the beach. hotel. in. russian engineers could start operations at iran's first nuclear power station. the u.n. atomic watchdog. special forces reportedly killed one of the men suspected of orchestrating deadly bombings. at a controversial make. in favor of more eco friendly.

travels to russia. and finds the local people keeping tradition a flight. live from our studios here in central moscow twenty four hours a day this is. the first nuclear power plant in the middle east has been switched on in the southern city of bushehr the russian built reactor is now operating under control of the un atomic watchdog amid international concerns over. that's been over a decade in the making. more than thirty years in the making with a price tag of over two billion dollars by all accounts the pushchair nuclear power plant is an expensive undertaking and one for which iran has spared no expense the

chaplet has always been more than just that and if you're ready to sell it for money it's a symbol of the country social progress and proof but it's more in touch but there are critics in bottom at the top the funny republics and ideological backwardness and it never become part of the building which is a diplomatic bargaining chip for years the station has finally come closer to fulfilling its practical purpose but the first batch of nuclear fuel just loaded into the reactor the station is expected to start producing electricity by the end of this year but iran's top nuclear fishel says it's already time for celebration we are grateful to the people from russia to the government of pressure to our great friends in russia that were. instrumental in making gus witnessing today. had not been the assistance of the russians certainly would not have been witnessing such a great piece with temperatures well over forty degrees centigrade the plant is

a vivid example of why iran needs to produce more with tricity even with air conditioning running at full tilt the heat is still too much to bear for years russia's top nuclear fishel sergei kerry younker has been working up a sweat to defend moscow's cooperation with iran it when you go there it's a unique venture because it's very difficult to build new equipment into the equipment that was there from the start the bushehr power plants is an international project over ten countries supplied the equipment european countries as well as asia pacific countries while some countries remain concerned about iran's use of russian nuclear fuel people of pushchair also have reasons to be fearful valeri in their alina. been working at this station for three years leave the sas initially she was a pretty hands of a bar bringing their children to iran for medical reasons but knows she and her husband have other concerns. we just saw reports online quinn israel is planning to

bomb it's scary when they do local training here there is shooting and airplanes are flying you never know if it's true or not maybe they're preparing for something to many here is a real threat to bomb the station evolved painful memories of the 1980's when saddam hussein's old tillery berridge the city causing substantial damage to the station itself yet iranian officials are confident history want to repeat itself we have to see because this is beginning to. attend to me a new installation. these are these. are the. it's psychological. we do not take it serious although we are there we are vigilant. this does not mean what they are saying it's a serious russia's role in supplying fuel and technology to iran may unsettle some

but it could also prevent further confrontation between the two neighbors adding yet another dimension to phrase enrichment for peaceful purposes. r.t. will share iran. for desired a professor in political communication at the university of tehran says the opening of bushehr is an achievement for countries around the world taking a stand against the dominance of the us. we have a number of countries united states where example that have a political problem that iran's government and they use the nuclear issue as an excuse to pressure iran internationally has nothing to do with nuclear weapons just because iran's advances may not be broken by a number of countries doesn't mean that the international community would have a problem but that a lot of people all around the world are celebrating this. along with the iranians because this is going to have meant just for iran it's an achievement for countries

that the stand up to international pressures and can achieve what they need to achieve if they have patience i think still ahead for you this here in r.t. we look at the alleged russian arms dealer victor boot is wanted so badly by the united states. the first one of the suspected organizers of march's moscow metro bombings in which forty people died has been killed in a shootout with russian security forces four other alleged militants were also shot dead during the special operation in russia's southern republican party sean thomas has more. officials are telling us that we put up a. has been killed in an operation in the southern republic of this time along with four others now this is important because he is wanted on the federal and international most wanted list more than two years he's also thought to have ties to sharif about who is one of the two suicide bombers blew themselves up on march

twenty ninth at lubyanka station shootout with the station and then another suspected bomber blew themselves up here at the to a metro station now in this operation we're told that firefighters had a building surrounded there was a fire inside that building they realized it was because they were shot and killed were also told that no policemen were shot and killed or there were no civilian casualties in this operation as well let me give you a little bit of background on the moscow metro bombings the start to be one of the masterminds of the organizers of the muslim bombings on march twenty ninth happened during rush hour on the breadline on the bianca and arbitron metro station right here killing forty people and injuring more than one hundred people so this has been someone that authorities had been trying to get to for some time and at this point time that they say they have successfully killed ali as well as four others in his operation. and also in russia's northern caucasus one policeman was killed

and four wounded during a special operation in the chechen republic security officials say police cornered a militant in a house in the capital grozny following a gunfight the suspect escaped the building then detonated an explosive device blowing himself up in the process. moscow says it will continue efforts to bring russian businessman vic to boot back home he's accused of being an illegal arms trader and on friday a toy court ruled he be extradited to the u.s. a decision condemned by russia as political aloa thai court had initially rejected . extradition bit of loot is now expected to be sent to the us within three months was the rest of the bank called more than two years ago and kept in custody ever since the us accuses boot of terrorism and conspiracy to supply arms to colombian rebels charges he denies military analysts of going to crucial police has a lot of information about shady u.s. dealings and that is why he's regarded as such

a threat by washington. victor boot is a walking intelligence treasure trove has a phenomenal phenomenal photographic memory and there are several results why u.s. intelligence community or so keen on getting him to the united states first to try to recruit him to be cia made several approaches to recruit he refused all of the logistics of legal and illegal arms supplies all around the world and because look now it's too much he is more dangerous then we kill weeks for the u s smuggling role not only in africa and latin american but all over the world. and that was our military analyst guinea. well just ahead close up travels to a secluded location. right now on a four hour journey by boat to one island that's all be accessible during the summer months on this island we're visiting a village populated by the more people who are meeting close to ours explore the

lives of more people their traditions their culture past. that's still to come but first some other world news in brief for you prosecutors in sweden have dropped charges against wiki leaks founder julian the song he was earlier accused of rape and molestation but authorities say the suspicions are unfounded the website had said the charges were without bases and that they had previously been warned to expect dirty tricks so it was in sweden last week where he announced the whistleblower website is set to publish a final behind. of secret documents on the war in afghanistan. australia is counting the ballots in its general election as the tightest in the country for more than forty years almost seventy percent of votes processed pm labor party is thought to be slightly ahead of the opposition coalition and work is a hung parliament as the parties are almost running neck and neck after a campaign the vote would decide the make up of the one hundred fifty seat lower

house and hoff of the seventy six seat senate. thousands have taken to the streets. in kashmir protesting against the arrest of about twenty people for throwing stones in demonstrations and paramilitary tear gas to disperse the crowd chanted and india said it's more than sixty demonstrators have died in clashes with police there over the past two months. new york city's iconic yellow taxis are on the road to extinction with the economic recession pushing forward to introduce new fuel efficient cars the production of the sedan style vehicle will soon be stopped but as lister has been finding out many on the streets of the big apple feel they're losing a jewel in the city's crown. in a city that never sleeps the floor with taxis never stops for very long.

the line for cabs is tough they can miss the pounding in the city twenty two hours twenty four hours a day but for cabbies it's even tougher. i would. take your money so if you don't hustle for cash during peak hours. and for drivers like this one time banker yeah i used. to deal with life on main street means working even harder and faster as a cabbie these days because of the recession. and pounding the pavement in new york city's sea of yellow there is one car that is keeping this cabbie and many others afloat on the car. with the new york taxi. get on with. it is kept them running for a while now. since ninety six ninety seven for practical reasons it runs and runs and runs but too much of the world this car is more than

just a dependable cab this is just like a. symbol or not it will be scrapped altogether run into the bone yard of cabs two thousand and eleven is the last model year that that ford's going to make it across victoria texaco actually wrecked the crown victoria it all built ford tough hasn't proven tough enough for these economic times sluggish sales and a push towards fuel efficiency in new york means they'll be out of production on the last of them will be off duty for good in a few years. come twenty fifty deaths classic new york taxi cab looked actually be a thing of the past this street will be filled with more cabs that look like this this one's a hybrid. and make it better gas mileage and save cabbies money but it's not. exactly that iconic new york taxi ride time square place. right here if you want to. see a lot of people to

a few of those to take this one but if you ask anyone in the big apple things in new york move real that things change that change however isn't always for the better. or would anybody want to sit. in for that cab woven into this city's asphalt fabric that's what you need you don't need a car that's built for a soccer mom to take her three kids to practice here and built into the livelihoods of cabbies are forced to buy those cars you know the brought these these all these brokers they're forcing us to buy that car who are struggling just months ahead problem we'd like you know coming up with my rent will new york be losing more. than this american steel from the street this looks like the new york taxi cab is that going to be a problem the long run i don't know you know maybe for the i love new york people they can have a minute commercials i think for me and. it is yellow cab start to look the same from manhattan to russia to egypt does new york it's

a little piece of it so yes. yes because of course going to be bad for new york. it's on it's a more in list or it's the end of an era you know our t. o. mist is caught in new york. and by the way you can find more on the story and everything else we're covering at the moment on screen on our website. here is what else is online for you right now russia has one month to prove it's the legal owner of the kremlin descendants of the country's founding denah steve rix suing the state to get back the property the pool fog was built and lived in. also on the web site find out why some german and american tourists on a russian ferry cruise refused to leave the boats alter it collided with a call go show. all the. time.

now a chance to discover parts of russia cut off from the traditional tourist trail close up teams on hand to take you to diverse and undiscovered areas of the country without leaving your seat. this week we've been in the coastal region. in north west russia for generations the local people's livelihood and heritage has been intertwined with the white sea communities of sailors fishermen and carpenters of from the natural resources of the nonskid. the way of life is timeless as the sea it's. we are now in. the first russian fleet now the creators of the russian fleet are

the more people the people who have very close relations with the sea and they are the first russian settlers on the white sea coast now they were primarily fisherman hunters and sea traders in fact they created very strong trading links with northern norway to the point that a pigeon language was created between the two of them now the us have also played an important role in russian history because it's a thanks to them that russia was able to keep its northern borders unchanged now today the people who call themselves uphold very strong and unique traditions so we dug a little deeper and we had a first hand taste of the traditions and the way of life of the mars take a look they were one of the first conquerors of the northern waters fisherman. not so many fish it's off season now salmond is a northern fish it comes to reverse was boring ship builders sea captains the boomers have a bond with the sea unbroken for centuries yes my grandfather used to build one

mast into mast boats he was one of the best ship builders out there everyone in my family is connected to the sea they were the sailors or captains of work of is a native of particular got island one that he calls the homeland of captains so we travelled to particular a four hour boat journey to an island only accessible during the summer months today it's inhabited by about four hundred to morris descendants of the very first settlers here we discovered that the so-called traditional poem or way of life is certainly not just something out of a history book. constructing wooden boats using old techniques a lot of all this is a car bus a coastal kind of boat it's very stable on the sea it rises and falls smoothly with the waves making their own fish nets rating the ropes used for making those fish nets or catching their own fish.

i've been fishing for a long time now this year i caught a big fish this big and living in uniquely pull more houses the houses in this village are very well preserved dating back a few hundred years now this house in particular is three hundred years old and the unique feature of these old houses is this fireplace here they cook and they bake but it also has another use on top of it is a bed which they use during winter so they can have a warm bed during the harsh conditions for the poor more's adapting to whatever mother nature throws at them has become second nature this bridge for example is down every winter and rebuilt every spring. this recipients is also what has kept their culture alive throughout the centuries. enthusiastically sharing a heritage they're proud to call their own. i've been singing my who

life my mother still sings we collect old returns and songs and revive them this dress belongs to my grandmother when i put on this dress i feel very good and have this desire to sing old songs a desire she hopes to pass along to her young grandson. as time went by the meaning of what it is to people more has changed and today there's a debate surrounding what it really means to be a bit more of that today i'm joined by the spawn of aa and she will tell us a bit more about the debate that's going on so what are the different perspectives as to what a couple more really is some people think that there really was some people think that moore's is a kind of identification of the area the scientists politics the more culture so we have different aspects of debates what to use it to find its identity more is a big resource a full bit more than culture traditionally home or is it where the people are

leaving on the coast of the sea and of the name comes from a small district and then. people even on the coast where associated to the name of the more ok thank you very much and that tells you how some groups say there are two more some people who are not even from this region identify themselves with morris but what's important for those who do call themselves that is that they continue living the lifestyle and the traditions of the people that are from this town many many years ago well later on here and don't miss andrews on his tour of golden ring cities around moscow he continues his trip to glitch delving deep into the history of an ancient town and visiting attractions that for the faint hearted. the museum of myths and superstitions already looks spooky to me. open ten years ago it has a law as display of items and models of cards is said to have lived in lakes

forests and houses both good and evil this one here is a domovoi house elf. and you can see the program in just ten minutes from the. t.v. before that we've got the weekend business update for you that's with a short stay with us. hello welcome to the business program with me charlayne was folly russia would not significantly increase the amount of grain imports this year the government says it has another reserve to cope with this year's poor harvest however economists

believe the higher prices being paid for weight will never be feed through to the high street indeed a question of reports. we. all know i've practiced and even five grain bread well russians more red than nearly anybody else in the world so any change in prices of this table that would make seriously impact the amount of money in people's pockets because of an importance right even on the government's list of racing products where price rice is not subject to control if they start going too fast the federal until monopoly service is currently investigating in number of bakeries for imposing price hike as much as twenty percent but given the fact global wheat prices have soared seventy percent in the last two months it's hard to see how consumers can be completely him a nice all inflationary fears that we have seen are not being passed on completely to the consumer i think inflation may pick up in september it will all depend on

the economics and the market dynamics the state's decision to ban grain experts which came into effect of the beginning of this week will only do so much to control prices domestic with consumption in russia is approximately seventy five million. the latest forecast for the harvest fall well short of that. the forecast for this year's food harvest ranges from fifty nine point five to sixty three point five million tonnes but it's also possible that we could even go below that figure which. russia does play an important role in providing the world with his carbohydrates it was the third largest exporter of we did two thousand and nine but this year the weather has been so appalling that the foreign land is unlikely to recover immediately when the rains come having implications for the winter harvest and even next year's crop might you know question our business our

chain. let's have a look at the markets now here in russia the stocks that tracked global trends then closed down for a third day on friday both all of the metals were in retreat damping the investment of pain of quality produces. iron and steel top three point seven percent while gas from ended down one point one. zero looking back on the week sentiment has been broadly negative on the russian lockets we have also shown some volatility simon burke from consultancy invest cathay wraps up the last five days trade. this week was kind of usual for. its end of summer and august is a very scary months for russian traders and for us and stock markets and. well it's quite volatile but for the recent three weeks we've been in a very narrow range in terms of this is we don't break that. recent economic statistics from the u.s.

is not encouraging because for example on thursday you are saying this is a big deal because of the statistics about manufacturing. troubles claims the commodities prices right now are not supporting. the current commodity levels are. already in the prices of the russian stocks there was a lot sort of. in terms of fertilizer industry. might emerge soon and the information which came in on friday about chinese company which might participate in the offer for water. so that information. is quite important for us. crude oil is not a six week low it's been struggling to break out of the seventy to eighty dollars range for moments after briefly hitting eighty two dollars the beginning of august price that slipped back on concerns about faltering economic growth and high in the

trees in the u.s. as alexei corking from metropole explains the risks appear to be mainly on the downside for the rest of the year. i rather doubt there's going to be a major breakthrough in. say. the next three to six months but we'll probably see oil going through eighteen to the eighty's or five range in thousand and eleven but if we were experiencing it in excess supply. probably see prices troyer i think the big question is is two months to stay more than this level. and there's some doubt as to chinese chinese demand if you look at the very near and you know growth apparently enjoy a lot of it went down quite dramatic it's about three percent a year so the question is was three high demand in the first how cute someone off

a friend for instance of a program to help the chinese come to increase strategic stocks or could i'm products and perhaps just now over us that's the case that i have in my potential case ok so for the other sixty five. for the bill to ministers by the end of the year. and that's all for this hour but you can always find more on our website called slash business.

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