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full of the club school who took photos of the big gold. corinthian escape when it. came to twenty two look you will come on. in the top two 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 who denies charges of weapons smuggling and terrorism at a court in the us after he was hastily extradited from thailand don't choose day. and. i think that. any news crew is detained in the us as they filmed a rally near
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a military training academy in georgia we've got the latest tonight on that one plus. two israeli soldiers accused of using a palestinian child as a human shield for the night seem to match the end of the future and the international community. is ten pm sunday night here in moscow you're very welcome if you just joined this she watching the r.t. news channel with me kevin and i've got the stories making the headlines from the past week and russia is open to discussion over its participation in european missile defense but only if it's offered a third. equal role president dmitri medvedev emphasized the point at the nato summit in lisbon hailed as historic for ending a once hostile relationship between russia and the alliance but it is lower listed
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reports next there's still remain issues on which they yet to see eye to eye. nato rolled out the red carpet for the country once considered its burrow 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 us. 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. 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 will be equal and i will stress
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this it can only be as partners around no other form of participation for the sake of the parents is acceptable by the we participate fully we exchange information take part in decision making we do not participate at all the us 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
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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 the civilian population came under attack and while nato seeks new purpose and allies others say the alliance belongs in the past everywhere to nato intervene trying. 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 foreign military and economic goals are out there's no greater example of the discontent with nato it's called thinking 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 to we don't think it's necessary it's a job for example for us so
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a country in crisis is spending so much money on something that's cool what we have is a very powerful minix reliance with no democratic accountability the leader is announcing the statements no part of it is going to get a chance 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 preparing 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 for top on the list is forging a lasting partnership with russia lauren lyster r.t. lisbon portugal he. rushes nato envoy to be true goes and says moscow wants the alliance to be more predictable. now after we have lived through the conflict and south of setia under a sharp decline in relations it turns out we might have needed such
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a terrorist on the one hand these events have shown that old nato policies were provoking such an adequate resumes motorcyclists really want to bloody actions on the other hand nato did not get involved in this conflict because europeans did not support the most aggressive part of the bush administration for us nato was a big headache it used to be an enemy now an unpredictable partner the left hand of which doesn't know what the right handers doing we are tired of this we want more stability and security on our western borders and in the long run maybe even certainty that there will be no trouble at all i think the americans have finally heard of such as well as. native secretary general also brought up the importance of the nuclear reduction treaty between russia and the us and as for us wilson told the lisbon summit that any delay in ratifying would damage the security of europe in the entire your atlantic region and president obama says there's no good reason why the deal can't be passed by the u.s.
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congress the treaty would see the two countries nuclear arsenal slashed by a third but it's being stalled in washington as newly elected republicans now way a bomb as democrats push on to nuclear campaigner kate hudson says the prospect of a world without atomic weapons is far too important to be sacrificed for one party short term political ambition. we were among the many people around the world who really welcomed president obama's speech in prague where he outlined his vision of a world without nuclear weapons and of course a vision which president medvedev shares and i think it's absolutely reprehensible if senators in the u.s. congress are obstructing the passing of this very important treaty the new start treaty for party political point scoring reasons i think this is far too important on a global scale for them to stand in. the way like this many people globally including i should say former cold warriors people like henry kissinger and george shultz
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many other leaders across the world now believe that it is just too jane shuras to have nuclear weapons and that is the trend that is taking place in the world towards disarmament and away from nuclear weapons and that is the trend which the us senate and the us congress should be going along with and following the leadership of their president british nuclear campaigner kate hudson coming up here on r t tonight buried but never forgotten the resurgence of fascism. everyone learned the lessons of the nuremberg trials. i mean fears of a rise in profile shoes sentiment across europe calls for great to sympathy towards convicted nazis or evoking rage we report plus. shunned across the continent roma community is a big spell by european governments are left without proper shelter and health that's coming up later this hour to. an article has been arrested in the u.s.
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as they filmed a rally near a military training academy dubbed by critics at the school of assassins a comer a mother of a correspondent have been taken into custody in the state of georgia along with a number of activists he is going to fit you can as the latest from washington tonight. 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 an annual demonstration outside fort benning which holds a training center and 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 mass murderers dictators and state terrorists some call for banning america's terrorist training camps kayleen our correspondent said there was no be severely as to the police on their part they stayed away from the gate as they were asked to but what followed by all standards nonviolent rally were dozens of arrests even one ninety year old
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priest was arrested our team erica 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 has been covering this who growing public outrage with what's going on at fort benning and its training camp for america and 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 actually due to their szell execution and massacres in one thousand nine hundred ninety three for example the united nations truth commission on el salvador named the army officers who had committed the worst atrocities of the civil war there 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 the
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prisons which are often referred to as concentration camps and also the generals who led the military coup in honduras were trained at the school of the americas which is now called the western hemisphere institute for security cooperation. the name change but the practice is there remain caylee ford our reporter was covering all bases and the rally outside fort benning where the training center is located are 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. you know if you approach this verse we can go to future cohen reporting live from washington d.c. with me just a bit earlier tonight. russian businessman and alleged arms smuggler vick to boot has pleaded not guilty to charges including turner resuming arms trafficking he was hastily extradited to the us from caulker later this week a move described by moscow as illegal of his report takes up the story.
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by two and a half year campaign to get one russian citizen accused arm dealer victor boot begins to face american justice victor 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 two 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 third rule agents and u.s. marshals keeping the operation a secret from boots lawyer family and russian officials. despite two rulings in thailand's criminal court saying victor boots guilt was not
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proven and the thai government has still decided to hand him over to the u.s. like consider this unprecedented political pressure on the legal process and on thailand's government. 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 american law enforcement officials all aboot who didn't get a chance to say goodbye to her husband in thailand accuses the u.s. of kidnapping as a political pawn. in this operation was illegal it was done to lobbying from the u.s. this russian citizen it was shipped to the united states as if he was just not shipped without his documents and without the russian embassy being informed and during his transfer to new york who claims that u.s. officials attempted to force a confession from him as part of
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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 it faces like your picture which i want to stress to the u.s. authorities of course i'm very serious and profound charges against this russian citizen we have nothing to conceal we don't consider this case to stay secret or anything of the kind that we want to see this investigation finalists has to answer all the questions raised by the us he will be given protection in consular
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assistance however that doesn't mean we are claiming he's innocent you know. while many have speculated as to why washington wants but so badly opinions have very. little bit of this is a question of principle they've spent ten years spending money taxpayer money on trying to root out gun runners so they have to have someone to show for it and they chose victor. i understand that there were significant amount of political pressure by the u.s. to put on the tar government but i assure you that will be nothing. compared to the pressure that the united states is going to. cooperate with the u.s. law enforcement already it's against others the chances of 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 although seeking to provide some cold comfort victor boot is of
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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 or enough or not artsy new york. you know it was dubbed the birth of international law the trials of senior nazis in the german city of new rome bug sixty five years ago and to mark the anniversary a tribunal museum has now been opened in germany presenting the full history of the hearings. been following the opening ceremony. 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 irving exactly where more than four hundred court hearings over and more than twenty nazi leaders took place exactly sixty five
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years ago following which they were falling to take russian foreign minister sergey lavrov has a boost first of all i emphasize that but flows toward combatants a milestone in fact for the history of mankind as for the first time ever the actions by nazi dictatorship work classified as crimes against humanity and crimes against peace of the world and their usage of responsible for they scrutiny for dates atrocities were condemned and punished by official international courts but minister love for old has also stressed that this is something we. we have to remember it it cannot be forgotten but he has said that he died out a lot that the lessons of the nuremberg trials have been learned through the books and we've seized has everyone learned the lessons of the nuremberg trials apparently not because hell can with their explain the recent attempts to justify the actions of nazis and their collaborators to make. something of
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a just fight how should we understand the annual marches of formal s. as soldiers in some european capitals court trials against anti nazi veterans and the introduction of the swastika into the cultural heritage of the baltic people the duty of the international community is to fly to new noses and racial hatred zenith rubia and extremism or go back to the demons of the post forgetting history or trying to rewrite it could lead to new tragedies 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 mean moral here in the city but of course the more important thing is not to forget the results of face trials of the principles the principles of trast mutual trust and respect it has established professor dr kearse from the human rights movement world without naziism says the revival of nazi ideas in eastern europe is not only about people but also about decision makers to. there is a dangerous
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a political and to that sure trend of nationalism of states not wanting any stain 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 band also by the glorification of participants in the holocaust in various museums in the region so if i say as i
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do that some soviet crimes were horrendous but they did not amount to genocide and the two are not equal i now live 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. professor and human rights campaign a different cuts and later today we've got a story of company news who is still hoping to find and bring to trial those who ruined so many lives over sixty years ago. those so many years of. some former prisoners. still a lot. as well as. those so many years of. summer hoping to find. others shake your
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executioners longing for just. those so many years of. memory is still a month. as well. as school. you're watching r t from moscow and israeli military court has let two of its soldiers walk free after those convicted of using a palestinian boy as a human shield ring the gaza war nearly two years ago the two made a nine year old open bags they suspected were full of explosives. as more from tel aviv. this is a military court that essentially sentenced these two soldiers to three months 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
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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 in 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 this instance 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 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 risk particular case the nine year old
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can assume you're going to be 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 you espouse theories as human shields like to ask you you're in coffee in the morning so what we did is we just bumped into a house nearby house where 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 israelis. soldiers loaded to facebook pictures of soldiers harming and mocking and humiliating palestinians there was a lot of emotion in the courtroom and be assured that the small inning 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
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a scapegoat by the military superiors who ordered the carrying out and that they are the ones who should be able to book there's also a sense here in this role that this is a case that is meant to aviate international pressures that the international community can see the idea of 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 that is correspondent paula looking ahead next hour on this channel after a media blitz spanning reality shows to political rallies sarah palin finds herself in the perfect position to take a crack at the right to be found there will be new york to go back to. i don't think that she has the smarts i don't think she has the political backing it think that she's made a career out of being. a t.v. personality but that's america if she gets the vote she can run but i'll be voting
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for her by hope that we had the foresight as voters in this country to realize that no she should not be elected president of united states. the resident on your screen surely tonight the plight of rome migrants is again in the spotlight as they face persecution all across europe with france and other countries in the continent expelling thousands of roma and if those who hail from get from ball garia end up returning there but without a job or place to go to art is done a bushel looks at how they manage to survive. seems like we could become common across europe the mood of this town in southern bowl guru to. doughty had to tear down this block of flats because the room the residents had turned it into a slum this pile of rubble is all that's left of the housing estate what author it is called a public health hazard infested with rats cockroaches and fleas thousands of roma
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who back home. some have moved to this wasteland no shelter health care or education for the children. well built where citizens where there's a treat us like this schools won't take my son because he has lice and disease people here ask is this what the e used become with winter approaching they'll be sleeping in the cold for you politicians bury their heads in the sand only we can solve their own problems with . france to send tens of thousands of roma back to bulgaria sweden it's a leader mark and germany had similar policies they use justice commissioner says it reminds her of world war two one of the evicted told me he picks pockets to feed his family member countries report rumor offenses are shooting up pushing rising numbers into angry and see groups the biggest problem with the gypsies is the crime already or like a civil war they are stealing or else. the life of of the people campaign
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is one that most roma sent by by france and other states can't integrate because there aren't enough jobs for them and paul geary our education opportunities limited music remains one of their few past success. a racy gypsy style of pop called child go talk to the charts but campaigners say ethnic conflicts are set to surge until the e.u. learns to live and work with roma not just enjoy their music in the nightclubs daniel schorr arty saffir. you are watching r t in a recap of this week's top stories in the day's main news my name is kevin o. and i'll be back with the headlines for you very shortly this late sunday evening the twenty first of november the remorse.
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