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statements of the country's leaders agreed to. as. america's longest war u.s. involvement in afghanistan the hall says vietnam was the prostration with the growth in human and financial cost. thirty five years together in a war with russia and the us mark the anniversary of joint spaceflight for war and
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cold war relations that follow. a very warm welcome see this is coming from moscow with me on this have it a growing closeness between russia and the west was on show was a joint russian german summit in the city of you've got that emberg president dmitri medvedev and chancellor angela merkel joked about. the smiles they got some business a number of agreements while our correspondent daniel bushell is in the russian city for single line daniel a busy day for the team leaders wasn't it but there appeared to be a lot of smiles and even the little. yes in the window over you could get was very much a case of the. show if you like is the. strong
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relationship really the country. the movement of people to agree to do. better in flu. and russian he with her off to a top local restaurant where they enjoyed octopus but later promised it was not people who predicted that germany would lose in the semifinal all over the world cup now. there was talk of big business deals there starting to form a new trio of forward looking world leaders reach a bit better. and barack obama. tries that learned to troika to solve global security and defense issues with food as a unifying force let's listen in. to any money and let me draw your attention to the fact that germany is number one on the list of russia's partners
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we have a long time relations which has not been spoiled even by difficult chapters in our history. when it comes to russia and germany has relations with other countries it's not like in school where you have just one friend we can have many friends germany and russia have their own issues they're completely different in nature to translate into problems it's useful for us to be able to discuss them together the room for dialogue doesn't exist in the same degree with president obama as it does between us but the u.s. relationship is still very important and i think president also would like to retaliate that this conference is no way should signalize a bad relationship with president obama in the well we have two options either the three of us going to need somehow megas we draw the treat our friend barack obama to some kind of european greece and he's. going to say as if i think the burger will taste best for me. so despite cullen there we talk things
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clearly move forward out the summit what exactly was achieved. well it's after all giant siemens of germany really takes hold of russia's station today a place to join russia silicon valley a joint project being built on the outskirts of moscow it will also modernize was just train system it's trains which are outdated and yet crucial to the country it really relies on its trains and of other parts of the country and thirdly wind turbines it will build wind turbines and eco drive in a country which is also trying to become more environmentally friendly the other big issue was iran of great work concern at the moment as it continues to suggest it's moving towards a nuclear bomb with it if that he's convinced that iran is trying to do so and he really up the pressure today on tehran saying that he will work with the u.n. you noted nation security council to make sure that iran cannot build an atomic bomb. there unless. iran is an active
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and proven trade partner but it doesn't mean that we're indifferent towards the way these limited public is developing its nuclear facilities we are loosing concerned with some military components of its atomic program allowing iran should find courage to begin to fully cooperating with the international community to iran should do this even if it doesn't like some issues it's currently facing. really friendly friendly relationship between the two wrapping up what has been a very successful summit a very successful meeting between the two leaders and also business leaders and political leaders germany and russia really to have the strongest partnerships on the world stage today cayetano many thanks for take that was daniel bushell talking to us from the russian city of yep i'm bored. well relations between russia and germany are now in
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a position where the team can get some real business done now is the opinion of a few that are on the kilmore third tour in chief of russian label affairs web signs. of a friendly but it's more important to almost. every month and they have a lot to discuss so i would say the most important think about russian joe relations is that we don't need to break truth because every meeting used to be assessed according to breakthrough achieved or not so in russian german relationship it's so intense and so close that we don't need breakthroughs we do we need just discuss business. and a former k.g.b. officer says that the developing friendship between moscow and washington which allowed the recent spying scandal to be dealt with quickly the full interview with . is coming up in about two hours time here but a quick preview for you now. we take the broader any such small office chances for
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we can see it i believe as a first step to have our rapid developments and solution and i'm happy ending for both countries relations even if you're going to compromise for the solution it was unbelievably quickly at these events are the top level of intelligence was during the cold war it used to take years to prepare such. attacks in afghanistan and all time high the bloodiest month for foreign troops since the stone tools of war it's now the longest minute you campaign in u.s. history supporting the vietnam war and still there is no end in sight. to reports it strikes. it's the comparison that cannot be avoided by press pundits and now politicians last month afghanistan surpassed.
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a place that both are broken are all too familiar with. the longest military campaign in american history committee chairman senator john kerry brought up the failed u.s. war of decades ago at a crucial time in america's current one. difficult. conflict a moment when questions about strategy and progress abound at a hearing on governance and the u.s. civilian strategy in the region the man in charge of it all a vietnam veteran himself tries to make the lesson of that history the fundamental difference between those two wars since you mentioned it was the chairman and this war our national sick. already have trysts are at stake with the safety of the us at stake as richard holbrooke claims you might think congress would have crossed their t.'s and dotted their i's by now and fighting their longest battle as they're supposed to be united states constitution requires that before the united states goes to war that there be an act of congress but just as in the vietnam war we've
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never followed that procedure with respect to the war in afghanistan and we centrally drifted into a war in a long term commitment a long term commitment that appears to be wearing on lawmakers who want to know this wouldn't be helpful for the president to at least lay out a flexible time for when the u.s. is getting out beyond the july two thousand and eleven date to start withdrawal u.s. president obama set it's given no assurance that this should be an open ended occupation holbrooke emphasizes the u.s. is committed to no calendar very leery of setting a date certain made here for the salute withdrawal but still the end game is unclear civilian and military operations in afghanistan are proceeding without a clear definition of success the ambassador is banking on the success of
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reintegrating the taliban starting next week but little about afghanistan appears to be in u.s. favor it's not where you choose to fight to defend the american homeland it's the most remote logistical place in ited states has ever fought ancestry but just who can put an end to this fight and the absence of withdrawal dates if military and political missions fail the congress has the ability to stop the war by not funding it as u.s. lawmakers and officials talk strategy and tout successes in afghanistan this comes amid as the waiting by lines in the region deal with the bloodiest month in the nine year conflict with one hundred international troops killed forty five have been killed so far into. i with twelve of those deaths coming in the last day or so for our team i'm more lester washington d.c. . where u.s. strategy needs afghan chiefs to take control which will be fall for means the afghan war veteran jake in the past his experiences. the overall strategy is just
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shoot pass over leadership from the americans and the coalition forces to the afghans but as die experience when i was just in afghanistan a few months ago in the afghan national army training center again national army is going to be in effect even unable to get leadership from the americans now like you're going to hear a lot of talk about the iraq surge working because we passed raqi the leadership of the iraqi army but the iraqi army is light years ahead of where the afghan army has the afghan army is is ill effect given in every possible way so to tell we're going to gain momentum going fortunately unless there's peace talks and peace negotiations the situation will always be a quagmire. still to come on the program a blog also from the palm. the seeds of polygon became so popular that alongside the memorabilia especially around the cigarettes was created just to mark
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the occasion person five thousand dollars no one saw it so it can still be event of the merchandise it spawns cigarettes to one chance. the suspected killer of prominent russian the human rights activist. has been identified and placed on a wanted list that's according to president dmitri medvedev who outlined the course of the investigation off to a meeting with the german chancellor angela merkel. let's go to new york. first of all i would like to say that the investigation into this case is in full swing and second such cases are immediately result only when the perpetrator is caught red handed. the killer of us tomorrow has been identified. he has been put on a wanted list and finally the investigation will continue to hunt those who did
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this serious crime. when it's a year ago today since estimate of it was kidnapped and murdered in the north caucasus region she worked for the human rights organization memorial in russia's chechen republic she was well known for her investigative work into cases of kidnap torture and abuse of authority. well for more on all of the stories that we're covering as well as videos blogs and interview in ways log on to our web site also dot com here's a taste of what's on the line right now for the psychic and german opposite this is outdone by ukrainian animated and a special world competition at the coliseum well evolve the tournament they correctly predicted the teams in the final of the school and even the red cards. last find out what's in store for russian follows a struggling against the country's west heat wave in forty eight years.
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it's thirty five years ago today that the first ever international space mission was launched two spacecraft one solve it and one american blasted off and they to dock to in awaiting the apollo soyuz mission the event was not only the beginning of space cooperation between the two countries but also a warming in cold war relations exulting as company in the report. it was a turning point the launch that clearly far called war space race into new heights two rockets blasting off half a world away from each other would bring the soviet union and the united states into the same orbit one sees nineteen in the apollo craft docked whole new chapter in space exploration the first ever joint project between two better rivals. it was
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a giant leap for the men on board two. he was the second pilot in a say you screwed. with apollo it was one of the most significant moments in history of russia and the u.s. before everything was secret all the details of our space programs every detail it was a pool of project we could finally pass the barrier. ulead he still remembers all the details of that flight from the technical to the happy banter between them and the american astronauts. who were showing the guys different cities and places in russia and when we were flying over the us brand was showing us florida i remember he said this is where all the attention has go to live. thirty five years on most of these men once again get the chance to meet and share memories of their historic link up my brother. alex. commander is in the united states for the big
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day or. the launch was during the height of the cold war so this project wasn't just technical and scientific importance but it was also a great step towards cooperation between russia and the u.s. there were no losers. there are plans for alex and his apollo counterpart thomas stafford to meet president obama but not until the friends have had a chance to catch up with each other it was over a meaningful symbol to the people of the world when we open the hatch. election i show you. and showed to the world that when the war you the space race said in a way the joint space project had a huge impact on both sides of the atlantic a time when rocket launches captured millions of imaginations worldwide media conceived watched the sea use reach into the sky and vividly remembers every emotion it stirred. i was in the fourth grade and it was
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a huge celebration for not just for the school but the entire city we got handed balloons flags and went to meet the cosmonauts and then later on we were all outside again to watch the actual launch i remember my dad who worked at the launch pad he told me that this was the most important event of the century. thirty five years on and the ses apollo project still fires people's feelings some are even banking on it both crews were clipped with special watches designed by omega now the company's released a limited edition anniversary timepiece an appetite for nostalgia doesn't end there the scenes apollo became so popular that alongside the original memorabilia a special brand of cigarettes was created just to mark the occasion back in the day these were credibly popular and were almost impossible to find on the thirty fifth anniversary of the docking they are once again missing from the city stories cast readers are the artsy moscow. news in brief from around the wall this
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hour on a faulty equipment may prevent b.p. from running a pressure test aimed at stopping the massive oil spill in the gulf of mexico the company was supposed to test the strike. the new cap that could finally help stop the design but the cap itself has been shown to leak the company says it doesn't know when it will be fixed the new delay follows a string of failed attempts to contain the ongoing damage nearly three months after an explosion destroyed the deep water horizon rig. on a rainy new kids scientists who claims he was kidnapped by the sea i see a role for a year ago has returned home and merely says he was severely to to give up the nation about iran's nuclear program he also claims he was offered fifty million dollars to stay in the u.s. on monday he went to the pakistani embassy in washington and asked to be sent home
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the u.s. insists muti have traveled to america of his own free will and if the effort of. the foreign ministers of india and pakistan the meeting in islamabad the two countries look to improve strained relations and revive peace talks the discussions aimed at rebuilding trust that was fronted by the deadly attacks only two years ago mumbai which the indian government blames on pakistan based medicine's indian foreign minister s. and there is the most senior official to visit pakistan since the mom by plants in which one hundred sixty six people were killed. ninety one years ago a train loaded with russian empire gold reserves set off to escape the bolsheviks and never reached its destination even today no one knows for sure what became of it or where it is carries out its own investigation and its special program coming up later here's a quick preview. the drain carries away the
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russian empires gold reserve. to save it from the sulby of. five hundred tons of gold. dozens of. six hundred fifty million hours ruble. that is still awaiting the arrival of a. century long away. mystery in the building. and canada's call saved to the business death now it stands now i get dizzy you know got to be ok being in the heat i mean is that making for welcome to where we are and why i think that as i understand it across the country the drought it schools thing is having a huge impact that's right that's right we're looking at financial losses here
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farmers say they face bankruptcy despite state assistance and grain you have been reduced from ninety five to seventy five million dollars will bring you the details and i'm off. the russian government will spend five and a half billion dollars on the skolkovo innovation center which is intended to become russia's version of silicon valley during the meeting with chancellor america and board president medvedev said he hoped the modernization process would be would be quick i was counting on support from german partners the countries have already agreed that german engineering giant siemens would join skulk about creating a new research center that it would have said he was encouraged by the strengthening of trade relations despite the difficult economic conditions. january to may two thousand and ten about what will to return aged between russia and germany . fifty percent and you come to me as a recovering the main traits. according to my data german investments russia is a cool. accounted for around twenty billion dollars would make this very hard. to
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do. in russian corporate news one of the country's largest metals companies n l m k says it expects to post a profit of over two billion dollars for the second quarter of this year the company said that results will be impacted by the recent slight softening of steel price and eleven k. predicts that sales in the third quarter will be level with the second quarter of the prices which would show further declines. and you have ross another major russian metals company has announced a twenty six percent increases to production in the second quarter in comparison to the first quarter was in profit is more modest at around seven percent. under the precious metal sexor russia's largest gold producer of gold says net income growth by two percent to fifty seven million dollars in the first half of two thousand and ten the company said the headline figure was given a significant boost by their seat of tippit and from its extracting subsidiary.
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moody's may raise its russian banking sector outlook to stable from negative by the end of the year the credit rating agency says the banks will set aside up to sixty five percent of their profits to cover bad loans in two thousand and ten that's much less than the previous year however it expects a growth in the number of overdue loans facing the bank to create additional reserves to cover them in march russia's finance minister alex he could be and also advised banks not to slash provisions for bad loans to fixed. looking at the markets now european markets are off this hour london is flat while dax is trading point four percent higher. top loser on the footsie down two point four percent done there is gaining almost over eight percent in frankfurt. and russian equity markets are moderately up this hour the r.t.s. is over one percent higher than the mises is up twenty nine percent all of blue chips are trading in the black otherwise it's with banking stocks leading also
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known as nickels bear bank and gas from our topping the winners list gaining one point three one point seven percent on the r.t.s. well whose hydro is losing on the mines. russia is suffering though its worst drought in more than a decade a state of emergency has been declared in sixteen regions the government has offered assistance to the agricultural sector but even with the extra help many farmers say they face bankruptcy they would be to have. and the other day with temperatures forty's not a cloud inside farmers are starting the harvest two weeks early to minimise for the damage to the crops the expected green yard has been reduced from ninety five to seventy five million tonnes of holding to the group culture ministry but it's not only the poor outlook for the harvest that's pushing prices higher also so we're seeing domestic prices rise the first reason is a drought concern of market and spends about a harmless the second reason is not significant shift in the voldemort one of the
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futures prices over. twenty five percent this is for most russians price as well as jumping from one hundred sixty five to one hundred eighty three dollars per tonne what would send us an eighteen dollar hike in just a few weeks just did not sprout so the government is stepping up measures to help farmers as they suffer in the unusually dry weather it's promised to extend loans subsidies help with insurance premiums and continue to provide help with transferred costs. the president gave the correct instruction to extend credit farmers are unable to return money now and it would lead to massive bankruptcies in the sector but the whole picture we will see later with the measure that is essential now is tackling railway terror of suppliers who will be able to transfer grain from siberian region where the weather conditions have been better. despite these being the worst drought for a decade and fifteen major culture regions reporting severe damage to crops russia will still be self-reliant in green this year but the longer the fall dry weather
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persists the great to the risks faced by individual farmers without government help now many believe they will not be able to continue and russia's normal surplus green production could become a deficit in any media to a business r.t. and that's the update for this hour what do log on to our website r.t. dot com slash gave us and can always find more stories.
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