that's. international news and comment live from my headquarters here in central moscow this is r.t. good to have you with us this hour so the u.s. and remain you have signed a joint missile defense pact in washington the agreement authorizes the deployment of ballistic missile interceptors in romania and it's part of an american project to build a broader nato defense shield in europe and is going to has more from washington. what they've signed this part of america's revamped plan to build a missile shield in europe with elements of it deployed in different countries in eastern europe romania will host america's land base this time so we interceptors the shield will be unfolding fairly close to russian borders needless to say that's always been an irritant in the relations between washington and moscow the new u.s.

missile defense plan that we're talking about is a four stage plan that through the first two stages envisioned these salacious and three interceptors of lower capability and the last two of higher capability is the last to that especially by the russians the more advanced ones because russians have a different analysis of the weapons that the so-called rogue states happen what they don't have on moscow doesn't want the system to be eventually directed against russia the war of words on missile defense has been going on for quite some time with washington saying we need powerful missile interceptors against a possible attack from some dangerous state they usually maybe ran and were screened in moscow saying why would you need interceptors for weapons that those rogue states don't have but russia does russians have been quite persistent for years you know saying ok if it's not against us let's build a missile shield in europe together and the response they get is always a no a polite no but no they say yes we will cooperate but not on equal terms to that question and say then give us legally binding guarantees that the defense system

will not be used against us but these sites the surface the mere effectiveness of the shield is now in question last thursday for the first time the u.s. tested in advance this block one interceptor missile and it failed to hit a target by the way the federation of american scientists recently come up with a report that calls for a review of america's missile defense plan based on the inconsistences that they see between its goals and the report touched upon two very interesting points a the effectiveness of those interceptors is arguable from a scientific point of view and be that it could push the russians and possibly the chinese to try and restore some kind of balance by arming themselves more. going to church can talk individual learning from washington well for more on this let's talk to brian becker he's from the coalition he's also in washington brian good to see here on r t it now although president obama promised to review bush's anti missile defense plans for europe as much changed. not so much i think we

have to also help the general public understand what a missile defense shield really is it's not about defense against incoming missiles it's a first strike weapon it's designed to take out other people's missiles so that there will be no reciprocity if there is some sort of military conflict so a sense ronald reagan developed the missile defense shield concept in the mid one nine hundred eighty s. star wars as it was termed euphemistically at that time the soviets the then warsaw pact countries and everyone else understood that the united states was trying to do away with the old system of mutually assured destruction in the event of nuclear war and gain a kind of primary advantage by having a system that would catch some missiles which would allow the u.s. to carry out first strike weapon attacks so the russians the chinese the other major nuclear powers certainly understand what it is and of course north korea ron i think are simply just. brought out of course defensive systems could be used as

offensive systems and that's one of moscow's major concerns why is it that the u.s. is reluctant to give a legally binding guarantee that those missile defense systems will not be turning into offensive systems and targeting russia. right because it's part of a coordinated first strike weapon system when there was mutually assured destruction when both sides knew that they would be destroyed in the event of a thermo nuclear exchange or even a somewhat limited nuclear exchange that became a deterrent by setting up a missile defense shield the united states hopes that they will gain a military strategic military advantage over the russians and the chinese not right now for instance but in the in the period to come there's lots of areas of contention there's the south asian area there's the arctic there's central and eastern europe these are all points of potential conflict the u.s. won't give that guarantee because the u.s. indeed intends the us miss. defense shield is part of

a first great capability against russia and china in the future brought that to simply doesn't sit in the background of the resetting of relations and indeed the the last start treaty agreement of the reduction of nuclear weapons between the two countries surely all these tensions could be dispelled by simply compromising russia and america having a joint sure but you seem to think that in the moment that would not be in the u.s. interest. well i think it would be in the interest of the american people because the american people don't want nuclear war they don't want international tension when when the cold war ended when the warsaw pact was this banded one would rationally think that this would be a time of compromise of peace have an escalation of tension but instead i think the united states military not the people but the military saw this as an opportunity to gain unilateral power over the former soviet bloc countries and russia in particular and i think underlying their all of it is a basic strategic calculation that those who have the greatest number of weapons

and those who can do the most damage will ultimately be able to force their the others to accept the terms of whatever political contest is going on later in the future you could see all this is empty rhetoric because the u.s. has three interceptor has actually failed to hit its target on a recent test launch so and admittedly the u.s. can't even guarantee that they will work when needed so why deploy them in that case and why spend all that money on a system that they don't even know if it's going to work on alt. well i think there's two reasons one is that every weapon system even one that is failing now could be perfected later it could have greater efficacy later the second is the united states is using the terms of these agreements with romania and other eastern and central european countries as a way of integrating them into nato integrating them into what really is an american spirit influence so that they look at eastern and central europe in the post soviet era as an attempt to expand the american sphere of influence right up

to russia's borders incorporating the former soviet allies now as american allies that's the second part of this calculation and that's exactly what is going to ask you next obviously romania part of nato probably feels it's going to be obliged to take part in this plan but you talking about the other agenda do you think the remaining people really would want that and accept that this americanization and this american influence over the country well i think clearly not i mean romanian society like all societies is divided between classes and sectors and and regions so there is not necessarily a home of public opinion in romania but i think the romanian people want jobs they want to get out of poverty they want if there's integration into western economies it's for the purpose of trade not for the purpose of using romania as a as a pawn in somebody else's big geo strategic chessboard threaten its neighbors and i think the romanian people won't be happy with this and in fact become greater

victims of it because they are endangered they're being used manipulated treated as pawns as part of this bigger contest broad great to talk to as always thank you for joining us live from the answer coalition in washington. to libya now the transitional authority has given residents of the besieged gadhafi stronghold two days to evacuate or face a full scale attack that's as nato airstrikes help the rebels to secure a key oil town in the east the leader of the m.t.c. in his first speech since a kind of was asked to urge libyans to strive for a civil democratic state based on moderate islam while amnesty international has called on the country's new leaders to prevent human rights abuses accusing both sides of the conflict the violence concern grows over the humanitarian situation in libya it's seen over two thousand six hundred killed since the uprising began parties where if an ocean has been talking to the people of tripoli about the outcome of their own revolution.

the docu free tripoli just can't stop chanting to celebrate the birth of the uli. all remind us of a recently overthrown dictatorship are suppressed what used to bring nightmares to some for decades is now a cause for laughter. shoshu for his curly hair we call him because his hair is so long and he doesn't cut it it's ugly actually but some are not smiling believe in the post gadhafi freedom is nothing but the mirror as a crime has been the rest of three times in the last two weeks rebels interrogated him and took his documents the reason the twenty seven year old copilot says is his family's ties with gadhafi his regime we cover his face and change his name in supposedly free libya this man is afraid of being thrown to jail again or even killed you can see a bad words about gadhafi what you can say about

a bad war is about to. be like of what they are talking about democracy this is not democracy a crime says libya didn't get rid of a dictatorship but only fell into another one of the. levels weapons in a city where the gun has become a common accessory just like a cell phone and where one can only cross the town's numerous checkpoints with an obligatory a large bar to the winners this is a reality not hard to believe. know everybody we are happy we are freedom good that feels good run away this is not true believe me because they are free to all have a good laugh or turn back to tripoli you see the same people same people same personality they are supporting a revolution can bring much hope that what comes after us is often different. those who drove egypt's revolt this year were still on the streets this weekend

seven months after toppling president mubarak angry at the light of progress on reforms libya's future two is still far from clear the post gadhafi libyan capital has been the scene of euphoria with celebrate three gunfire and singing heard here around the clock for more than a fortnight already like all parties however some believe they could be serious hangover after wards in the form of retribution and uncertainty as to how the future country will be governed really national r.t. tripoli libya. the latest on the developing story in afghanistan now where at least nine people have been killed and twenty three wounded in an ongoing taliban attack in the government district that's according to reports coming out of the capital the american embassy and nato led coalition headquarters in kabul have come under heavy fire several other sites in the city were also attacked including police posts and the office of iran's press t.v. news channel insurgent stormed an occupied an empty high rise building from there

firing guns and rocket propelled grenades afghan and nato forces have surrounded the block and several insurgents are reported killed at least one remains inside the building it comes just weeks after twelve people died in an attack on the british counsel's office in the same district let's cross live now to neighboring pakistan and get more on this story from local loveliest. very much indeed for joining us live there yet another deadly attack on what's supposed to be the most fortified part of afghanistan the taliban still showing considerable staying power despite the ten year long nature walk in patients how it managed to do that. i tell you as soon as this attack began and even before it ended the first thing that was on our minds here is that this is a devastating blow to the morale of the u.s. military in afghanistan i was really thinking about the u.s. soldiers on the ground there and this is

a huge blow i mean you just marked the tenth anniversary of nine eleven some of them a lot and has been eliminated in may and now you have this another reminder of the fact that despite ten years despite all the military might that have been used in a bunch of is as a matter of fact not fully under the control of the united states and its allies in kabul whether the allies during government or those who send forces to have honest so this is a tremendous blow and the reason i mention this in an underlining it is that we have stories about desertions and you don't seem to support is being covered in mainstream us media but a smaller newspapers in towns in the states where soldiers come from cover stories about soldiers who are really demoralized and we have a very famous story of a u.s. soldier who actually ran away from his camp in afghanistan and joined the enemy by then of course the pentagon later on spin the story as

a case of upon taliban really kidnapping a u.s. soldier and just really just year that particular soldier was actually promoted so as not to actually acknowledge that he deserted so you have a really terrible situation there tenth anniversary of nine eleven and you have an attack and even the u.s. embassy and nato headquarters are not safe. and now you all talking about this attack in the heart of kabul bringing pictures all of the situation there at the moment what does that tell us about the rest of the country the state of security if they can't keep secure one of the most prestigious and of course supposedly the strength safest part of afghanistan what does it tell us about the security for the rest. let's be very blunt i mean this is no longer about just. color bonnell just groups of terrorists doing tremendous support from people on the ground to these kind of attacks i mean this particular attack for example would not have been possible without people in the neighborhood people who have. these

attackers the terrorists to carry out this attack and this would not have been possible and of course you have the attack on the british council and many more before that so obviously it is not a stable and i think we are we will see more and more of these attacks. as more and more u.s. troops actually be brought down and this is a very devastating situation really for the government but also for the neighbors and on all of them because this would have a very bad impact on all of us and i'm surprised that the world celebrated in march actually eleven with. respect to do all the people who died the ten years ago and after that during the two wars in iraq and afghanistan but nobody actually. talked about the fact about accountability what the united states has been doing in afghanistan. ok let me just. quickly then you're talking

about accountability of what they've been doing but what should they be doing now in the future what with over one hundred thousand foreign troops not at the moment you talked a little earlier about yes the plans to withdraw those troops but surely this is a message from the taliban saying you can't hand over power to the afghan forces they won't be able to cope. with what you've got that is this is a message against that transition and to challenge the security forces and that should say you just will never be able to leave this country. i think they're just i think the resistance fighters in groups already know that the american forces are really on the defeat and i don't think they're really sending a particular message right now they're just continuing their attacks whatever they've been doing over the past two years and i think the americans have really blew it and i i i'm really one of those people who believe that the americans committed a huge blunder by isolating and sidelining of blame the americans what about let me

quickly also you want about the kabul government is a failing of the government there at the moment what's happening it is obviously i mean you have a huge segment of the population almost fifty percent of gun and you've just pushed into the wall and now you're pushing every individual every one of them frankly who cooperate with the people who are mounting these attacks so how can you really stop these attacks if you if you have a huge segment of your population really sightline isolated and actually punished or of the past eight nine years ten years you know ok we'll have to leave it there thanks very much indeed for joining us live from islamabad. thank you very much. tel aviv will continue to abide by its peace treaty with egypt despite the attack on its embassy in cairo that's according to israel's prime minister he spoke funding the assault in which three people died in clashes with security forces on friday thank you crowd stormed the compound in response to five to ten officers

being killed by israeli troops who want to question last month meanwhile the turkish prime minister who's on a three day visit to how he warns is relative facing growing its regional isolation turkish research fellow tashi told me he says the two countries want to pressure tel aviv into abiding by international rule. turkey and egypt is in the process of creating mutual understanding on regional issues and israel for sure is one part of these mutual understanding what they want to do is just to drag israel into international or in this school of the international law and the problem with the is rather government is they don't abide with international laws and they interpret interpret international law just for their sake for their interests that is the point and both countries at this moment want the once the israeli government to revise their policies we are not in the process of delay due to my zing israel

instead we are in the process of finding vase for israel to push israel back to the international community. germany has called on your resume members to stick together in an attempt to settle nerves over the potential greek default a chance and this is the greece mistake aboard the block to avoid causing a domino effect that statement came fears of greece declaring bankruptcy caused sharp for the global markets on monday it was triggered by reports that germany was preparing for greece to leave the euro zone things has been struggling to bring its debt crisis under control despite stringent storage images journalist says there is no easy way. and there are different ways that. the european central bank and the e.u. could go about dealing with a default in greece or an exit of greece portugal or some of the peripheral countries they could break the euro into two different types of euro and put the fact that no one is willing to talk about that option openly and kind of admit that

that's where we are with an unsustainable debt like greece has and now the fact that you have a country the size of italy which is no longer really able to access the markets the way that they're accessing that for the markets but the e.c.b. is in their buying italian spanish debt so the fact that you have these countries on able to issue debt paper on their own is frightening for the european union for the eurozone there is no real exit mechanism from the euro if you're part of the you you're part of it supposedly for life ok and it's so we saw how chaotic it was when argentina. default on its debt and exited the dollar peg in the case of greece it's not even a peg they've given up their currency their french banks that are that are potentially on the hook with a lot of greek debt now who's exposed to those french banks that has exposed the banks that it was the french banks a lot of the banks prefer an environment like they've had now which is we can lever up as much as we want doesn't matter and if we lose we just get bailed out there they have structurally adjusted their business model and their profit making

mechanism to this new environment which has been perpetual bailouts that we've seen since one nine hundred eighty. in the meantime italy burdened by own debt crisis has turned to china for a possible rescue top level talks were held with beijing after italy moved closer to the epicenter of europe's financial turmoil rome's treasury refused to give out details but it's understood that china was offered an option to buy a stake in the italian sovereign debt the government is pushing a fifty four billion euro austerity package that includes changes to pensions government spending cuts and the special levy on the rich lower house of parliament is expected to approve it by wednesday. thousands of people gathered and yet a slow of all to say a final goodbye to the ice hockey player alexander the gleam of he died in hospital five days after the plane crash that killed almost the whole team last week the twenty six year old suffered severe burns to his body and spirit retract family friends and fans gathered at the team's home stadium. to lay flowers and pay their

last respects a plane carrying ice hockey team crashed in central russia killing forty four one of the crew members from the plane is now the disasters and the survivor. let's take a quick look at some of the other news from around the world before we join the business news government bush the school bus in the pakistani city of peshawar killing four children and the driver the bus was taken on to fourteen year old students home when the gunman struck. no claims responsibility for the attack so far northwestern pakistan is torn between government supported tribal armies and islamist militants with links to al qaeda who carried out hundreds of tax against civilians in recent days. or so on our world update this hour two passenger trains and a bus collided in the argentinian city. killing nine and wounding two hundred twelve some of them critically the crash took place during rush hour when a passenger bus drove around crossing barriers in an attempt to save time and was

hit by a train throwing it onto a platform express then derailed and hit another that was going the other way. sex abuse victims of sybaritic claims to the international criminal court calling for pope benedict the sixteenth cardinals to be investigated for possible crimes against humanity that even officials are being accused of negligence in supervising priests and turning a blind eye to sexual crimes against children thousands of individual cases abroad each year but the court has never before opened a single formal investigation into the catholic church. a roundup of the day's top stories coming up in a few moments with me but first we turn as i promised to the business desk and then we find the marina. hello and welcome to business here on artsy the clouds of uncertainty continued to

pile up in europe rising expectations of a greek default and a possible downgrade of french banks are causing the financial barometer to drop sharply and russia is not immune of the ruble now trading at an eight month low however jacob knell for morgan stanley here in russia believes there are reasons not to be too pessimistic. if you look at what's happening to reserves which is the kind of results of the entire set of. transactions between russia and the rest of the world every week we've been seeing an increase in into the school reserves and if you think about oil exports at these prices and what's happened if we take sports i think you'll fall into the current to kill continues to be very strong and will show up on the capital carol it's a little bit less predictable but i think with the uncertainty around the election it may have been an increase in capital outflows though not to the level that we saw earlier this year so actually we expect the ruble to strengthen the case and

from current levels going forward. let's take a look at the markets now we'll start with oil prices they're all higher this hour following rebounds in the euro and then stock markets the international energy agency cut its estimate for demand growth and some of its supply expectations. in the u.s. markets are trading in positive territory the dow is up twelve percent while the nasdaq is adding over one percent this hour. and then europe investors are concerned by the weakness on the global economy markets there closed imports of the territory with banks among that small performers that was following heavy losses in the previous session. there are also markets bounce back from earlier losses and then the the trade in session end up black as well both the arts yes and the my sex added point of three percent let's take a look at some x. movers on the my socks most energy majors were down despite strong crude and bucking the trend was norsk nickel the company's board has approved the terms of

a new share buyback it's right it's twelve point five billion dollars to buy a seven point seven percent stake for minority shareholders also oversell says it's ready to discuss the sale of its twenty five percent stake in the arsenical at the price as rights. well a giant gas from nafta is repairing a deal which could lessen fears that russia will be locked out of libya in the revolution gas from sources say the company will proceed with its plans to develop an oil rich field called elephants last year agreed to by one third of the project from its lease any for one hundred sixty three million dollars there had been concerns freshens firms could suffer from moscow's slovik the mission of the rebel governments in libya. and time now for an artsy business exclusive the c.e.o. of renault nissan carlos golson says the company a will soon take a majority stake in aft of us it currently owns twenty five percent of russia's top

carmaker and negotiations to buy more are progressing well. there is the money we should hopefully not be very far from a conclusion i would say it's a question of one thing i can tell you are also that russia will become the largest market in europe first saw in consequence one of the largest producers we're seeing capacity in russia being big everywhere through rehabilitation of existing capacity like a. plant so i think the future of the car industry in russia is very strong and practically all governments which are already a rush on that will be investing in russia and the demand in russia is picking up through the government of the economy so i'm very bullish on the russian market. but all of us is fun though the headlines are not.

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on our. ten thirty tuesday night here in moscow good to have you with us top stories now the u.s. and romania signed a strategic defense pact that will now formally authorize the deployment of ballistic missile interceptors in romania renews its demands for legal guarantees of the nato system will not be aimed at russia. germany attempts to calm fears over greece's potential default by urging members of the eurozone to stick together that stormy skies are looming over europe. for help. libyan transitional forces have given residents of the. strongholds two days to leave or face. the international court.