and dr adrian pops to professor of politics of the university of kent says was nato's position of weakening its members are well aware their lives cannot exist without russia the europeans have been arguing for a long time behind the scenes that russia needs to be brought on board that nato can not function properly without stronger russian involvement that required a different attitude in moscow which was seen with present mediators but also a new openness on the part of all the nato partners and even countries traditionally more critical and perhaps even hostile towards russia such as poland the baltic states recently acknowledged that it's greater dialogue and more cooperation with moscow a good thing for everyone involved this is asio still ahead the nuremberg justice. it was not just a few people who had to be punished but the new time ideology of the mass killing or the sixty five years after the nuremberg trials saw tom narses convicted of crimes against humanity when best to gage why some of europeans continued to glorify the shameful fascist. political influence abroad is bought an

prospects of the welfare state i'm joined by peter taylor goopy in canterbury he's professor at the university of kent in dusseldorf we go to god for steingart he's an international bestselling author and the editor in chief of handel's blog and in boston we go to lawrence he's professor at boston university and another member of our cross talk team on the hunger all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect means you can jump in anytime you want well i've done many cross talk programs gentlemen but i've never come across a topic that is so last loved in the world especially in the western world and that is the welfare state so gentlemen the welfare state once the pride and glory of western democracies has it become a curse peter in canterbury could i go to you first no i wouldn't say that the welfare state is i think trade me properly or in the u.k. the problem is that the government doesn't believe that we can afford it well peter can you afford it. i don't see why not it's simply a decision about how you spread in public ma mary if people are prepared to pay for public services there's no problem

comment two from dr adrian pabst he's professor of politics at the university of kent he says with nato his position weakening its members are well aware the alliance cannot exist without russia. the europeans have been arguing for a long time behind the scenes that russia needs to be brought on board that nato can not function properly without stronger russian involvement that required a different attitude in moscow which was seen with present material but also a new openness on the part of all the nato partners and even countries traditionally more critical and perhaps even hostile towards russia such as potent of the baltic states have recently acknowledged doubts greater dialogue and more cooperation with moscow are a good thing for everyone involved. buying influence abroad doesn't come cheap as hard up american taxpayers are falling out of their cost right now the u.s. is spending billions of dollars to finance opposition politicians and parties overseas that fit in with washington's foreign policy plans and the second part of a special report next visit explains how it's being. v

discussions going on in lisbon at the moment for now dr adrian pap's a professor of politics at the university of kent many thanks for joining us with your thoughts in this segment nato summit. well still ahead a chilling echo from the pot. it was not just a few people who had to be punished but. mass killing. sixty five years on from the convictions of hitler this circle at the nuremberg trials some of resorted to reestablishing that message of hate. now buying influence of broad doesn't come cheap as harper barrack and taxpayers are finding out to their cost the u.s. is spending billions of dollars to finance all position politicians and parties over things that fit in with washington's foreign policy plans in the second special report r.t. the half it explains how it's being done. great party but who's picking up the tab apparently the american taxpayer nine billion dollars spent by the united states agency for international development and promoting washington's democracy initiatives. a new model for influencing a target country's internal politics and favor of u.s. interests to financing training

kent is a professor of aerospace engineer at the -- engineering at the university of virginia. is also head of automobile safety research at the university of virginia's center for applied biomechanics. dr. kent, could you proceed with your opening remarks. >> i'm sort of following up on what stu started with. i'm going to talk a little bit about some of the characteristics of our body that change as we age. certainly they are related to individual variability as well. there are some things that in general with aging have some important consequences with crash protection. i'm going to start reiterating some of the points that dr. wang made, because i think it is a critical one. that is this change in the distribution of injury pattern. this happens to be the pattern of injury by body region for drivers that are killed in frontal crashes. this is not the risk of injury, this is the proportion of injury, given that an injury happens. we see this general trend periodically of head injuries decreasing as age increases whereas thorasic injuries make up a large number, and this persis

richard kent, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the university of virginia with additionalppointments in biomedical engineering and emergency medicine. he is also head of automobile safety research at the university of virginia's center for applied biomechanics. dr. kent, could you, please, proceed with your opening remarks? >> yes, thank you, dr. poland. sort of following up on what stu started with, i'm going to talk a little bit about some of the characteristics of our body that change as we age, and certainly they are related to individual variability as well as well, bue are some thicks that generally trend with aging that have important consequences for crash protection. and i'm going to start reiterating one of the points that dr. wang made because i think it's a critical one, and that is this change in the distribution of injury pattern. this happens to be the pattern of injury by body region for drivers that are killed in frontal crashes. this is not the risk of injury, this is the proportion of injury given that an injury happens. and we see this general trend per

kent is a professor of medical aerospace engineering at the university of virginia with additional appointments in biomedical engineering and emergency medicine. he has also hit of automobile safety research at the university of virginia center for applied by yo mechanics. dr. kent, can you please proceed with your opening remarks. >> thank you, dr. poland. following up on what stewart started with i'm going to talk a little bit about some of the characteristics from our body that change as the age and certainly they are related to individual variability as well there are some things that generally trend with aging that have pretty important consequences for the crash protection, and i'm going to start reiterating one of the plants dr. wang made because i think it's a critical one and that is the change in the distribution of injury patterns. this happens to be the pattern of injury by body region for drivers killed in frontal crashes. this isn't the risk of injury this is the proportion given that injury happens. and we see this general trend periodically of head injuries decreasing as age inc