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sure and germany will be known as the all to the summit as the country's leaders agree to use food as a diplomatic weapon. also ahead in the program the last remaining detention center under american control in iraqi is transferred to local authorities two hundred mainly unnamed inmates will remain under u.s. supervision. and thirty five years together in orbit russia and the us mark the anniversary of their first joint space flight on the four in cold war
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relationships that followed. just after midnight here in moscow this early friday morning a very good morning if you have joined kevin zero in with the top stories from r.t. and first a growing closeness between russia and the west was on show at a joint russian german summit in the city of board president dmitry medvedev chancellor angela merkel indeed shared jokes about paul the psychic world cup octopus and buggers with barack obama but amid the smiles they did get some business done too with dozens of agreements signed our correspondent daniel bushell's been following the story. in the windy city of where you could get was very much a case of the madrid if and merkel show if you like is the su country's leaders roths more of their personal strong relationship really highlights the countries to
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excellent relationship at the moment historically delivered to agree to the chatted with mr medvedev influence russian he with her off to a top local restaurant where they enjoyed off to perth but later promised it was not all the old people who predicted that germany would lose in the semifinal over the world cup now there was talk of a trio of world leaders who would looking leaders barack obama to reach madrid if i call a tro that lead to troika if you like moving the world forward on security and defense issues with food as the unifying force let's listen in but i assure you money and let me draw your attention to the fact that germany is number one on the list of russia's partners we have long time relations which has not been spoiled even by difficult chapters in our history. when it comes to russia and germany's relations with other countries it's not like in school where you have just one friend we can
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have many friends germany and russia have their own issues they are completely different in nature to transatlantic 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 medvedev also would like to read to read that this conference is no way should signalize a better relationship with president obama. in the now we have two options either the three of us going to meet somehow megas we draw the treat our friend barack obama to some kind of european. could. i think the burger will taste best for me. so after all joy and siemens of germany really takes all of russia's. ation box is today a place to join russia silicon valley a joint new project being built on the outskirts of moscow it will also modernize was just train system is trains which are outdated and yet crucial to the country
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really relies on its trains and a lot of parts of the country and thirdly wind turbines will build wind turbines an eco drive in a country which is also trying to become more informants really 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 but that if up the pressure. iran is active and prove the trade partner but it doesn't mean that we are indifferent towards the way the islamic republic is developing its nuclear facilities we are also concerned with some military component incidents atomic program iran should find courage to begin fully cooperating with the international community to iran should do this even if it doesn't like some issues it's currently facing 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 two of the strongest partnerships on
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the world stage today. during a bushel reporting there for us will russia will hope its relationship with germany will pave the way for approval of ties with the e.u. was a whole that's the opinion of him and eastern europe expert at the bertelsmann foundation in berlin. at the moment russia and germany. clause especially in political context as we could see in the last two days economic cooperation is good the parts could be improved. i think that current development of the relations very positive and see. good german russian cooperation could be transferred to e.u. or russia cooperation. new day's top stories the u.s. has handed over the last of iraq's prisoners to the country's government
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authorities will take control of around one thousand six hundred detainees at camp close to the capital baghdad america's slowly withdrawing from iraq with a final deadline set for december next year the u.s. will continue to hold two hundred detainees though some of which were members of saddam hussein's last government though the majority haven't been identified to talk about that they are supposed to andrew gilligan a journalist from britain's daily telegraph newspaper who incidentally worked as a reporter in baghdad when the u.s. led invasion was launched back in two. he told me the remaining prisoners are the last in the u.s. occupation. they are the last remaining if you like american black hole detainees we know roughly who's held at guantanamo bay we know who's in custody in afghanistan and we still don't know who these people are conditions in very many of these jails and not a not very good relations in america are actually better in some ways than in the iraqi germs. the iraqis have not been particularly successful custodians of their
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own prisons one that they have amnesty international has published many critical reports on them. and of course detainee abuse is widespread in iraqi prison so i can't imagine that these detainees will be any better off actually under iraqi custody than american. ahead here on our team from moscow a blast from the past. the scenes of polygon became so popular no longer take the memorabilia special brand of cigarettes was needed just to mark the occasion thirty five years after the historic launch our team looks at the significance of the event and indeed as we saw there some of the merchandise that sport. a right to forget find out how an amusement park turned from fun to terror for the visitors and some papers but left hopelessly dangling in midair more pictures more heat of the compound that just makes it. first though attacks in afghanistan reached an all
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time high in june the bloodiest month for foreign troops since the start of the war nine years ago it is now the longest military campaign in u.s. history so passing even the vietnam war on the still no end in sight laura lister reports. you know it's try so rosso it's the comparison that cannot be avoided by press pundits and now politicians last month afghanistan surpassed. a place that both broken are all too familiar with as 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 this is a difficult moment in the afghan 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
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a vietnam veteran himself tries to make the lesson of that history the fundamental difference between those two wars since you mentioned it mr chairman in this war our national security interests 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 never followed that procedure with respect to a 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 given no assurance that this should be an open ended occupation
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holbrooke emphasizes the u.s. is committed to no calendar very leery of setting a date certain. they are here for the salute withdrawal but still the endgame is unclear civilian and military operations in afghanistan are proceeding without a clear definition of success the ambassador is banking on the success of 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 its 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
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amid escalating violence 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 in july with twelve of those deaths coming in the last day or so for r t i'm more lester washington d.c. . news from russia this is spectacular a prominent russian human rights activist natalya estemirova has been identified and placed on a wanted list studies according to president dmitri medvedev who outlined the course of the investigation after a meeting with german chancellor angela merkel estimate of who was kidnapped and murdered in the north caucasus region a year ago night or a series of reports. russian authorities are claiming success a year since the murder of a chechen human rights activist in this together to say they knew who did it the russian president can say and they now have a main suspect and he has been put on the international most wanted list now the hunt goes on for those who ordered the murder soon after that was killed russia's
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president said finding those responsible was a metal or not i wouldn't to say on identified men bundled a fifteen year old woman into a car if she left. her body riddled with gunshot was discovered later that day lying in a root in the neighboring region. several more she said can see that one of this to police and stimulus colleagues. will never deny that murder was related to her profession this theory was also voiced by the head of the investigation. in the who says to me you know always dealt with the most sensitive issues as part of the human rights work in chechnya officials morry the murder home station of the republic which is several miles previously a long lasting counterterrorism operation where king was lifted and life will seem to be getting back to normal. it was a blasphemous challenge an act which sole purpose was to have all the global
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community turned against the chechen republic to impose a negative perception of the republic people understand that it was backed by the enemies of our republic government and our country's government as a whole. and this square in the center of the chechen capital is named after journalists who have been killed a year ago. was name was added here the place is now calm and quiet unlike year ago when many locals came to say their last good bye to the activist they used to look upon as their last hope now colleagues who took up the job in this ticket will be objective and. is this possible funniest time is the only thing that has. these days is an artsy in grozny. where that story many others course. not checked it out a little bring it to a few stories that might catch your attention find out how to turn in the ukrainian animators beat the psychic german up to finish speaking about their foothold for
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cars. predicting a precise picture of what happened in the world cup final long before this is the base press long before the tournament even began believe me take a look at r.t. dot com also we reveal how russian farmers right now suffering in a really serious plight the struggling against the scorching summer heat of this heat wave that goes on and on of course in fact to break the record find out what it's going to cost them. on our website r.t. talk all. these days space exploration is a joint international effort but let's not forget it began as a race between the soviet union and the united states thirty five years ago today
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there was a breakthrough when the two countries launched the first ever joint mission apollo . reflects on the anniversary. it was a turning point the launch the cold 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. and the apollo craft docked. chapter in space exploration the first ever joint project between two better rivals it was a giant leap for the men on board to know. he was the second pilot in the say you scrooge. it was one of the most significant moments in history of russia and the u.s. before everything was secret. space programs every detail was a pool of project we could finally pass the barrier. you still remembers all the details of that flight from the technical to the happy banter between them and the
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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 world attention as gold to live. thirty five years on most of these men will once again get the chance to meet and share memories of their historic link up with. the series commander is in the united states for the big 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. counterpart thomas stafford to meet president obama but not until the friends have had a chance to catch up with each other it was a are meaningful. to the people of the world when we open.
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election stealing is shown to the world. the space race. 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 watch the sea use reach into the sky and vividly remembers every emotion that stared. i was in the fourth grade and it was a huge celebration not just for the school but the entire city we got hundred balloons flying 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 party told me that this was the most important event of the century. thirty five years on and this a usable a project still fires people's feelings some are even banking on it the scenes apollo became so popular alongside the memorabilia
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a special brand of cigarettes was just to mark the occasion that every day these were incredibly 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 artsy moscow. views video we showed you. these pictures from this coming up ten lives literally hanging in the thread with an extreme thrill ride on a rocket like attraction almost ended in tragedy to the pictures that sit before the accident one of them petersburg amusement parks. as you say that since after the accident without cable you saying they're broke most people left dangling their seventy meters above the ground luckily rescue teams made it to the spot just in time to free the stranded passengers they must been scared stiff in the first safety scare at the amusement park either two years ago a twelve year old girl suffered serious injuries trampoline acts and their ironically also involving
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a star it's not cable but. at least these people it seems got out ok in the end there was a happy ending with a safe close call total total. so it's national news in brief now let me bring you up to date with news from iran at least twenty people have been killed and over one hundred injured in two suicide bomb blasts in the southeast of the country the explosions took place outside the main mosque in the provincial capital down the striking of grew a crowd of a shia worshippers this so far no one's claimed responsibility for that attack the region is home to a sunni insurgent group that's been responsible for a number of bombings in recent years. update on the p.p. story it seems it's replaced a leaking pipe and is now planning to resume a key pressure test aimed at stopping that massive oil spill in the gulf of mexico it's hoped a new cap could finally help stop the disaster was suspended a little earlier because of faulty equipment the new delay for the string of failed attempts to contain the ongoing damage nearly three months after an explosion
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destroyed the will to rise and break. more world news marty the foreign ministers of india and pakistan have met in islamabad as the two countries look to improve strained relations and revive peace talks the discussions were aimed at rebuilding trust that was fractured by the deadly attacks nearly two years ago in one by which the indian government blames on pakistan based militants indian foreign minister s.m. krishna is the most senior official to visit pakistan since that month by plot which killed two hundred sixty six. ninety one years ago the train loaded with gold reserves of the russian empire set off to escape the bolsheviks and then promptly disappeared without a trace and even today no one knows for sure became of it all where it is r.t. carries out its own special investigation in a program we've got coming up in an hour's time is a quick preview for you. the drain
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carries away the russian empires gold reserves. to save it from the soviet. five hundred tons of gold and dozens of. six hundred fifty million. troops. that is still awaiting the arrival of. the sentry long way. ministry of the. you know it's coming shortly sniper now and then we were talking about the recent spy scandal between russia and the us would just like pages of an espionage novel next to a lot of famous author of the genre of frederick forsyth his interpretation of what it was all about in our interview here.
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most of all so i thank you so much for talking to me today that this seems to have been a very lengthy process in which no actual secrets were postone do you think that these particular spies would ever have produced information that would have been of any value well it's difficult to say what they would eventually. well certainly what they were doing when they were discovered during very quiet suburban lives. for a lot of people they had not penetrated. any major institution like cia. or f.b.i.
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or the pentagon or some nuclear facility that and any of that they might have been used as me a good between but one doesn't think that as the primary information source they were nowhere near as end of the material and these kind of deep sleep i mean what kind of person would do that it seems to be quite a special type of scale it is to do to leave your home and to go to somebody else's and really is completely sink in this society to such a degree that you can puff for one of them that is an exceptional skill it takes years of practice the idea that they just arrived with no training is nonsense they would have been years in a like an all-american village somewhere person the urals becoming americans over an extended period and then to arrive in a new you may never see your homeland again it's a problem for most people terrific sacrifice to make it's very very unusual most traitors for example spies who spied against russia or the u.s.s.r.
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during the cold war were themselves russians or ukrainians or you know and traitors in the west were british or americans. very rare to find someone who can pass. for me gordon lowndes dale who was the must of mind of what we call the portal of bill spy ring many years ago was indeed colonel. of the k.g.b. but he was gordon lums ala canadian businessman. and he was asleep but it's very unusual it's the most unusual form in which espionage takes place and this is a song that's actually still ongoing just this week we had the arrest of another yet another spy in the united states only twenty three years old which seems extraordinary young what kind of training do you think he would have had at such a young age well i don't know what i don't know how he was able if he was a. indeed able to plus of the thing about america it's an easier. to penetrate than
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in british society because i mean america is an ethnic melting pot and you can say hey you know i'm of i'm a polish immigrant i love america i'm a polish american and have a name like cobol skeet with me directly american with a name like of also because it's harder to say i am very open to go and my instances go back three hundred years in britain when you're not. these things can be checked so you have to have what's called a legend that's going to be very very perfect takes years of working all and usually as it with gordon lonsdale there was once a gordon i'm still canadian boy who died and his entire life story was taken over by the k.g.b. . who created a new one around their own their own man that's i was usually done to take over someone who died who who is ancestry can be proved.
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that sides don't do you think that the the rest of these people at that time was politically makes of a sense i don't know i it's all because i'm. it came just. prime as a president medvedev was. sort of sharing a hamburger with the american president so maybe the american president barack obama wasn't very pleased that it would should be at that moment. it could be a decision that the director of the f.b.i. said we delay perhaps he thought they might fly the coop if they didn't do something quickly but anyway they were there was one shot of the two heads of government cheerily sharing a hamburger about three days later. this is a humiliating story for for for moscow this is a thing that was sold very quickly much quicker more quickly than it would have been for example during the cold war why why do you think that was what was behind the solving. i think the reason. the original arrests the trial
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all the arrangements were streaming quick and the decision to swap them was very quick. from america's point of view i think derives the fact that they were they they realized they actually weren't sort of top top top level people. they were environment to moscow. they were almost a joke to the american media who couldn't take them seriously guy and say what have you done in ten years would have penetrated the golf club it's not actually. i think that was behind the let's get that out of here. and it's also behind the muscovite let's get them back quickly and cover this rather embarrassing episode. as best we can and that's what they're doing benefits at the most from this hastily arranged swap over the u.s.a. u.s.a. it was a propaganda coup. it reminded i mean the watching world that spying
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isn't over still goes all and both sides are at it and they know they are we all know they are but perhaps we need reminding because it's been twenty years since the end of the cold war many of us for maybe there are spying more on that where they do and so do we. ninety nine. in the russian empire. from the soviets. five hundred tons of. dozens of. the train. station. a century long.
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mystery train. if.

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