to veto the idea after a private dialogue with the u.s. representative to nato rasmussen took all mention of the two organizations growing closer out of his address to the alliance in two thousand and nine but why would the u.s. try to pressure its allies. as one of nato is key players the u.s. tries to prevent the alliance from growing too close to the russia in the former soviet bloc because the region is of strategic interest to america they of course would prefer to build exclusive bilateral relationships strong ties between two military organizations such as nato in the c.s. that is not in u.s. interests. this is an odds with the image of the alliance tries to project a strong union where every opinion matters even the people in the street understand that washington is calling the shots so. left right left right yeah so this is this is what is happening and in reality that is what people

know the documents published so far haven't exactly uncovered anything groundbreaking but if every member a nato is supposedly equal it has raised questions over whether the u.s. will really trust the alliance our gas reserves are about r t. well let's discuss the story with william spring from canaanites a u.k. foreign policy monitoring group joining us now in london now if these allegations are true does it surprise you that the u.s. is snooping on nato's top official. well nothing surprises you about the nato arrangements all these cables actually show is what we've known all along that nato is a group dominated by the united states of america that in fact it's not an alliance of tall in the sense of being sovereign states. it's a bogus alliance and. the united states works under various

aliases nato is one of them i suffer in afghanistan is another but all the time what the reality is of overwhelming american military power used on usually just totally defenseless places such as grenada it's a long time since the united states attacked a country that was capable of defending itself i heard someone say the other night at a meeting at the l.s.a. and what they've done is they've dragged people in europe into their alliance now regionally the alliance was a defensive alliance it started out in nineteen forty nine i think largely in response to the coup in checks of a vacuum or people were very worried about the red army just sort of appearing in the borders of the pyrenees you know there were russians with snow on their boots supposedly going to arrive in somewhere like hole and that was why the alliance was

established but it was a defensive alliance it was not intended as an offensive alliance now this general rasmussen or whoever it is he has a seen the invalidity of the current strategic concept of nato and he is endeavoring you know it's the only way to make build bridges with a country with russia but he's being regarded by him. clinton i think some from these cables anyway so it appears some sort of pale pink lefty and hillary clinton seems desperate to stop. anders rasmussen making any positive outreach to russia but why they realize that that's what a lot of supposedly yes relations are meant to be better between moscow and washington now it seems that if they're spying via nato on what moscow is up to it

means that they don't trust what's going on in russia. so what that's all it was they don't trust this resetting relations doesn't make sense as it. were they don't trust what's going on in nato headquarters i mean this this particular spot i think that's a better word than mole who was spying for the united states while he was also in an official position with the general. secretary general rasmussen really and cripple into a sort of deep cover agent such as philby in the one nine hundred thirty s. who wind his way into the british establishment and spied for the soviet union now this man this particular man whose name i think is jeff ruff kay hey she would be sacked and what we want is america to reestablish this alliance as a proper alliance not as just simply were crude oil is an alliance can i just

quickly ask you go here we have recent cooperation between russia and nato over afghanistan do you not feel though that no matter what washington says we are going to see an improvement in relations and cooperation between the two. i think we need improvement in cooperation because world peace is at stake i mean one of the statements in the dispatches apparently is that rasmussen thought that it wasn't in russia's interest for nato to exist when in fact i don't think it's in anybody's interest for nato to exist why do we have finished troops in afghanistan being shot friends should be in finland why are there new zealand troops there why are there british troops there it's all along so therefore you should get out of it so what do you replace nato with obviously russia's been calling for a complete new european security architecture something that involves russia what sort of alliance could you see replacing the nato well i believe russia has made

a proposal upon which any new security agreement is based on respect for sovereign states refusal to accept military interventions unless they are authorized by the united nations now this image of a positive way forward there should nato should not be involved in place making making at all peacekeeping it should be the united nations who are doing it and they you know you know the security council should be agreed on whatever they do. while it's interesting to hear what you have to say william spring good to have you as always on r.t. from the cain u.k. foreign policy monitoring group in london thanks indeed for joining us. shock waves from upheavals in tunisia and egypt spread all across the middle east with opposition protests sweeping through other countries in the region clashes between rival demonstrators are once again gripped yemen in what's now the eighth day of unrest and to govern activists to be using social networks to call for as

many people as possible to hit the streets on friday but the model the country's president ali abdullah saleh to step down after more than thirty years in power clashes also erupted in jordan's capital amman where government demonstrators are calling for reforms and abolishing the peace treaty with israel protests turned violent in libya where dozens of people have been killed in recent days in clashes with security forces police reports have used to disperse the crowds we want to meet your people once again gathered in tahrir square to celebrate a week since hosni mubarak huge pressure on him to quit the presidency the military council which runs the country suspended the constitution and dissolved both houses of parliament middle east specialist james denselow from king's college in london told me there are no significant changes in egypt so far because associates are still in power. which is interesting to see today crowd celebrating the successful ousting of mubarak yet this hasn't really been a revolution in a traditional sense mubarak's power structures his cronies are still really in the

similar places as they were before this wall the battle to our has been won the war over the future of egypt is really yet to be fought and we see what happens next in terms of real constitutional changes changes to the state of emergency whether political parties can rise out of the ashes of mubarak's terrorism the genie has well and truly been left out of the bottle and the reverberations from what happened in tunisia and now are being felt in every single state and i think that you know as the persian tales go if there were to be three wishes from the genie out of the bottle the governments would wish that the populations would accept the compromises they've made the population seem to wish that their leadership disappeared and the international community seems to be busy wishing that it knew which side of the fence to sit on. james denselow there in soldiers in bahrain had far to gases thousands of protesters evaded the government ban in the capital of manama at least twenty people have been reported injured in this comes a day after at least five were killed in demonstrations against the current regime

police in the gulf state reportedly use supplies made by british companies to clear the protests human rights watch dogs are calling for an embargo on arms supplies and disclosure of what export licenses were issued to be placed from the campaign against the arms trade told me a little earlier on r.t. that britain should reconsider its trade policies. we can see across the middle east that the government is selling to repressive regimes all over that this could happen at any point in and we've got to be aware that when we sell you both non-lethal and lethal equipment those will be used and. generally at some point that would be used on someone innocent the u.k. government needs to seriously reconsider how approaches arm sales in the first place not only have these arms being licensed to be so good overseas and the case of bahrain. they are actively promote. the u.k. government and actively promotes arms sales to

a number of repressive regimes this very weekend the u.k. government is sending representatives out to the large arms fair in abu dhabi it's called i debts. which the arms industry trade body in the u.k. claims ten percent of its executives will be british at this spare and the u.k. actively encourages these companies to sell including the very equipment that is being used to protesters in the middle east the u.k. to seriously look at not just where the selling to a specific country is and which i is a good idea but whether but how it should be selling arms and if it should be selling arms at all. is the these weapons are widely misused and the u.k. is a arms export criteria which look good on paper very rarely applied with any record . and as those tensions rage across the middle east debate is heating up over which country is going to be next and having its leader toppled later this hour in cross talk peter lavelle aussie's guess if iran is likely to follow the example set in

tunisia and egypt or whether that would just be wishful thinking from western governments. but the risks facing iran as we talk about massive changes going on in the arab world part of the problem is that no one knows the extent of the opposition because most of the logs go off as leaders were forced on the ground after the after the demonstrations in june two thousand and one after the election so the true it true love of discontent with the government remains very very hard to quantify actually so no one's really said on this program it i'll ask you the question this point blank as i always do are people tired of having the islamic republic of iran but i didn't vote for mr imagination and i've said this on numerous occasions there's there's it's clear but there's no doubt that he is highly popular throughout the country every province that he goes to is like a rock star you have tens if not hundreds of thousands of people who surround his but it's easy is really his we're also pro regime demonstrations it's very easy for

them to do and that's not true if that was true then they gyptian regime could have done that now it's it's obvious that it's that's not the case i. want. to us journals from the mullahs five hundred program have carried out their second walk in a virtual surface of the red planet is part of a unique project that simulates an eighteen month mission going to shell from the european space agency explained the meaning of the imitation. so we have to assume no it's this is oleksandr from russia and from china doing their second work and you see a simulated martian surface which is no more than forty square meters and what we see the two were in the in their space suits which are pretty so close to what we

would expect for real martian martian mission and what the two are doing is also what we would expect first humans doing on mars namely collecting soil samples and preparing them to bring the symbols back home we have the cord which of course would not be there or on the real mars and that core supplies to the to us to know it's. with electricity and also with air and of course in a real martian mars mission that all would be in the big take to us the notes carry on they are on their back they are doing very well so. everybody was really surprised that everything is going so bell everything one of the reasons for that is that they have this really very interesting goal of simulating the first walk on the mars and also if you would expect a real mission on mars we could expect that after ten or fifteen minutes astronauts

would they would have to take a small break the. major point here is that they are really of everybody of them is really focused on their task and that's that's the main reason why this is so so real and so close to reality you always have to do a first step and this is a very good first step because it is very clear that. the mission the main mission to mars would be international and it's a very good simulation it's also an international simulation if you participation in chinese participation. and. if you look at the future you know that we are right now in the process of process of extending the international space station for another ten years and then afterwards we would do maybe the next steps but this is right now still in discussion which would be the exactly the next steps for human spaceflight there is a crew of six and it's of course really

a russian project with international participation. and europe has quite good relations with the in situ for biomedical problems and that might be the reason why we are involved but there's no particular exclusion of anybody from the project and in fact nasir is participating scientifically but not for their own astronauts. and you can follow the whole mission to mars on our website that's at r.t. dot com and by the way if you're a cosmic british cartoonist may have something for you the store the first manned space you think of gallons trip gets retold once again in a comic adventure book based on the true story. also a lot of the moment a glimpse of the personal and professional life of a man who changed the world noble prize when i think first and only president of the us a hell gorbachev.

japan's chief cabinet secretary yukio edano is going to view russia's less secure alliance from an airplane it comes off the recent visits by russian officials to the archipelago which tokyo claims earlier russia said that it would not tolerate japan's radical approach towards the territories and announce reequipping military garrisons the islands in the pacific ocean were handed to russia as part of agreements at the end of the second mobile however it seems that other parties are interfering in the dispute with washington once again underlining its position over the less secure chain saying the territory belongs to japan so he struck out from russia's comments sent newspaper says the u.s. is pushing russia to review history. again comes as a double surprise because of the let me remind you of the. san francisco agreement

of one hundred fifty who gave up all the claims for korea why on earth and in addition to that as you knew united states were our airlie in the second world war so now there's an attempt to reconsider the results of the second world war on the part of our early at least gently pushing us where. and the olympic venue in the russian city of sochi has been checked by the country's top officials in an atmosphere of sun skis and hard rock but. russia's president and prime minister paid a visit to the european ski car being held this week and the two were satisfied with the track and the soundtrack for the event featuring hard rock clash and individual a village favorite the purple her decide to sell to check out the slope that will see him pick competitions in full swing in three years time to. time not to update you on some other headlines from around the world this is the u.s. sixty of state hillary clinton has harshly criticized the taliban and given it

a stark choice in a speech in new york she wore the afghan militant group has to either give up arms and abide by their country's constitution or face the consequences of being america's enemy it comes as washington tries to secure the support of afghanistan's people to split the taliban up from al qaeda the international terror network it's been siding with. japan has halted the whale hunting season following continued pressure by an anti whaling group before ship fleet was to kill almost a thousand whales this winter but is said to have returned to shore and to the say they will continue their protest commercial whaling has been banned for almost two decades but for the purposes of scientific research. israelis and palestinians have been long time enemies but from others who are desperate to save their sick children the conflict takes a back seat and israeli clinic is saving fell's of youngsters lives from many neighboring countries even those israel has had tense relations with ati's policy

has more on the story. every our way is touch and go for fourteen month old don't know who's little heart was born with a hole in it the operation in this hospital my son would have died and in the next ward fourteen year old one young girl who was almost dead when she was wheeled in one. five iraqi children flown from baghdad to a month and then driven across the border to jerusalem she was on was that she was so sick that she could not walk very talk she was very these parents face the most difficult decision of their lives bring their children to israel a country at war with this and risk punishment and even death back home or prepare for the alternative possibly losing their child initially it was a very difficult for them because it was their enemy the parents were very anxious they didn't know what to expect i was very scared to come to israel very frightened . and she had good reason to be her country rock forbids its citizens from

traveling to israel just fire them there is there might be a layover in another country like you know for instance from africa they come in there because it's the only place in africa that was. before the israeli doctors that treat these arab children the decision is simple doing what they think is right to do. in the last fifteen years more than two and a half thousand two hundred have been brought here on third and created half of them come from gaza the rest come from iraq indonesia and across africa the main goal of this organization is to help developing countries create the medical ability to treat children with heart problems by themselves in order to achieve that we bring children from these developing countries to israel we also bring doctors from these developing countries for training here in israel and it's a vision that's paying off not only is so easy you turn to be grateful to the

israeli doctors that saved her daughter's life she's now brave enough to tell her neighbors back home. what i will tell everyone we were in israel and how these saved my daughter's life i'm no longer afraid to say it because my daughter is alive and so while the politicians continue to have a go it's. each other and israel and her arab neighbors were further apart on the ground at least in this spot a very different story is unfolding policy r.t. . i'll be back with a summary of our main news stories in about eight minutes from now in the meantime the business news is next with dmitri stay with us live here in moscow. friday night half past eleven but we're still alive to bring you the latest business news from moscow the russian finance minister the inflow of foreign direct investment into russia dropped by a third last year to reach thirteen billion dollars earlier couldn't say so that

the growth of investment is white or will be aimed at annual g.d.p. growth of more than four percent of chris we've achieved charges that were also says of the same time russia remains very interesting for portfolio investors we're seeing stock market flows coming in and we get this data on a weekly basis from from an agency in the u.s. and that does show that this year in full you investors prefer russia to the other big emerging market fund so for example the last four or five weeks there has been net outflows of money from countries like brazil china and india where as russia funds have attracted money support for universities are betting that things are going to change and that is a hopeful lead indicator but we still need to see a pickup in foreign direct investment and frankly we really don't expect to see that at laughter the election i think the second half two thousand and twelve is a more realistic target in two thousand and eleven and maybe doubt and two thousand and thirteen. and take a look at the stock markets in the u.s.

they mixed with the dow up point three percent the nasdaq down point one but that was poised for a third week of gains in a row caterpillars up one point nine percent boeing as one point four percent higher. in the season ended friday's session down point one seven percent at the close with the shares the biggest drag but overall the week has been positive with the aussie is gaining one point two percent of my six point eight percent norris nickel was one of the biggest losers on friday down one point eight percent a massive losing streak for that stock rose hydro was down two point three percent on news of planned measures to slow the pace of the rate increases and lukoil ended in positive territory on the news of proposed changes in the way the russian oil industry is taxed and mulgrew been staying at sea metropole believes investors are taking advantage of the good start of the year. we are seeing our flat markets today and this is the trend for the whole week. no watch more minutes market

is i think in a sort of a consolidation stage where it is looking for a new driver to grow it continued to believe there were in the bull markets but which agency reports here because number one we had a nice run since the beginning of the year now but to their reporting where u.s. companies are behind us with strong reporting but anyway that's already priced in most of it number three the marker data that we're getting proving the point that years economies are accelerating global economies are accelerating but at this point and this is being taking already as a given in many ways finally the annual russian business week has just ended in london address the most pressing issues facing russia and the world of correspondent lower end it has the details from london. russian business week's become an annual event here at the london school of economics a forum for russian and international business people to discuss the most pressing

issues facing russia's investment climate this year the hot topics were the pros and cons of investing in russia and the development of moscow at the global financial center the feeling at the forum was that most go isn't just aiming to be a global financial powerhouse but actively needs to become one they can serve all the surrounding countries mineral rich nations like kazakhstan and she prayed with markets run in rubles rather than having to borrow expensive foreign currency is to create its own commodity exchange without having to go through london's banks the gap between perception and reality had a big part to play in the discussion of the investment climate as a whole with speakers saying it's entirely possible to do business cleanly in russia providing as in any country you are careful and fully aware of who you are dealing with similar programs exist in russia as in other emerging markets for example tenets of accounting standards and different that is they said the market participants are positive and the sectors most attractive for foreign investment

according to participants retail insurance and infrastructure. are the i am all for headlines are next on c with bill. one. if. motion would be soon which brightened

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eleven thirty pm this friday night this is our live here in moscow top stories now . america has been spying on nato officials to prevent closer ties with russia. the red planet the crew of a unique position. and a simulation it's hope to bring the real thing a step closer. to the conflict to save lives and taking in children with heart conditions and countries disregarding tense relations between states. in less than half an hour from now in the meantime as

public anger grows in the muslim world. whether iran's political establishment is next to be toppled that's in our program and that's next. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from the realms of. the future covered. and. welcome to cross talk time peter lavelle as protest in people's power rage across the middle east there are those who say iran's political establishment is next in line to be top.