from now thanks for watching all.

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