i mean, there's talk about whether australia should join nato. should israel join nato. and i'm thinking, what? whatever happened to north atlantic, you know? so i think -- i spent some days last year in april of 2009 at the no to war, no to nato protest in stausberg. i haven't been teargassed that badly in a pretty long time. >> host: how many times have you been teargassed? >> guest: i don't know exactly. but in my youth, as a student activist, teargas was fierce and flying a lot. >> host: but back to stausberg. >> guest: but back to stausberg, we were managed to get away from the most of it but it was a pretty bad back. we had to hike back to 8 miles to the hotel because the whole city was under armed control of the military. it was a joint french and german military. they had 30,000 troops there. not police but troops to, quote, secure the city. and we had a legal place for the mobilization but when the teargas started we were blocked off and we couldn't get back to where we needed to go so we had to hike essentially around the entire city. it was a pretty interestin

solutions that nato is not our strategic partner however that's the russian nato summit in lisbon we agreed to move towards a strategic partnership this is a breakthrough in relations as a first time such a goal has been said on such a high level by the leaders of russia and nato are good you would like our relations with nato to be free from stereotypes of the past which we would also like to make sure nonexistent problems are not as worst of all in our relationships that were so your moves into two thousand and ten has also been very important here in terms of that there in those relations because the talks began on creating a joint anti-missile defense shield in europe with the participation of russia and nato and of course this is something that needs to be worked on a lot this year according to russian foreign minister sergei lavrov as by achieving this anti-missile defense joint anti-missile defense system this will be a final blow to the heritage of the cold war that still remains in minds of some politicians according to. and still to come here on here in just a few moments t

condemnation for the last also came from nato alliance and russia pledged to work closely together in the fight against global terror nato's ministry committee chairman told all see that the defeat of extremism is possible but only if those units had the international community. we were already agreed that. the fight against terrorism is one of the main iraq operation the need to rush a worker program what happened in the monday is an even more and other witnesses to the ins and is increasing our determination to work together to fight terror because steroids as not like to as not terrorism is terrorism. and we need to work together to counter it to win it that's what we have to do all the information going together. cheek of the general staff of the russian armed forces and brussels for discussions on the development of joint nato russian missile defenses general macarthur called on his counterparts for clarity moscow's role and a plan to your pain missile shield taken on the south nato partners are still reluctance to listen to cram in proposals. building missile defense systems in

general staff of the russian armed forces and brussels for discussions on the development of joint nato russian missile defense is a check on the current called on his counterparts for clarity moscow's role in a planned european missile shield the commander says that may so partners are still reluctant to listen to the kremlin proposals. which he did not build in missile defense systems in europe is complicated because it affects the global stability reached through the new start treaty the russian proposals have unfortunately not been mit's with full understanding first later suggests building the systems stage by stage is the logical it's unacceptable for us we must understand what russia's final role in building a missile defense systems is nato in the us said we should stop to analyze all the threats and challenges and to understand how we'll cooperate this gives us confidence that we'll be building those missile defense systems together if not the consequences will be disastrous. and also there's more russian nato in our interview with the chairman of the federation council's forei

they're targeting and they know why they're targeting well following the attack it doesn't have a nato and russia have to work closely together in the fight against global terror as a matter of priority and it has made it to committee chairman total t. the victory over terrorism is possible only if there is unity among the international community we will raid the agreed that. the fight against terrorism is one of the main a radical preacher in the need to rush a worker program what happened in the monday is an even more and then the witnesses to the ins and so is increasing you know that to me need to work together to fight terror because terrorists as no like to as no call to raise food and we need to work together to counter it to win it that's what we have to do old international community together. even so work on a joint missile defense system in europe remains a stumbling block in russia nato relations at that meeting in brussels russian military officials called on the lines to give clear answers over moscow's role in the european missile shield russia's chief of the general sta

well there's more on russia and nato and our interview with the chairman of the federation council's foreign affairs committee and that second later in the program. protests inspired by the revolt in tunisia have dominated egypt yemen and. when the author of the book full spectrum dominance told me earlier that this wave of unrest of the same roots is the color revolutions seen in post seventy countries what happened in georgia with the orange revolution or rather the rose revolution in georgia in ukraine with the orange revolution two thousand and three two thousand and four was part of a long term strategy orchestrated by the pentagon the state department and various us financed and geos like the freedom house and national endowment for democracy to create nato regime change in those former soviet union areas and to literally encircle russia now the what what's going on in the middle east with the jasmine revolution. in tunisia that we saw a few days ago and now in egypt well we have a food crisis taking place that is the backdrop and within that you have these n.g.o.s like freedom

on the way here not here at all nato. has announced a new unity government headed by the incumbent prime minister to ready the country for elections this comes off to vote in protest as overthrew the president of the twenty three year rule forcing him to flee the country the atmosphere remains tense with protesters urging the revolution to continue in a bid to force radical changes in government professor hall gardner a political scientist from the american university of paris told me earlier that what used to be a relatively stable country but for europe and africa could now explode the whole region. the main problem for most of the middle east countries and islamic countries in general is what i call the youth bulge of the youth a large percentage of your men entering the workforce who don't have opportunities for jobs this is a problem for pakistan. ghana stands throughout much of the middle east it needs more competition needs more investment it needs it needs some international encouragement if it doesn't get that th

are greater than you would like our relations with nato to be free from stereotypes of the past. we would also like to make sure nonexistent problems are not forced upon our relationships so you move into the two thousand and ten has also been very important here in terms of those relations because the talks began on creating a joint and sorry missile defense shield in europe with the participation of russia and nato and of course this is something that needs to be worked on a lot this year according to a russian foreign minister sergei lavrov as bar achieving this anti-missile defense joint anti-missile defense system this will be a final blow to the heritage of the cold war that still remains in minds of some politicians according to law. still so calm. a few moments the red hot red line debate plane is doing a very proponents battle down from the back pages of newspapers but how one of the effect the world's oldest profession. i'm a russian agent superstar of the allies that was on that ovechkin appears to be the latest spotlight to go out into the cold but all is not quite as

it obviously had a much more dangerous view of nato than we do or europeans to. >> the nato expansion was ill-advised in the 1990's because there was no particular reason to do that, and the reason the american government gave at that time to promote democracy in the country store being taken in were purely hypocritical and on the one hand the countries that joined were solid democracies and on the other hand if nato were really a democracy promoting instrument as it isn't, then we had an enormous stake in bringing into nato the one country where democracy was most in jeopardy, mainly russia. but the administration of the time, the clinton administration made clear that russia would never be invited to join. now nato doesn't pose a military threat to russia. but it is a way of excluding russia from europe and it's a way of making russia a second-class citizen in european security affairs, and those of us who oppose the expansion of nato in the mid-1990s predicted, and it wasn't just me, it was virtually all people with real expertise in russia in putting the late george kennan we fear

nato has missile defense plans in europe have long been a bone of contention between the alliance and moscow russia has repeatedly expressed concern the project may threaten its security at a nato summit in lisbon that last november president movie have ever said russia doesn't necessarily want to take part in the alliances initiative but does have proposals of its own secretary general anders fogh rasmussen says nato envisages two independent missile defense systems with russia that would operate side by side and plans to discuss this soon with moscow. well lawmakers in a rushers upper house of parliament say they've taken advice from experts to ratify a landmark arms reduction deal between moscow and washington they now have to wait for the start treaty to pass its third and a final hearing in the lower house on tuesday the agreement was signed by president spent a year there and obama last year and will slash the country's nuclear arsenals by a third it has already been approved by the u.s. senate which included its own interpretations of the text in response russian legislature to

solutions to nato is not our strategic partner however as the russian nato summit in lisbon. partnership. such a goes been said on such a high level but the leaders of russia. would like our relations with nato to be free from stereo. to make sure it's nonexistent problems. so you move into two thousand and ten has also been very important here in terms of those relations because the talks began on creating a joint anti-missile defense shield in europe with the participation of russia and nato and of course this is something that needs to be worked on a lot this year according to a russian foreign minister sergei lavrov as bar achieving this anti-missile defense joint anti-missile defense system this will be a final blow to the heritage of the cold war that still remains in minds of some politicians according to. the way seeing red in the red light district find out how a battle for three out on is newspapers which walters going to protect women is leaving those in the sex trade fire. ravaged fun earthquake that claim david two hundred thousand lives a year ago haiti is still

national endowment for democracy to create nato regime change in those former soviet union areas and to literally encircle russia now the what what's going on in the middle east with the jasmine revolution. in tunisia that we saw a few days ago and now in egypt well we have a food crisis taking place it is the backdrop and within that you have these n.g.o.s like freedom house training activists in trade unions and various other organizations to demand democracy demand human rights and so forth the majority of this appears to be orchestrated very finally by by the technique that was perfected of nonviolent revolution by gene sharp's albert einstein institution and institute in cambridge the same footprint that we saw going back as far as serbia with the ouster of milosevic. russia's own forces now reportedly have a brand new nuclear warhead at their disposal it doesn't violate any part of the recently signed reduction treaty with the u.s. and the design it says it will be able to beat any current missile defense system and any other being built all these other but it takes it up. the

alliance we understand that pretty well so if we do that i mean missile defense project with nato that means that we shall be doing that project also together with the united states of america and and other nato member states so i think that the signing of. the private treaty between. united states america and russian federation gave very positive impact on the process of restoring mutual understanding and mutual trust between russia and nato so we are moving ahead and i think that the rectification will help that movement a lot is it fair to say that russia has embraced the spirit of the treaty while the u.s. is focused strictly on the your letter off the law well actually i think many people both in washington and in moscow have embraced the spirit of the treaty the problem before my american colleagues the way i see it is a very tough discussion a very tough you for you allow me to call it political. fight between the democrats on the river and the republicans mostly on the. internal agenda and unfortunately as it very often happens in many countries foreign policy and security issu

following the attack i don't yet have a vote on monday nato and russia have developed so what closely together in the fight against global terror making it a matter of priority nato as a military committee chairman told us they would see the victory of terrorism is possible but only if there is a unity among the international community we will raid the agreed that. the fight against terrorism is one of the main a vocal preaching the need to rush to work program what happened the monday isn't even moon and other witnesses to dance and so is increasing you know that they may need to work together to play turkey because as no like as not to raise food still we need to work to get the country to do with it that's what we have to do old international community together. even so work on a joint missile defense system in europe remains a stumbling block in russia nato relations at a meeting in brussels russian and military officials called on the airlines to give clear answers over moscow's role in the european missile shield crushers chief of the general staff nikolai mcconnell says the nat

despite the speculations russia has never seen nato as a threat and he actually sees. the status of the relations between russia and nato chain. in the near future dramatic. nato is not our strategic partner however as the russian leaders summit in lisbon we agreed to move towards a strategic partnership this is a breakthrough in relations as a first time set your goals been set on such a high level by the leaders of russia and you would like our relations with nato to be free from stereotypes of the past we would also like to make sure nonexistent problems are not forced upon our relationships. so you move. in two thousand and ten has also been very important here in terms of that there are those relations because talks began on creating a joint anti-missile defense shield in europe with the participation of russia and nato and of course this is something that needs to be worked on a lot this year according to russian foreign minister sergei lavrov as by achieving this anti-missile defense joint anti-missile defense system this will be a final blow to the heritage of

to try to make as many countries as possible for nato because then they would need the equipment that would operate well what he was equipment so they would have to get rid of all of their soviet things by new communications equipment and fighter planes and ground equipment so potentially this huge new market. >> host: and of course even more dangerous was the fact that this was alarming russians to know and because they had been promised there'd be no nato expansion of to their borders back to ronald reagan's time they have already been promised that. and here comes this committee and then the u.s. government and clinton falling right with it. clinton very much under the influence of this committee and actively promoting a free east european state they could find the would join with nato. it was terribly alarming to the russians, and that was in fact stoking the five-year of the cold war. >> guest: well, you know, more so than the other companies, lockheed martin was in the middle of a lot of these political deals. some of the other companies they stood back but lockheed martin decid

nato iran and refused to state who the organization will be backing. china's president says the international currency system led by the us dollar is a product of the past jintao said steps were being taken to replace it with china's national currency but it will be some time before that is accepted he was speaking ahead of a visit to washington this week and the u.s. often accuses china of manipulating the line to help boost exports. and it's the prospect of currency wars which is the subject of this week's cross tell people about looks at whether it's an issue that could saying to the global financial recovery watch the program later today but here's a quick preview. if you want to see where the u.s. is going look at the model it's taking in that europe is taking lithium and iceland the problem with the mortgage market and america versus china is here it wasn't fannie mae that did it it was the massive fraud by commercial banks shame on them. on the banking system it was fraud that brought it down and nobody has been sent to jail at all in fact the f

even so joint missile defense system in europe remains a stumbling block in russia nato relations at a meeting in brussels russian military officials called on the alliance to give clear answers over moscow's role in the european missile shield russia's chief of the general staff nikolai mcconnell says the nato partners are still reluctant to listen to moscow's proposals. building missile defense systems in europe is complicated because it affects the global stability reached through the new start treaty the russian proposals have unfortunately not been mit's with full understanding first later suggests building the systems stage by stage is the logical it's unacceptable for us we must understand what russia's final role in building missile defense systems of is nato in the us said we should stop to analyze all the threats and challenges and to understand how we'll cooperate this gives us confidence that we'll be building those missile defense systems together if not the consequences will be disastrous. for those are much more on the russia or a nato relationship in our interview wit

a waste in the water claims of a big area it's close to close by sunken nato weapons spock's concerns over a toxic legacy that is in danger in people's hands. and in our business update we take a closer look at will be the big winners from the huge deal between oil giants and the multibillion dollar partnerships controlling its all the russian all takes energy trips. with news from russia and from around the world this is all in moscow twenty four hours a day good to have you with us this hour european union finance ministers are meeting in brussels to discuss boosting that bailout fund after the european commission said the current one is too small if more countries such as spain and portugal need emergency funding blue member of the european parliament for the u.k. independence party believes nothing will save the euro because the single currency project was flawed from the start. this bailout fund is really a huge bucket of money which the only people putting serious corners of money into it the germans calls the germans are getting cross because the whole of the bottom of the buck

also waste in the water claims that a big area of adriatic coast is poisoned by sunken nato weapons spots concerns over a toxic legacy that is endangering people's health. and business update at a later major share swap. russia p.-p. historic deal to join explore the potential energy trenches. with news from russia and from around the world this is r.t. here in moscow twenty four hours a day good to have you with us this hour the coastline of the adriatic sea attracts tourists and provides income for fishermen but locals say in recent years the waters have been poisoned because nato has dumped toxic chemicals there including depleted uranium despite many people being made sick by eating the fish caught there diminishing the real life italian government and the alliance remain tight lipped as matthew stevens reports. on this quiet stretch you see there is more than meets the eye this area of the mediterranean has been a minute she dumping ground ever since world war one nervous amount of weaponry in talks which is present in these waters u.s. bombs from the forty's and need a weapons used

and that's more on russia and nato just ahead for you here on r.t. in our interview with mccullough markelov he's a chairman of the federal council's foreign affairs committee he was also one of the key men involved in the decision by the council to approve the long awaited nuclear cuts treaty with the u.s. is a preview of what's on the way in about twenty minutes time. needless to say of the four in the upper chamber of the russian parliament of the work on the fifth cation has started long before the document was brought. to the floor to vote and we were let's say trying to remove all the speed bumps on the way of the read the for creation which could appear because the discussion was rather tough both in washington and did moscow and i think we did a significant amount of work together showing that for us both on the capitol hill and here in moscow the word that is a reset is not just the words we mean when we say the reset we need that reset unfortunately during the last twenty years we failed to work out the positive. agenda but was called war a

start treaty the russian proposals have unfortunately not been mit's with full understanding first nato suggests building the systems stage by stage the logical that's unacceptable for us we must understand what russia's final role in building missile defense systems is nato in the us said we should stop and was all the threats and challenges and to understand how we'll cooperate this gives us confidence that we'll be building those missile defense systems together if not the consequences will be disastrous. and russia has acquired a brand new nuclear warhead which its main designers has would defeat both current missile the fancy systems and those under construction are these our balance joins us live now with more details on this i never tell us what's so special about this new missile. but as you said the designers say it will be able to penetrate almost all the french shields not only current ones the. production for the next forty years now this concept is so unique so groundbreaking actually prompted the chief designer of the missile to come out and say that thirty years ago this

following the ratification of the strategic arms reduction treaty by moscow and washington russia nato is top military officials to discuss joint missile defense in europe the two agreed in lisbon last november how to cooperate in the creation of a system to have the russian general staff nicol on a card says there should be a clear understanding of the outcome of the project. building missile defense systems in europe is complicated because it affects the global stability reached through the new start treaty the russian proposals have unfortunately not been mit's with full understanding first nato suggests building the systems stage by stage the logical that's unacceptable for us we must understand what russia's final role in building missile defense systems is nato in the us said we should stop to analyze all the threats and challenges and to understand how we'll cooperate this gives us confidence that we'll be building those missile defense systems together if not the consequences will be disastrous. and building global security has become more likely where the signing of the new st

and a toxic tourist trap claims that nato is dumping poison glue the depleted uranium. to see me to solve that's really a lot instead of government some local seven fishermen here to have the first. waltz of all business forward to take a closer look at who will be the big winners from the huge share swap deal or. meet in a multi-billion dollar partnership between the russian architects and. you're watching r t two in the morning here in moscow a very warm welcome to you now euro zone finance ministers are meeting in brussels to discuss further boosting the e.u. bailout which was set up all the last year well the european commission and the european central bank want to deepen the fund saying it's currently too small if a larger eurozone members like spain need help belgium's finance minister did you arrange the emergency pot should be doubled to one. in five trillion euros however germany has so far ruled out any substantial increase reflecting major tensions in the union. member of the european parliament for the u.k. independence party says the bailout won't work bec

but at the same time they're working towards nato expansion. a huge new market. >> host: that brings up another theme that's extremely interesting that i'd love for you to talk about it, the theme about how lockheed got involved in influencing, once again, the cold war as at the beginning in 1947 through the aircraft industry association they'd helped to start the cold war after the berlin wall came down and russia collapsed and suddenly everybody was left with no threat and no reason to have a huge defense budget. lockheed pitched in mightily, right? >> guest: yes. >> host: both to help start a new cold war through nato expansion. >> guest: there was a group called the u.s. committee to expand nato, and it ends up their main employee was bruce jackson who was also vice president of lockheed martin. >> host: very critically active vice president. >> guest: in many ways, yes. he was co-finance chair for dole for president campaign in 1996. he chaired the platform committee for the 2000 republican convention to help create the platform that georg

the toxic tourist trap claims that nato is dumping poison it including depleted uranium in the toilet adriatic sea with silence for the alliance and the italian government . dead. you're watching r t coming to you live from moscow six in the morning here welcome to the program euro zone finance ministers are meeting in brussels to discuss further boosting the e.u. bailout fund which was set up only last year now the european commission and the european central bank want to deepen the fund saying it's currently too small if larger eurozone members like spain it need help well belgium's finance minister did a ranger said the emergency pause should be doubled to one point five trillion euros however germany has so far ruled out any substantial increase reflecting major tensions in the union godfrey blue member of the european parliament for the u.k. independence party says the bailout won't work because of the scale of debts in the e.u. . this bailout fund is really a huge bucket of money which the only people putting serious corners of money into it are the germans calls the germans are

also waste in the water claims that a big area of brittany's adriatic coast is poisoned by sunken nato weapons concerns over a toxic legacy that is in danger in people's health. and in the business update for a little later share swap to oil giants of russia will see if the b.p. team and i think story deal to join the explore the optics potential energy traction. european union finance ministers are meeting in brussels to discuss boosting their bailout fund after the european commission said the current one is too small if more countries such as spain and portugal needed in the agency funding when i spoke to. the european parliament for the u.k. independence party nothing will save the euro because the single currency project was flawed from the start. this bailout fund is really a huge bucket of money which the only people putting serious corners of money into it the germans calls the germans are getting cross because the whole of the bottom of the bucket so what's actually happening it doesn't matter how much money you put into this huge bailout bucket it's not going to work until so

spoke to nato military committee chairman admiral deepal says the fight against terrorism remains a top priority. we have already agreed that. the fight against terrorism is one of the main iraq operation the made to russia worker program what happened in that the move there go monday is an even more and other witnesses to the ins and increasing our determination to work together to fight terror because terrorists as no lack good as not terrorism is their own and we need to work together to counter it to win it that's what we have to do with all the information coming together following the ratification of a strategic arms reduction treaty by moscow and washington russia and nato as top military officials met to discuss joint missile defense and europe the two agreed lisbon last november how to cooperate in the creation of the system the chief of the general staff nicole on a card says there should be a clear understanding of the outcome of the project. of building missile defense systems in europe is complicated because it affects the global stability reached through the new start trea

the status of the relations between russia and nato changing in the near future very much. as the russian needle summit in lisbon we agreed to move towards a strategic partnership this is a breakthrough in relations as a first time such a goal has been said on such a high level by the leaders of russia and you would like our relations with a new you know to be free from stereotypes of the past two thousand and ten has also been very important here in terms of that there are those relations because the talks began on creating a joint anti-missile defense shield in europe with the participation of russia and nato and of course this is something that needs to be worked on a lot this year according to the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov as by achieving this anti-missile defense joint anti-missile defense system this will be a final blow to the heritage of the cold war that still remains in minds of some politicians according to. you watching r.t. from moscow ahead in a few moments the red hot red light debate. arguing over a proposed ban on sex on the back pages of newsp

we would like nato. so we should have shared stereotypes of the cold war era relaxing to listen to each other. we don't want any artificial problems is not just one example to prove their point where you me it's about the military doctrine of the russian federation under the law to bet it's similar you may have. had some articles because of both mr interviewer presses in both the russian president. personally. and any other top officials have explained warts them. because they're in the dock tree in nature is not mentioned as a threat to the russian federation but it's there what it says there is that it's better for us. with intention meaning in the process with transformation expansion from the more. assigned the powers to rules. to regulate the relationship. in exchange for group. you tonight a nation that's. you can just read it so sure if the group. despite all of the explanation and so many of our partners still say that russia has officially declared nato as a threat. i've read this declaration in

meeting in march it is a nato defense ministers meeting. we will discuss command and control mechanisms as regards to our missile defense system, how could we imagine these mechanisms to be implemented within a nato base missile defense system. so that's the item on the agenda for defense ministers meeting in march. what we also stress in that respect for transparency in russia, so the russians will be informed about our considerations in that respect. >> [inaudible] coming back to the visit to nato, you have explained regulations, but at the same time the opinion will be thinking that you are saying hello to a president has been qualified especially this moment this morning by the worst human rights defenders of the world and the same time you were asking the public opinion to support the fight of nato in afghanistan to support democracy. so there is nothing between these two? >> thank you. >> let me stress that in is a very important part of our partnership's programs to have a dialogue with our partners on human rights, space principles