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to. spawn in israel. take it or leave it russia says it's only prepared to participate new european anti-missile defense system on the full partnerships of the detail state with r t. also washington is spending massive amounts of time spent money to make sure its agenda is promoted abroad through political parties and opposition groups we have a special investigation. one hundred years since the passing why don't the world's most influential writers and think is leo tolstoy is why accent philosophical ideas are as alive and popular as ever.

international news live from moscow this is also he was in the u.s. thanks for joining us russia's doors are open to discuss its participation in the european missile defense but it will serve them and equal role in it after nato secretary general made a bid to remarks on the issue president medvedev les said appears to suggest a slightly more cautious stance on his country nazar wraps up the main details of the nato russian council in them. 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. let us do this together. and i'm very pleased that president medvedev there has taken up that's offer from the russian president them intimidated speaking to the journalist said that he was a bit more cautiously optimistic about the potential for 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 our native poland is that we will pursue donnegan the european a.b.m. i mean guide his should be that our participation will be equal and i will stress this it could only be as pontin's around no other form of participation for the sake of the parents is acceptable only by that we participate fully and we exchange information take part in this is in making we do not participate at all. 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. you would be us 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. paul ingram executive director of the british american security information council says although there are car bombing is facing an uphill battle in the senate the ratification of the new start treaty is a question of when it's not if this 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 own arms control for and one foot 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 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 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 are really any concrete objections to this treaty coming from the senate. and also age and perhaps the professor of politics of the university of kent says with netas 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 dart 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 poland in the baltic states recently acknowledged that it's greater dialogue and more cooperation with moscow are a good thing for everyone involved. this is aussie are still ahead for you then you're in for justice. it was not just a few people who had to be punished but many times audiology if you ask illegal call it sixty five years after the nuremberg trials saw talk not says convicted of crimes against humanity we're back to gauge why some europeans continue to go apply the shameful purchase cost. 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 agenda and the second part of her special report on it has to

have that 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 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 base. cracked the u.s. government wants to dominate the world. this is what democracy promotion brought the people of one door. while us the ideal requests eight hundred thousand dollars for strengthening governance of democracy in hundred us journalists and activists are being brutalized and killed under the u.s. backed government was in egypt a revolt against the u.s. 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 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 ideas 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 for hoovering foreign governments for interfering in our actions or supporting any 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. iraq and all of our requests were either tonight or on and certs office r t washington d.c. . and just to remind you this plenty more it's how websites dot com and you can check for blogs political cartoons and photo galleries a look now at what's online at the moment the german boxer this going from being in

the blue corner to corner in the blues legend was made of one of sports top has become is the balance in the ring of the world of germs. has been a sworn i sleeping beauty but about old brushes prima ballerina and as my of the said kris had a break standing eighty five his style is still shining as bright as i have a tribute starting my story i talk to you go home. sixty five years ago the new trial not only brought top narcisse to justice but also laid the backdrop for what has become international law twenty two of those horse face trial you know made out of charges from the soviet union the last britain and france representatives of allied allied nations will attend an opening

exhibition this weekend marking the anniversary of the nuremberg trials but despite that choices they've revealed. a disturbing revival of fascist ideology is underway in parts of the europe today. this red army veteran was close to the trial which changed his story his last friend. acted as a prosecutor on behalf of the u.s.s.r. in the newton better hearing sixty five years ago could have says if it wasn't for them the outcome would have been very different. he understood that the truth about. it was not just a few people who had to be punished but. mass killing speech impress the judges so the number of those in the grows dramatically in a trial which lasted for almost a year twelve high ranking nazis were sentenced to death it was a milestone in history at the nuremberg trial leave 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 no days most of free europe acknowledges the positive effect of the nuremberg tribunals 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 stormin soldiers who fought alongside the troops. is still many 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 streets of this monument it's clear that our government doesn't she the red army saviors instead to be glorify those who fought in the side of fascists but that's despite the fact a large part of our own country would never support such idea. in april two

thousand and seven this clash of opinion spilled on to the streets the story in government ordered the 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 pulled several hundred meters from the square where the soviet bronze soldier 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. gatherings sixty five years ago prosecutors in nuremberg could not have expected a legacy like this the troil this month to make sure fascist ideology in the bloody process but the rise of new laws as modern used to europe is a sign that these ideas still live on looks odd to see reporting from darwin is story. let's now take

a look at some other international news this hour. a german magazine has received a tip that al qaeda and associated groups are plotting an attack on the german parliament biggles source says it's planned early next year with two militants having already arrived in berlin several weeks ago the information was provided by jihad it's to the german interior ministry and he says other parts of the country are also targeted the report comes as officials confirm the discovery of a suspicious package bound for munich in and maybe an airport but the german interior ministry say that it was a false alarm meant to test our port security. the efforts to reach workers trapped in a new zealand mine by gas blast has stalled because of fears of another occurring twenty nine miners are unaccounted for more than a day after a powerful explosion ripped through the pit two man managed to escape with only slight injuries the fate of their colleagues and explosive gas levels are still too high for rescue crews desperate to begin work to go underground. and the story

which might disturb years now and try to leave more than two thousand aborted foetuses in the buddhist temple in the capital city of bangkok the grim discovery that was made while this is investigated a smell coming from the building backs of fetuses were covered beside a broken furniture suggesting they were for cremation abortion is illegal in thailand except in special cases several arrests have been made of a suspected illegal clinic. it's been a century since the death of world renowned russian writer leo tolstoy the also celebrated novels of war and peace and i have read and there is being remembered throughout the country tolstoy also had controversial views on religion which saw him excommunicated by the russian orthodox church also had visited his family estate south of moscow to find out how russians you him today. 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 docks and get lost among birch trees without anyone disturbing him. a century after his death it's an easy thing laughs only turning group after group falling into his house not to minute for contemplation we. just had to learn has never been short of visitors 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 a good idea tolstoy can recite 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 retold these books after finishing high school. unfortunately most people never go back to question go to

church or have to been forced to read it at school instead they prefer reading was trendy and popular these days there's nothing bad about it it's just a pity that those people miss out on religion which are. just a few hundred metres from tolstoy's this week this will also be still serves as a pillar of strength but this family friend and elaine put their video called belong to do her board a correction grove that with the help of tom boyd to canada in the late nineteenth century fleeing from persecution in russia twenty years ago their descendants came back settling here a village told stories found most of it life what happened is that void that was in me in canada disappeared and it's the spiritual void i found myself here the boys like tolstoy who despise exploitation. all three then elaine of building their new home all by themselves given though it's already taken them

a day. mike jewel story they strongly believe in pacifism any unity big nature and above all these details stories ideas timelines i think his ideas haven't yet been reached and they are just starting to be tapped into and that's why i think russia has agreed to choose. and i thought form a strong and he's lived to begin with now and would you find all sorts of conventions and how to his own. leo tolstoy once 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 befuddles 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 year in the wake of archy.

and aussies lore and the stalks of leo tolstoy his biographer under 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 and wilson he wanted awards in nineteen ninety eight for a biography of tolstoy and wilson thank you very much for talking to r.c. now first as a biographer what attracted you to tolstoy. he's a giant he was the great giant of the novelistic form greater even than dostoyevsky who was too great so that's what attracted me to him and the fact that ever since i had really become a serious reader 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 the list

of that best book ever do you agree with these 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. 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 new 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 compass is his philosophy in life for 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 rich in the planet we shouldn't be fighting wars and he essentially underwent this

transformation didn't he from high society 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 . on whom old prince bolkonski a more in 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 you'd finished an accordion you know 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 for fear 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. he'd buy the. set up schools not only on his interstates but 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 a b. c. to teach people to read. it wasn't just sort of pious try dreaming but having pretended to be a peasant he then went back to being the reasonable man he was and he thought what is due to christianity and the church is teaching ethics how to live. the miraculous stuff meant for leicester and it was out of that was his volved his call for last year's life which as you say is an excuse and he felt that all governments not just the governments. but 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 all selves to forswear violence but also to false where 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. claim that for example the miracles were literally true or that the church had the right to dictate to men and women what they believed in 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 lampoon of the 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 pretty. it was excommunicated it meant he couldn't have a church funeral which was quite a big deal in its 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'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 super's of human happiness so it's very appropriate it should be buried. and we are celebrating the hundredth anniversary of tolstoy's death what's to celebrate well to celebrate is the greatest novelist who has ever lived but also this man who was guided with a passion for the truth and here loon 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's only it is 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 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. made a complete mess of things and that what we call civilization must let's improve the

banks and he would be saying just what he was saying in one thousand between your. so we'll simply try to love people try to live for those and we also thank you very much thank you. margaret mother did not like we're going to become.