between two thousand and five and two thousand and nine the u.s. 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 fifty billion dollars that's larger than many country's entire military budgets. some of the funding for the missile defense system in europe is being put to use in poland and 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 fun to 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 out on the we are not overjoyed at the prospect of these weapons being deployed a few hundred metres from our homes on them or 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 a book from warsaw a long time ago she knows only too well what the villages think about the military installation. that means the most and as of us of this most of the people even here are farmers. and they of course they were very war it's an absolute hearing news of me sell deployment for the time being though the base and we are going all 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. i've 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 your future 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 then 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 tree in the history books because of it. 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 originally intended for destruction and murder. you don't see it these are you know you can make anything you like from these oval shaped mine it's you know you can make sculptures out of them you can even make a race car. come 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 and the nuclear aftermath have finally reached their destination an 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 by jim kosek control the entire outer

space over a european russia. space control center has given instructions to tracking artificial earth satellites and with. full monitored operational information is fed to the delta. space control center. i'm not first so good acquired classification artificial it says lloyd dismissed fourteen fifty as 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 on the station's unique radar tracks even submarine launched missiles in the barrens and white sees the sea of a hot sky and around the north pole. up to the theme of our system is being expanded in response to the expansion of the european missile defense shield the image of the good so that the with the aim is to match the

measures being taken in europe that the new stations are being commissioned here to respond to nato as activities. thrown at them. we will buy new means limited or alter our plans for 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.

from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand severe problem is not enough inpatient beds not enough urgency department beds and not enough nurses commandos that to take care of all the people who are here the only real health care system that we have in the city of los angeles is the los angeles fire department in fact when i started my venture is

a firefighter i didn't want to do and i started out going to just do fire fighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the fire departments medical but they had a rescue couple weeks ago waited four hours for i've waited sometimes three hours but i wouldn't say it's a francis in lynnwood for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall with patients and we have a federal law that mandates that you can't turn no one away who seeks care in an emergency room. we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least.

russia and china veto the western and arab resolution on syria with moscow criticizing. taking an unbalanced approach to the realities on the ground. in egypt at least a dozen people are killed as anger at the authorities failure to prevent seventy four deaths at a football match on wednesday sparked protests. and hundreds of thousands take to the streets in russia both pro and anti-government rallies ahead of march fourth presidential.

and two o'clock in the morning here in moscow glad to have you with us let's take a look at the top stories on saturday russia and china blocked the latest u.n. security council resolution on syria saying that backing the rebels over the government could cause even more bloodshed but moscow says it remains determined to end of the syrian crisis by helping damascus implement democratic reforms russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov is due to visit the country for talks next week. has been following the diplomatic battle in new york. tempers are still flaring because as we've been reporting this should be surprise that the security council did not reach a consensus on the draft resolution on syria yet western countries still pushed for a vote and russia warned from the very beginning that if the draft was not a did not address some of russia's concerns it would veto and that's exactly what happened now let's talk about these concerns because moscow said it just requested some simple amendments would be made to the draft text that would have made the

resolution a little bit more balance for example the draft resolution different and that the syrian government withdraw its all of its forces from the cities and towns and seize all all violence but russian officials want to the document the draft resolution to also demand that the armed opposition groups stop participating in violence and retreat back from any cities or towns where it may have occupied their prime call it has called a draft text that was presented saturday morning to one side with a list of demands being made on the assad government but no note of armed opposition groups operating in syria now while addressing the security council saturday a russian envoy to the u.n. fratelli churkin said the security council was not created just for the sake of taking sides or interfering in a civil war of sovereign countries he also accused some some countries of sponsoring a campaign of regime change in syria those who are pushing for this resolution to

be adopted don't you sleep with them still you could be some influential members of the international community including those sitting around this table have from the very beginning of the syrian crisis been undermining opportunities for political settlement by calling for regime change stirring up the opposition against the authorities and nor is it a thing to encourage and fevered methods of struggle for the draft resolution put to the vote does not adequately reflect the real situation in syria and since unbalanced to goes to the syrian sides it doesn't take into account the. proposals look as well as withdrawing syrian armed forces from the cities this should be an ins two attacks by armed groups on state institutions and neighborhoods with a low balance year when the signal is now the u.s. delegation could not help but showing its frustration and anger when participating in the meeting saturday morning we heard. you some language that's normally not heard on in these diplomatic settings like disgusted in shame the united states is

disgusted that a couple members of this council continue to prevent us from fulfilling our sole purpose here addressing an ever deepening crisis in syria and a growing threat to regional peace and security in the meantime the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov is heading to damascus on tuesday to meet with syrian president bashar al assad russia has been very vocal in trying to get host sides participating in the conflict in syria to come to our table and start speaking to one another and. using some type of dialogue instead of violence to come to a peaceful approach so of course we will stay on the story and see how it evolves and works out orders miniport i reporting for us there from new york now as diplomats battle it out at the u.n. thousands of demonstrators have gathered in damascus in support of president bashar assad the crowds also praised the decision by russia and china to block western

calls for regime change in syria but rick was off from the stop nato group told r.t. that although moscow and beijing vowed not to allow u.n. sanction the foreign intervention in syria there's a chance the country may still be bombed from outside. what i fear is we maybe see a replication of what happened in one thousand nine hundred ninety when the united states and its nato allies launched a seventy eight day bombing campaign against yugoslavia having failed to enlist chinese and russian support for un resolution against that and hear those lovely i'm hoping of course that the resolute stand today and the principled stand taking the taken by russia and china against a resolution that we have to remember response of by iraq and co-sponsored by a very interesting group of people they include the nato quality of the world the united states britain france and germany along with portugal to include all six members of the draw cooperation council that is the monarchies and camera zoomed in the persian gulf this is not

a representative group of nations of course in the united nations or the world is a very select one this is largely the same for the us to comparable resolution one thousand seven hundred three against libya last year the no armed uprising of the sort of burning in syria could have occurred as in libya earlier kossovo to the slaughter of thirteen years ago without the understanding by those in gauging the armed uprising that they would be supported by forces outside the country. more than two hundred people were reportedly killed by security forces in the syrian city of homs just ahead of the vote at the un security council the government denies the assault calling the reports a hysterical campaign of incitement by armed groups the editor of the syria tribune dr ali mohamed says information supplied by the opposition shouldn't be taken at face value. but there were not believing the syrian army waited ten months and then just the night before the u.n. security council meeting it decided it will start bombarding hans this too which in

homs had been difficult for the syrian. regime supporters for such a long time and i don't see why they get the army which was such a critical timing to just start it's a vicious cracked down as described it is they are only cleans and the just two weeks ago we had the arab league observers who could their gun there and investigate it but unfortunately they were pulled out for a little good reason and therefore there are only claims from this i. was it's claims from their side we cannot predict what's going on but i don't think that the army wants surely it's it's not like the syrian army this is number one and claims like that happened before in fact just a short warning there and the opposition was not able to prove any of these claims over the past in months. police in egypt have again fired rubber bullets and tear gas to force a crowd of rock throwing protesters away from the interior ministry building in

cairo the clashes between the security forces and demonstrators have been raging for four days now and have left a dozen people dead and thousands injured activists have been venting their anger over the military rulers failure to prevent an outbreak of violence at a football match on wednesday that left seventy four dead our correspondent there. from cairo. things have been extremely devastating and terribly killed to hear these are the last two days and also very tragic the code so huge that massacre only one state when seventy four people died in this temple heat that's one of the city's football stadiums has become bites how the deadliest incidences were barak ousted last february but it's also true you get a new wave of clashes between the police the army and demonstrators that have actually become recently a common scene here in the capital cairo and everywhere throughout egypt the fact is people have been very weak to excuse following site incident to use local

sources especially the interior ministry of doing nothing of the allowing this to happen allowing these dassault inefficiency and actually also over instigating these trials in order to preserve the situation of instability in the country in order to eventually just to follow somehow the. terror and rule the generals from the supreme council of the armed forces they took power from mubarak last february and since then demonstrations actually have never told shortly after this happened on wednesday the whole school football fans have come to the booths nothing to the minister here in the central part of just months away from here seeking for justice and calling for the amy did transition over power from the ministry to civil to situations until early presidential elections and since then twelve people have been killed in. in the last four days and twenty five hundred dollars have been injured who think that it's a terrible dissolve so i have to say i hope you can see the pictures right now as

you can imagine. while masoud street is a narrow street this one the streets they didn't to the woods they built an old photo of the interior ministry here in hollywood the queen many many people there chanting and to me to be slogans from time to time police has been firing tear gas at the times doesn't even show that we've been able to speak to several people there let's listen to what they have to say about who's going to go and when it's going to stop people are just protesting in addition to teaching the constant the students are unbelievable in fact even people might die and that they will they suffocate each day to turn everything to their chinese that. is not to light the fire and they don't leave or. that the chinese the seventy seven year old china it's over your news it's more than enough what they're doing to the protestors and they're doing to the world to the country and the children must do was you can see

a situation is very volatile here in cairo and actually in several all the cities throughout egypt but we can also can talk now about several achievements as well the following point same incident the figure is people from the administration all of this to do have been detained and they're in custody right now is as while the investigation is ongoing and also maintaining a protest system ons just very simply the supreme carlesimo of the armed forces advisory has also called for early presidential elections in the country. artie's much of the notion of reporting for us there now still ahead on r.t. change of heart once a harsh critic of the kremlin he now says he was wrong. to keep people who would see as many horror. as i did. he once when dr emir put in for the death of his son alexander litvinenko but now the former f.s.b.

officers father has changed his mind and offers his own theory to explain what happened. because america's anti-corporate protesters are effected in a dawn raid from the part of a bite since early october. in russia over two hundred thousand people across the country have braved the freezing temperatures to voice their political views ahead of the march fourth presidential vote two of the largest rallies took place in moscow where both supporters and opponents of putin took to the streets for the opposition it was the third and one of the largest gathering since parliamentary elections two months ago which they claim were rigged political analyst dimitri babich however says the split is fueled by the mass media and is not deeply rooted. it's mostly just emotional fueled by the media some people were obviously irritated seen the same two faces on television and

maybe too much in the last few months especially some people were terrified the way they saw that by the action and it's slow and when they felt the handle of the west behind it so it's mostly media driven there is no real cost struggle behind it there are poor people and reach people in both radius. there are people of all kinds of ethnic groups in both race so right now i think it's mostly a positive effect because it sort of wakes up the government to the needs of the people so until now there are consequences for more and more stability i hope it will continue in that way if there is a real split in society of course it's not going to be good for the country author and researcher after william says the west is funding the russian opposition to minimize the country's influence on the world stage during a critical time. there is documentable from the records of the national endowment

for democracy which is a washington government financed goal that's all over the place in russia their financing activists in. several different cities in russia i think really their expectation is to create as much internal unrest in russia as possible to distract the prospective new putin presidency at a time when you russia is going to face challenges with the missile defense with the destabilization of the assad regime in syria the attempt to create regime change in iran and throughout the middle east and you raise or to try to divert any russian any incoming russian government from dealing with these crises they're trying to do the same template they used in ukraine with the orange revolution in georgia to bring saakashvili into power as a. president in that country and i don't think it will work in russia i whatever

mistakes the. ten year has brought with it whatever discontent is i think there are a lot of things that have significantly improved over the last two years since the time of the so there are. but that that really isn't the point the point is us interference in total russian election affairs is something that ought not to be tolerated and it's quite right not to tolerate it. iran says it will not give in to international pressure and abandon its nuclear program even if it's banned from selling a single barrel of oil it's a tehran's response to this week's approval by a us senate committee of a package of new sweeping sanctions against the islamic state but the bill has yet to pass through congress america's initiative targeting tehran's nuclear program follows the adopting a total embargo on iranian oil which is due to come into force in july the islamic republic in turn has repeatedly said it will stop all crude supplies to some european countries but. for summer tehran maintains its atomic ambitions are purely

peaceful and seeks to prove it by cooperated more closely with the u.n. nuclear watchdog a team of inspectors in visit visited iran this week and plans to return in february political analyst. says keeping pressure on iran is a key issue in the u.s. election campaign. within american election especially now we're going into the election they want to put a lot of pressure on iran and. obama administration. lobbyist to group inside the united states but i think they want to squeeze the pressure on iran they want to. american law on the international community and i think what we have seen some european talk peanut of again. i think american trying. to go to the extreme by trying to destroy the

economy they've taken into consideration that iran is going through election parliamentary election probably the thing this is going to backfire. against. i think they go on very far in this in this because this is kind of an implication for the world economy especially if this escalate to a military showdown between america and the uranium. well later in the program we hear from iran's interior minister who is certain his country will weather the storm of mounting sanctions in an exclusive interview with r.t. he said it's those countries imposing them that will end up being hit the hardest and here's a sample of what's to come in just over ten minutes from now. when i use them i believe they've made a big mistake as this election results in turbulence for the oil and energy markets this very fact it can result in oil prices.