this is r.t. moscow and breaking news we show you know the face of a fall and dictated this confirmed photo must stress that was released amid claims by libyan officials that colonel gadhafi has died from his injuries after being shot by government troops during his capture earlier today he was comes from the city of sirte which has reportedly been freed from gadhafi loyalists after two months of fighting we're still waiting for independent confirmation of the colonel's death he ruled libya for nearly forty two years before being ousted by revolutionary forces assisted by nato air strikes this august. other top stories today peace breakers nato forces clash with serbs in northern kosovo for control over a disputed border area which the serbs consider their territory it's the latest outbreak of violence in the region with international peacekeepers once again supporting the course of one side of the conflict. protests on the streets of greece to violent

paralyzing the country for the second day in its biggest general strike in years the parliament to devote more punitive cuts to service its record. with america playing to point its stake defenses near russia moscow's a little choice but to people with their own protection spotlight now asks if this is driving a transatlantic wedge or an r.t. . hello again the welcome to spotlight on the hearty. play my guest constantine plus the trucks moscow is trying to think it's more true muscle along the european border and has deployed the new missiles outside st petersburg experts see it as russia's move to neutralize the european anti-missile defense system

which is being created by nato and unwashed doesn't mean the stand off between nato and moscow will not turn into fruitful cooperation chairman of the state duma foreign affairs committee and the russian delegation to the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe constitute. the european missile defense system is designed to protect major members from possible aggression from third parties namely iran also considers it a threat to its own security as the launchers will be located in eastern europe. and their ballistic missile is seen as one of the countermeasures tomato plants the launchers are mobile which makes it very difficult to tie that into sap prevent the missiles from north. it's a conservative welcome to the show thank you very much it's a pleasure to have you here in my own as well as first of all about these can do

missiles in italy back in about there were people can call the the new arms race the starting between maybe starting between the east and west irritated by the u.s. anti missile defense plans russia has promised a cheap and efficient response well first of all are these is can there is really as cheap as they seem and there is at the end. of the reset the end of the sentence where we think is comparable and. missiles are definitely not cheap but they are much cheaper than the missile systems we showed it to be deployed in europe by the united states and very probably by by nato russel's who budget is smaller lived in order to smaller but it is increasing by the way but in any case what can you just me much in these comments is the people immediately storage to discuss what russia is planing to do not to do while the american plans or for

deploying these systems are not being discussed they're actively there frequently i would like to to recall the recent actions of russia by recent i mean the new directions by russia during the last two decades the russian start when we hear it as an independent state was to decrease the so to see the military presence of russia so yes the russian military presence in europe by forty percent and most of russian we will nuclear equipment and the armaments were moved out of europe. before east or to russia which was never responded by adequately and by a plane it later on the. proposed to keep your life the anti missile treaty between the former soviet union and the united states we were refused later on we

hear head in agreement with native there. none of efficient new efficient military . resources would be deployed in new member states of nato then it was later on ignored by nato when poland joined nato when the baltics need to join nato when the remaining joint nato and some of the planters so we moved out of europe we moved out of the former soviet republics most of russian military bases while the united states continued to deploy new military bases in certain is to appear in countries and last but not least the current project of and to missile systems which is to be respond responded somehow there i do not think there is can there ease the response this is the the as usual military planning course russia may believe because we are outside of nato we're outside of the strongest military alliance in the

history of mankind which is very close to the russian world this and to expect from russia that these expansion of nato this military planning of nato will be a left result area response any military response would have been absolutely made you mentioned the increasing russia's military budget while this was one of the reasons why for the finance minister couldn't resign he said that he said that the military budget was too high well you and me we both remember the arms race during the early term we all remember that it started very joyfully like like like a response to america's response to natal a very patriotic only but then suddenly we found ourselves it isn't racial when we were when we were really worried about our own fuel. children's future do you see signs of a new arms race going on and. does it worry you with gloria. number one mr

couldn't couldn't give not resign he was fired by the president of russia and number two the reason was that the decision to increase the military budget of russia was a joint decision by the government of russia mr putin included supported later on by the president of russia the basic idea of this decision is not to store it and you are answering the basic idea is to. enforce the russian military sector and to to missed more money in the military industry of russia. there and in the scientific sector of the russian economy to support officers who serve in the army to support a military puncture mirasol this is a very complex program and it is not meant to include door to door to respond to

the project or any other projects of or for for our partners or opponents in the military a area and pay believe that the final increase as you remember we are going to spend the entire trillions of rubble securing the coming ten years the final result of it will be in any case much much lower then the current expenditure on military purposes by nato countries ok well we were. maybe we will have time to talk a bit further about and time missile and space defense and even about the russian plans to shoot down asteroids but this is if we if we have time this problem let's move on because i got a number of question why not clear where the other subject is the relations with where were the ukraine where are. viewers have of course heard about the trial of.

the machine for the for the former prime minister of ukraine well during the recent meeting between unocal beach and them live the russian president said that possibly he knew those contracts would be signed with the ukraine he well he didn't rule out the possibility though before over the last couple of years russian the russians said no no new contract we have this conflict and we have to stick to it has something changed in this respect the answer is no nothing has changed the position of the russian president until now him for now is absolutely clear the country speech have been signed or to be fulfilled in your. country in peace the two parts the two commercial partners really agree on anything could be ok we have no problems with that but for then we need to have further agreements and as far as i know because russia and ukraine are not just two

neighbors the or two partners in terms of energy security interests in terms of gas deliveries i do believe that both russia and ukraine are equally interested in having working moochers mutually. efficient qantas and their area so this is why i believe that both russia and ukraine are equally motivated to reach a new agreement and to have a functioning system of these agreements so i believe that the new contract is absolutely possible and they hope that it will be the new agreement will take place in the nearest future because nobody is interested in seeing in watching how this conflict is exaggerating so so it's not about the relations between these two guys between medvedev and you know courage but it's about the. the business relations between gas problem and that's opposite number in the ukraine so what kind of concessions could convince gas prom to lower prices for example for me the major

concession is it world of the price or on guess transit or interested in the territory of ukraine and neither the northern stream nor the southern stream change these situation dramatically will do we'll continue to use the territorial ukraine as a transit territory as long as we have a good contract so he's ukraine and this is a big amount of money for for gas problem and it is very much interrelated so i believe that in case you crane is related to move then russia would suit should be related to women not in a position to take any or any any any negotiating position and in this situation got what i believe their what is important is that both russia and ukraine or eager to have countless reach are functional not and we are mutually

beneficial to the cost of the press likes you because you are always ready to take responsibility for at least the foreign steps of the russian government will listen i russia has considered the trial against a mission to be to be politically motivated and anti russian this was the first full position of the foreign ministry now the european union is suspended in meeting with him cornish and moscow is holding a meeting with the income which is not a contradiction. no. it is not a contradiction because number one they may behave you immediately are happy with the current court decision of the current trial on my dumb things about here to respect the independence of the ukrainian juridical system we have to accept that we may have certain opinions on that but we cannot interfere. and to my mind the pressure which is now being said on ukraine on the korean leadership by their

opinion you know is he is too much he is too much in it it cannot be accepted because i believe that very much of the pressure is motivated by certain sympathy just a certain political force be it within the european union i mean the european people started. and her party is a member or a seat of member they initiate the support coming from european union and i don't i don't i don't like it at all either to oversee ukraine or towards russia or towards any other independent country at least which is outside of that opinion it will stick to the something continue right after great concert in concert you're talking to spawn pride will be back in america sells will stay with the. plain. old. dreams you the

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on foreign affairs and also the head of the russian delegation and the problem it recently at the council of europe is the question we started talking about about ukraine's relations with the worst we were with you well the trial the trial against. the former ukrainian prime minister certainly hampers the ukrainian european future as they put it in in ukraine and ukraine is pretty much afraid that the response of the european union will be very negative to europe's and to ukraine's integration do you think that this is true that this is really the case. i believe this is a very big political game and you korean authorities are now being called moral blackmail by european union in order to to do more to eat mr

unocal which to to set pressure on the court system of ukraine again i do not believe this is a fear approach from the european union but in any case in iceland to free europe was never a big fan of the mission to which it was she was prime minister why such such interference now again i don't commission is being supported boy very influential political force in europe the european people's party which has the biggest party faction in the european parliament which has the biggest party faction in the parliamentary assembly of the council europe and they can see how this specific right around here says yes now this is serious perceivable you can call group initiates all the time this active approach by their opinion union by the council of europe in one car theirs but in any case i do not believe they have the. keys of my done. can explode can undermine the region there to be in the european union and ukraine the union is very very much interested in having korean ears and part

of the e.u. common european space not as a member state of the repeal of the union i do not believe that there is a realistic perspective for ukraine but to keep it inside and to keep it sorted to put in that way to keep to keep it as far as possible from russia they will never acknowledge it but this is the part of the game and they don't like because this approach either you are results or you are with them is a false approach it does not contribute to the unity of europe in the world it does not work and they feel sympathy with the people of ukraine because they're being pushed into this position of choice you have to choose either your be very puny union or your views russia and in this sense i believe i believe that russia has in their march march more gentle and delicately we do not ever

say to it or ukrainian partners either or and we do live there the membership of ukraine there are participation of ukraine in the customs union in the common european very common economic space to be russia kazakhstan and belarus or does not exclude. integration of ukraine into the european union so this is a not here a case of a choice to my mind and the ukraine ukraine just needs to to handle all of turning jointly and to take a decision we should correspond with the national interest of ukraine and these national interests of ukraine are definitely inside of europe but inside of a united europe with all countries of the continent including and not excluded as one of the people. feeling the pulse of the russian foreign projects do you feel today that this tension with you is really pushing ukraine. closer

to russia for example for example to the customs union leaders and well at least at least they know that the korean leadership has restarted the restart of the consideration of different options and i do not believe that this is just the can sequence of the sequence of the pressure which is now being said on ukraine from the opinion from the side of the rebellion you know this is a very sober. financial calculation and of the figures are there and the figures point out a very clear perspective there in case ukraine stayed outside of the customs union in case you're greenspace out of the common economics piece of the because the union of the region the union ukraine will lose much more much more in comparison with what it gains out of the common economic space in their opinion

mr putin the russian prime minister announced his plans to create what he called the eurasian union on the post-surgery space. some immediately he's spoken of trying to restore the soviet union well this is. the majority of the country countries do they really want a confrontation with russia what's your opinion number one the puny union was established. through the so-called roma treaty but nobody blames the initiators of the union project for a trying to restore the roman empire you know this is a very nature will process certain countries which are. neighbors to each other try to to to facilitate their economic. lesion. custom

regulations and all other things you know the answer is no russia does not try to restore the former soviet union russia tries to set on the new project because of the previous problems of the c.i.s. the common cause of those of independent states sprinkler speaking it's still a rather good political project but it does not work in economic terms of all of the civilized defense glue is for the civilized world the divorce instrument exactly so i think that in case both russia kazakhstan biller russia probably kyrgyzstan probably some other countries very broadly you do in those conditions you may draw globally ukraine see advantages of these killed the regime we should forget about trying to to to to to stamp on this project like this the ration of the former soviet union or anything else and support integration on the

poor soviet space for the simple reason this integration contributes very much to the stable economic financial social development in these countries and i believe that the european union should be very much interested in having a stable predictable economic social and all of the developments in russia in ukraine in kazakhstan india russia and all others so the project of the euro the eurasian union does not contradict the idea of the common european unity and space it is not aimed against any other union against any other country and it is to be supported by any of the union and any other country what prime minister putin was hurt by by this comparison of his plans to restoring the soviet union. because he most of the time at his recent interview to russian television he spent trying to explain that he's not

a fan of mr gresham and that he's not restoring they listen. so it didn't hurt him . well you know that was a question put to him and there were certain campaign begins the. third or fourth term of mr putin of the president of russia he's he will eat he will be elected on the position in march next year so it is here a natural thing to. respond these respond this discussion but i do not seeing that this is the the highest priority or mr putin or anybody else in the russell leadership to to compare and to deny a comparison between the more than russia and the former soviet union it is completely out of the of the of the current the more than agenda of the russian leadership the next parliamentary election russia will take place in december and i know that the europeans the council of europe and the earlier see are usually

giving you a hard time during this nation they're trying to send as many observers as they can while the russians always want to reduce the number of these exactly why this is not about the figures it has never been about the figures and it is it has been all the time involved the principles here the largest the recent largest election in europe took place in turkey this june i do not believe that turkey is completely out of country versus it is. thirteen one three circle of service from or do you see a bureau for democratic institutions the first proposal towards russia was two hundred or three hundred or two hundred sixty. clinton crimes more times more turkey has a population which is just two times list in comparison is russia only russia to leave the territory we do not think of all the period through the speaker told the

number of voters this is really so this is a much more dense than spread the observers across the whole territory well the turkey is not that small either so our our reaction is please give us a good explanation why certain countries are considered as good once and certain countries are considered as bad ones who ease to take that decision and suddenly discover that this decision is taken on the very unpleasant sprint grounds why bureaucrats not politicians and why people who are hired who escort who have contracts who do not represent countries for political pointless or innocence and thus know people in the bureau of democratic institutions or do you always see which is the major observation by the in the know see area and suddenly we can not find this great theory cannot get

a good explanation of the you are to be absurd by this number of serious through these or that reason and this is not good and this is why we take a certain position but i will confirm to you the good old mentor assembly of the council europe will send the largest possible delegation to russian the parliamentary assembly of all we see you will send the largest possible delegation to russia and we have reached an agreement we only see the gold two hundred service which is still much much more in comparison with let's see turkey but if it reaches and she has been accepted by russia thank you thank you very much it's a pity that we didn't have time to discuss the shooting down an investor who is living to resist. the barrel of that what about the about the roman roman treaty not recreating the roman empire that was a good buy. you did your homework thank you very much come spending cuts which are welcome i guess most part and he's the chairman of the state duma committee on foreign affairs and ahead of the russian delegation to the column interestedly of the council of europe and that's it for now from all of the spotlight will be there

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