from suns to parachute. stunts on t.v. don't. start me up russia is ready to launch a bronze first nuclear energy plant while the reactors operations will be under strict control. down to verdict a tie court is expected to rule on the fate of russian businessman victor bullet who is wanted by the u.s. in arms trafficking allegations. and our close up team takes us thousand kilometers

north of moscow to the industry free town of cargo hold where ancient arts crafts are the central part of people's livelihoods. it is eight am in the russian capital you're watching r t a marina joshie welcome to the program russia is ready to launch iran's first nuclear power plant on saturday saying the joint project will show the to iran is entitled to the peaceful use of nuclear energy the russian built reactor will be loaded with fuel under the strict controls of the un's nuclear watchdog the plant is expected to be fully operational in about a month russia will run the facility supplying the fuel and take away the waste which eases some fears that iran could use a reactor to make nuclear weapons iran is currently on. u.n.

sanctions aimed at pressuring it to abandon its uranium enrichment program. will look south the construction of a project. it's been a routine for more than a decade hundreds of russian constructors streaming to their workplace three shifts a day six days a week building iran's first nuclear power station. it's been a long wait launched by germans in the nineteen seventies the construction was halted after the revolution when russians to call for the task was to feed the new reactor into the ready existing building to destroy its. direct instructors always more difficult to build from scratch. the normal requires a much larger space this is one of the reasons why do launch of the station has been postponed so many times for the rainy and it meant the delay in their nuclear dream for local russians more time away from home. little works in the local can in

their garden well here has been disputing finishing touches to the station she's explaining to her pupils what it's all about. why we need nuclear power stations and trees it is light condition it. she likes it in the long run that's the climate conditions are good here every family has a separate house something that we couldn't afford to have the launch of the pushchair plant is a major political and economic milestone for iran but for the russian constructors who built it it's a very joyous occasion two out of about three thousand only one in town were able to bring their families with them the rest committed themselves to lonely and rather tedious lives but now everybody is counting the days until they go home. ciggies one of them after seventeen years of marriage he had to adjust to a bachelor's life again now he's gearing up for the opposite turn.

very happy to go i missed more family groups just as the rainy and societies are slated for the rest of the world the russian village and bush share is it's wrong to buy walls guarded day and night by the uranium police women are required to observe the muslim dress code men have to forget about alcohol and drinks life is especially among not to notice for the local teenagers. i wish we had more freedom there are not many things to do here and girls always have to cover their heads it took me a lot of time to get used to it. the construction of the plant has always been in tangled in big politics but it is also a lot of little man and their families will spend years away from home building iran's nuclear dream. on a boycott or iran. now imminent opening of a nuclear plant has increased speculation that a facility could be the target of

a military attack by israel or the us alison weir a british author and historian says groups within america are trying to sway public opinion in favor of armed action against iran. to groups that are pushing the us to invade iran or certainly attack iran either financially or physically are the same groups that pushed the us to invade. iraq during the the mainstream jewish organizations in this country i'm saying and because there was a four page time every time that in the new york times for training. the head of iran as extremely dangerous as really in the the ad he looks almost diabolical and the ad was run by all the mainstream organizations in the united states or at least a very large segment of this is who is pushing the american public to believe

incorrectly that there iran is a threat to the united states that iran is a nuclear threat this is not the case and do very interested in the coverage of iran i think they're very complicit in the coverage of the muslims and arabs stepney them seeing dangers that make them seem into americans very gendered is to make americans fear and heat arabs and muslims and also i fear to me muslims in errors fear and hate americans coming up later the program here in our team freedom of speech versus freedom of religion debate rage over and your boss adverse that poll is building a mosque near ground zero. and seventy years after russian revolutionaries daf than a europeans are finding these ideas still relevant that's on the way. let me to court is to deliver the final verdict on the u.s.

bid to extradite a suspected russian arms baron they are both nicknamed the merchant of death was arrested two and a happy years ago in bangkok after a u.s. sting operation washington wants to vote on charges of terrorism. it links to wars across the world the u.s. has put forward a separate request to extradite a businessman a fraud and money laundering charges denies the allegations calling them politically motivated russian based radio news agency thai bureau chief danny is following developments. victor boot was arrested here in bangkok in march two thousand and eight italia four it is then acted on an official request from the united states containing an indictment in which the former russian military interpreter was accused of a conspiracy to kill u.s. servicemen by attempting to sell andy aircraft missiles to colombian leftist guerrillas for the united states is calling victor boot

a major supplier of forms that fueled civil wars in south america the middle east and in africa the american side however failed to convince of the judges of the evidence against mr root and so in august two thousand mind the criminal court of pile on the decided to turn down the u.s. extradition request them to the thai prosecutors working on behalf of washington pealed that decision since march two thousand and eight since the day of his arrest has been kept. their way to a verdict he maintains that he is innocent he denies all accusations and says that the business of that he used to upgrade in the past his air cargo business was completely legitimate. you get the billing for russia today from bangkok. always just getting reports here that a thai court has ruled that the alleged russian arms dealer will be extradited to the united states of course we'll be bringing you more as we get it. now

plans to build a mosque near the site of a nine eleven terror attacks in new york are fueling anti muslim feeling among some americans now adverts opposing the mosque have appeared on the city's buses maria port now looks at the effects freedom of speech is having on freedom of faith. here in the u.s. media capital millions of the messages flood the streets but only one advertisement for new york city is. emotional reaction to its inflammatory i think the ad that ran very offensive this ad has been slapped on twenty six buses in the big apple on the left a plane crashing into the north tower on nine eleven on the right the proposed mosque slated to rise two blocks from ground zero the red texas ask why there is the latest offensive delivered by critics opposing the development of an islamic center two blocks from ground zero this woman pam geller reportedly paid eight thousand dollars for the bus ads no i'm not trying to spread islamophobia i'm

trying to spread openness and you know what we are hoping to pander and criticism and. you know does it in a country founded on religious freedom whole show sixty three percent of americans those the development of an islamic cultural center so close to a secret ground i think it's a great ad and i think it is an absolute disgrace that people would think about building a mosque where three thousand new yorkers and americans more than one hundred of those victims were muslim americans if you're saying. that there's a number of people who are. willing to spend a lot of money to advertise that were over r t got an exclusive tour of that nineteenth century building in lower manhattan it turns out it's already been serving as a temporary mosque for the past year as a citizen. and as president i believe that muslims have the right to practice their

religion as everyone else in this truck and throughout the country the new york dispute has become a central campaign issue perceiving the november elections some would say the national debate surrounding the so-called ground zero mosque has been freedom of speech against. freedom of religion now it's pretty clear that this issue has become a political issue but it's also become an issue of security to cover here just thirty feet from the building parked police car it stands here all day to make sure things are made safe. hurry up or niam are to new york. at a sign now to pack your bags as we take you on another tour of the lesser known parts of russia with our close up team. and today we are on what we are one thousand kilometers north of moscow in the small town of cargo carnival was an important trade center back in the sixteenth

century as it was situated between what was then the only russian seaport of our hunger and moscow however its history dates back as far as the eleventh century spy the town slowly falling into obscurity its art in architecture very much alive as our teams test our cilia found out. this time our close of team takes you to one of the ancient towns of northern russia in fact it's even older than moscow now this is home to unique monuments of history and art and you also find remnants of medieval russian architecture now joins me today is professor william brumfield and he can tell us more about the city thank you for joining us professor you're welcome to please tell us what makes the history and culture of so rich we call global was the center of culture in the russian nora's during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a very poor that outpost for the moscow by state and a very strategic area and because of its important location it became

a major commercial center and that explains the presence of so many churches after the coming of the railroads the role of the city as a trading network and declined greatly so certainly after the beginning of the nineteenth century the city no longer had its importance so after that importance has been lost commercially what is called the poll today i think a large part of that is the persistence of the crafts here traditional crafts and ours that are practiced in cargo hold by masters who continue very old traditions is well known for its clay toy. it's. a very interesting part of russia and the artistic culture also there are master weavers she-ra hand looms and so forth many different forms of the crafts that are still practiced here that is

a major part of what draws tourists to ripple and the town also exports what it makes its artists go to other cities and other countries all right thank you very much for fessor now caught a ball and may have changed its role over time but it still has a richness though it's quite a trek to get here because the trains don't go through this town however tourists still make the journey to get a glimpse of its past and to taste the simplicity and creativity but now make up the town's spirit. the mind of many. a town frozen in time. these stone churches and centuries old wooden houses once owned by rich merchants stirred the magination. once upon a time cargo of war was one of the wealthiest towns in russia thanks to bustling trade by the onyango river but it began to fade into obscurity when sea tree was moved to st petersburg and later on when railroads were built by passing the town life here is simple quiet and for the most part that actually nothing has

changed some have automatic machines but they still come to wash the things in the river after they wash them in the machine the room next to linen feel fresher. today there's no real industry and gargle ball so people have to make do with what they do best making clay toys. this is our main work and means of support this figurines are my life now i can picture my life without them it's thanks to bloody mirrors parents that the ones dying craft was restored in the one nine hundred sixty s. they call it a peasant art potters used to make clay dishes and left over kuwait to make toys for children tourists flock to their home especially for these had made pieces of ancient local culture and to get very hands dirty as well. but cargo pulls got more to show for itself than just glee figurines there as far back as i could remember

of five generations of my family have been involved in some form of art. because art brought back smiles and color into a place otherwise left behind by history but always on the lookout for a sturdy piece of history are the people of mali open air museum the largest in russia they've managed to save some of the majestic and ancient wooden structures typical from god. these massive wooden structures were brought to mali could barely piece by piece then reassembled and restored here. and intensively bruv love for the museum's team restorers. says in the north are built from pine wood with the windows of this one are made from fur. dries out disintegrates over time we want to preserve it and restore what we can. for vladimir it's enough that their family restored a piece of congress history and are keeping it alive after all

a new fields way of life is all they've known they quickly realised that in this place it's all about the simple life and going back to basics i'm here at a crawling along the route where locals bring their clothes more often views during the winter so if you'll excuse me i've got work to do. r.t. cargo cool in the region. now it's been seventy years since leon trotsky one of the leaders of the bolsheviks revolution of dieting seventeen was assassinated by an undercover soviet agent trotsky spent his last days in mexico after being deported for opposing jails of stalin's policies but his socialist ideas are finding more support among those hit by europe's financial downturn as laura amateur reports. go on but not forgotten to many of the ideas of leon trotsky embody genuine socialism revolution an international coalition of the working classes and bureaucracy they might seem like outdated ideas but across europe they're alive and well trotsky's

murder at the hands of an undercover and cave agent took place seventy years ago and thought even a whole thousand miles away from here in mexico but hey as in many other places around here his theories live on through organizations like this one which calls for the working classes to seize power from the capitalists and start the permanent revolution workers' power is a movement active in twelve countries from the united states to sri lanka the organization simon. hardy says it's relevant today more than ever as ordinary people feel they're suffering most to prevent economic crisis brought about by the rich a lot of work of socialists now is focusing on talking to working people about how they're suffering under the recession and engaging in the political arguments and ideas which will help them fight back against the government's against the capitalist class so that they don't have to bear the brunt of the crisis may

discontent in europe about cuts in public spending and job losses this summer has seen violent protests most notably in greece socialists around europe believe those demonstrations were successful in their view they stops the greek government imposing harsher austerity measures and according to german trotskyist greek s.a.v. that's just the beginning i think you can develop a real program which is for example stop all the paying off the debt start nationalization of the banks start nationalization of the big companies put them into workers' control and management i think that will. lead a way where you can really fight back the measures of the government also spread these struggles to other countries in southern europe for example but also to countries like germany according to the trotskyists we're heading for an autumn of discontent with demonstrations and general strikes across europe attacking austerity measures and governments the aim is to spread leftwing ideas and plant

the idea the economic crisis wasn't brought about by individual policies it stems from capitalism itself when capitalism went into its bust phase in two thousand and eight when the recession. the governments decided to give the banks as much money as they wanted there was billions and billions of dollars given to the banks in bear outs. but when it comes to ordinary people we suffer cuts we suffer austerity measures so it's about making a political argument and making clear the problems of capitalism itself and therefore there's a real target of so. marxists trotskyists say genuine socialism minus the cults of personality and the bureaucracy was never given a chance to prove itself in europe its never managed to get more than two couldn't support at the ballot box now its supporters think capitalism is on its deathbed and it may be time to try out philosophy. and also news in brief for you here in r t an american airlines plane has been

grounded in san francisco moments before takeoff after police received a threat by phone it's not yet clear whether it was a bomb or hijack threat two passengers were arrested the boy's seven hundred sixty seven bound for new york remained on the tarmac for two hours before travelers were sent through security again. b.p. has rejected claims it is withholding key information needed for the investigation to the gulf of mexico oil spill. misguided and misleading trance ocean the firm which owns the rig has asked for a full disclosure of details about the explosion at the platform which killed eleven workers and started the leak the company is facing nearly two hundred fifty lawsuits for damages caused by the disaster but denies responsibility. the u.n. looks set to reach its target of four hundred sixty million dollars in aid for pakistan's flood victims nations has been raising they are donations after the un

secretary-general ban ki moon asked for more money at a special meeting general assembly before the address only half the sum had been raised the secretary general appealed to governments to give more generously than in previous disasters saying the floods were a bigger catastrophe than many thought over to over twenty million people have been affected by the disaster. a ten minutes from now martin anders reveals the details of a royal murder the change the course of russian history for that else is here with business news. i'm grateful for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice ceased to face with the news maker. a

very warm welcome to the business report here in austin with me i said that now well somehow spent four hundred million dollars fighting the forest fires that have swept the country in the last month that's according to the emergency ministry said again. the tank will include the money for the construction of new houses and calls associated with employing additional rescue forces in the five weeks the forest five in central and western russia fifty three people have lost their lives and three thousand five hundred have lost their homes. now russia's banks are enjoying a revival of suffering through the financial crisis deposits are at an all time high or the confidence in the security of the sector is rising both at home and

abroad within a quarter of our report. the russian banking sector has emerged lean and mean and from the crisis best bad to low depositors and a weak loan market confidence in the sector slumped as the world's economy went into reverse at the beginning of two thousand and nine russian banks were being asked to pay high rates of interest to borrow money on the international markets to offset the perceived risk in the sector just eighteen months later and that has changed what we're seeing now is a recovering well all sort of business activity picking up this is why the corporates are actually showing some demand for new credit this is actually the water cooler reaction on the bank side in the first seven months of this year domestic banks sold more than eight billion dollars of foreign currency debt a four fold increase over the same period in two thousand and nine among the

companies that have made the move to the euro markets as burbank gasper and bank and bank of moscow banks accounted for sixty five percent of total corporate international debt sales from russia this year up from twenty percent last year a significant growth although still not back to pre-crisis levels but the. ones we're seeing my really the first steps towards the euro bond markets after the crisis the market has changed but it's not like it was back in the summer of two thousand and eight russian banks have moved from a vicious spiral turkish as sack-o. public confidence in the institutions has returned bursting deposits to record levels this in turn has reduced the risk associated with the sector ultimately meaning the banks can secure more financing more cheaply i do question our business r.t. . ok let's see how the markets are getting all this morning in asia. with a six day while the other actually strengthened to

a seven week high against the euro what about. ok fell one point two percent about the biggest drop among the. hong kong's hang seng index. zero point eight percent concerned the global economic woes. russia's markets. paying. close yesterday but energy stocks got home a new choral a helping. the price of light sweet. seventy six dollars a barrel i don't. rebuild. an extension. we're trading volumes traditionally in the summer months all contributing to the volatility on the markets david bukit b g c o n n explains basically this is all good studies very very worst in europe the volumes in all

markets around europe are absolutely derisory and frankly the deal is such as are in london frankfurt and paris are running around like headless chicken was responding to good and bad news as it so falls out. we are in. neutral mode at the moment because we've had. this is really boy the markets. well prosecutors have eight lawsuits against rushes to discount airlines that have gone lover and sky express all the claims were dates of flying delays back in july sky express that went from being among the best to reliability to the worst with a fifty percent of its flights offering hold up however face of the prospect of losing its license the company has managed to halt the number of delayed flying in all this. foreign direct investment into rupture fell eleven percent in the

first half of this year schooling to the statistics agency also banned. from six point two to five point four billion dollars overall foreign investment into the country also it slipped. retail sales in russia accelerated in july despite the heat wave they rose a bigger than expected it's point six percent year on year that's the best showing since the betty downs of eight cells of salt and sugar posted double digit growth compared with the previous month while flowers cereals and passed. grades. that's the way the business very fierce our more of course in the next than you can always check out what we're doing on our website that's our team dot com slash business.

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