tonight on our team guaranteeing all an arms race a clear choice is delivered by dmitri medvedev to washington over its missile defense system in europe that says the russian president summed up the results of the nuclear summit in seoul. also it's not the summits agenda which grabbed the media's attention and triggered a storm on capitol hill but a conversation between obama and medvedev which wasn't supposed to go public. and the syrian government says yes to coffee and peace plan for a negotiated end to the bloody conflict as quarreling opposition leaders seek

a unified front against the assad regime we've got the latest tonight on bad story to. welcome this is r.t. live from moscow eight pm here now my name is kevin i know in our top story america's plans for a missile shield in eastern europe are at a key crossroads tonight wrapping up at the seoul nuclear summit president medvedev said either moscow gets guarantees the shiels not aimed at russia or an arms race is inevitable that says washington also announce similar defenses in asia or the middle east that is when it has more from the south korean capital. it's no surprise really that the first statement really that has come from president really concerns the missile fields he recently says that consultations are far in but decisions must be made and the time of stability is the best time to make such

decisions. are interested taken into consideration and you know what we mean by considering our interests we need guarantees that the missile defense shield won't be used against russia all they could be a different outcome basically you know almost immediately we have officials from the white house saying that they are planning on expanding their radars all over the region and also then tearing into the middle east and they're talking about putting radars in australia japan and south korea considering they're already have thousands of troops on the ground in south korea and thinking of putting more naval sits on a base that's being built here of course plans are causing concern in moscow who are very not happy with the plans for the missile defense shield in europe of course that was one of the reasons one of the main topics of discussion between

president obama and the first place on monday. was this particular conversation which wasn't supposed to go public and scott terms were going across the u.s. after being captured by cameras word for word and what they thought was a private exchange brokered by told his russian counterpart that he would be more flexible on the mists of the fence issue after the election he's going to check out more of the reaction that triggered capitol. it appears mitt romney has no doubt that russia is america's number one geopolitical enemy well this is not the first time presidential hopeful mitt romney's playing russia card in this election season he has recently called prime minister and russia's speech of president putin as threat to global peace and stability has to be said american politicians have mastered the art of creating and bashing who demanded especially when election campaigns are underway to some like mitt romney dragging out the cold war skeleton

from the closet scenes the most actually president of commentator along those lines say mr romney it's time to move past the group old hollywood stereotypes but easier said than done the cold war being long be over with the leaders of russia and america you know looking for common ground under the banner of a reset in relations but cold war sentiment still won high in the minds of some u.s. politicians some of them very influential mitt romney is not alone there are also the likes of senator john mccain man who is stalking that line says it was interesting to note as we know romney is latest comments about russia came in the context of president obama's hot mike moment with russian president museum exhibit monday after a meeting is sold on that was heard telling me today that he would have more flexibility on missile defense after the presidential election the u.s. missile defense shield in europe is one issue that still sticks out in u.s. russia relations but despite certain differences but both russian and u.s. leaders agree that the reset has worked with regards to russia joining the world

trade organization for example or cooperation is bad is that but one of the points of mitt romney's foreign policy you can find it on his website he has a section dedicated to russia is to we said do a reset with russia but it looks like he is winning the republican nomination america will soon face a choice between romney and president obama there are a lot of people who disapprove of president obama's policies but most experts agree that president obama will inevitably when the election because lots of women. our planes here have having someone like romney and their future president. guys you can the correspondent in washington let's go through the snow crystal up and see the show we're an analyst for the democratic strategist journal joining us on line from washington d.c. as well chris good evening but it seems that many conclusions being drawn by obama's republican rivals over the conversation is that rusher is washington's enemy number one now is that right well of course it's silly and as. we

just heard in your setup piece it's it's this need for people running for office to come up with something to scare voters into supporting them after a while you can't keep bashing aldama because people tune that out so in the case of the santorum who's one of the republican candidates and even romney. they took advantage of president obama's trip to meet with your president. is an opportunity to try to scare people about russia but of course as you know in a democracy. leaders are one of the leaders say though doesn't matter unless there's popular support and i can assure you there is no evidence of any popular support for bashing russia for hostility towards russia for anything that would create russia into an enemy instead of a country that we have a good working relationship with christmas just imagine for

a second that the hard line republican bluster of russia china rather the countries becomes the united states real strategy if they get it what them. well again it's interesting with mr romney in particular he seems to endorse many of the things that president obama has done and just says ultimately he wants to do things in a different way so if it becomes the case where mr romney beats president obama most people who think about these things know that romney's rhetoric will not match what he'll do as president he knows that there is no a there is no public support and he there is no end game that makes any sense for the united states to have a hostile relationship with russia it doesn't make any sense so we both have too many things in common as countries than we do dividing us and romney smart enough to appreciate that i mean you mentioned just now you'll take is the most americans

don't have such a problem with russia. going to but i do americans really want to see such a hardline leader in a country in the first place what is the position i was he likely to. well some again in your set up piece you know there is some sentiment that's left over from the soviet union there is an element of americans well they were both on the liberal side in the in the conservative side that are there almost suffer from paranoia about enemies seen and unseen and in the case of the republic in the candidates they're trying to tap into some of those people who tend to vote in nice . what we call primary elections to be the nominee for the party but a good as a general rule they're very there's nothing out there and americans don't think about russia anymore for better or worse we have other issues we have domestic issues that concern us our number one threat if you want to consider

a threat is china. biggest economic challenge we like russia we face. national security threats from terrorists so this idea that somehow or another russia is a concern for americans it just doesn't add up at all nonetheless with a very small sliver of people nonetheless the missile shield issue this long running ongoing. is an issue. of what was said off camera there that we should move over so long is there a real possibility that this can be sorted out. yeah again i think we would you heard your president say yesterday i think the response to mr romney is that actually the relationship between our two countries in the last three years has been good and has been productive and i just think of if if the united states had tried to develop this shield in one nine hundred ninety the kind of reaction that we would have gotten from russia i think russia is much more comfortable the

russian people are much more comfortable with the united states and our intentions and who and we're certainly much more comfortable with the soviet union or the act of sorry their russia and the former soviet states and. your intentions and i think it's just a process where we can compromise to get something that works for both sides all right chris thanks that was mostly thoughts crystallography in their own lives from the democratic strategist journal did thank you very early we got reaction from a top russian lawmaker on the republicans hawkish comments towards russia. this logic of the called war the united states is first facing a lot of foods a lot of animism the world is still very much present in the sinking of the republican elite had a lot more to say as well you can watch the interview with alexei pushkov in the next full version available to you on our website streaming right now and. also coming your way shortly on the program tonight silencing the whistle. weekly wiki

leaks we keep makes wiki leaks well the latest washington prepared to go to to prosecute the bulls most famous whistleblower julian assange. next the peace envoy kofi annan says the syrian government has accepted his plan to hold the country's bloodshed his proposals include a mutual cease fire and political dialogue artie's middle east correspondent paula slee is the latest. the fact that announces that damascus has accepted it is certainly a positive step and the plan includes the withdrawal of troops as well as heavy weaponry from population centers the opening of political dialogue between all sides and access to humanitarian groups that needs to go ahead and impeded but it is important to say that for this plan to work it insists that the fighting stops immediately that both sides lay down weapons and that both sides come to the party and in the past we have heard from various syrian opposition leaders that they're

not prepared to do this but certainly the ball in now is in the court in terms of how events develop from here today cheers davies syrian opposition is meeting in the city of istanbul they're known to be a very fractured group with deep divisions so today's attempt is really to try and heal the divisions but there is a lot of skepticism in terms of whether this can be achieved the opposition is known by and large to be quite undemocratic in some circles also they're often charged with following their own self interests now while all of this is happening there has been a flare up in violence on the ground along the syrian lebanese border and the mainstream media is reporting that some two dozen syrian troops have crossed over into lebanon and are fighting syrian rebels there but this has been denied by the lebanese state television it says that this has not happened that there was some fighting earlier today tuesday and that there were some stray well it is but there

are no syrian troops currently inside lebanon fall asleep with the latest from the middle east. he's written extensively about the middle east he told us he believes president assad's acceptance of a peace plan doesn't fit the image has been drawn up by the opposition or his regime. this doesn't really play into the near of that being attempted to be created it wants to portray assad as some sort of insane agent who can't be reasoned with but of course if he is agreeing to this this process that doesn't go along with the near of i think that's exactly why you're seeing right now these types of unconfirmed reports coming out of skirmishes along the border and supposedly syrian troops crossing into lebanon at the exact same time as this deal is being announced so that every report that's being picked up around the world right now is mentioning that you know that assad is agreeing to descend on plan but also that the syrian troops are crossing into the lebanese border which again is

just an attempt to make it seem like assad is completely unreasonable and won't be able to to come to the table in any event which of course will only further perpetuate this type of destabilization that's going on up drugs and other global developments i was on a website as well of course our table called while you're there you might be interested in these stories tonight too much to stay alive the man who led the uprising in libya tells me that while my gadhafi had no chance of surviving with so many countries wanting to have colonel buried along with the secrets that he knew is interesting is online for most and i also welcome to the fold book a new app on the world's most popular social network allows its users to become enemies and even go as far as declaring war what's that about starting to check it out.

so we can. pledge to push for openness in government if he's elected to the australian senate but that's if he ever gets the chance to stand admitted america's growing up applied to prosecute him alone without a whistle blowers and it's our to explains next some journalists are concerned that if she's put behind bars it will mean the end to all press freedoms. he's an australian citizen in the custody of britain fighting extradition to sweden julian assange just plays out like a game of chats and no one wants the king of wiki leaks more than america wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks since january two thousand and eleven washington has had plans for a son i was secret uncovered earlier this month after five million confidential in males from the global intelligence company stratfor were published by guess who we are. a defendant is outside of the us will get an indictment which is secret

they will see all of the charging document the indictment they will ask for an arrest warrant and that matter will also be sealed that way the u.s. stands behind a big large boulder if you will and then jumps out from that boulder and arrest someone under house arrest for more than a year assad has not been charged with any crime in any country in sweden wants to question him over sex related allegations the u.s. meanwhile is determined to punish the forty year old girl payback for exposing confidential cables repeatedly shaming america by shining a spotlight on illegality in overseas military operations and some embarrassing tactics and it seems from the state department washington that it's publishing the documents has created a national security risk the justice department has reportedly mounted in

unprecedented investigation into wiki leaks aimed at prosecuting a songe under the espionage act we're going to continue to go after. that we're tough and we're not going to let anybody or whether it's al qaida or whether it's an australian national and some say they'll go to any lengths. to make the point u.s. government within the federal criminal arena likes to charge others who are either aided and abetted assisted or were a full blown coconspirator or likes to go after those in an effort to flip them. to get them to cooperate with the u.s. government against the major players in this case mr assad sources tell r.t. that the u.s. is now working on flipping none other than for private bradley manning a us soldier is facing twenty two federal charges for allegedly leaking seven

hundred thousand documents and video to wiki leaks he's one of six americans obama's administration has charged with espionage if one of those cases makes it to the supreme court and the supreme court upholds the espionage act as an act which essentially criminalizes any whistleblower anybody who exposes war crimes anybody who challenges the official narrative of the lies of the state then that's it because that would mean that any leaker can automatically be sent to prison for life and at that point any idea of freedom of information is over we will only know what the state wants us to know supposed to be about. protecting the national security of the united states but that is not the journalism industry rule you are there will be as being something that is a message to him be careful who you talk to be careful whom you write what you

write because you could be next and you know i think a number of reporters are going to say i'm not risking critics say the obama administration's unprecedented war on whistleblowers could ultimately deliver i death sentence to the press if people or publishers would be criminally convicted and jailed for exposing the truth more and more journalists may prefer to abandon first amendment privileges and reserve the right to remain silent arena for niall r.t. the. julian assange of the whistle blows represent a lifeline for true democracy says social sciences expert professor marcelo for other not only his interview coming up in full on this channel it's a quick preview of the spin or sheerest made by weakening. aimed to reveal the secrets that truly belong to the people which have elected bill so authorities which are abuse empowered by not telling the truth and with that we can

exist due in a huge favorite to a democracy in my opinion poll with leeks actually sending a life wallet to democracy and the democratic society is. being thankful for that effort. and we take you around the world music brief sixteen people including afghan soldiers rested in kabul after intelligence services for nearly a dozen suicide vests in the ministry of defense building it's believed those arrested planned to detonate themselves on several buses carrying stuff back and forth to work tensions have been really high there lately with one of us and two british soldiers killed by members of the afghan security force in separate incidents just yesterday and earlier this month an american soldier went on a killing rampage shooting dead seventeen afghan civilians. the possibility of

reopening the nato supply routes through pakistan to troops in afghanistan drew hundreds of angry demonstrators to rally in islamabad protesters from several islamic and political parties chanted anti us an anti nato slogans outside parliament the transit routes have been closed since an attack by nato forces in afghanistan killed twenty four pakistani soldiers last november. while police fired tear gas and water cannon to try to clear the streets of rock throwing indonesians who were protesting against lawmakers plans to increase fuel prices thousands of demonstrators blocked off streets and started fires before officers regain control at least three protesters were hurt in the clashes if the fuel price increase is approved many believe the cost of food transportation and electricity will rise as a result. but it makes the world go round time for the world big money then god we'll share with now the big question mr wall street been

a focus the last couple of days big time is it still gaining when you go for a. just we'll have all the latest of the our top story this reports there's russia's economy stabilized in the last twelve months employment is up inequality is down and trade is strong but there is a catch much of it's being fueled by high oil prices because the richter from the world told us was not making the most of those benefits. when you look at the last four five years from the rebound of the crisis we see whether russia actually has rebounded slower then say its own rebound compared to the ninety eight crisis and it also has rebound slower compared to many other emerging economies after the two thousand and eight. so what's making the recovery so slow given that high oil prices really have helped the recovery we think that a key factor for that is that investment in russia still is sluggish to parts for

this on the macro economy side macro policies have to emphasize debility buffers have to be rebuilt so that when the next crisis comes russia is in a good place to address this crisis as well as russia to make progress on the structural side to make the investment climate more friendly for investors. let's take those markets now both e.r.t.'s and my six lost some of yesterday's gains we've traded cashing profits let's check individual share movers. following those losses starting with russia's biggest lenders burbank bt beat down on reports little boy a forty percent stake in top insurer. and the m.k. novel steel is also down the posting prove results for twenty eleven but on for costs wall street is recovering from last week its worst of the year so far that's on news how sales fell for a fifth month in most u.s. cities frankfurt slid in the final minutes to close flirts following the rest of europe which was the red sea. scotland rose on reports and i've been there before

in the company crude gone by. in the last hour also shedding over in new york the dollar is gaining against the euro on a topsy turvy day for the ruble shedding recent gains against the euro and the greenback and russia's richest man has warned in a rare interview that europe's debt crisis is making steel prices slump many analysts more chinese demand. shortfalls this year the metals. listed told me earlier that's not going to happen. just but there are currently significant falls in your spot contracts and steel especially in the building industry you can talk long and hard about the reason but we will not stand why anyone cayle supplies europe with its rolling steel and presently volatile this year china won't compensate for that at all what we do expect this year is china to stop its dumping practices of throwing steel products into the market. and you're up to date more

stories on the website altie dot com slash business good of course daniel doing a sterling job as ever thanks for bringing us up to date there now or just another view is in a few minutes time after the headlines we take a look at the people who are in the relentless pursuit of wiki leaks founder julian assange and you've got some great programs lined up for you tonight as well as the news here on r t moscow well it was kevin owen headlines coming up next.

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