in the top news stories from the week more school 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 summited lisbon which has been hailed as a fresh start in their relations. russian businessman victor both denies charges of weapons smuggling and terrorism at a court in the u.s. after he was hastily extradited from thailand children's day. r t news crew is detained in the us as they filmed a rally near

a military training academy in ga plus. the soldiers accused of using a palestinian child as a human shield the night seem to match today and over a few rights groups and the international community. hello is what i am here in moscow you're watching the r.t. news channel i'm kevin zero in with the stories making headlines this past week and russia is open to discussion over its participation in european missile defense but only if it's offered a fair and equal role president dmitri medvedev emphasized that point of the nato summit in lisbon hailed as historic for ending a once hostile relationship between russia and the alliance but as artie's laura mr reports next there still remain issues on which they get to see eye eye to.

nato rolled out the red carpet for the country once considered its foe. 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 call her right 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 will be equal and i will stress this it can only be as ponton as no other form of participation for the sake of the

parents is acceptable either we participate fully we exchange information take part in decision 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 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 intervene 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 can imagine when a common foreign military and economic balls ride there's no greater example of the discontent with nato it's called me than we think here on the streets at least they would not be filled thousand right i mean by protesting the alliance and it. we don't want to we don't think it's necessary it's ok for example for us and so a country in crisis is spending so much money on something that's cool what we have

is a very powerful military alliance 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 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 or top on the list is forging a lasting partnership with russia lauren lyster r.t. lisbon portugal. nato secretary general also brought up the importance of the nuclear reduction treaty between russia and the u.s. anders fogh rasmussen told the lisbon summit that any delay in ratifying it would damage the security of europe and the entire your atlantic region president obama says 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 arsenal slashed by a third but it's being stalled in washington because newly elected republicans now outweigh obama's democrats security expert paul you've told me that although president obama does face an uphill battle right now it's more a question of when rather than if ratification. this truthy 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 very clear verification treaty between the two countries so this this this treaty maintains takes on arms control for one foot and and takes the first step in a very long road to that is around obama's position 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 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. the thoughts of nuclear security expert paul ingram talking to r.t. . ahead on this channel r.t. coming up as the sixty fifth anniversary of the nuremberg trials are remembered the lessons of horror forgotten by some. as everyone learned the lessons of the new would be the true rules apparently not i mean fears of

a rise in pro fascist sentiment across europe calls for greater sympathy towards convicted that says revoking bridge. pile of rubble is all that's left of the housing estate what all storage is called a public health hazard in fifty cockroaches and leaves thousands of roma home we report on rather communities abandoned by countries. developing news story tonight r t 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 cameraman john conway and correspondent carolyn ford have been taken to custody in the state of georgia about along with a number of activists as well marty's garniture can probably up to date with the latest 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 notorious torturers 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 ninety year old priest was arrested r t america crew were arrested as they were doing their job trying to capture on camera the whole event including the arrest they are now in 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 in american 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 poor kerry actually like secure and massacres in 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 two thirds of them had been trained at the school of the americas. for panning and in chile the schools graduate and both. secret police and some of the main prisons which are often referred to as concentration camps and also the general celebs 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 kaley ford our reporter was covering all this and 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 here let you know they get our own guns which you can reporting their. russian businessman in the alleged arms smuggler big to boot has pleaded not guilty to charges including terrorism and arms trafficking he was hastily extradited to the u.s. from bangkok earlier this week the move described by moscow as illegal. takes up the story. a q. 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 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 that are real 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 viktor boots guilt was not proven the thai government has still decided to hand him over to the u.s. i 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 after lobbying from the u.s. this russian citizen to a shift to the united states as if he was just not chipped without his documents and does 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 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 but your picture which i want to stress to the u.s. authorities of course in 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 finalist has to answer all the questions raised by the u.s. he will be given protection in consular 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 previous 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 victory over of political were because i understand that there were significant amount of political pressure by the us but on that our government but i

assure you that will be nothing. compared to the pressure that the united states is going to. the strip you cooperate with the u.s. or 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 there are all those seeking to provide 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. looking ahead little bit snipes' attorney would also go to coming up after failing to make it to the white house's vice president sarah palin's relentlessly courted

publisher team from reality television appearances to put political rallies more she's continued speculation therefore that chilled challenge barack obama for the presidency in two years' time we've been asking people in new york what they think her chances are. i don't think has the smarts i don't think that she has the political backing and think that she's made a career out of being. a t.v. personality and let's america if she gets the vote she can run but i'll be voting and not for her i hope that we had the foresight as voters in this country to realize that no she should not be elected president of the united states. nor the resident later now the big story from us in the week an israeli military court is let two of its soldiers walk free of snow convicted of using a palestinian boy as a human shield through the gaza war nearly two years ago the two made a nine year old open bugs they suspected were full of exposed explosives paula

sleep friendships they don't miss story now 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 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 me fact that the soldiers in violation of human rights and also what is known as these weighty defense forces code of purity of arms such as the interns carries up to three months in prison but as we see the soldiers got off with

a relatively conservative and light interns list as 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 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 to ask a combat soldier and serve in the occupied territories or use palestinians as human shields like prosecuting 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 just walking a patrol in a village with a kid and they're known for us towards 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. 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 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 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 but he's paulus leah the european union and the i.m.f. of agreed to a massive bailout for ireland the eurozone and second emergency rescue package this

year the irish government will get funding of up to one hundred billion euro also helping it probably drugs will bankrupt banking sector debts of meant catastrophe for the nation collapse of irish banks could have a disastrous domino effect on weaker euro economies such as portugal and spain were threatening the single currency itself dublin repeatedly denied it was in serious trouble insisting it had enough cash until mid next year before sunday's u. turn and formal request for a quote don't came after intense e.u. pressure to take the load during euro zone stability worries of course resisted in ireland of fears of loss of economic sovereignty over economist ninety percent of most cars are said ireland faces a grim future and the e.u. and international monetary fund economic could fall. in love ireland's willing to give up or sovereignty ireland is going to become a debt slave unless ireland was at the fairest conducted by the i.m.f. and the i.m.f. everywhere they've gone they've what they've brought destruction and economic

mayhem the other licking their chops waiting to get in there to cause havoc pay them so. of huge fees give bonuses to their car journey of crony capitalists and terrorist bankers and ireland is quaking in its boots and the government unfortunately arliss not standing up for the people its abdicated its role as representative of the people the the i am now and the e.u. and the e.c.b. caused ireland's crisis so why are you going to them to ask you to solve the crisis they're the ones that caused the crisis i only needs to divorce itself from these financial terrorists and stand on its own two feet you're watching our t.v. from moscow it was sixty five years ago when the foundation of modern international law was laid with the trial of top nazis in nuremberg hoping to ensure that hitler's horror would never be forgotten but it seems that some in europe have forgotten with the rise in fascism highlighted by russia's foreign minister of the

opening of the museum to mark the nuremberg anniversary of his roof a national report. 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 more than twenty nazi leaders took place exactly sixty five years ago following in which they were found guilty russian foreign minister sergey lavrov has a cost first of all for size that was toric event a milestone event for the history of mankind as for the first time ever the actions by nazi dictatorship of work classified as crimes against humanity and crimes against peace of the world and their use is responsible for that scrutiny for this atrocities 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 died out a lot that the lessons of the nuremberg trials have been learned through the books and when you see. everyone learned the lessons of the nuremberg trials apparently not removeable because hell can with very explain the recent attempts to justify actions of nazis and their collaborators to make their crimes look like something you could just. understand the annual mulches of soldiers in some european capitals court trials against aunty no c. veterans and the introduction of the swastika into the cultural heritage of the baltic people who do you have the international community is to find new notes racial hatred is even through beer and extremism we go. to the demons of the post 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 the principles that principles all strong mutual respect it has established a. person some human rights movement naziism says the revival of nazi ideas in eastern europe is not only about people but also about decision makers too. there is a dangerous 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 that some soviet crimes were horrendous but they did not amount to genocide the two are not equal. 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. next tonight the plight of roma migrants also described as gypsies is again in the spotlight as they face persecution all across europe with france and other countries on the continent expelling thousands of them many

from bulgaria end up returning there without a job or a place to live. a bushel looks now at how they managed to survive in squalor facing a battle against inequality. seems like we could become common across europe the mayor of this town in southern belle geary and told r.t. he had to tear down this block of flats because the room residents who turned it into a slum. this pile of rubble is all that's left of the housing estate what all thirty of called a public health hazard in fifty with rats cockroaches and fleas thousands of roma home. some have moved to this wasteland no shelter health care or education for the children. well don't worry your 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.u.'s become with winter approaching they'll be

sleeping in the cold. first you politicians bury their heads in the sand only we can solve their own problems. france has sent tens of thousands of roma back to bulgaria sweden it's a lead their mark in germany had similar policies they use justice commissioner says it reminds her of world will 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 she gypsy groups the biggest problem with the jets is the crime already or like a civil war they are stealing or else. the life of the people campaign is one that most roma sent by france and other states can't integrate because there aren't enough jobs for them and paul gearing up with education opportunities limited music remains one of the few parts success.

a racy gypsy style of pop called child tops 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 the music in the nightclubs daniel schorr saffir. you're watching artie's news review of the week with me kevin now in thanks for being with us our programmes continue just ahead.