responsible state. should act like. what we've seen is that together with part. we have went from a war like scenario to the dire of. chemical weapons in syria. international control their destruction will pave the way for a stronger nonproliferation bridging the syrian incidents also strengthens your role of the un. any international issue should be decided should be solved so through diplomatic means. should be no place for military intervention which is not accepted by the international society of course. in terms of the reigning knew she will get it just may be the first step and we need to continue to go looking for a solution. that would. put the iranian right for

a nuclear power and. ability and security for all the states of the region including israel. so we had previously the reigning nuclear issue was one of the main reasons why the military defense scene europe was being deployed now we see that clear issue has been always being sold to the missile defense is still being deployed they like to underline that russia is ready to work with all the partners based on reasonable principles of it into business security. and nonproliferation regime to batter drug trafficking and terrorism and we will talk about that. with the g. eight former. we'll be guided by these principles

when we prepare for the bricks in the shanghai cooperation organization sun that circuit russia will host in two thousand and fifteen. and we are now allies in our agreements with the eurasian economic union and by the first of june two thousand ford she will finalize the draft of the text of the agreement and will be submitted to the parliaments of bear the risk because the standard russia like to urge him to consider it took a minute to approve it. and there are media darling the. year customs union and of course as we get more members other countries will be more interested in polluting our ukrainian partners before the events. that we're seeing today are unfolding our believe that all the political forces this country.

will come together and resolve all of the. interests of ukrainian people before all that you ukrainian said that it's really to. all of our sessions as observer said it's willing to take parts of these sessions and. it was interested in accepting so in signing up to some of the green and if you crane is still ready for that we can continue to cooperate with the expert level. is based on real economic interests on the call it will promote the eurasian what project parts will not and the other projects who lot of put it in. a confrontational opposition to such mature project as the e.u. project. of course we'll continue to cooperate with you on the early in the

drafting of the new basic treaty. on strengthening our armed forces. or probably mention words about the missile defense issue and here's would like to say again of course we're well aware that saddam missile defense. is just called the defensive but it's. part of the offensive. and we're seeing new armament systems are being developed. in new clearly strategic conventional weapons. systems. well we see appearing in the. all of the media strike. there is such

a concept and it's being developed tactically the limitation of all these plans versus consequences for global and regional stability. because there. has been you see the passion of some of the western countries for a strategic unconventional weapons. the missile shield. undermined all the previous a treaty is on the reduction of strategic nuclear weapons and it could also undermined these so-called strategic balance. yes of course we do understand that so we know what should be done. you know when you go to look at you know one should have any illusions about the possibility to have a military. superiority like russia russia will respond to all those challenges

political and technological williams. have all the potential for us and our military doctrine once. you knew what. our. military systems will help to ensure the security of the russian state. the museum organism is the of course it's still a long way to develop high precision advanced nutri system parts that. are deterring the nuclear forces we are reaching new levels according to plan. and some of our partners will have to do catch up but. we are also working own used to joke systems which are you know maybe based on what i will continue to build a new or

a nuclear powered submarines so we are currently working on a new. look. at what it would have been working on targets idea to cation systems that are working in real time for the interests of the russian armed forces. and of course but those who are held to the space forces of course who. double graves the farmer in. air force. we don't so we have increased the number of private. tracked by. thousand and of course we need to think about the reserves of course students need to have.

benefits. but they will have to. they will have to get the opportunity to go military training and to get a military specialization this will help to train the necessary amount of reservists who are. demanding for the specific military specializations. the ministry of defense needs to come up with a new arrangement of this the funds that so we allocate push the rearmament of the army are unprecedented the funds are prince again today as you know. a total of twenty three trillion. in the next decade the defense industry will be a loaded with. state

contracts. to reequip their facilities to come up with new high tech sharps about a million which. are employed in state industry together with the families it's about seven million people and they will have enough for its work and their salaries and. their families we'll be. enough funds but. in. truth the state contracts south will feel this for. cities need to continue to. provide for themselves and the. bit we need to strengthen our position in the international market these facilities these industry facilities need to show which will see the production of civilian products when it's needed he said all the military stuff. so

we're awaiting a list by two thousand and twelve need to get housing. that big of. that job will be completed with c. and would like to address the ministry of defense in come up with the ideal solution for everyone. finalise the issue of. housing our armed forces for the first time in history was. done and over with and that's why we can now move on to a building comfortable military city us military towns you need to feel the responsibility for the country and they're part and parcel of the constitution and that. every one of us you will notice if you.

just outlined the method of how you can achieve the. state you need is. accomplished so any cavalier that major is policy it's our duty to strengthen the confidence. in your society and people will be more engaged in the movie motivates isn't. you know you have more motivation to take a part of the life of. the country if. decision. complex than that should be our motto for the next. year thor it is society. traditions based traditions of our people was about using the.

development of all of the tasks we. achieved success thank you very much thank you thank you i have. i. there we have it live from the kremlin in central moscow the russian president and you all state of the nation address thank you for joining us for an r.t. international for the. by the russian president of course as it is the state of the of the nation speech most of the issues all domestic however towards the end of president putin addressing some international issues that i'd like to touch down on very briefly for you right now one of the issues i put in talking about that of the so-called european or american missile defense shield that is essentially being peppered along russia's western border supposed to defend europe and america from rogue states such as iran however mr putin saying that that should be redundant now as a russia was one of the main mediators in accomplishing the historic anti nuclear missile

deal with iran and yet for some reason the missile defense shield still being built across from western russia and eastern europe in fact president putin saying it's not missile defense its missile all friends the russian president saying military systems are being developed sonic military strike hardware hyper sound enabling immediate strike capability he called it unconventional military weapons perhaps to be set up along eastern europe ultimately as president putin saying undermining the strategic balance in the region although the russian president did say that moscow knows what needs to be done one of the other issues up for discussion as well was that of the ukrainian demonstrations for the past couple of weeks demonstrators in kiev some pro to a certain amount of e.u. integration other ones against it we understand that the russian president saying he looks forward to working with kiev more closely in the future to some sort of

a russian relationship with kiev but now we're understanding apparently from the e.u. foreign policy chief catherine ashton telling reporters that the ukrainian president which intends to sign an easy you association deal. whole lot imagine the russian president will be briefed of this immediately as he steps down from the podium there so issues of missed all defense issues with ukraine as well talking about still. how russia has managed to help to establish the middle east peace regarding stopping at some sort of outside intervention against syria some of the domestic issues president putin saying there are into ethnic relations problems here at moscow and the surrounding moscow region some people are being provoked some are corrupted and protecting the wrong people sometimes nationalists can be the ones causing the problems but certainly migrant issues must be addressed to president putin saying that twenty thirteen has been successful in the realm of increasing

salaries and health care and education life inspect and see rates are up birth rates are also up in russia. president putin saying that russia must catch up with other countries for example with their progress in research of the human genome that could have massive health benefits and health implications for the residents of russia president putin saying that russia's economy is in the top five of global economies but efficiency of labor is lacking and that needs to be addressed as well also president putin saying that offshore accounts are sucking money out of the russian economy the new initiatives will be launched next year to combat this saying if your business is in russia then you should pay your taxes in russia as well many points being addressed the jury in the president's annual state of the nation address more details on that on our website right now at dot com for the meantime let's get to some other news here on the program. now let's get

some other news as i was saying a lot of input in touching down on the situation in ukraine saying that russia is open for dialogue but apart from that though. it's all up for debate now here on our seat as we're now hearing from catherine ashton the e.u. foreign policy chief telling reporters that which could indeed plan to actually sign this pro e.u. association deal after all have a listen to this. all policy options including sanctions are on the table in our view but obviously that still is being evaluated now in his address of lot of may putin was saying. the russian president saying that in his address the. ultimately that russia does want to be involved with ukraine saying that it is open for dialogue those say that if indeed kiev does want a partnership moscow's willing to talk and will offer economic integration on equal terms meanwhile the united states is expressing extreme disgust with the way off

the already using kiev have been dealing with opposition and here's our t's are really going to go with more on that. it's new it's hip it's exciting and it's a revolution and like moths to a flame the bright lights of rebellion are drawing in western politicians political has beans to even homegrown rock stars all keen to breathe the air of change taste to pictures in the fashion the message the foreign media is having a blast to the chest here feel they're fighting for the future of the country pro european protesters clashing with police they saw these agreements as a chance to open ukraine up to european business ideas rule of law standards here my done has received a massive amounts of airtime in mass media both at home and abroad but this will fact is the opinion of people here is not necessarily representative of the opinion

in all of ukraine in fact it's just the opposite but you wouldn't know it just by watching the news but here's the other side of ukraine's protests the invisible one they may go unnoticed by the media but thousands of people are rallying in many cities you have read on trade to join the e.u. and opposition a step taken students and schoolchildren to the square should sit down at the negotiation table and help find the best solution for our country. and we've gathered to say no to the orange strange they captured buildings brought the work of the government is unacceptable and will only home ordinary people. the message doesn't fit the pretty picture of a trend a revolution. that if you think it's democracy and revolution it's a nationalist the coup they instigate people to break the law they want to grab power and they're ukraine a party that you might. like the people yelling ukraine is europe in capitals

independence square these people have been looking at the possible consequences of the trade deal with europe some is america ready and i'm sure don't want to. the rise and mansions and salaries frozen. fortunately only need us food cheap labor to buy their products unlike the protests in kiev these rallies aren't marked by the presence of masked men ultra radical slogans or tumbling monuments and because for the media if it bleeds it leads only telegenic revolution gets a chance to be heard and seen. it in an r.t. . now ukraine is always faced the divide between west and east as you can see on this map right here it's literally split in half the countries west historically been closer to europe the majority of the population is catholic and it speaks ukrainian while in the east ties with russia have traditionally been stronger earlier the u.s. secretary of state expressed discussed over the ukrainian government's response to the protests but some analysts suggest those words ring

a little hollow. it's clear that the what the united states government is after is regime change in the ukraine and it has nothing to zero in with what they say they're concerned about that is you know three rights there and they're not they're still you know we saw i don't stand by for the occupy movement and dozens if not hundreds the city's carried out in an organized way ordinated way. by the federal government against people who are peacefully protesting here and now we hear. these kind of statements coming when in the ukraine it's clear that the leaders of the opposition are trying to overthrow the government they're not just engaging in peaceful protests they are engaged in a process which they hope will bring about regime change and in that campaign they have the full backing of the u.s. and nato. now it's not uncommon to see european and american politicians at

opposition rallies in kiev the u.s. assistant secretary of state victoria nuland once again joined the crowds this time offering snipers to the protesters and police more details on that and on t. dot com. now the unlikely pairing of saudi arabia and israel reportedly teaming up in response to washington's middle east policies representatives from the country's intelligence services apparently met for talks in jerusalem they are united in their disdain for america's reversal an intervention in syria followed by the agreement over historic nuclear deal with iran gone a chicken reports. the two countries saudi arabia and israel found themselves in one boat in their frustration over washington israel and saudi arabia hate the nuclear deal that the u. was now the world power struck with iran and israel is very vocal about it the

saudis are a little bit more restrained but the saudi intelligence chief said there would be a major shift in dealings with the us saudi arabia wanted the u.s. to go all in on syria the u.s. instead went along with russia's proposal and cut a deal with the syrian leadership to get rid of chemical weapons there saudi arabia and israel are very suspicious of each other the saudis oppose the creation of the jewish state they support the palestinian cause so it's too early to speak for friendship but washington definitely brought them closer together at least in their desire to threaten war saudi arabia is now reportedly working with israel on a plan to attack iran it reportedly gave israel the green light to use its airspace in the case of a strike and pledged assistance here in washington these were the lobby is fighting what they describe as a tendency in the u.s. to disengage from the middle east the apac meeting was all about it they talked

about how war fatigue in the u.s. could be a reason for washington to want to be less involved in regional affairs they saw the nomination of chuck hagel as defense secretary as a signal pointing in that direction of course the obama administration quickly reassured everybody that the u.s. will not stop interfering in the affairs of the region but israel and saudi arabia are not so sure at this point or they don't see the kind of interference that they would want to see i'm going to shut down in washington or keep. it we spoke to the saudi prince how they've been thought on the he believes the u.s. is ready to jeopardize ties with its closest allies to preserve its interests in the middle east. yes i'm a bit lazy about it but i believe the main reason for the change in america's alliances in the middle east is the issue of the nuclear program and that's a shift in the us approach to iran from one of confrontation to one of containment if this is the main reason even if it does come at the expense of american strategic allies like saudi arabia and israel it is of utmost importance to us i'm

just interested in the middle east and the date u.s. foreign policy takes care of its own interests and that our strategic alliances with israel under nonpermanent alliances like with saudi arabia with the medical interests are in much more important to washington than alliances and let's not forget the saudi arabia and israel always need washington support militarily i don't intelligence level as well as many other aspects of the need the usa and they rely on it. former u.s. diplomat john graham he thinks frustration with america's foreign policy is a fruitful common ground for both israel and saudi arabia both countries israel and saudi arabia are very annoyed or frightened right now because of american policy. what's happened to i know you frighten both of them is that first of all obama actually called and talk on the telephone to his counterpart stopping an american president hadn't done for

a decade and second that meeting in geneva actually produced an agreement which looks like iran will make significant changes in its nuclear policy in exchange for a lessening of sanctions face keep to the agreement then we will definitely be less i think sanctions and this is driving israel and saudi arabia nutz. well let's get some other global headlines for you in brief time for the. egypt between riot police and students of engulfed a second university in cairo security forces fired tear gas to disperse crowds many of whom were rallying in support of the ex president mohamed morsi since sunday the country has seen widespread scuffles between students and police over twenty people have been detained. in germany a crane crashed into a supermarket killing one person and injuring at least five others rescuers were

struggling to comb through the wreckage as other parts of it were also thought to be at risk of collapse and the reason for the accident is still under investigation . the u.n. has condemned israel for demolishing palestinian homes in the occupied west bank dozens of properties were destroyed the move displaced families for the second time in two weeks trying to expand its own settlements a process which is strongly criticized even by its closest ally america since the apparent restarting of the peace process between tel aviv in ramallah over three hundred palestinians have been displaced. but it's all the international live from moscow up next. thanks for joining us.

hello and welcome to the party george w. bush famously said that democracies don't go to war spirits wandered out there it's a quote that is often recycled by western politicians when they see people in other countries taking to the streets and yet over the past few years we've seen quite a few examples of supposedly democratic protests degenerating not just into violence but into fully blown wars how do we strike the balance between the demands of democracy and the needs of security well to discuss that i'm now enjoying the art of that here the secretary general of the organization for security and cooperation in europe mr zinni your thank you very much for a time we are speaking in key if the capital of ukraine ricci's overtaken by protesters who disagree with that government's decision not to align itself a bit more closely with europe and so far at least it's been relatively bloodless

there been a couple of clashes but. thankfully no casualties even though you know both sides accusing each other of violating the law i wonder how do you draw the line between . a democratic protest and a riot and isn't it's similar it's you know and you know that distinction between terrorism and freedom fighting you know something that is essentially in the eye of the behold there i would say there is no absolute rule and certainly one cannot come from outside and say this is this is the line and each country has to find its own way its own way and strike its own balance. in the u.s. see this is a debate where we're having internally of course and what we see is that different countries see this differently and in fact they tend to draw the line in different places the debate we have is among other things also about this and it's a very central point. the way we interpret security in the u.s.

see is that security goes well beyond the military relationships and the security or be disarmament issues security is also stability of our societies. must be based. on some fundamental value of human rights and the principle of rule of law. so this is what also decision stands for but of course the devil is all is always in the details so how how much can you. force a rule of law and implement the laws to the detriment of potential freedoms freedom of. expression of world one's views and the vision of assembly and older than we've seen statements by the government here. referring to the fact that there will be investigations if there have been abuses or setter but but

it's a matter of all sides acting responsibly absolutely but i think and i know that you imagine a different minister a fair ukraine and yes trust that all sides have to respect the laws. but i think we can also see from some of the european countries the reaction from them has been that you know the people's right of free assembly has to be respected there's a lot of emphasis on the right to assemble freely and i think it's not that simple because strict politics is obviously a very imprecise masher of assessing democratic attitudes and people who gather it in the center of key if these these day demand nothing less than the resignation of the government and early elections something that some part of the electorate may support and some parts of the electorate may very strongly oppose but. it seems that in derek case and many european countries supported that very strongly.