US Missile-Defense System Inflames Tensions with Russia
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2007
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
President Bush's plans to deploy a missile defense system in eastern Europe has unnerved Russia. President Putin warns that Moscow could take retaliatory steps. Also, Islamist militants in Iraq say they'll release a video of three American soldiers, and the first-ever international war-crimes trial of an African head of state. Sara Terry guest hosts.
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| 0:00.0 | From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point. |
| 0:08.1 | Star Wars in Europe. Is the U.S. pushing Russia's panic button? |
| 0:15.7 | I'm Sarah Terry sitting in for Warren Allney, and this is to the point from Public Radio International, |
| 0:23.7 | a daily look at the issues Americans care about most. |
| 0:29.4 | President Bush's plan to deploy a missile defense system in Eastern Europe has unnerved Russia, |
| 0:33.8 | causing President Putin to warn today that Moscow could take retaliatory steps. |
| 0:35.8 | Is a new arms race likely? |
| 0:39.0 | What effect will public opposition in Poland and the Czech Republic have on Bush's deployment plans? What about complaints that the defensive shield is still |
| 0:44.2 | an unproven technology? On reporter's notebook, at the Hague today, the first ever international |
| 0:50.0 | war crimes trial of an African head of state, Charles Taylor comes to justice. First, the news. |
| 1:00.0 | Support for To the Point comes from subscribers of KCRW Santa Monica and from the Public Radio |
| 1:05.9 | International Program Fund, whose contributors include the Ford Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur |
| 1:12.0 | Foundation. I'm Sarah Terry sitting in for Warren Alney back with To the Point from PRI. We'll be talking |
| 1:18.0 | about President Bush's plans to deploy a missile defense system in Europe. The U.S. says the shield |
| 1:23.5 | is needed to protect the U.S. and its allies from possible future strikes by Iran. But Russia's |
| 1:29.5 | President Putin sees the plan as a provocation, and European critics say the proposal is proof that |
| 1:35.0 | the U.S. takes its eastern European allies for granted. How necessary is the proposed system? How |
| 1:41.1 | reliable is it? Should politics trump technology in finding a solution to the problem? |
| 1:46.6 | On reporter's notebook, he was both a president and one of the most feared men in West Africa, |
| 1:52.3 | Charles Taylor of Liberia, on trial at the Hague today. First, this news update. In the Middle East, |
| 1:59.2 | an Islamic militant website said today that it will release video clips of the ambush of three American soldiers who disappeared in Iraq in mid-May. |
| 2:08.4 | While on the ground in Baghdad, the renewed push to secure the city is falling short of U.S. goals. |
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