bracing to catch up with the present nato gathers for a summit in lisbon to try and tackle its post cold war identity crisis. bringing democracy to others u.s. style with u.s. money american swam their government for the billions of taxpayer dollars funding regime change abroad which they say is only backfiring on them. and russian lawmakers are set to relieve the country's overcrowded prisons by granting minor offenders a chance to stay out of jail. from the business desk of us by the reserve chairman ben bernanke he defends the decision to print six hundred billion dollars insisting it will boost the world economy many developing countries are concerned we could go

with their economies it's in russia has little to. no business. watching ninety coming to live from moscow i'm marina josh and welcome to the program nato still searching so that is to kick off in portugal and friday the alliance is developing a new strategy to tackle its identity crisis and it was created sixty years ago as a military bloc opposing the soviet union almost two decades after the end of the cold war nato is still looking for a clear contemporary goal lauren lyster reports. it's the biggest and oldest military alliance in modern times but when you think about what it's places in the world today. the answer. the

answer doesn't come easily and not just for one speechless american official decades after the cold war ended with no common enemy originally supposed to define i defend western europe against the soviet union nato allies have been at a loss for a new one and at a loss for a clear purpose of identity crisis for a while we can severely by the seemingly endless afghan war with nato members growing weary in countries such as canada and the netherlands pulling troops out the power of the block is in question. in many of the places in the world with the. lack of. ability to transform. the depths and perhaps the consequences of a growing group of now twenty eight nations driven together but still largely led by the interests of one of the united states is trying to use need to. directly tries to use need. to fulfill american missions yet everyone feels the

strain with goals not laid out since before the attacks on nine eleven which drove the alliance into war there's not much that's concrete to guide an organization seemingly in crisis which is just one reason why now when lisbon this meeting matters here at the nato summit the alliance will try to buy from modern relevance with the promise of new strategic goals but also here in lisbon are another group of international critics who believe that there is no place for nato and the twenty first century reiner brown is planning an anti nato protest you know i think there is no place for major i think there is no place for me who lives any longer in the world because you can and you of the. a problem with military not and nato is now looking to an old foe for help solving its problems with. which. emerged as. basically one of the leading global players

it's impossible for them to deal with such. issues like the war on going war in afghanistan they're looking to russia for help with supply routes in fighting the drug trade and now an organization that famously touted a mission of keeping the russians out and the americans in needs the russians in afghanistan to help americans get out i'm not sure what nato is in the twenty first century and i think it's i was dated and without a major rethinking of its goals policies and missions and alliance looking for a new place in the world may find itself. the answer. fumbling along without one born mr r.t. lisbon portugal russia and nato have been disagreeing over how the illegal drug trade on the data stand in moscow insist the alliance should start

a radical poppy fields which nato is reluctant to do getting bush on advice rector of the russian foreign minister's diplomatic academy says the problem should be dealt was more effectively. some people in the worst some of this is the many people who depend on drug production so if you take drugs from them they will go to terrorists and of course russia cannot accept this kind of strategy we put pressure on the west to fight for it because it's a good evil for us and i think that to some some attributes we have joint operations with nato countries against drug producers difficult will try because of the drug problem is not only for us it's also for europe with us also for america we have to do something for this person's drug from them and give them some of the choice to go away like it used to be done in thailand with those people who used to rely on the drug production that led to some of them became just peaceful normal presence. there secretary general caught up with r.t.

you had of the summit and gave his forecast of the alliance's meeting with russia as well as what he predicts about the country's future involvement. nato will decide to develop a nato based missile defense system at the summit and of course we can't expect the russian president to give an answer just a few hours after after a nato decision but what we will do at the nato russia meeting in lisbon is to initiate a joint analysis of how nato russia cooperation on missile defense could be implemented and that would be a very very positive step forward so. i think the nato russia meeting in lisbon will be a very positive and very productive meeting. and

you can watch the full interview with anders fogh rasmussen next hour here on our. as the debt stricken united states struggles with economic downturn more americans are beginning to wonder where all the or taxpayer money is going the u.s. is funding two costly overseas wars bailing out private companies and banks but that's not all of us reports on how washington is investing its cash in revolutionary ways. this is what u.s. backed regime change used to look like back in the days in a bid to ensure u.s. political and economic interests were safeguarded cia backed coup d'etat was announced the democratically elected leaders from home in most a dock in iran to sell the door again day in chile. by the one nine hundred eighty s. the reign of terror that blazed across latin america by washington's henchmen was too much for most people to stomach to replace the overt support for dictatorships

a new concept for regime change was born one that sounds and looks better democracy promotion dr william robinson is the foremost expert on regime change to democracy promotion he wrote the book promoting poli arche might in america. eastern europe with the velvet revolutions in africa in the middle east or really all over all over the world and so the us set up these different mechanisms now for penetrating the civil societies and the political systems that don't have countries that are going to be intervened and to assure that the outcomes would be pleasing to to washington's foreign policy objectives we do this through surrogates and we do this through non-governmental organizations and we do it through people who are. less suspecting of the evil that may lurk behind their actions than perhaps they were before. have we learned some lessons in that regard you bet do we do it better you bet is it still just as heinous as it always was you bet so while the goals remain

the same it's no longer the cia but the u.s. agency for international development and its partners spearheading this effort like the cia usa id the national endowment for democracy and the slew of similar organizations receive funding from congress and millions and millions of u.s. taxpayer dollars go every year and to funding for political organizations from campaigns in different countries around the world that promote u.s. agenda and most u.s. . ascends are unaware of the fact that that's how their money's being spent to meddle and influence and interfere in other nations affairs the concept of facilitating regime change to democracy promotion has garnered widespread criticism not just abroad but also here at home just terrible we used taxpayers' money to go over and use our military and our cia and these programs to say this is what you ought to do and influence and there's no authority for that it doesn't work it was a lot of people to despise us to have our team washington d.c.

thing and take apart a burger a president of the future of freedom foundation says funding regime change abroad as frightening the u.s. economy this is essentially u.s. foreign policy and has been for many decades now it's a foreign policy that's based on interfering in the elections and political affairs of other nations with the intent of bringing people into the imperial fold of the us empire the us government has no more commitment to democracy than to dictatorship they supported saddam hussein throughout the eighty's we're looking now on the horizon at the prospect of governmental bankruptcy this is a government that is spending one point three trillion dollars more than what it. is borrowing massively we now know that the fed is inflating minutes that you would think people start saying hey do we really need to be doing this especially when it's affecting our financial and economic wellbeing and hopefully that those that type of thing you start to now awaken within the american people. take

a horn burger from the future of freedom foundation there and still have for you here in our t.v.'s our second chance at freedom russia's party could soon walk out of prison find out why their terms are being cut short that who's behind should ever. russia's foreign ministry insist that businessmen victor a bullet should be tried fairly in the united states the alleged gun runner claims he's been put under severe pressure by u.s. authorities to admit charges of arms trafficking and terrorism which he denied ever being extradited from thailand earlier this week he's now in solitary confinement at a new york jail who is facing a sentence from twenty five years to life in prison he's trial is set to begin in january next year are more important reports. the case surrounding viktor bout has been quite a tug of war between russia and the u.s. and the presidential aide to dmitri medvedev recently spoke out saying that the

charges that the u.s. have leverage against victor boot a russian citizen a serious and russia would like for those charges to be thoroughly investigated and russia is providing assistance to victor boot but russian officials have underscored the fact that that does not mean or should not be translated into a meeting that moscow believes victor boot is innocent or guilty they are just trying to make sure that no laws are being violated and russian officials also said that they have nothing to hide in this circumstance the situation they're being very transparent and some have accused the u.s. of not being very transparent when it comes to picture boots extradition from thailand to new york you're what you're. willing to stress to the u.s. authorities of some very serious. russian citizen we have nothing to conceal you we do consider this. anything of the we want to see this investigation.

of the u.s. he will be given food. assistance who are there the me we are claiming he's innocent moscow is also accusing washington of a double standard so we have to remember boot forty three year old russian citizen is being accused of smuggling weapons to fork rebels that would have been used to kill americans yet russian officials say that washington did provide georgia with several weapons many weapons that were used during the war in. which hundreds of civilians were killed so obviously a very contentious and sensitive situation surrounding and right now many are speculating about the fact of whether we can get a fair trial in the u.s. . reporting from new york there and in just a few moments here in our team will bring you a report from the scene of the world's nuclear as we investigate this rapture and

all this for environmental and whether it has the potential to unleash another task of the. russia spatted criminals and first on a fan or as my dad an early release from prison this comes after government calls to reform its criminal code to stop unfair sentences and avoid prison overcrowding artie's a cartoon as our reports explores rather of the alternatives in store for some of these and maids the fourteen hundred women serving time here have one thing in common at some point in their life they all made a bad choice well you know i went over to my friend's house to get some mind and back that he owed me but he refused to pay out so he didn't have any so so he's canary bird seed in there and i took it as collateral leader the police came and said i stole it after breaking and entering the price for a stolen canary bird that's instead of that i was sentenced to three years in prison and i'm currently serving out my first. this extruded aspect of russia's

legislation has been questioned by many including the country's lawmakers a system of alternative punishment for a lesser crimes in the works with people found guilty of minor law violations facing fines and house arrest rather than jail time used to put it on me you can't pick someone in prison because they still too chicken our legal system with these things and effectively there are harsh punishments for small misdemeanors and in some cases can instruments which are too late for meter crane we need to balance the system because despite recent statistics crime is on the rise. add that to overflowing prisons abysmal health conditions on the inside tougher integration into society after serving time and the true nature of this problem becomes even more evident even financially that reform makes sense according to official data over a million people are currently imprisoned in russia with twenty percent serving up to three years for misdemeanors substituting their jail time with house arrest will

free up the prisons lessen the burden of taxpayers and most importantly not give people who have stumbled a reason to fall. if a person goes to jail following some silly act of his or other certain circumstances because he comes out as a lifelong criminal because we have relevance to the backslide amounts to thirty to forty percent at the very least i mean almost half of them later become criminals. but there is much to do before these amendments get implemented into the legal system the electronic surveillance bracelets for example will rely on russia's glowing ass positioning system and it's not yet ready neither is the legal system with law enforcement not yet capable of the required fishable surveillance the proposition to stop throwing those found guilty of minor crimes behind bars is something that the women in this penitentiary can definitely get behind but even if the law is implemented the people serving time now may have to face the fact that

they will have to serve and pay their debt to society in full without enjoying the benefits of an alternative punishment catarina r t moscow region. look at some other stories from around the world and protesters. throwing rocks at u.n. troops amid riots as anger grows over a call right now the only thing is firing tear gas and in the spring or summer home it seems the u.s. spreading the disease earlier have yet to look at were killed in protest so far more than a thousand have died from the break up twenty seven. they are missing following a blast at a coal mine in new zealand emergency services rushed to the scene after reports of a massive explosion at the pike river coal mine which is on the west coast of new zealand's south island five workers have surfaced from a different part of that claim and officials say they did not yet know how many casualties there are or what caused the blast. a landslide triggered by heavy

downpours in colombia killed four people including a fifteen month old baby. reverse burst their banks the storm crops roads and hundreds of thousands of homes. out of thirty two provinces it's the worst rainy season in decades and has claimed one hundred thirty eight lives the rainfall is expected to continue throughout the weekend. astronomers and chill a have confirmed the first discovery of a planet in the milky way came from another galaxy two thousand light years from earth the jupiter like world and the star it closely orbits are believed to be part of a group of stars known as the hell mystery scientists say this alien planet is now nearing the end of its life and to help better understand the ultimate fate of earth the demise of our solar system. the turn novel disaster may have been the worst nuclear accident in history but scientists are warning of an even greater

threat only fraction of the nuclear material of the reactor contain was expelled by the explosion back in one nine hundred eighty six massive amounts of lethally contaminated debris remain buried at the side as lakes here she finds out. almost a quarter of a century since the chernobyl fallout a special confinement structure called the circle for gas is still preventing more radioactive emissions into atmosphere this structure the circus was built in nine hundred eighty six just months after the disaster that you know bill nuclear power plant back then experts predicted that this would last for only twenty years until two thousand and six that is but it was strengthened and improved extending its lifetime for five more years the biggest question is how much nuclear fuel remains under the surface some experts believe that there is none as most of it did vaporize into the atmosphere and was spread around the chernobyl exclusion zone but many experts believe that there are ninety five percent of nuclear fuel still

remaining under the surface and that could be tons and tons of nuclear material. we believe that the nuclear fuel under the sea configures is no longer solid mass like it was twenty four years ago there now is more like three layers of dispersed dust so should the presence of scraps we could see a very powerful explosion or facilities as powerful as a nuclear one. in order to avoid another catastrophe europe invested in the building over new confinement in two thousand and seven french company that article was allowed to start the construction of an arch like steel structure to cover the facility three years later the project is underway with more than five hundred engineers building the new circle for goods next to the contaminated plant it won't be just the frame yeah it will be a technological complex as multi-functional crane system will be installed inside the new structure it won't be

a final step the new safe confinement should provide the safety environment in the works in far the projects initial cost was thought to be half a billion euro now sources in chernobyl report that figure has almost doubled but in the fight for the continent safety know some is too much the new confinement is expected to be completed by the year twenty thirteen and is expected to last for another hundred years the only question is what is the fate of the nuclear power plant in chernobyl some say that it may be dismantled under this new dome but that is only a speculation for now we only heard that this is a process which may take another seventy years and there are no technologies to this date which would allow this to happen. see reporting from the church noble exclusion zone in ukraine as well forget to log on to our website r.t.

dot com where there are always more stories for you but here are some that might catch a ride. the story of the iraqi crash landing of a tuple a plane carrying seventy two passengers as it was traveling from russia's far east of moscow will be turned into a film. but one of russia's greatest riders. lived for many years in saying that is birth but was actually born in mosque. you can go to our t. dot com and explore his first home. we are today time now for some business news with karina alcan don't go away. it's twenty two past here in moscow welcome to business u.s.

federal reserve chairman ben bernanke he has defended the decision to print six hundred billion dollars saying it will boost the world economy critics say the u.s. wants to intentionally devalue the dollar in order to steal a competitive edge in international trade many developing countries have raised concerns that a weaker dollar would threaten their own economies but presidential aides are kind of like always believes russia has little to fear what is important is that the rate of appreciation of the national currency is not. the rate of increase in efficiency little labor productivity energy efficiency and other efficiency indicators. we believe that at least at this point in from the medium term perspective. there would potential to increase efficiency even faster than the rate of increase of the deal where you all for all will and this will keep us on the safe side real not to experience a new negative consequence so far or require

a dollar. and you can see the full version of that interview with presidential aide our kind of our coverage on spotlight hosted by al gore next tuesday here in r.t. . now let's have a look at how the markets are doing asian stocks are mixed this hour japanese stocks edged higher on friday after strong overnight gains on wall street chinese shares also rebound brushing aside worries that the people's bank of china might soon raise interest rates hong kong's hang seng index is creating weaker stock markets in the in europe open lorien cautious trading on friday markets are keeping a watchful eye on events out of ireland and wary of possible china policy tightening the footsies down point three percent with a one point four percent drop for saga group miners are also week. here in russia the markets are trading mixed friday morning the r.t.s. is up point three percent to my six or seven point four percent financials and energy stocks are weighing on the indices so as consumer services stocks. russia's

biggest mobile telecoms group. saw its profit slide five point seven percent in the third quarter the net total came in at four hundred seventy five million dollars however this was better than the average analysts forecast m.t.s. said sales revenue during the period grew by more than ten percent to a little under three billion dollars the company's chief financial officer explained the decline in the headline figure due to exchange rate movements and higher loan interest. and the world's top titanium producer vs m.p.o. a vis my has revised his development program according to the company's c.e.o. speaking exclusively to our t's timofey chris york. says the global take a new market has already you about that from the bottom of the economic downturn. at the most of no point in the auction i think that the global titanium market is past the bottom of the trough vs m.p.r. as the player which controls a third of the market is also recovering two thousand and ten has become the

turning point volumes are increasing and we're going to subpoenaed an even more substantial growth of around twenty percent in two thousand and eleven. back in two thousand and seven the company agreed on a program aimed at increasing capacity to forty six thousand tonnes of titanium production per year and has postponed this because of the crisis when do you plan to achieve this goal national concept that i development concept till twenty fifteen implies a shift from the role materials market to the manufacture of more advanced products in areas of industrial titanium i should point out that vs n.p.r. is the only vertically integrated holding with titanium grain at the input and finished products at the output there are no quibble ince in the world china is increasingly becoming an active player in the titanium market how does this change things to. china as a new player on the titanium market started by producing products for use in the industry but it's now moving into the production of titanium products that are sold to the public this is resulted in some dumping of products which has had the

familiar effect of lowering prices there are proposals to create a special economic zone the so-called titanium valley in russia what difference will this make no idiot addressed the idea originated in two thousand and six inch we felt that we needed to create new production plants here a free economic zone is a good way to attract financial and technological investment who has already shown interest and what should be done to attract more firms. first of all we're inviting our partners and our boys these are the companies like boeing and us goodrich and rolls royce this fully corresponds with their aims to cut costs in some sense this will require investment but in the following three to four years they will get more advanced products plus the list of incentives provided in the free economic zone is extensive and attractive especially from those companies already interested in investing in the russian federation and that's all the business is

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