this is a highly accurate weapon it has a range of up to ten thousand kilometers and lands within not more than two hundred meters from targets. you certainly realize that for the purposes of a nuclear strike this means a direct hit. the united states cannot give russian legal guarantees that the missile defense system is not directed against it this would be the wrong move as the matter consumes the defense of need two countries. russia feels compelled to take countermeasures because the united states has refused to give legal guarantees demonstrates that the deployment of the american missile defense system in europe is not directed against russia. nato countries are in no mood to respect the deployment of their military installations to europe. new american military bases may soon be set up in kazakhstan go to stun turkmenistan and tajikistan.

about i see a boy once russia has been encircled by a military base there is a new geopolitical reality will emerge we need to take this reality into account already today but and take measures to control potential threats to our security is a positive. meanwhile the view that the missile defense shield is too expensive is getting increasing currency inside the united states itself it provides financial backing to the armed forces moreover the project is making millions of dollars from nato subcontractors inferiors countries. between two thousand and five and two thousand and nine the us has spent fifteen billion dollars and the price paid for the entire program that we are dealing with right now here in two thousand and eleven is another hundred and fifty billion dollars that's larger than many countries entire. military budget.

some of the funding for the missile defense system in europe is being put to use in poland's north the small village of rijeka is home to a high security installation. the base used to be manned by polish air force pilots soviet made fighters still serve as a reminder of the fact that poland was once a member of the warsaw pact an organization formed off to world war two by the u.s. as in response to nato. the old war planes will be scrapped by the u.s. troops who arrive here shortly they'll be bringing missiles with them. local residents have already been told that they won't be getting any compensation for having the new arsenal placed so close to their homes. and we are not overjoyed at the prospect of these weapons being deployed a few hundred metres from our homes. you've got the missiles will pose

a threat to the local population of over one thousand people. elisabetta demand sca a schoolteacher came to reject of a from warsaw a long time ago she knows only too well what the villages think about the military installation. that is the most noise about it is most of the people even here are farmers. and they of course they were very warm after hearing news of me sell deployment for the time being though the base and we are going our separate ways. but even first graders in the village of rhetoric over are aware of the military base. but the schoolchildren don't fully understand the threat so their teachers bring them up to date in the classroom. good morning you found please take your seats. that's gotten them and today we

start with a history lesson. elisabetta demands go teaches her pupils about military conflicts she insists the people should never forget history's lessons if you check conflict is to be avoided. the military base in regular is in full view of the school as the teacher tells her pupils about world war two they visualize the base as a symbol of the past the present and the future. is the german troops once use the territory just outside of school. later polish pilots served here but them no doubt you know that an american military base is going to be set up here. that there is going to be in you and three in the history books because of it america. estonian sculptor to come and transforms the legacy of past wars into works of art

on the shores of the gulf of finland he's found hundreds of sea mines made during world war two and the cold war the artist uses them to make remarkable objects this mine for example will become a fireplace. i think it will make a nice fireplace. the sea mines picked up by come in can no longer sink ships the artist so-called military style doesn't mean he's succumbs to fashion instead it's an attempt to create works of art using something that was it originally intended for destruction and murder. you don't is it going to you can make anything you like from these oval shaped minds no you can make sculptures out of them you can even make a race car. coming

in those from news bulletins that missile defense components will soon be installed close to his country. he says nato missiles can easily be turned into beautiful sculptures. any writer with the amount of effort spent on making such weapons would be much better spent funding the arts. the people involved in this experiment testing their capacity for survival in a nuclear aftermath have finally reached their destination and abandoned military bunker now they need to take a breather and warm up near a camp fire. the

coach knows that this kind of training is useful in any case it helps participants to strengthen their skills and prepares them for any emergency in their regular daily lives. but. it's great that there is a growing number of people who want to learn survival skills even if nothing catastrophic happens they now have a different psychological attitude. this will prepare them for other small emergencies but. those who have gone through survival training school a fully aware of the fact that the location of their exercise is fully protected. offices at the radar station including major. control the entire outer space so the european russia. space control center has given instructions to tracking artificial earth satellites and with you. all monitored operational information is fed to the delta. space control center. i'm not first so i got

a quiet classification artificial it says lloyd dismissed fourteen fifty as i'm of three hundred thirty three. the stuff makes no secret of the fact that the russian radar transmitter sees european air space in great detail because the station's unique radar tracks even submarine launched missiles in the barrens and white sees the sea of a hot hand around the north pole. up through the theme of. our system is being expanded in response to the expansion of the european missile defense shield him a bit of the there with the aim is to match the measures being taken in europe that the new stations are being commissioned here to respond to nato is activities. thrown at them. we will buy new means

limited or alter our plans with the deployment of missile defense components in europe. russia has not closed the deal it will continue a dialogue with the united states and nato on the missile defense system it is ready for practical cooperation in the sphere.

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brushes foreign minister warns of chaos in international relations as he criticizes the new resolution on syria threatening a security council veto in saturday's vote. tens of thousands of brave moscow's bitter subzero cold to ensure their views on russia's politics are heard. we seem people out on the streets demanding free elections in support of the code russian government join me for more than a few moments. europeans demand a free internet as people flood the streets in protest against an anti-piracy ad being signed across the continent.

seven pm in moscow i matras a good to have you with us here on r t our top story russia's foreign minister has warned that meddling in international cut in international conflicts marks the road to chaos in international relations moscow says it's still a strong objections to the redrafted u.n. resolution on syria and may use its veto if the text is submitted to the vote in its current form it's got all the latest on this from artie's marina porter joining us live from new york hello marina so moscow has made its position clear but the security council is still set to go ahead with a vote tell us more that's right on the security council members are now gathering together at the united nations for this saturday morning meeting a meeting which may lead to a vote on the draft resolution. on syria which is sponsored by the arab league and the europeans now this draft text resolution while it has been. vises first

being presented on tuesday russia says the text has been softened at its request but while dropping demands for explicit demands for regime change in arms embargo moscow believes that the textile needs to be revised now here's an example as to why the last draft resolution i saw says that the security council. supports the arab league plan which calls for syrian president bashar assad to delegate power to his deputy that is something russia is very much opposed to it is not going to support any resolution that calls for regime change even if it could be interpreted in different type of language now the current text contains other elements that moscow says could open the door for possible intervention it does include the text saying that in the event that syria does not comply with the resolution the

security council has twenty one days to review the circumstance and consider further measures what those further measures are is not clear russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says that meddling in internal affairs of sovereign states can lead to chaos in international relations while attending a security conference in munich mr lavrov raised his concerns about the current draft resolution saying it is unbalanced because it makes you too demands of armed groups in syria. the truest. condemnation of the government is. much greater for the mission of the groups for the intimidation of the for the attacks against the state institutions. and then the government receives a list of demands what it is to do no demand is through the lobby groups except the stroke of oil is about the do it once the government the much more specific.

russia's foreign minister is scheduled to visit damascus on tuesday when he where he will be meeting with president assad minister lavrov said moscow has no special concerns about the syrian president but has concerns about security in the world and that issue of security of course is being taken up in new york today as security council needs we will be covering developments on this story if a vote takes place it for a shield as you tell it of horsemen we'll update our viewers as more information becomes available all right our teams were in a port and i live for us with from new york thanks for that update sure. the security council meeting comes amid reports from syria of a new crackdown in the city of homes with hundreds reportedly killed damascus claims the killings were carried out by terrorists seeking to influence the un vote aren't you sorry for it was just returned from reporting their shares her insights . with regards to the situation in homes at the moment it's very hard to get a gauge on the accuracy of the figure is certainly really high priority to try and

get some kind of accurate information coming out from that because you know that does play a big part in how the international community now going to respond to the situation is certainly in the country the situation is that some of these people you've got an increasingly polarized country you've got a situation that just seems to be escalating all the time and these armed conflicts breaking out in areas with civilian populations and speaking to people and saying i can't believe that we're watching this play out on the international stage right now they're watching that u.n. security council resolution going to be being discussed and then there are people on the ground not having to live. so i mean it's absolutely pivotal that i think some sort of decision is made of fairly soon of course they want to get this draft resolution right that time isn't on the side for these people in the country and they're in a desperate situation right now you know they don't have any real towards resolution of any kind on the ground so you know whilst this resolution is being discussed in the security council you know action is needed there in the country. as your times

correspondent pepe escobar tells our t.v. alleged crackdown in homes coincide it's especially with the suspiciously with the u.n. vote he thinks nato in the arab league could be seeking to overthrow the assad regime . the timing of this alleged massacre in the holds with more than two hundred people killed just as the wind is gathering to revolt a result lucian morales establishing what the arab league says is a road map for peace and syria is very suspect well coming back to what this resolution is all about it's an ally as between nato basically led by washington and london and paris and this six person go from one or two gulf cooperation council dare genda from the beginning for months now is reaching change in syria no matter wat they knew that they couldn't never get that you win that security

council resolution authorizing and most lies over syria for number of reasons first of all because that did a sudden regime is not so bold bardi its own but with vision with mix so this does not seem to do with this syrian peace process and all and not only. developing countries are going to dissolve apart from russia and china but syrians themselves began being thinks blissett look we don't trust this big zeile the council would like to organize ourselves and will like to discuss with the guys sit down with the government and discuss a route map for peace but between ourselves between syria it's not happening asia times correspondent pepe escobar with his thoughts on the events in syria. around two hundred thousand people came out to the moscow streets on saturday for a day of protests the largest in the capital so far one group was demanding fair elections others rallying to support the current leadership our correspondent pierre all over reports on both. well saturday was

a day of demonstrations here in the russian capital we saw a march and a rally by opposition supporters a large group of them meeting in the center of the city and marching here to block my a square which block my has really become the central focus point for opposition protesters here in moscow this is the second time that opposition protesters have taken to pull last night a square far fewer the this time than last but of course the the weather a big deciding factor in not cripplingly mode temperatures here in the russian capital in fact the organizers of the protest here shortened the events that were going to be happening just to make it more comfortable for people who had come out in the cold minus twenty times on saturday here in moscow. so they came out to to voice their opinions you know better than if you were i came here because i'm tired of the government which doesn't do it promises lies and wants this to carry on for

you if you. change their elections and normal life here it was because you might go through you want to come here and. now talk about some of those groups that we've seen come here they really come from all across the russian political straw answer we've seen far right groups far left groups and everybody in between. all coming out coming here to pull up the square to demonstrate we didn't hear from. the the presidential candidate the independent presidential candidate because he's drawn a lot of support from some of the groups that have come here to protest he said he would attend but he wouldn't give a speech this wasn't the only demonstration there was taking place on saturday there's also being gatherings of people who are in favor of the government pro-government supporters. and those who come paining saying that they want

a revolution in russia using the example of the the orange revolution in ukraine and the chaos which which it is not country found itself in often us saying that they don't need not be in russia they were the stability and not the revolution saying that russia had found its times of instability and they didn't want to return to the dog days old the ninety's now the good news for everybody concerned is just how peacefully everything is being carried off on saturday but the opposition and the pro-government protests going off well relative you without a hitch one of the putin rallies we did see the leader of that rally take it into custody by police now this is because it was a sanctioned dryly and it was sanctioned to have a certain amount of people the amount of people who turned up for exceeded the police a lot of decencies they did say say protesters must remain within the law and they did do that today everything going on very peacefully his stuff today becomes the

day of demonstrations are these people all over reporting on a day of political rallies in moscow well stay with us here on r.t. still to come in the program religion as a testing ground to take a look at how forms of islam could change the face of a nation and lead to serious consequences plus plastic partners dolls and even robots compete with real women to unlock the hearts of some lonely men in search of love. but before we get to that protests raging across egypt have lestat left at least eleven dead as police fired volleys of tear gas and birdshot into crowds who tossed stones and reply more than a thousand people reportedly injured clashes continue around the interior ministry with several government buildings reportedly set on fire people vent their anger at police for failing to prevent wednesday's football violence in port said which killed an estimate which killed seventy four people demonstrators are demanding the military council step down. accusing the world of hijacking the revolution

satellite wife sarah says egyptians are furious that many of the ousted president mubarak's generals are still in charge and. the main recipient of criticism now in egypt is the military council because it really has all the powers and they are demanding that those powers will be transferred quickly either to a government or two and elected president and the military council is still very hesitant and i link this to something that happened couple weeks ago when the military council ordered security forces to go and shut down democracy agencies both education n.g.o.s and international n.g.o.s u.s. data n.g.o.s all of that indicates that the ministry council's very hasn't been entrancing out to democracy that they want to cut the deal with a force which most likely would be the most and better but there is something very odd about the fact that egypt brought down but then again and leader and yet some of the agencies are acting as if still in iraq what is happening right now is that

large segments of civil society the typically the youth of egypt who began the revolt and that was what was taken away by other political parties including the muslim brotherhood in the south as those youth are angry at the government because they want the military council to transfer power to them or actually to their representatives and they fear that egypt is moving towards another authoritarian regime. aarti dot com is the place to go to find other opinions updates and developments in egypt and elsewhere in the world here's what's online right now a fool may or june that's when israel could launch an attack on iranian nuclear sites at least that's what officials in washington seem to think plus. rush over the moon as it unveils its space ambitions these and other stories a click away at our team dot com. campaigners for online freedom are taking to the streets of europe protesting against

a new copyright treaty signed by governments across the continent but the anti-counterfeiting trade agreement or act won't come into force until it's been ratified by the european parliament that's what activists are looking to prevent saying the new law would endanger free speech free speech and net privacy the protest in stockholm now underway artie's tom barton reports. this is the front line in the most modern of political battles over internet freedom these crowds have gathered in central stopover in sweden religion old all of the pirate parties that have sprung up all over europe and beyond it's a protest against the counterfeiting straight agreements with all revolves around ponderously laws but it's trying to be pushed through in many countries this agreement tries to standardize the enforcement of those laws in the e.u. and in america and around the world these people say it's not an innocent agreement it's not simple it's assault on the internet freedom and it's

a way for governments to monitor them and to stop them having a free exchange of information only the internet and we heard from people on both sides of the argument about how different views are here on this issue if you say well everything should be free. perhaps no one will write any books produced music or film so it's a new way. to say. this. because it's not often. the next generation has grown up with the ability to say anything to anybody else on the planet to that ideas that lit out for themselves to have a freedom of speech never before imagined we don't need to ask anybody's permission to present new ideas and all of a sudden corporations want to take that away because it inconveniences them and millions of young people are rising up in anger the success of the growth of pirate

parties both here in sweden and elsewhere around the world is evidence of how high the status of internet freedom come painters has risen on the signing of the actual agreement a few days ago huge protests broke out in poland they were so obvious and so angry that the government there has suspended the actor agreement that they want the same to happen here although the debates are going to go on until june when the indian parliament votes on this internet freedom come urging people to get my view across before that vote this debate is going to go on it's not finished yet and it seems it's going to be anything but calm. it's a clash of cultures in kyrgyzstan where moderate indigenous practice of islam is being threatened by more radical alternatives there are fears that the effect on everyday life in the central asian republics a land prone to instability after two revolutions in the last few years alone

artie's oksana boyko reports from bishkek. more kneeling down but standing tall tens of thousands of group is man praying at the country's central square just underneath the lenin monument even in this bastard years the communist ideology couldn't bring to the streets as many people as islam does nowadays. the fist of sacrifice is one of the most important rights for all muslims of a unique. mosque can almost feel logical and lifestyle differences that exist among the various branches of this one here in kurdistan over the past they could first country has become a testing ground for islamic missionaries of all kinds so who have the last in common with each other than they do with great chance or jews british people converted to islam in the seventeenth century but they were never designed us about it.