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stories work some for the sokal ideas or is alive and popular is that. through the morning from moscow this is r t it's one am here now my name is kevin now in our top story as nato looks for a new purpose and direction now that its founding of countering the soviet union is redundant the alliance is seeking to move closer to moscow by asking it to join in european missile defense speaking at the organization summit in lisbon president medvedev said there were that participation will only be as part of a fully fledged partnership his country reports. the european anti-missile defense system that was widely discussed both in the nato summit and in the russian nato council the nato secretary general mr rasmussen spoke at length about its importance and about how much of that as the nato member states want

russia to be a part of it as a strategic partner and as a key player not only in the region but also in. a guarantor of global security that supposedly this anti-missile defense system would provide coming out after the talks of the russian nato council mr rasmussen made a few very optimistic remarks that now many chose to believe. major major. there. will acquire the capability to defend european territory and populations against these are under attack and they extended an offer to russia cooperate with our. live us do this together. and i'm very pleased that president medvedev there has taken up that's offer from the russian president the mint imitative speaking to the journalist said that he was

a bit more cautiously optimistic about the potential for a relationship between nato and russia he said that there are conditions to cooperation between russia and the alliance and one of those conditions one of the most crucial conditions is that of a full partnership and the involvement in the european anti-missile defense system . we have agreed with on a tip on is that we will pursue donnegan the european a.b.m. i mean god his should be that our participation will be equal and i will stress this it can only be as pontin's no other form of participation for the sake of the parents is acceptable only by the we participate fully we exchange information take part in this is in making we do not participate at all mark obama took the chance to reiterate the significance of ratifying the start treaty that once again urged congress to do so not only for the future of european security but also for the

future of american security and a general sense of stability in the world arena but also for it because it symbolizes the new start the so-called reset in ties between moscow and washington and to not ratify the treaty would be damaging to those ties which are crucial to our relations not only between moscow and washington but the entire international community i have received overwhelming support from our allies here that start the new start treaty is a critical component to u.s. and european security my expectation is is that my republican friends in the senate will ultimately conclude that it makes sense for us to do this jealous of course. if you would be us the russian leader to speculate on what will happen to relations between russia and the united states should the treaty not be ratified both leaders

said that they hope it won't come to that because it will mean that a whole lot of work and a whole lot of effort would have been wasted but of course both leaders reiterated once again the fact that they believe this treaty will get ratified and the sooner the better. paul ingram is executive director of the british american security information spoke to us earlier and says that although barack obama is facing an uphill battle in the senate right now the ratification of the new start treaty it's a question of when not if. this treaty is good for european for america and for russian security it's the logical extension from the original start treaty that lapsed last december and there is now no official clear verification treaty between the two countries so this this this treaty maintains takes on arms control for and for and and takes the first step in a very long road to around obama's vision so he's certainly not about trying to

score political points here he's exposed himself to some extent to opponents who do seem to be trying to use this treaty themselves to score political points against him very very difficult political situation but i have to say if that treaty comes up for us vacation on the floor of the senate it will pass the debate is when it comes up for votes and the objections are largely about not having enough time to properly scrutinize the treaty senators have had eight or nine months to do this it's plenty of time compared to previous treaties so it really is quite baffling as to whether there really any concrete objections to this treaty coming from the senate. come into from dr adrian past professor of politics at the university of kent he says with nato's positions weekly weakening its members are well aware the alliance cannot exist without russia. the europeans have been arguing for

a long time behind the scenes that russia needs to be brought on board that nature can not function properly without stronger russian involvement that required a different attitude in moscow which was seen with present material but also a new openness on the part of all the nato partners and even countries traditionally more critical and perhaps even hostile towards russia such as potent of the baltic states have recently acknowledged that it's greater dialogue and more cooperation with moscow a good thing for everyone involved. buying influence abroad doesn't come cheap is harder for american taxpayers are funding up to their cost the u.s. is spending billions of dollars to finance opposition politicians and parties overseas that fitted with washington's foreign policy plans and the second part of a special report out to you have is explains how it's being done.

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 in 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 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 u.s. 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 hundred us journalists and activists are being brutalized and killed under the u.s. backed government. in egypt a revolt against the us backed policies of the hosni mubarak regime has mobilized these agencies to co-opt opposition groups and sharing the results of the upcoming elections will be beneficial to washington many who study these agencies believe the soft money working behind the scenes is directly linked to the cia they had to

have this a new organization with a nice sounding name a democracy and it and i sounding name which would be free of the taint of the cia and that's been that was a reason an idea 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 fuld how much of your tax money would you like to go to promoting democracy in venezuela. no not that much would you be ok if foreign governments were giving our politicians money for the election campaign you know that would bother me and here in lies the hypocrisy we have a very clear law on the books prohibiting foreign government. for interfering in our elections are supporting and the candidates with money so we do exactly what we

were going to 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 programs are unavailable to the public and contact with the media is limited over the last six weeks r.t. repeatedly requested interviews with usa id and e d i r i n n d i all of our requests were either tonight or on answered you had hospice r t washington d.c. special report coming up here about twenty minutes time tonight about one of america's most controversial political scientist norman finkelstein the film gives a balance for trade of a man called by some a self hating jew by others a street fighting revolutionary is a quick teaser. my married mother could not live without her become.

treason free. and she was very cool for the. chief though. i was frankenstein's monster. we don't have the problem. every. effort is made. by the palestinian authority european saudi to negotiate in to the violent attacks against israel which i have no fear of war call me. so long as you have no fear calling the leader of the state of israel one of the main terrorists in the world. we are supposed to be seriously examining history but you mention a few words about jewish culture lapidary and people get so upset

this is i'm sorry to say it's a form of emotional blackmail. and you don't have with us in twenty minutes time. in its day it was dubbed the birth of international law the first trial of seeing in the season the german city of nuremberg sixty five years ago twenty two architects of those horrors faced the tribunals then made up of representatives from the soviet union the u.s. great britain and france this weekend officials of the allied nations will attend an exhibition in europe burke to mark the anniversary of the trials but as it is a legacy as you have ski reports next some parts of europe are seeing a worrying revival in nazi ism decades on from the atrocities committed in that name. this red army veteran was close to the trial which changed his story

his best friend. acted as a prosecutor on behalf of the u.s.s.r. in the new hearing sixty five years ago. if it wasn't for 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 rose dramatically in a trial which lasted for almost a year twelve high ranking nazis were sentenced to death it was a milestone in history the nuremberg trial laid the foundations of international law as we know it in particular they 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 a free europe acknowledges the positive effect of the nuremberg tribunal but some

nations have a complex relationship with the boss luke there is a monument to the soviet army liberators and here just meters away is the monument to stone in soldiers who fought alongside the v.s.s. troops. is still only 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 state of this monument it's clear that our government doesn't see the red army as saviors instead to be glorified those who fought in the side of 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 they study and government ordered their relocation of a soviet soldier station from central to the outskirts of the city thousands of dissenters protested and clashed with the police. monuments to free estonia was

good several hundred meters from the square where the soviet bronze soldier statue used to stand it resembles a cross and in the very heart of it is an emblem which was used by these stone s.s. legions back in one nine hundred forty s. . from swastika marches to mass as veteran gatherings sixty five years ago prosecutors in newton there could not have expected a legacy like this the trial was meant to make sure fascist ideology stayed in the bloody cross but the rise of real nazis middle eastern europe is a sign that these ideas still live on let's see russia ski r.t. reporting from tallinn is stony. so what will new stories talk to you on a briefer german magazine reported al qaeda sociate islamist groups of plotting a terror attack on the german parliament just spiegel says its plan for federal money. to militants having already arrived in berlin several weeks ago information comes from a tip off jihadists to the german interior ministry with other parts of the country

also reportedly targeted police have been posted around the country train stations airports and tourist attractions. rescue efforts to reach miners trapped underground in new zealand on a coal mine there on hold because of fears of a second explosion twenty nine miners are missing more than a day after a powerful blast tore through the tunnel as two men managed to escape with slight injuries it's still not known whether the other miners have survived rescue organizers who said the level of toxic gases is still too high to send a crew below ground. it's been a century since the death the world renowned russian writer leo tolstoy the author of celebrated novels war and peace and and i could eleanor is being remembered throughout the country tolstoy also had controversial views on religion which saw him excommunicated by the russian orthodox church visited his family estate south of moscow to find out the feelings that modern day russians have for. leo tolstoy liked his family estate because it was as far from the madding crowd as you could

get a place where he could feed dark sun gets 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. just had to learn 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 if 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 we side many of his famous ancestors novels by heart and he says few of the museums 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 really toss these 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 it it 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 philosophy still serves as a pillar of strength for this family all fred and elaine put their village called belong to they do have boards a christian group that with the help of toll floyd went to canada in the late nineteenth century fleeing from persecution in russia twenty years ago their descendants came back settling a village tolstoy's found most of his life what happened is that void that was in me in canada disappeared and it's a spiritual void i found myself here the boys like tolstoy who despised exploitation all for their lane of building their new home all by themselves even

though it's already taken them had a case like tolstoy they strongly believe in pacifism and a unity with nature and above all they see told stories ideas as timeless i think his ideas haven't yet been reached. and there are just starting to be tapped into and that's why i think russia has agreed to chip and i thought form is throughout his life just to begin renowned for you find all sorts of conventions including his own. leo tolstoy once out of the dark is terrible because it means the end of everything but this doesn't apply to his own legacy during his lifetime his readership was indifferent hours and a century after his death the count calls 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 literary warrior of the week archy there.

talked to the top stories biographer under wilson about the author's enormous contribution to world the future of that child coming right up. is the hundredth anniversary of player tolstoy's to death and to mark that out of our story i'm talking to one of his biographers a n. wilson he wanted awards in one nine hundred ninety eight for a biography of tolstoy and wilson thank you very much for talking to r.t. now first as a biographer what attracted you to tolstoy here's a giant he was the great giant of the novelistic form greater even than dostoyevsky who was too great so this was a totally of me to him and ever since so it's really become a serious reason in my teens it was his novels and so regarded as the greatest tell stories books i'm thinking specifically of war and peace consistently tops these

lists of the best book ever do you agree with those kinds of rankings. you can't really compare war and peace with any other novel he himself said it wasn't a novel and it isn't really a novel it's a book about everything. yes all the years you know five campaign culminating in a battle of our salutes and then the invasion of eight hundred twelve but the further it is on you realize that it's a novel about the whole of russia and also it's a novel about personal regeneration tolstoy was as much as writes out what do you thinking come to say is his philosophy in life the thousands of people who are following his coffin when he died and will no doubt get on to this. they weren't following him because he was a great novelist they were following him because he had taught not only russia over the world how it ought to live how we should be less selfish how we shouldn't be wrecking the planet we shouldn't be fighting wars and he essentially underwent this

transformation didn't he from high society author to spiritual on a case. from the beginning actually this feeling that we are called to a deeper truer life away from the absurdity of society and so forth the tolstoy family were very ground i mean some of them were advisers to the emperor the family . from whom old prince bolkonski a more pieces based his maternal grandfather was also very grand military and political figure tolstoy himself lived almost entirely in the country at his estate and yes my apology on the he never really. played a big part in the political life there was this huge crisis in the middle of his life when he'd finished. and he had a crisis what's the point of it all there's a moment in his autobiography where he said he couldn't even be in a room in the room with a piece of rope to feel that he would want to hang. he then thought the way to live

is to try to be like a peasant and for a few years he pretended. by the way. set up schools not only on his interstates but for acres and miles around on the on the starting education. he was the great pioneer of russian occupation and even now they sometimes in some russian schools use his p.c. to teach people to read. so it wasn't just sort of pious try dreaming but having pretended to be a peasant he then went back to being the reasonable enlightenment man he was and he thought what is due to christianity and the church is teaching ethics how to live. the miraculous stuff for leicester and it was out of that was his volved his cool philosophy of life which as you say is that he felt that. all governments not just the governments. they are particularly evil in his

eyes all governments are based on violence and the only way that we as individuals and we as society is to get away from a system of the military of war solving problems of torture is in ourselves to forswear violence but also to forswear the idea of authority so he was an extremely subversive figure tolstoy was a deeply religious man but he did get into quite serious conflict with the orthodox chat well he was religious in this way that you get in the novels i think where he parted company with the church was over the claim that for example at the miracles were literally true all that the church had the right to dictate to men and women what they believed and what they thought and how they should behave and so he fell out with the church in a very very big way and they eventually after he wrote the novel called resurrection which has a lamp of the holy liturgy of the orthodox church in it the extreme eunuch etude

him didn't make any difference to him because he hadn't been going to communion anyway but he was excommunicated it meant he couldn't have a church funeral which was quite a big deal in eight days it was a big deal for his wife who was who was an orthodox it wasn't for him he never wanted to be buried in church ground anyway he was buried in the place the states where his brother thought he'd buried this green stick when they were playing it but a game in childhood on the green stick was written the secret of how we should live the secrets of human happiness so it's very appropriate he should be buried there. we are celebrating the hundredth anniversary of tolstoy his death what's to celebrate well to celebrate is the greatest novelist who has ever lived but also this man who was dry he did with a passion for the truth and he alone stood up against this extremely powerful regime. and told the truth in a world of lies and this was

a fantastic example for russia because in all the terrible years which followed his death he died in one thousand. the civil wars the first of all the civil war the revolutions and so forth the tradition of tolstoy lived on and it enabled the dissidents when they courageously began to emerge and stand in this times to look at his example and see that it only did one voice telling the truth look at a lot of our look at social needs and they would guided by the influence of tolstoy and that's really what we have to celebrate and you said that he was in essence an advocate if told so he'd be alive today what you think he would be doing. he wouldn't be very surprised that for example the americans just as the russians did before were trying to defeat the afghans nobody's ever defeated the afghans so he behalf amused by that he wouldn't be very surprised that the bag of the world. had made a complete mess of things and what we call civilization was collapsing because of

the banks and he would be saying just what he was saying in one thousand and. more simply try to love people try to live for others and well thank you very much thank you. download the official t. affleck ation to your i phone or i pod touch from the ice.