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time to make friends nato hopes for better russian ties as the alliance seeks moscow's help on the fence presently we have it set to join the lisbon summit. the us government wants to dominate the world. american taxpayers shelling out billions of dollars to fund washington's foreign influence under the guise of democratization. and living with leo it's a hundred years since the death of a discredited with is it the tolstoy state from literature lines.

this is r.t. live from moscow welcome to the program. seems to be sending a clear message once russia has an ally the block is meeting in this been right now and this courting moscow to sign up to a joint missile defense shield and its hopes that present the better of the tendence could signal an historic turn relations between the two sides we have to go live to cutting in there's been later in the program. russia's and they to representative meanwhile says the country wants a more joined up thinking in the alliance to ensure that security isn't threatened . you are now after we have lived through the conflict and south of setia under a sharp decline in relations it turns out we might have needed such

a test on the one hand these events have shown that old nato policies were provoking such an adequate regimes like the suckers really one to bloody actions on the other hand nato did not get involved in this conflict because europeans did not support the most aggressive part of the bush administration for us nato was a big headache it used to be an enemy now an unpredictable partner the left hand of which doesn't know what the right handers doing we are tired of this we want more stability and security on our western borders and in the long run maybe even certainty that there will be no trouble or told i think the americans are finally heard us today for them restoring relations with russia is not just very important to foreign relations but also key toward bama success on the domestic front he is saying to his electorate by improving relations with russia we have made americans more secure even if this is part of the domestic agenda that obama has set for his

team then tank god we are ok with that too most important to us is to have fewer headaches and even more we don't want someone else to have troubles too. brian becker from the antiwar campaign group the unser coalition says nato is acting as a proxy for u.s. foreign policy and military agendas he believes the obama administration will use this of it ensure the alliances continued involvement in american led conflicts. nato is functioning basically as a fig leaf for us foreign policy and u.s. military strategy north atlantic treaty organization afghanistan where one hundred fifty thousand so-called nato troops there really american troops with some auxilary forces are are there there is a branding of that operation that u.s. military operation to make it look as if the world has come together against a shared objective against the war on terror against al qaeda but really i believe that nato is nothing but a fig leaf for u.s. military strategy one of the main goals that the obama administration has and obama

himself has in lisbon at this nato summit is that keep the nato partners so-called partners junior partners in fact on board for the continuation the prolongation of the combined military forces that are occupying afghanistan there are one hundred fifty thousand nato soldiers one hundred thousand of them are u.s. soldiers they're occupying afghanistan the people in afghanistan are rising up there's resistance just as there was during vietnam it looks like a losing cause which it is and many of the other nato countries all over europe those populations they don't want to go along they don't want their governments that be accomplices for the u.s. war in afghanistan so the obama administration is twisting arms in lisbon it's putting pressure on the different european governments not to abandon the american government as it continues its war in afghanistan will join this pepe escobar told r.t. that the current a nato summit is about promoting pentagon doctrine around the world in effect making the in the audience the united nations. they are discussing the so-called

strategic concept in lisbon this means we keep our nuclear weapons between two hundred three hundred american owned plus two hundred from france presse two hundred twenty five from britain we built this huge dome the missile dome which might protect us because it hasn't been tested yet against nonexistent iranian missiles and existant north korean missiles that that will go to and we prayed to expand our operations all over the world which is that they actually doing that they are right in central asia they are in north africa coupled with off recon you know the african command from the pentagon that they plan to expand to the south pacific they plan to spend to the south atlantic even here in south america so nato now is the new un it's a global operation it's full spectrum dominance doctrine which is the official pentagon doctrine the proven in two thousand and four and the edge and is global

domination so i would say be afraid be very afraid which is nato mission in afghanistan they don't know because they were more or less forced to be there according to day article five of the nato charter so they are there to basically just to support the american trying to find osama bin laden mullah omar and i'm and also what do you which are not in afghanistan by the way there in baluchistan or he was serious then so what is nato doing over there not seeing now they're trying to make an arrangement of the russians so they can extract their through https through tragic is that it is because then and russian territory and the russians say ok well rick a few million dollars exit for us not a big deal. well still ahead in the program the vicious ideology that refuses to die. it was not just a few people who had to be punished but. mass killing sixty five years after the nuremberg trial saw leading nazis convicted of crimes against humanity we ask why

so many europeans are now going refine not cost. and selling democracy abroad it doesn't come cheap as hard up american taxpayers are finding out to their cost the u.s. is spending billions of dollars to finance foreign politicians and parties which for all it's sort of the fence office expects. great party but who's picking up the tab apparently the american taxpayer nine billion dollars spent by the united states agency for international development and promoting washington's democracy initiatives. a new model for influencing a target country's internal politics and favor of u.s. interests to financing training support and guidance to pro u.s. forces in foreign countries another democracy promoter the national endowment for democracy received one hundred thirty two million dollars during two thousand and

nine nearly all of it from u.s. government agencies but these are just the tip of the iceberg there is an entire network of organizations involved in the democracy promotion business now in this third decade of health the life of democracy and freedom and the people without all across the world. the international republican institute stands although all organizations insist there is no political affiliation the board of directors for both n.d.i. in iraq i suggest otherwise former secretaries of state national security advisers members of congress and even clinton bush and reagan administration officials they all have a history in washington one deeply rooted in sustaining the current foreign policy priorities to understand us foreign policy one must first understand a very basic fact the us government wants to dominate the world. this is what democracy promotion brought the people of one door us. while usa id

requests eight hundred thousand dollars for strengthening governance and democracy in one door us journalists and activists are being brutalized and killed under the u.s. backed government was was in egypt a revolt against the u.s. backed policies of the his new. barque regime has mobilized these agencies to co-opt opposition groups and sharing the results of the upcoming elections will be beneficial to washington. is a member of an egyptian opposition party they received funding or support from many . people with the irony of course but with the project of middle east democracy. for democracy or with me or many who study these agencies believe the soft money working behind the scenes is directly linked to the cia they had to have this new organization with

a nice sounding name a democracy in it and i sounding name which would be free of the taint of the cia and that's been that was the reason the energy was created usa id has implemented democracy promotion initiatives in over one hundred countries in the past twenty five years this year's budget one billion dollars according to usa i.d.s. website spending ten million dollars in a target country increases its amount of democratic change five fold how much of your tax money would you like to go to promoting democracy in venezuela. no not that much which would be ok if foreign governments were giving our politicians money for the election campaign no that would bother me and here in lies the hypocrisy we have a very clear law on the books prohibiting foreign governments from interfering in our elections and supporting and the candidates with money so we do exactly. what

we prohibit a home encouraging transparency is a stated core element of the u.s. government's democracy promotion efforts in foreign countries however here at home the agencies themselves are far from transparent detailed budget programmes are unavailable to the public and contact with the media is limited over the last. six weeks r.t. repeatedly requested interviews with us any d. and e i all of our requests were either deny or on end thirds to have artsy washington d.c. . want to go back to our top story now the russia nato summit taking place in the has been in portugal and. is therefore known for what stage is the summit in three acts. well at the moment of course this is the second day of the summit that is taking place here in the portuguese capital first day was all about the alliance itself its goals its strategic concept for the next three years basically all of

the member states that are here in portugal got a chance to speak their mind they all worked together on a new strategic concept for the north atlantic treaty organization for its development program basically its new road map for blueprint if you will that would basically will cover the organization's development answer to egypt movements in the next two years and that is what the alliance focused on mostly during its working day on friday today of course the focus of the day according to many analysts will be of course the russian nato council for which the russian president with the media is arriving in lisbon as we speak and that according to many is going is probably going to be the most interesting part of this two day summit here in lisbon that is what most people are looking forward to to see exactly how this proposed new direction of cooperation between russia and the alliance will actually

work itself out whether it will have the chance to move from a purely diplomatic perspective to an actual perspective or a legally binding perspective whether the organization will be able to take joint steps with russia to work out something concrete and definitive and not. it's limited to words what indeed i mean what decisions are we expecting from the meetings and issues to be discussed. of course the decision that perhaps many were awaiting yesterday was the nato search concept but that was by no means an unexpected decision of course with many critics of the alliance saying that it has basically outlived itself and that its only purpose was to exist during the cold war times where it had a clearly defined flow and therefore a clearly defined purpose to itself as an organization now with russian cooperation

with western countries growing stronger and steadier by the day nato is beginning to lose its focus so many analysts already say that this new wave of cooperation with russia could be a new breath for good or for the organization the new step for the alliance to perhaps work on that global european security treaty that the russian president brought up to discuss anti missile defense cooperation russia nato currently trying to establish in various problematic regions for both sides such as afghanistan so mobilized basically are on the russian nato council which will be taking place later today ok for now a line from this. thank you. but of course you can see more analysis on that story right now website that's what else we've lined up here in

the german has gone from being in the lead to cornering the blues one of sports tough guys is now punching above his weight in this. why is this so this is raising the heartbeats of so many russians for the headline grabbing spy . tales. the actual court dog quest senior nazis were tried for war crimes sixty five years ago is going on this plane the german city of newburgh this weekend the exhibition also features the original film of the hearings and the courtroom where the war crimes of hitler's closest allies were heard the russian foreign minister officials

from france the u.s. and u.k. will attend the opening ceremony to mark the sixty fifth anniversary of the trials the judgments on nazi criminals set a precedent for what form the basis of international law but as artie's reports some parts of europe are seeing a worrying naziism revival. this red army veteran was close to the trial which changed history his best friend armando then acted as a prosecutor on behalf of the u.s.s.r. in the new and better hearing sixty five years ago so could have says if it wasn't for them then the outcome could have been very different. he understood that the trial was not only about here. it was not just a few people who had to be punished but an entire audiology of mass killing his speech impress the judges so the number of those in the dark rose dramatically in a trial which lasted for almost a year twelve high ranking nazis were sentenced to death ten got lengthy prison

terms it was a milestone in history the nuremberg trial laid the foundations of international law as we know it in particular it created a precedent of judging people for starting a war against other nations so nowadays we all know what a crime against humanity is nowadays the most to free europe acknowledges the positive effect of the nuremberg tribunal but some nations have a complex relationship with the past look there's a monument to the soviet army literatures and here just meters away is the monument to stone in soldiers who fought alongside u.p.s.'s troops. is stoney an anti-fascist activist andrei says this historic paradox is reflected in the current state of affairs in this baltic country. even looking at the crumbling cities of this monument it's clear that ira government doesn't she the red army see if yours instead to be glorify those who for solicitor fascists that's despite the fact

a large part of our country would never support such ideas in april two thousand and seven this clash of opinions spilled onto the streets the historian government ordered the relocation of a soviet soldiers statue from central to the outskirts of the city thousands of dissenters protested and clashed with the police monuments to free a stoney i was pulled several hundred meters from the square where the soviet bronze statue used to stand it was a cross and in the very heart of it is an emblem which was used by the a stone s.s. legions back in one nine hundred forty s. . from swastika marches to mass gatherings sixty five years ago prosecutors in newton better could not have expected a legacy like this the trial was meant to make sure fascist ideology stayed in the bloody past but the rise of new naziism in eastern europe is a sign that these ideas still live on let's. see reporting from tallinn is

stony. now it's one hundred years since the death of the earth tolstoy the world renowned russian writer and philosopher is still remembered in his home country but nowadays more as a victory trademark than a favorite author visited the family estate south of moscow. leo tolstoy like his family stayed because it was as far from the madding crowd as you could get a place where he could feed docks and get lost among birch trees without anyone disturbing him. a century after his death it's an easy thing bought solitary group after group falling into his house not to minute for contemplation we are in the garden yes napoleon has never been short of visitors and start during the hi susan some are spring and autumn we have trouble handling the flow of tourists it's pretty hard to get it you have to call it a certain time to book a visit on a particular day otherwise you just won't get there. it's. a great great

grandson of the writer my dear tolstoy can recite many of his famous ancestor's novels by heart but he says few of the museum's visitors could do the same russians are proud of tolstoy but more is the brand than a favorite author according to polls only eleven percent returns to his books after finishing high school. unfortunately most people never go back to question call it torture have to been forced to read it it's called instead they prefer reading was trendy and popular these days there's nothing bad about that it's just a pity that those people miss out on religion which are. just a few hundred metres from tolstoy's history this film also face still serves as a pillar of strength for this family all fred and elaine put there vinnie called the long to do hard bourse a christian group that with the help of toll floyd moved to canada in the late nineteenth century fleeing from persecution in russia twenty years ago their

descendants came back settling in the village told stories abound most of his life what happened is that void that was in me in canada disappeared and it's the spiritual void i found myself here the boy like tolstoy who despised exploitation all for them elena building their new home all by themselves even though it's already taken them a decade like tolstoy they strongly believe in pacifism and a unity big nature and above all they see told stories ideas as timeless i think his ideas haven't been reached. and there are just starting to be tapped into and that's why i think russia has agreed to cheer and i thought form as throughout his life was to became renowned for you find all sorts of conventions and having his own. little talk to one side of the doubt that is terrible because it means the end of everything but this doesn't apply to his own legacy during his lifetime his

readership was in defiles and a century after his death the count goes in millions last year war and peace was named the greatest book of all times by music magazine bringing an ultimate moment of peace to this war here in the wake of archy. update you with our main headlines in a few minutes shortly though we'll have all the business news with you to go away. hello and a very warm welcome to the business news like many other governments around the world russia's taken steps to reduce its budget deficit but with parliamentary and presidential elections approaching it steering clear of unpopular austerity measures in step texas out of the race to particular on business make pull outs. taxes in russia are going up from the beginning of two thousand and eleven the

increase would be the equivalent of two percent of g.d.p. to reduce the budget deficit which is expected to be a little below five percent but these will not be temporary measures as they did the best in there is a difficult period ahead and there will be a new trend for taxes which will not be temporary taxes are going to increase in many countries if excepted such measures but priority should be first given to ending tax breaks and creating neutrality in the tax system which applies equally to all companies the measure which is cause most concern among lawmakers is the decision to increase insurance payments for companies to thirty four percent from fourteen percent although this will have little impact on nonresident companies operating in russia the increased insurance premiums on the on payroll funds will apply to the first four hundred fifty thousand dollars of foreign companies pay a higher. and the russian businesses will be exacted from four percent which is

a dramatic increase compared with their bank for nonresidents i for the companies that trade is russia rather than operate in a country it's completely irrelevant there are fears the cancellation of tax breaks could be a deterrent to those wishing to invest in russia but the head of ernst and young's tax and legal practice and c.i.s. people to admit yet have says that's unlikely we as a country will not be able to attract investment by simply reducing taxes even completely during integrate the stimulus. with what will. incentivize them to invest in russia the finance ministry is trying to have its cake and eat it by reducing the budget deficit scaring business and for the most part the experts believe this will be possible as even after the tax hikes the government will be taking a smaller slice that in almost any other developed country nick business altie. a look at the markets now the russian capital markets class flat. positive on

friday the r.t.s. broke a sixteen hundred point benchmark finishing just a ten percent up from my six have been up and down session and ended just a little higher. looking back up the last week russian markets were pulled in both directions with virtually equal force upbeat economic data from the us encouraged the bulls but while inflation worse in china feel the bets the markets and that of the week. down but largely unchanged the past week has seen. the continuation of the tug of war between the blues and the bear is you know there are people who are seeing a lot of our beat economic data coming out of the u.s. coming out of asia a lot of quality a.p. always a big general motors which was very well received a lot of good news in the market and good developments but the biggest fear now is inflation is special in china where the central bank had to act to stop the rapid

increases in prices there's also told the board china and hong kong can take measures to arrest the rep of the growth in real estate prices to prevent the bubble and saul but between these two kind of a big positive over improving global economics and certain positive corporate developments the fear of rising inflation in china and therefore maybe elsewhere in the world these two opposing factors have resulted in the share prices and in the we slightly down but essentially flat russia is creating a special so to boost industrial innovation a so-called titanium fairly well be it set up in such russia by the end of the here industrial hub is expected to attract national and foreign investors and the hope of a shift from producing role materials to a more advanced output artist. the russian government isn't thews e asked for special economic zones gambling ports and high tech i've either got one

or it's under development so why not do the same for titanium the best but it will give enterprises the opportunity to develop them produce value added products and also bring out partners here with new technology and crude introduction of titanium valley wants to attract shipbuilding power plants engineering pecial chemistry medicine and nuclear engineering will be located in the ural mountains next to the world's biggest titanium producer the s. and p. o. of the smart people are to can use the first of all we are inviting our partners and our buyers these are the companies like boeing air bosky tree and rolls royce is fully corresponds with their aims to cut costs we are ready to invest some two hundred fifty million dollars into city name valley even though the decree to set up the economic zone will not be signed for another couple of weeks companies are already showing an interest in vegas and be a lot of the smaller has spent seven hundred million dollars in preparation and

it's not the only one its neighbor russia's leading pipe producer chel pipe is also actively modernizing our society thirty million dollars. let's listen to. this. business. however the creation of the titanium valley will not be swift up to four years could be needed to create the infrastructure to effect prosser business r.t. urals that's the business update for now but if you want to get more news right now you can log onto our website r.t. dot com slash with us. thank. you.