president, our friends in central and eastern europe are worried about the uncertainties surrounding a russia that appears at times to be reverting back to an authoritative state, seeking to weaponize its oil and natural gas resources as a means to expand its influence on europe and the west. russia has the largest reserves of natural gas and the eighth-largest oil reserves. moscow turned off the tap to europe in the recent past. they can do it again. we should also be concerned about moscow aougs its control -- using its control of oil and natural gas to pit members of nato against each other. i know when i was at the brussels forum this year and last year, i spoke with our friends in the e.u. and encouraged them that rather than unilaterally negotiating with russia in terms of natural gas that they should all come together and negotiate as a team so that they wouldn't be -- one wouldn't be pit off against the other. unfortunately, most of them ignored that. finally, mr. president, i am deeply troubled that the obama administration has tkpaoe coupled -- decoupled russia's human righ

it has it has relevance and it is most relevance for those countries in eastern europe and the baltic states which were formerly in the warsaw pact they see nato is a shield against possible russian aggression but that said martin i mean what is like what possible threat does russia pose to eastern europe and the baltic states i mean quite seriously except expression since. russia has been courting them for economic for trade reasons for investment reasons i mean haven't we really taken the military threat off the table now i mean what interest with russia have in terms of a military i on europe any more ideas it doesn't make any logical sense especially when both europe the european union and russia have doing very their very best to mend fences ok go ahead that is correct but one has that you may look at from britain and france and germany and say russia is not a military threat we don't fear russia but you go to say poland or a stone in latvia and they tell you a different story so therefore it depends on their history they look back to one thousand nine hundred is a good long memo

president, our friends in central and eastern europe are worried about the uncertainties surrounding a russia that appears at times to be reverting back to an authoritative state, seeking to weaponize its oil and natural gas resources as a means to expand its influence on europe and the west. russia has the largest reserves of natural gas and the eighth-largest oil reserves. moscow turned off the tap to europe in the recent past. they can do it again. we should also be concerned about moscow aougs its control -- using its control of oil and natural gas to pit members of nato against each other. i know when i was at the brussels forum this year and last year, i spoke with our friends in the e.u. and encouraged them that rather than unilaterally negotiating with russia in terms of natural gas that they should all come together and negotiate as a team so that they wouldn't be -- one wouldn't be pit off against the other. unfortunately, most of them ignored that. finally, mr. president, i am deeply troubled that the obama administration has tkpaoe coupled -- decoupled russia's human righ

regional is eastern. europe and serious former soviet union countries and other direct neighbors in position program is a good instrument to promote most. and. still the overall international financial center programme involves not just our projection of russian as it is but also making moscow a comfortable place to live for into the business and this is one of the tasks of the new mayor of moscow to do something it's also it also requires changes in the legislation and. preparation of proposals how to change the financial just ration packs legislation to improve for investment climate in russia investment climate in moscow and also it's about administrative procedures about simplified visa and work permit. procedures to. simplify life for people simplify. ways for people to come to russians work to russia it's important for everyone otherwise people to just not come. let's question is where is. economics what to do and policies like start flocking to get the w t o russian session to double tiro and the position

the situation in eastern and central europe after the fall of the communist dictatorships and thanks to this that police asian. the economy has also prospered in eastern and central europe and russia has profited from that russia has profited from peace and stability along western border and russia has profited from the economic development through more trade envoy and more investment in eastern and central europe and this is the reason why i'm quite optimistic about developing a truthful t.v. partnership between nato and russia at a strategic partnership which involves. political consultation and also practical cooperation mr rasmussen only five countries are reported to contribute to nato military birgitte these are the. face france united kingdom greece a no brainier the list includes a country like albania and excluding a country like germany you still optimistic you you you don't see this as as a trace of upcoming financial crisis in your going as asia i have to stress that all twenty eight allies contributed to nato. and as far as defense investments in the individual member sta

that the soviet union was not going to launch it's tanks and launch into eastern europe, or rather intotern europe. it was not going to be -- he was an aide of hitler. he was monstrous enough in his own way, but he was not hitler. kennon believed by setting up nato, you would drive the soviets to do a similar thing, which they did with the warsaw pact and you have the standoff, military standoff in europe. kennon believed we could have avoided that. and he corrected believed that containment, in the long run, would over come the soviet union. they would, in time, disintegrate. the soviet system was so imperfect. indeed, i was in the soviet union in 1979, and i was astonished. i went into a so-called super market. what you found there were some rotting vegetables and some cans of fish. and the shelves were more or less bare. it wasn't just that you could also look at the clothing that the people were wearing on the streets or in the buses that you rode on. and the sense that you had was that it was something almost the third world country. that they had invested so mightily in the build

two, the start treaty's impact on our allies in eastern europe and the ball particular states. i believe -- baltic states. i believe these concerns must be addressed by the administration before i can determine my support for the treaty. mr. president, over the last decade i have been an ardent champion of nato and have worked diligently to increase membership in the aligns. i have also been active in improving our public diplomacy in eastern europe through our expansion of the visa waiver program at the request of our friends and allies in central and eastern europe. and that legislation which the president signed and visa waiver was supported by both our state department and by our department of homeland security. in my remaining time in the senate i will continue to work to strengthen that visa waiver program which improved our image in the world, strengthen our borders through shared best practices, and enhanced intelligence sharing with our partners and allies abroad. my passion for formulation stems in large part from my upbringing as the grandson of southeast european im

meant to make sure fascist ideology stayed in the bloody crossed but the rise of new nazis middle eastern europe is a sign that these ideas still live on let's erosive ski odyssey reporting from thailand is. former. nazi ideologies becoming popular because european governments aren't taking a strong enough stones for i parties became popular in eastern europe because the public in these countries doesn't know enough about its own past i'm teaching university students and i realized that they have very limited knowledge about what happened under the second world war what happened with the how a given jewish population what happened under hitler in germany they have some ideas but not enough knowledge how did these dilute grew up and that's why especially young people who are not satisfied with their lives they are very sensitive for new ideas and they don't have immune system against these ideas so i think that the lack of knowledge is one of the largest reason and the lack of proper politic will stand against this side and i this is the second well. let's take a look around the world at some oth

administration to deploy elements of the solid defense system in eastern europe and now countries like germany have been saying that russia must be a pause of the new shilled now another important issue on today's agenda will be afghanistan nato is now desperately needed russia's help there rasmussen's visit comes on the hills all but unprecedented joint out for a show on the border between afghanistan and pakistan russian intelligence officers helped nato carry out a major end to drop raids as a result of which several towns of drugs hundreds of millions of dollars were destroyed russia is saying under no circumstances it will be sending troops to afghanistan but it is ready to continue what he with nato on antidrug policy is there because russia is the country which stuff was moved from drug trafficking most of the hiring produced in afghanistan ends up in russia and it is just saying that today's talks are likely to be kind of relaxed to rise break up before world leaders sit down to talk more serious business on the bomba the twenty. so with russia on the alliance together on so ma

plans for a showed in eastern europe on to the former president of the united states had serious new world relations with russia but up to drop the bomb was scrapped the plans last year several countries like germany have been saying that russia must be included in the new show at the moment russia nato are working on a joint document which they dubbed assessment of. main challenges and the main thrust of the twenty first century hopefully the document will be ready by the time russia and nato see the talks and ease but how they would pull the shield today's agenda would be again a step not may so now desperately needs russia's help in afghanistan and rasmussen's visit comes just days after an unprecedented joint local ration russian intelligence officers called nato units and to drop weight on the border with pakistan as a result of that wait several tons of power which would destroy what hundreds of millions of doing up to that the russian foreign ministry so that under no circumstances is russia sending it to. step against how the mistake is lead to continue but. not all the citie

plans to be able to shoot in eastern europe so close to russia's borders on to the previous administration of the united states had world relations with russia and up to drop a bomb a scrap those last several countries like germany have been saying that russia must be a part of the new show at the moment russia and nato are working on an important document which they dub a joint assessment of the main threats and challenges of the twenty first century they will decide on those rides on the side and where they originate from now another important issue on today's agenda will be again a stop russell says because it is comes just as we talked to a very important and i'm for saddam to joint oh gracious in afghanistan russian intelligence officers helped carry out an antidote to operate which destroyed several tons of firewood worth over two hundred million tula's. russia's saying that under no circumstances would sun soldiers step ghana stand but it is willing to continue working with nato want to have good agitprop policy most apparently because in afghanistan and up in russia is just still t

missile defense system to eastern europe and this has been a bone of contention between. nato and moscow because the u.s. says that by doing so the nato territories and eastern europe will be protected from a possible missile threats from iran while russia says that there is no threat the two presidents brought this up today but they said that they will hammer out the details of the nato summit upcoming nato summit next week in lisbon and this is what the president medvedev had to say on this matter. is that we believe that russia nature relations have improved it's beneficial for. right now we're working on a number of issues including the so-called european anti missile shield we've exchanged ideas as to what could be done here and will discuss this at the summit apart from that we've been working together in a productive way and will continue to do so. this being the apec summit trade and economy is a very important topic and the two presidents discussed the ascension of russia to the world trade organization of the bit of russia to join the w t o no president obama ha

the revolution turned china communist, soviet union tightened its grip on eastern europe and cruise chov told them we will bury you. he fell to castro. meanwhile out in california hollywood actor began intellectual journey that would make him the most effective communicators ever of conservative ideas. >> reagan was way left. in 1945, 46 and 47 by his own addition he was sympathetic to the new deal. he campaigned vigorously to harry truman in 1948. where did this other come through? i think that process began seriously in 52, 53, 54 particularly 54 when he joins general electric. >> that is par the living better. >> reagan began to hang out with corporate people play golf with corporate presidents and that's when he began to drift toward the republican party. >> the thing about reagan he was self taught. he visited ge factories over a 7 day period traveling by plane because he was afraid to fly. he was traveling with a stack of books and magazines and national review magazine along the way he picked up and absorbed a lot of the founders and he would use these thoughts in his speeches and

the revolution turned china communist, soviet union tightened its grip on eastern europe and cruise chov told them we will bury you. he fell to castro. meanwhile out in california hollywood actor began intellectual journey that would make him the most effective communicators ever of conservative ideas. >> reagan was way left. in 1945, 46 and 47 by his own addition he was sympathetic to the new deal. he campaigned vigorously to harry truman in 1948. where did this other come through? i think that process began seriously in 52, 53, 54 particularly 54 when he joins general electric. >> that is par the living better. >> reagan began to hang out with corporate people play golf with corporate presidents and that's when he began to drift toward the republican party. >> the thing about reagan he was self taught. he visited ge factories over a 7 day period traveling by plane because he was afraid to fly. he was traveling with a stack of books and magazines and national review magazine along the way he picked up and absorbed a lot of the founders and he would use these thoughts in his speeches and

the revolution turned china communist, soviet union tightened its grip on eastern europe and cruise chov told them we will bury you. he fell to castro. meanwhile out in california hollywood actor began intellectual journey that would make him the most effective communicators ever of conservative ideas. >> reagan was way left. in 1945, 46 and 47 by his own addition he was sympathetic to the new deal. he campaigned vigorously to harry truman in 1948. where did this other come through? i think that process began seriously in 52, 53, 54 particularly 54 when he joins general electric. >> that is par the living better. >> reagan began to hang out with corporate people play golf with corporate presidents and that's when he began to drift toward the republican party. >> the thing about reagan he was self taught. he visited ge factories over a 7 day period traveling by plane because he was afraid to fly. he was traveling with a stack of books and magazines and national review magazine along the way he picked up and absorbed a lot of the founders and he would use these thoughts in his speeches and

tomorrow nato will talk with russia about a planned missile defense system in eastern europe. >>> after serious improvement the bridge will stay on at maryland. >>> at 5:31, how the wilson bridge work could make drivers miserable. >>> and at 5:40 the new coin you could soon see in your pocket. it's 5:12, you're watching 9news now. leave hair healthy. while 5 moisturizers selsun blue. got a clue? get the blue. >>> good morning, coming up on 5:15, welcome back to 9news now. howard bernstein is here with the forecast, another good weekend. >>> we've been on a role. this will be number seven if i'm counting correctly. >> this is the first weekend in october we had rain on a sunday. since then we've been going, going, going. if you have outdoor plans do it this weekend. there are signs next weekend look rather cold around here. we're talking 30s and 40s for highs next weekend. let's not get ahead of ourselves. your momslikeme.com bus stop forecast, we have 30s and 40s right now. a couple areas may dip into the upper 20s before the sunrises, and that will not happen until 6:55. the sunset is

the eastern -- parts of eastern europe will start to see that rain move in from the west. that will cool things down across belarus and western russia. rain coming into athens. 22 degrees. looking at 19 in rome with rain as well. here's your extended forecast. >>> once again, the headlines this hour, a death sentence has been given for the first time in a lay judge trial in japan since the system was introduced may last year. on tuesday, a panel of judges, including ordinary citizens, handed town the sentence to a man channeled with robbery and double murder. the 32-year-old unemployed man was found guilty of kill two men and taking about $160,000 in june last year. one of the men operated a mahjong parlor. the defendant dumped the body abouts of the victims in the water. prosecutors said the defendant deserved a death sentence for what they described as a cold-blooded crime. they said the man killed one of the victims with an electric saw while he pleaded for his life. the defendant had admitted to all charges. >>> in a lay judge trial, six randomly chosen citizens serve

berlin has germany's largest jewish community, made up of recent immigrants from eastern europe. >> this woman growth in ukraine at the time of the soviet union, where religion was taboo. her parents took her to the synagogue for the first time when she was 13. >> on the one hand, it was the first time and gained access to the language and religion. on the other hand, it was something natural. i knew i belonged there. >> eight years ago, she came to germany to be trained as a rabbi. she studied at a college in berlin. she is the first woman to be ordained as a rabbi in germany nce 1935. >> it is important me that jews in germany develop a positive i did in a, not something related to persecution and the holocaust but a positive identity. >> she will become a rabbi for jewish communities in lower saxony. as in many other places in germany, the jewish community there is primarily composed of immigrants from the former soviet union. >> i have the linguistic tools to reach people and key medicate jewish religious content in a more understandable way -- and communicate jewish religious conten

like many other european cities but no other city in eastern europe suffered. the polish capital to be razed to the ground those instructions were carried out with cruise determination. today it's hard to imagine that here where these beautiful streets restored castles now stand they used to be just broken people completely rebuilt best city stone by stone. if. you. deserted the german side driving people thought a little of the bank of the river once again the city is being systematically destroyed street after street in a house after house buildings are being blown up and burned all its ability plainly the c.d.'s being raised to the ground. the nazis made infantry's of old buildings that had survived damn raids and blew them up in accordance with its clear cut chad duell they made a special point of destroying historical buildings and architectural landmarks as a matter of priority not psy-ops experts prepared a special register just for this purpose. is an acquittal of the entire all the castle was in ruins that's the gist you nineteen forty five zero three

this is also going to be changing the wind direction across eastern europe, helping to cool things downow. 3 degrees, 8 in moscow. still a little bit milder than usual but much, much cooler after we saw some record-breaking temperatures in moscow earlier in the week. all right, here's your extended forecast now. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> once again, the headlines this hour, japan's ruling democratic party has unveiled its draft proposal for new security policies. it includes plans to strengthen self-defense forces in the east china sea. the party's foreign and security policy panel came up with the draft. it comes shortly before planned revisions to the nation's defense program guidelines. the draft says japan should reinforce its maritime and air self-defense forces to improve monitoring of nearby waters. it says japan's defense policy should focus on areas southwest of the country, instead of the north, in order to check china's naval moves in the east china sea. the draft added that ground self-defense force troops should be scaled back, except in the southern most japanese prefecture of oki

eastern europe and central asia showed sharp rises in both new infections and age-related deaths. the key cause is drug users sharing needles, but a needle exchanges like this one are few and far between, and the united nations says bad laws and discrimination, particularly in relation to drug users or homosexuals, continue to hamper the fight against aids, which means that despite signs that in some countries at least the of aids epidemic is in decline, the united nations' vision of zero new infections and zero deaths remains a long way off. >> just a footnote there -- it seems that drug use by gay men to fight the virus may offer some protection against contracting it. research in new england journal of medicine suggests a drug can reduce the charges of mail to mail hiv infection by 44%. latest headlines for you this hour on "bbc world news" -- after an exchange of fire between the two koreas, the south korean president has ordered the army to strike back against north korea if there are what he calls additional provocation. 10 people describe as islam must have been arrested in

-backed missile defense system in eastern europe. >> i suspect that we'll get a lot of very warm feelings but, in practice, the outcome is unlikely to be very significant. >> reporter: experts say russia isn't fully convinced the system won't be used against it. in fact, the country has already warned if it feels threatened, it could pull out of the missile treaty worked out with the u.s. last year. president obama has been accused of neglecting some of his european allies. this will be his eighth trip to the continent since taking office. he'll also address growing concerns over the global economy. betty? >> all right. whit johnson in washington sh, whit, thank you. >>> before leaving washington, mr. obama called on senate republicans to ratify a nuclear arms treaty with russia by january 1st. the treaty would cut both arsenals from 2200 warheads to 1500 with inspectors to verify compliance. former top officials from both parties joined the president in support of the ratification. >> the key point here is this is not about politics. it's about national security. this is not a matter tha