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international news live from moscow this is also the with me you know about thanks for joining us russia's doors are open to discuss its participation in the european missile defense but it won't affect and equal role in it after nato secretary general made upbeat remarks and the issue president medvedev later appears to suggest a slightly more cautious style this country that i saw about wraps up the main details of the nato russia council in the. 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 the

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 about how many chose to believe. major major and the sorry the there the. corner of the capability to defend european territory and populations against mr an attack. and they extended an offer to russia. cooperate with our. let us do this together. and i'm very pleased that president medvedev there has taken up that offer from the russian president the medium and page of the 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 in 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 by the we participate fully we exchange information take part in this is in making we do not participate at all barack 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 bad 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. it makes sense for us to do this jealous of course pressed wealthy with the west and 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. and paul ingram executive director of the british american security information council says although there are you know uphill battle in the senate the ratification of the new start treaty is a question of when and not. this this treaty is good for european for american 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 one foot 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 he's exposed himself to some extent to two 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 on the floor of the senate will pass the debate is when it comes up for 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 really is quite baffling as to whether there are really any concrete objections to this treaty coming from the senate. and dr adrian pipes the professor of politics of the university of canada says with nato's position weakening its members are well aware their lions 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 nato can not function properly without stronger russian involvement that required

a different attitude in moscow which was seen with present mediators 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 poland the baltic states recently acknowledged that greater dialogue and more cooperation with moscow are good thing for everyone involved this is our c.e.o. still ahead the nuremberg justice. it was not just a few people who had to be garnished but only in time of mass killing. so sixty five years after the trial saw nonces convicted of crimes against humanity we investigate why some europeans continue to glorify their shameful fascist past. political influence abroad is bought and sold to the highest bidder often with american taxpayers' money the us government spends billions of dollars annually to finance foreign politicians and policies that can promote washington's i joined and

in the second part of her special report on jan half it explains how it's 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 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 us 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 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 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 the idea was. 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 ideas 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 venice i. know 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 governments from interfering in our elections are 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 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 the d i r i n n d i all of our requests were either tonight or an answer to have office r.t. washington d.c. . oh and just to remind you there's plenty more snow website on dot com you can check for blogs political cartoons and photo galleries online and.

the german box that has gone from being in the blue pool wanted to incorporate. made one of course tough plays upon them the rain water color. plants one of russian men seem to prefer nurses displays as the headline grabbing and chop and loses out toward sister while a soap opera won in a men's magazine competition and great. the country's most desirable more details uncovered as. sixty five years ago the nuremberg trial not only brought top narcisse to justice but also laid the bedrock for what has become international law twenty two texts of

those horrors face tribunals made up of judges from this subject cheney and the u.s. britain and france representatives of allied nations will attend an opening exhibition this weekend marking the anniversary of the year in about trials but despite their trials it is they revealed as r.t. as an executor have scruples a disturbing revival of fascist ideology is underway in parts of europe today. 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 and better hearing sixty five years ago sort of says if it wasn't for the then the outcome could have been very different. he understood that the trial was not only about him. it was not just a few people who had to be punished but. of mass killing his speech impress the judges so the number of those in the dog 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 that 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 no days most of free europe acknowledges the positive fact of the nuremberg tribunal but some nations have a complex relationship with the past look very similar to the soviet army liberators and here just meters away is the monument to a story in soldiers who fought alongside u.b.s.'s troops. is stoney an anti-fascist activist andrei says this historic paradox is reflected in the current state of affairs in this country. even looking at the crumbling streets of this monument it's clear that irish government doesn't she the red army see if yours 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 the estonian 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 estonia was pulled several hundred meters from the square where the soviet bronze statue used to stand it was ambles across 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. r.t.

reporting from tallinn is stony. and let's now take a look at some other international news stories this hour a german magazine had received a tip that al qaeda and associated groups are plotting an attack on the german parliament girl so also it's planned for early next year with two militants having already arrived in berlin several weeks ago information was provided by a jihad it's to the german interior ministry and he says other parts of the country are also targeted the report comes as officials confirmed the discovery of a suspicious package about the munich. airport a big german interior ministry say that it was a false alarm to terrorists and airport security. efforts to reach workers trapped in a new zealand gas blast has stalled because of fears of another occurring twenty nine miners are accounted for more than a day off so powerful explosion ripped through the pit. managed to escape with only

slight injuries the fate of their colleagues is unknown explosive gas levels are still too high for rescue crews desperate to begin work to the ground. story which might disturb you as now and thai police have found more than two thousand aborted foetuses in a buddhist temple in the capital city of bangkok the grim discovery was made while officers investigated a smell coming from the building bags of fetuses were recovered beside a broken furnace suggesting there were four cremation abortion is illegal in thailand except in special cases and several of arrests have been made over a suspected illegal clinic. it's been a century since the death of world renowned russian writer leo tolstoy the also of celebrated novels war and peace and they could run in there is being remembered throughout the country tolstoy also had controversial views on religion which saw him excommunicated from the russian orthodox church visited his state south of

moscow to find out how russians are give him today. leo tolstoy like his family estate because it was as far from the madding crowd as you could get a place where he could feed darks 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 us hyper learner has never been short of visitors and start during the hi susan some are spring and autumn we have trouble handling the fall 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 ken my side many of his famous ancestors 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 really toss these books after finishing high school zeleny which. unfortunately most people never go back to question call it torture have to been forced to read it as call ins to 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 vinnie called belong to do have 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 the void that was in me in canada disappeared and its spiritual void i found myself here

a boy like tolstoy who despised exploitation. all fred and elena building their new home all by themselves even though it's already taken them a decade actual story 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 been reached. and they are just starting to be tapped into and that's why i think russia has agreed to. and i can form as throughout his life tours to begin renowned for defining all sorts of conventions including his own. little tool for one side 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 in defiles and a century after his death the count goes in millions last year war and peace was in the in the greatest book of all times by music magazine bringing an ultimate moment

of peace to this bleachery warrior in the wake of our thirty. dollars he's a lawyer and let's talk to leo tolstoy his biographer andrew wilson about the author's enormous contribution to world literature that's coming up next. is the hundredth anniversary of layo tolstoy's death and to mark that out of a story i'm talking to one of his biographers a wilson he wanted awards in one thousand nine hundred 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 i suppose of the two great dr so that's what attracted me to him and the fact that ever since really become a serious researcher in my teens it was his novels are 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 ranking. 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 it focuses yes all the years you know five campaign culminating in the 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 with as much loss of for as a writer what do you think in compass 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 but

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 and underwent this transformation didn't he from high society to spiritual allocate storm it was always there 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 grand i mean some of them were advisers to the emperor the family . on whom old prince bolkonski a more pieces because his maternal grandfather was also a very grand military and political figure tolstoy himself lived almost entirely in the country at his estate in the us 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 and feel that he would want to hang himself he then thought the way to live for 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 the vast acres and miles around probably on the starting education he was the great pioneer of russian education 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 he was volved his call for last year's 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 societies can get away from a system of the military of war solving problems of torture is in ourselves to forswear violence but also to false where the idea of authority so he was an extremely subversive figure also i was a deeply religious man but he did get into quite serious conflict with the orthodox church 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 lot of the holy liturgy of the orthodox church in it the extreme indicated 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 anywhere he was buried in the place the states where his brother thought he buried this greenstick 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 is that 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 tow. 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 nineteen ten the civil wars the first of all the civil war the revolutions and so forth the tradition of tolstoy lived 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 because of the

world. have made a complete mess of things. what we call civilization most lexington's 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 also thank you very much.