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meridian country club so sure to find this piece of the first book called sure can pinsky switzer till closing the whole. golden apple boutique hotel. in the top new stories from the week moscow will take part in missile defense plans for europe but only if it's an equal partner that was one of the outcomes of the nato russia summit in lisbon which has been hailed as a fresh start in the relations. russian business one victim both denies charges of weapons smuggling and terrorism of the calls in the u.s. after he was hastily extradited from thailand don't choose to. believe. that any. news crews detained in the united states says they filmed a rally near
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a military training academy in ga plus. two israeli soldiers accused of using a palestinian child as a human shield to see a sentence much to anger the few points groups and the international community. for a good evening from moscow it's nine pm sunday night this is r.t. it's kevin owen here with the stories making the headlines this past week for you and first russia is open to discussion over its participation in european missile defense but only if it's offered a fair and equal. all president dmitry medvedev emphasize the point of the nato summit in lisbon hailed as historic for ending a once hostile relationship between russia and the alliance results is lower enlisted reports negs they still remain issues on which they get to see eye to eye . nato rolled out the red carpet for the country once
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considered its both. and russian president dmitri medvedev arrived at the summit of the former cold war military alliance to leaders welcoming him with open arms and a plea corporate with arse. let us do this together leaders on both sides seem to indicate they plan to do just that after nato russia talks they hailed as historic missile defense plans under the bush white house provoked the most serious rift between russia and nato since the cold war now the alliance wants russia to join in its plans but russia wants more than just sweet words with a good body that we have agreed with our nato partners that we will pursue donnegan the european a.b.m. i mean god his should be that our participation be equal and i will stress this it can only be as partners no other form of participation for the sake of the parents
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is acceptable either we participate fully we exchange information take part in this isn't making we do not participate at all the u.s. reset of relations with russia has brought nato to woo moscow once the great enemy but now courted as a key potential ally together we've worked hard to reset the relations between the united states and russia which has led to concrete benefits for both our nations now we're also resetting the nato russia relationship we see russia as a partner not an adversary russia and nato have reiterated common challenges to be fought from the spread of weapons of mass destruction to terrorism russia has pledged more help to nato in afghanistan with transport access and more resources to fight narcotics there and for the first time in pakistan despite all the warm words there are still differences notably over the south as such in conflict over two years ago nato backed georgia which russian forces were forced to fight after
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the civilian population came under attack and while nato seeks new purpose and allies others say the alliance belongs in the past everywhere that nato intervened droned the balkans to iraq to afghanistan it's an absolute mess. because you cannot every anyone who's been to brussels know that you cannot. even agree on the sauce you're going to have with your stick any magic when a common foreign military and economic woes are out there is no greater example of the discontent with nato it's called me than we think here on this day to please think of what these people thousands of i mean by protesting the alliance and it not me. we don't want it we don't think it's necessary it's awful for example for us and so a country in crisis is spending so much money on something it's cool what we have
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is a very powerful minix realize with no democratic accountability the leader is announcing the statements no problem and is going to get a child to vote on it and as a result everyone's military expenditure is going to go up the message is entirely wrong nato is out of date now out of time and we need a world of peace and justice not want to prepared for yet more wars and after introducing a new strategic concept to high hopes at the summit nato is challenge now is to turn concept into reality or top on the list is forging a lasting partnership with russia lauren lyster r.t. lisbon portugal. later sacred gen also brought up the importance of the nuclear reduction treaty between russia and the us and as for us it was and told the lisbon summit that any delay in ratifying would damage the security of europe in the entire your atlantic region president obama two said there's no good reason why the deal can't be passed by the u.s. congress the treaty would see the two countries nuclear arsenals slashed by
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a third but it's being stalled in washington as newly elected republicans now outweigh obama's democrats nucleus of cute security expert paul ingram told r.t. that although president obama faces an uphill battle it is more a question of when rather than if ratification will happen. 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 very 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
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points against him very very difficult political situation but i have to say if that treaty comes up for ratification 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. it was nuclear security expert paul ingram speaking to us there on the program. coming up buried but never forgotten the resurgence of fascism. if you will learn the lessons of the new and better tools and. calls for greater sympathy towards convicted nazi leaders called outrage amid fears of a rising pro fascist sentiment across europe europe. and what lies beneath the concrete
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containing structure used to cover the disasters cited chernobyl is jus to be replaced of fears of uncovering fresh new clear danger port again coming up tonight . an artsy crew has been arrested in the u.s. as they filmed a rally near a military training academy dubbed by critics the school of assassins a camera man and a correspondent have been taken into custody in the state of georgia along with a number of activists artie's get a teacher can has the latest tonight from washington. we had the chance to talk to kayleen one of our correspondents she and one of our cameraman john conway are now we jailed in columbus georgia they were covering going to annual demonstration outside fort benning which holds a training center for latin american soldiers and policemen air every year thousands of people gather at the gates of that institution with demands to shut it down among its graduates are many of the continent's most and poorest torturers
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mass murderers dictators and state terrorists some call for banning america's terrorist training camps kayleen our correspondent said there was no disobedience to the police on their part they stayed away from the gate as they were asked to but what followed by all standards nonviolent and rally were dozens of arrests even one nineteen year old priest was arrested r t merica crew were arrested as they were doing their job trying to capture on camera the whole event including the arrest they are now we jail for that is not quite clear right now they could be charged with disobedience to the police or federal trespassing he's been covering this who growing public outrage with what's going on at fort benning and his training camp for him our military and law enforcement officers they train around sixty thousand of that many of them of return to their countries and committed human rights abuses who are actually due to their show like secure and massacres a nine hundred ninety three for example the united nations truth commission on el
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salvador named the army officers who had committed the worst atrocities of the civil war they are two thirds of them had been trained at the school of the americas. for banning and in chile the schools graduate and both. secret police and some of these prisons which are often referred to as concentration camps and also the general celeb the military coup in honduras were trained at the school of the americas which is now called the western hemisphere institute for security cooperation. name change but the practice is there remain kayleen ford our reporter it was covering all based on the rally outside fort benning where the training center is located i'll keep you posted on the cruise on our crew situation there as we get more information from them hopefully they will let them go and caylee will have the chance to tell us the story behind this rally . i was going to say you can reporting from washington d.c. . russian business one of the alleged arms smuggler pleaded not guilty to charges
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including terrorism and arms trafficking he was hastily extradited to the u.s. from bangkok earlier this week a move described where moscow is a legal reporter takes up the story of a human half year campaign to get one russian citizen accused arm dealer victor boot begins to face american justice if your boot came into u.s. custody on tuesday set to stand trial on arms smuggling and terrorism charges one conspiring to kill united states nationals to conspiring to kill united states officers and employees three conspiring to use an acquire anti-aircraft missiles and for conspiring to provide material support to the fark meantime the u.s. to stands accused of breaking laws to grab the russian businessman organizing a swift extradition from thailand involving some fifty federal agents and u.s.
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marshals keeping the operation a secret from boots lawyer family and russian officials. you do despite two rulings in thailand's criminal court saying victor boots guilty was not proven to be the thai government has still decided to hand him over to the u.s. who like consider this unprecedented political pressure on the legal process and on thailand's government in moscow has dubbed the extradition of their citizen are striking in justice boot a former army officer was arrested in bangkok in march two thousand and eight in a sting operation involving an american law enforcement official. who didn't get a chance to say goodbye to her husband in thailand accuses the u.s. now as a political force the corrupt when you are short of it in this operation was illegal it was done after lobbying from the u.s. this russians such as. and it was shipped to the united states as if he was just an object without his documents and without the russian embassy being informed. and
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during his transfer to new york who claims that u.s. officials attempted to force a confession from him as part of a possible plea bargain. according to victor boot during the extradition there were attempts to convince him to make a confession of the crimes he had never committed promising some privileges in return but mr boot rejected these offers in new york federal court on wednesday the forty three year old cargo dealer denied all charges but is being held in solitary confinement at a federal prison in lower manhattan with legal assistance from the russian consul a top kremlin official stressed that moscow is demanding fair treatment for its citizens while not getting involved in the allegations that face it. will patrol and i want to stress that the u.s. authorities have balls in very serious and pronounce georges against his russian citizen we have nothing to conceal we don't consider this case is the only thing of
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the killing to consider and we want to see this investigation finds only shoot has to owns all the questions raised or the u.s. will be given to action in the consular assistance however that doesn't mean we are claiming uneasiness in music you know. while many have speculated as to why washington wants but so badly opinions had there. this is a question of principle they've demanded ten years of spending money taxpayer money on trying to root out going around and so they have to have someone to show for it and they chose to the camera because i understand that there were significant amount of political pressure by the us to put on the government but i assure you that will be nothing. compared to the pressure that the united states is going to put on mr boot to cooperate with the u.s. law enforcement authority is against others the chances of
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a fair trial for victor boot are already in question with u.s. media and the prosecutor portraying him as a villain the so-called merchant of death is now a federal inmate there although seeking to provide a pretty some cold comfort victor boot is of course presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty the fate of victor boots future will be sealed in this new york federal courthouse his next hearing is scheduled to take place in january if convicted the russian citizen faces twenty five years to life behind bars burning up or not artsy new york. and israeli military court sled two of its soldiers walk free after they were convicted of using a palestinian boy as a human shield during the gaza war nearly two years ago the two made a nine year old open bugs they suspected were full of explosives nazis paula slee has more from tel aviv. this is a military court that essentially sentenced these two soldiers to three months
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probation and the most of them from the rank of staff sergeant to sergeant now the case involves the operation cast lead the war back in two thousand and eight two thousand and nine when the two soldiers approached a young nine year old palestinian child and forced him to look inside a number of bags that the soldiers were fearful had some kind of explosives in them as it turned out there was nothing inside the bags and no one was hurt but the soldiers were charged with using this child as a human shield which was ruled by the israeli supreme court to be illegal the military prosecutors wanted to see some kind of jail time they were essentially calling on the fact that the soldiers have violated human rights and also what is known as these weighty defense forces code of purity of arms such a sentence carries up to three months in prison but as we see the soldiers got off with a relatively conservative and longing to see interns this is a surprise to many people here in israel particularly human rights groups and left wing organizations i just got off the phone with the public committee against
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torture in israel and they used the word ridiculous and i think we're going to see more of that kind of reaction throughout the course of the day as the sentencing becomes more public you put it sholay is a former israeli soldier and he says that this particular case and iraq had a store going being used as a human shield is not unusual the only unusual thing in this instance is that it made it to court in the first place. i think that to ask a combat soldier and serve in the occupied territories where years past three years as human shields like to ask you to drink coffee in the morning so what we did is we just bumped into a house nearby house we grabbed one of the kids we took him with us put him in front of the patrol you just walk your patrol in the village with your kid and then no one for a start this is not the first time that there has been recorded instances of israeli soldiers carrying out some kind of violations against palestinians it was a case not so long ago when the israelis. soldier uploaded to facebook pictures of soldiers harming and mocking and humiliating palestinians there was
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a lot of emotion in the courtroom and be assured that this morning the soldiers themselves have not spoken on camera but their lawyer did say that they were satisfied with the finding they did feel that the soldiers were being used as a scapegoat by the military superiors who ordered the carrying out and that they are the ones who should be brought to book there's also a sense here in israel that this is a case that is meant to be a levy eight international precious that the international community can see the i.d.f. doing some kind of internal tracking and internal assessing to make sure that this kind of thing does not happen again but it's unlikely that with such a conservative sentence many people in the international community will be satisfied today. in just under ten minutes time out to bring your special report about a news views on the israeli palestinian conflict we've never made it to america's mainstream media despite the huge success of his books it's a profile of norman finkelstein the outspoken critic of israel and some of holocaust survivors. library mother did not
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write with her because. she was afraid. and she was very cool to the. chief though. arwa frankenstein's monster. we don't have the problem. every. effort is made. by the palestinian or in the european side to negotiate an end. to the violent attacks against israel which i have no fear of war. so long as you have no. 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
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a few words about jewish culture happening and people get so upset this is i'm sorry to say it's a form of emotional blackmail. it's coming up here on our team from moscow to about ten minutes time. it was dubbed the birth of international law the trials of senior nazis in the german city of nuremberg sixty five years ago to mark the anniversary a tribunal museum has been opened now in germany presenting the full history of the hearings on his roof a national has been following the opening ceremony in new york. speaking at the opening of the nuremberg trials me more here in germany in that room it's called room number six hundred in the palace of justice in nuremberg the exactly where more than four hundred court hearings over more than twenty nazi leaders took place
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exactly sixty five years ago following in which they were found guilty russian foreign minister sergey lavrov has a cost first of all emphasize that but he's toric a violent and milestone event for the history of mankind as for the first time ever the actions by nazi dictatorship were classified as crimes against humanity and crimes against peace of the world and those responsible for that scrutiny for the it's a trust cities were condemned and punished by official international court but minister love for old has also stressed that this is something we have to remember it it cannot be forgotten but he has said that he doubts a lot that the lessons of the nuremberg trials have to be learned to do because when you see these bigger golden rule has everyone learned the lessons of the nuremberg trials apparently not to be movable because hell can we very explain the reasons in terms to justify it actions of nazis and their collaborators to make
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their control like something you could just fully. understand the annual mulches of soldiers in some european councils called trials against auntie nazi veterans and the introduction of the swastika into the cultural heritage of the bull to get people who do you have the international community is to find new noses and racial hatred was even through beer and extremism we're going to the demons of good policy getting history or trying to rewrite it could lead to new tragedy and foreign minister lavrov has pointed out here in nuremberg that of course is a good thing to open such a museum to set up such a memorial here in the city but of course the more important thing is not to forget the results of thanks trials of the principles the principles of trost mutual trust and respect it has established. professor david katz from the human rights movement world without naziism says the revival of nazi ideas in eastern europe is not only
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about people but also about decision makers too there is a dangerous a political and intellectual trend of nationalism of states not wanting any staying in their history and of course participation in the holocaust is a stain in the history of a number of east european countries and very brave individuals and n.g.o.s in the ninety's and beyond were standing up to teach their people the truth but unfortunately the baltic governments decided to deal with it in a very dishonest way to confuse confound the nazi and the soviet crimes into one mixture by setting up state commissions and in the end with the lamia by actually launching prosecutorial investigations against holocaust survivors who are alive because they joined the anti nazi resistance and also by the glorification of participants in the holocaust in various museums in the region so if i say as i do
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that some soviet crimes were horrendous but they did not amount to genocide the two are not equal i now is liable to a two year jail sentence now that's very easy for me as a foreigner living here to walk away but very many talented brave young lithuanian people i know are now afraid to speak up so there's been a decline in democracy. that was professor of human rights campaign a different cats talking to us there. and coming up next oh a shunned across the continent roma communities of being spoiled by governments and left with shelter and health care subjective report coming up for you again shortly tonight here on this channel. scientists are concerned over the radioactive dangers lurking in the chernobyl site nearly a quarter of a century after the nuclear plant explosion the concrete bunker which covers the
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contaminated area is nearing the end of its life but it's not clear what radioactive danger lies beneath that he's a chef skew explains. almost quarter of a century since the chernobyl fallout a special confinement structure called the circle is still preventing more radioactive emissions into atmosphere this structure the circus was built in nine hundred eighty six just months after the disaster that your noble nuclear power blog back then experts predicted would last for only twenty years until two thousand and six that is but as you can see from here it was strengthened and improved extending its lifetime for five more years the biggest question is how much nuclear fuel remains under the surface some experts believe that there is none as most of it did a very full rise into the atmosphere and was spread around the chernobyl exclusion zone but many experts believe that there are ninety five percent of nuclear fuel still remaining under the surface and that could be tons and tons of nuclear material. we believe that the nuclear fuel under the cycle for gas is no longer
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solid mass like it's lost twenty four years ago that now is more a three layers of dispersed dust so should the presence of go for the scraps we could see a very powerful explosion in facilities as powerful as a nuclear one. in order to avoid another catastrophe europe invested in the building of a new confinement in two thousand and seven french company was allowed to start the construction of an arch like steel structure to cover the facility three years later the project is underway with more than five hundred engineers building the new circle next to the contaminated. it won't be just the frame yeah it will be a technological complex as multi-functional crane system will be installed inside the new structure eight. finals cap the new safe confinement should provide the safety environment in the works in far the project's initial cost was thought
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to be half a billion euro now sources in chernobyl really. ward that figure has almost doubled but in the fight for the continent safety no some is too much the new confinement is expected to be completed by the year twenty thirteen and is expected to last for another hundred years the only question is what is the fate of the nuclear power plant in chernobyl some say that it may be dismantled under this new dome but that is only a speculation for now we only heard that this is a process which may take another seventy years and there are no to phonology to this day which would allow this to happen alexia cesky see reporting from the church noble exclusion zone in ukraine. the legacy hole of chernobyl you're watching our team's news review of the week with me kevin oh and thanks for choosing us this sunday night the twenty first of november.
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