my wall street. take back wall street brick by click. tonight guarantees or an arms race a clear choice is delivered by dimitri medvedev to washington over its missile defense system in europe but says the russian president summed up the results of the nuclear summit in seoul. also it's not the summits agenda that grabbed the media's attention it triggered the storm on capitol hill over a conversation between a bomber and bet it which wasn't supposed to go public. and the syrian government says yes to call finance a peace plan for a negotiated end to the bloody conflict is calling opposition leaders seeking a unified front against the assad regime.

hello welcomes his r.t. live from moscow it's eleven pm here. now top story america's plans for a missile shield in eastern europe are at a key crossroads wrapping up at the seoul nuclear summits president medvedev said either moscow gets guarantees that the shields noting that russia or an arms race is inevitable that is washing as washington also announces similar defenses in asia and the middle east to. has the latest from the south korean capital. it's no surprise really that the first statement really that have come from president mubarak concerns the mistrial sealed he basically says consultations are fine but this isn't must be made in any case this dialogue will have an outcome and it will be positive if our interests are 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 although i could be a different outcome basically another arms race 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 japan and south korea considering they're already have thousands of troops on the ground in south korea and thinking of putting more money will say it's an air base that's being built here of course. are causing concern in moscow who are very not happy with their plans for the missile defense shield in europe but those plans top the discussions between the russian and american leaders but part of the conversation wasn't supposed to go public thank you thank you. thank you.

oh ok. ok well the two leaders private exchange was captured as you can see here the t.v. cameras were the word was god tongues wagging across the u.s. or at least a month of august barack obama's republican rivals thought about that out he's got a future countries more than on the reaction this triggered on capitol hill if here's mitt romney has no doubt that russia is america's number one geopolitical enemy while 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 president putin threat to global. peace and stability has to be said american politicians have mastered the art of creating and bashing boogie men especially when election campaigns are on the way to some like mitt romney dragging out the cold war skeleton from the closet most actually president of commented along those lines saying mr romney it's time to move past the old hollywood

stereotypes but easier said than done the cold war being a long be over with the leaders of russia and america. 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 who is stuck in that mindset what's interesting to note as we know romney's latest comments about russia came in the context of president obama's hot mike moment with russian president dmitry medvedev monday after a meeting his soul obama was heard telling me 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 in afghanistan but one of the points of mitt romney's foreign policy agenda 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 deal action because lots of americans are plain scared of having someone like romney as their future president. and also on the line right now was benedict jordi as he's president of the libertarian. political action committee for the campaigns of libertarian party candidates was love to see you tonight thanks for being on the program we do you think mitt romney has a point the rusher is america's biggest threat. i think he's got things backwards i think in recent times america's foreign policy has been

the greatest geopolitical threat to america but it's always easier to try and blame and create bogeymen and blame for nurse or foreign governments or terrorists or immigrants but if we want to do what's safer and more secure and more just for america we need to take a look at our own policies instead of trying to blame russia and others. as well as not really have a role in a statement is echoed those of another outspoken critic of moscow john mccain of course lost the presidential race four years ago so i wonder why romney finds the same kind of talk this time around they have failed to what do you think is going to work. it's well i'm not so sure and i'm not so sure to work in the general election it is the kind of thing that appeals to conservative republican voters and that's who votes in the primaries and a lot of the people who turn out to vote or older americans ones who grew up with

the cold war they were grew up scared of the soviet union and always you know we're led to believe america is good and right and any foreign country especially russian a soviet union is always wrong no matter what the case i think it's unfortunate because right now things are kind of backwards from that we america spends almost as much on its military as all other countries combined worldwide we have soldiers in one hundred thirty foreign countries we recently have invaded and occupied iraq in afghanistan so by any measure currently america is the most aggressive military power out there and we we are the aggressors really need to take a look at ourselves and see what we're doing that we can change rather than just blaming foreign countries and brain and making enemies out of people that are

becoming more friends i think about that i'd like you just painted for us what if what if the hardline republican stunts took over if the republicans got in. so what was applied to russia to child into iran becomes american foreign policy what kind of world would we find ourselves in then. i think you'll be a more dangerous world and more specifically for america it's dangerous not only due to possible war and violence but it's also we're spending ourselves into debt and it's unsustainable so it would be bad for america chain gates in and more aggression overseas and also at you know another arms race it is not what's needed and so we need to reach out to foreign countries we need to stop interfering in what other countries are doing it's a mindset that has is starting to change i think here in the u.s. with some more and more people speaking out on this issue but it is something that

voters need to hear more from more sources that hate the aggressive foreign policy creates equal and opposite reactions from foreigners and if we want to have more peace here we need to be peaceful abroad as well wesley for a form of you could have a program wise but i think the president of the libertarian political action committee thank you. now earlier we got reaction from a top russian lawmaker on the republicans hawkish comments towards russia this is what he had to say. this logic of the called war of the united states is first facing a lot of foods a lot of enemies in the world is still very much present in the sinking of the republican elite and a lot more to say as well you can watch the full interview of the let's see which golf in the next full version also streaming on our web site r t v dot com as well coming your way surely on the program to silencing the whistle. wiki leaks wiki

leaks wiki leaks wiki leaves we highlight the legs washington's prepare to go to prosecute the world's most famous whistleblower julian assange also the private profiteers bleeding britain's health service dry these days u.k. lawmakers vote for a forms that could see very firms make millions from the medical side. but next peace envoy kofi annan says the syrian government has accepted his plan to hold the country's bloodshed his proposals included mutual cease fire and political dialogue are his middle east correspondent paula slee brings you up today. the fact that and nancy is that damascus has accepted it is certainly a positive step in the planning clearly 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 are not prepared to do this but certainly the ball is in very court in terms of how events develop from here today tuesday the syrian opposition is meeting in the city of stumble they are known to be a very fractured group with a 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 is being denied by the lebanese state television it says that this has not happened that there was some fighting earlier today tuesday and that they were some stray bullets but there they are you know syrian troops currently inside lebanon to pick that up with my next shortly patrick raises on the line a reporter from online magazine. middle east the trick first off for the opposition stop short of that except widely peace plan choosing to discuss instead how to put more pressure on the regime why do you think it's doing this was its take what was it taking this passed. well i guess those least important states very hard to know exactly who the opposition is in syria you have a very divided opposition a very fragmented one where you effectively happy heads which is the national syrian council which is led by a sociology professor in the song in paris the university there you have on the

ground the free syrian army and other kind of collected groups who feel very strange from this body the syrian national council and it's very hard to get any kind of unity or kind of consistent sense of what these divided groups that form the opposition actually want so it's understandable that they find it you know hard to actually sit down around a table and discuss this and obviously in terms of having a peace program or kind of moving forward towards peace is going to be very difficult when you have an opposition that is so fragmented penn'orth able to really state their demands with any sense of really legitimacy from representing the body of the syrian people so if i announce a plan continues to like the opposition's total backing what features it got. well i mean i think in our house several problems here i mean he is trying to you know his emphasis is on peace in the region and you have two sides to have been fighting a very bloody conflict very very you know without nine thousand lives lost

according to the u.n. in the last year in syria now there are problems here between the rebels and the. assad which aren't necessarily going to just be resolved by now and take getting them to sit down and discuss it i mean i think actually when you have these mediators come in from the u.n. it can also cause greater problems but what we're seeing here is effectively a civil war in syria to the extent that there is a unified opposition or there is you can really talk about an opposition against itself because it is so fragmented and to that extent it's very hard to know exactly how going to do it so he's he's basically given them and also made some and said it's very hard to. keep going along this line until we get a unified opposition so they need to do that shortly the opposition can't resist the transformational forces. sweeping through syria at the moment i think no one has said so on a big question mark sort of who's backing the opposition other strands of this

complicated story some opposition groups say that they're not going to ask for military help out there are foreign supporters meeting there. is some goal on sunday and most countries want the peace plan to work who's going to answer those calls. well i think that's a very good question and it does seem like people are falling in line and do want this peace plan to go ahead now so having said that rebels have weapons in syria they don't seem to be willing to give up without a fight and you know remember these are people who have seen bloody massacres in homes in certain areas of syria and you can understand why that you know perhaps the reluctance to allow for a situation where thousands remain in power i think the important thing here is that the syrian people have these discussions they have if the bates and they reach . solution to this conflict without too much westmeath attention we're already thing with the syrian national council as i said headed by sociology professor in

paris being separated from the syrian people because they're looking towards the west for recognition and acknowledgement rather than trying to gain the legitimacy of the assyrian people and that's a really difficult situation i think really the best situation that could come out of this at the moment it's for the un to you know by all means get them sitting around the table but after that it's really western forces and international forces me to back off and allow the syrian people to determine their own futures or i've told my news magazine thanks ever so much thank you to the wiki leaks founder julian assange has pledged to push open government if he's elected to the history in the senate but that's course if we ever get the chance to stand with america's growing up and prosecute him along with other whistleblowers and if that is more important explains next tonight some journalists are concerned that if this is put behind bars it will be the end to all press freedoms. he's an australian citizen in

the custody of britain fighting extradition to sweden or julian assange his fate plays out like a game of chess 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 song by secret uncovered earlier this month after a five million confidential in else from the global intelligence company struck for were published by guess who we are in a defendant is outside of the us they'll get an indictment which is secret they'll see all the charging documents the indictment they will ask for an arrest warrant and that 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 as science has not been charged with any crime in any country though sweden

wants to question him over sex related allegations the u.s. meanwhile is determined to punish the forty year old. payback for exposing confidential cables repeatedly shaming america by shining a spotlight on illegality it's an overseas military operations and some embarrassing tactics and opinions from the state department washington says publishing the documents has created i mean national security risk the justice department has reportedly mounted in unprecedented investigation into wiki leaks aimed at prosecuting a songe under the espionage act you're going to continue to go after mr assad to make a point with words and we're not going to let any group or whether it's al qaeda or whether it's an australian national and some say they'll go to any lengths. to make the point the us gov 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. to get them to cooperate with the u.s. government against the major players in this case mr a song sources tell r t that the u.s. is now working on flipping none other than private bradley manning the u.s. 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 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 so that protecting the national security of the united states is not the journalism industry will do it we will be as being something that is a message to them be careful who you talk to be careful whom you write what you write because you could be next and i think a number of reporters are going to say i'm not risking critics say the obama administration's unprecedented war on whistleblowers quite automatically deliver i death sentence to freedom of 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. work i

r.t. the. chilling the sounds you know the whistle blows represent a lifeline for to democracy so says social sciences expert professor. no only his interview here on this channel in full next hour as we preview though. the disclosures made by weakening. aim to. reveal the secrets the truly belong to do people which have elected also authorities which are abuse in power by not to and it is true with and without recluses doing a huge favor to a democracy in my opinion. loops actually. brought it to democracy and. society because instead of being thankful for it. putting

wealth before health as the perception among a swathe of these days of the british public after their parliament voted through controversial medical care reforms many of the lawmakers who voted yes have got links to private suppliers which stand to benefit leaving physicians and patients fearing for the u.k.'s free health care of his or a smith as more of a system in need of a check up. it's a merry go round of self interest along for the ride members of parliament the house of lords and health care companies opening up britain's national health service to plum duff by profiteers the jewel in the u.k.'s welfare state is under strain promising free health care but with criticism that it can't cope the government says private sector involvement is the only but some say it's not those in need of care but rather those in power who are set to benefit.

and yet these vested interests are allowed to vote on a health and social care bill with these private health interests which is a conflict of interest. and institutional corruption at worst friends with benefits david cameron prime minister received two hundred ten thousand pounds for his party for nursing and care home tycoon part and made him a lot part of the party twenty five thousand pounds just a week after the health reforms were announced andrew lansley health secretary got twenty one thousand pounds to fund his office from john nash who's the chairman of k u k which already gets ninety six percent of its business from the n.h.s. the list is long and illustrious it runs to nearly one hundred fifty names all m.p.'s who voted yes to opening up health care to competition and stand to gain

from the results there may be more the research isn't finished yet and now that the bill has passed its detractors are powerless to stop private companies stepping in and making health care about profits not healing investigation show a number of westminster m.p.'s and a quarter of britain's house of lords have links with private health care provider . through investment patronage membership and the parties in power conservatives and liberal democrats have received substantial funding from various private health care interests following the legislation those companies are circling already we're starting to see a number of private health interest starting to look very seriously cherry picking some of the best most profitable parts of the national health service they were just waiting for this legislation to go through parliament and of course now ready to pounce the changes have been highly controversial and these people think they'll

damage the quality of care many feel that while m.p.'s did declare their interests they should have been banned from voting liberal government code of contact with anybody with an interest never take part in the fact that their interest issues told were driven. to do with private enterprise use. profit says not to do with. inside westminster m.p.'s reportedly banged the table in jubilation when the reforms passed outside the bell tolled for free health care smith london. from forty five here moscow time less take money lead now catch up with the business task either in a growth on world markets this bring us up to date. and we'll have the latest figures a little later growth top story this hour. the report saying russia's economy stabilized in the last twelve months employment is up wage inequality is down and

trade is strong but there is a catch watch of it's being driven by high energy prices because barista from the world told of course is not making the most of those benefits. when you look at the last four five years from the rebound of the crisis we see that russia actually has rebounded slower then say its own rebound compared to the ninety eight crisis and it also has rebound slower compared to the many other emerging economies after the two thousand and eight prices 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 two parts of this on the macro economy side macro policies have to emphasize to deliver to the 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 is to make progress on the structural side to make the investment climate more friendly for investors.

let's check the markets now both feel tears and my six lost some of yesterday's gains because traders cashing profits let's check individual share movers blue chips followed those losses seen with russia's biggest lenders b. to be reports little boy a forty percent stake in top insurance in gold struck and the limb came to overlook it steel is also down off the posting improved results from twenty eleven but on full course wall street is recovering from last week its worst week of the year so far news for free home prices fell for a fifth month in most u.s. cities frankfurt slid in the final minutes to close flat following the rest of europe which was all red but the world bank of scotland rose on live reports for the middle east will speak crude but in the black over one zero seven zero. swung into the bridge the bull has been up and down against the euro. gaining with the

ruble shedding recent highs against the euro and the greenback and russia's richest man has more into the river interview that europe's debt crisis is making steel prices slump many analysts to more chinese demand this year to cover shortfalls of metal so i could lead to millicent told me earlier that won't happen. so just in his budget will there look there are currently significant falls in europe's contracts for steel the specially in the building industry you can focus long and hard about the reason the stand why good and nail in case applies europe with its rolling steel and prices will be bulletins here china won't compensate for that at all but we do expect to see is china to stop its dumping practices of throwing steel products into the market. and you're up to date more stories on our website auto consequence and they're staying with a high thought as an scandals in a few minutes their stories be on the news you may not hear any other channel the cars reports on air at r.t. five updated you on our top stories.

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