Obama announces to build a missile shield over Europe

President Barack Obama won NATO summit agreement Friday to build a missile shield over Europe. Obama and the allies are expected to announce plans on Saturday to begin handing off security responsibility in Afghanistan to local forces next year and to complete the transition by the end of 2014.Celebrating the missile shield decision, Obama also made a renewed pitch for Senate ratification back in the U.S. of a nuclear arms treaty with Russia. While talking to media he said, It offers a role for all of our allies, it responds to the threats of our times. NATO plans to invite Russia to join the missile shield effort, although Moscow would not be given joint control. The gesture would mark a historic milestone for the alliance, created after World War II to defend Western Europe against the threat of an invasion by Soviet forces. The U.S. ambassador said that NATO took a positive view of prospects for working with Moscow.