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a boutique hotel. in serbia multi-user bailable in moscow and hyatt regency. take it or leave it russia says it's only prepared to participate in the european anti-missile defense system on the full partnership so the details stay with r t. washington is spending massive amounts of time as money to make sure it's a journey it's a promoter the board through political policies and opposition groups will have a special investigation. one hundred years since the passing of one of the world's most wanted and thinkers leo tolstoy zweig's and philosophical ideas are as alive and popular as ever.

this is coming to life from moscow now russia's doors are open to discuss its participation in the european missile defense but it won't affect that and equal role in it all for nato secretary general made big remarks when they shoot president medvedev appears to suggest a slightly more cautious stance also his country nazarov stop the main details of the nato russia council and its but. 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 that now many chose to believe. major major and the sorry that they're the. corner of the capability to defend european territory and population against me is there an attack. and they extended an offer to rush or. cooperate with our so. let us do this together. and i'm very pleased that president medvedev there has taken up that's offer that the russian president dmitri maintains if the 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 nato partners that we will pursue donnegan the european a.b.m. guide his should be that our participation 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 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

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 us 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 jealousy or suppressed moles he 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 war going to whole lot of effort would have been wasted but of course the poles the leaders reiterated once again the fact that they believe this treaty will get ratified and the sooner the better. and poor engram executive director of the british american security information council says over though

barack obama is facing an uphill battle in the senate the ratification of the new start treaty is a question of when and. 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 and for and and takes the first step in a very long road to that is 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 for cation 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. the professor of politics of the university of kansas says with nato 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 starts 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 have recently acknowledged that greater dialogue and more cooperation with moscow are good thing for everyone involved this is our c.n.n. still ahead they knew and justice. it was not just a few people who had to be punished but an entire ordeal a-g. of mass killing. sixty five years after the trial so told no it is convicted of crimes against humanity we investigate why some europeans continue to glorify the shameful fascist. political influence abroad is bought and sold to the high 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 in the second part of her special report all seems 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 on 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. 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 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. 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 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 there 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 it to my. 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 lure 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 da iraq and vi all of our requests were either tonight or on answer jan toughest our t. washington d.c. . and just to remind you there's plenty more us how website dot com you can check your blogs political cartoons and photo galleries look now at her timeline of. the germany has gone from being in the blue corner to corner in the blues bird was made

one of the sports toughest guys of bond in the ring but the waterfront. has been a sworn at sleeping beauty but above all branches prima ballerina and as my aunt they said celebrates too many it's a problem i have a stylist still shining as bright as that read her true study life story and. sixty five years ago the nuremberg trial not only brought top narcisse to justice but also laid the bedrock for what has come has become international law twenty two architects of the horrors phase the tribunals made up of judges from the soviet union britain and france representatives of allied nations well that turned an opening exhibition this weekend marking the anniversary of the nuremberg trials but

despite their trials that is they have revealed as asking the next a recess to report 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 could have says if it wasn't for example 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. of mass killing his 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 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 effect of the nuremberg tribunal but some nations have a complex relationship with the past look there is a monument to the soviet army liberators and here just meters away is the monument to a story in soldiers who fought alongside u.p.s.'s troops. is still only an anti-fascist activist andrei says this historic paradox is reflected current in the. in state of affairs in this baltic country. even looking at the crumbling streets of this monument it's clear that ira 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 historian government

ordered the relocation of a soviet soldier statue from central to the outskirts of the city thousands of dissenters protested and clashed with the police and monuments to free a story i was pulled several hundred meters from the square where the soviet bronze soldier 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 nuremberg 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 narcism in eastern europe is a sign that these ideas still live on let's see russia ski reporting from thailand is stoney. and let's now take a look at some other international news stories this. german magazine has received

a tip that al qaeda and associated groups are plotting an attack on the german parliament. next year with two militants having already arrived in berlin several weeks ago the information was provided by the hardest 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 bound for munich in and be there and that may be an airport but the german interior ministry say that it was a false alarm meant to the airport security. the efforts to reach workers trapped in a new zealand mine by a gas blast has stalled because of fears of another carrying twenty nine miners are unaccounted for more than a day after a powerful explosion ripped through the pit though two men managed to escape with only slight injuries the fate of their colleagues is unknown expose of gas levels are still too high for rescue crews desperate to begin work to go underground.

the story which might disturb you is now a tide leads have found him over two thousand aborted foetuses in the buddhist temple in the capital city of bangkok the grim discovery was made while officers investigated the smell coming from the building bags of fetuses were recovered beside a broken furnace suggesting they were cremation abortion is illegal in thailand except in special cases and several of rest have been made of a suspected illegal clinic. it's been a century since the death of a world renowned russian writer leo tolstoy the author of celebrated novels of war and peace and a rare is being remembered through 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 how russians the today. 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 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 know that yes napoleon has never been short of visitors in fact 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 as a brand than a favorite author according to polls only eleven percent returns to his books after finishing high school selina which. unfortunately most people never go back to

question call it torture that 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 is just a pity that those people miss out on religion which are. just a few hundred metres from told through history his philosophy still serves as a pillar of strength for this family all fred and elaine put their vinnie called long to do how bourse a christian group that with the help of tolstoy 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 spanned most of his life what happened is the void that was in me in canada disappeared and its spiritual void i found myself here like tolstoy who despised exploitation all for then 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 with 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 talked into and that's why i think russia has agreed to chair and i thought form is throughout his life to us to begin renowned for defining all sorts of conventions and having his own. leo tolstoy once out of a 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 deflower than a century after his death the count goes on millions lost here war and peace was in the end the greatest book of all times by music magazine bringing an ultimate moment of peace to this war year it's in the wake of our key. and overseas lore and the talks with leo tolstoy his biographer andrew wilson about

the author's enormous contribution to world literature that's coming up next. if the hundred anniversary of player tolstoy's death and to mark that out of estrie i'm talking to one of his biographers a n wilson he wanted award 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. he's a giant he was the great giant of the novelistic form greater even than dostoyevsky who i suppose of the great dr so that's what attracted me to him under so 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 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 goes 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 a philosopher as a writer what do you think in compass is his philosophy in life for thousands of people who were 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 a list sophie's how we shouldn't be written in the planet why we shouldn't be fighting wars and he essentially underwent this transformation didn't he from high

society author to spiritual and i kicked storm. from the beginning actually this feeling. 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 but more in peace is based his maternal grandfather was also a 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 you'd finished anacreon 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 by the way set up schools not only on his interstates. 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 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 good 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 call for last year's life which as you say is that he felt that all governments not just the governments. particularly evil in his eyes all governments are based on

violence and the anyway that we as individuals and we as societies can get away from a system. 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 tolstoy 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 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 lot of the liturgy of the orthodox church we need the extra munich a to use 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'd never wanted to be buried in church ground anyway he was buried in the place that is 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 super's of human happiness so it's very appropriate it should be buried. and 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 guided 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 and it's 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 do one voice telling the truth look at a lot of i 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 and i can't tell so he'd be alive today what do 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 so what we call civilization must let's improve the banks

and he would be saying just what he was saying in one thousand. more simply try to love people try to live for others and also thank you very much. my grandmother did not like what i have become.