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its travels to russia's white sea coast local people keeping tradition afloat. 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 the strict control of the un atomic watchdog amid international concerns over nuclear ambitions. was that the long awaited grand opening. more than thirty years in the making with a price tag of over two billion dollars by all accounts the nuclear power plant is an expensive undertaking and one for which iran has spared no expense the russia plan has always been more than just an education or writing facility for money it's

a symbol of the country's social progress and proof of what's good for intentions of our own critics the embodiment of baserunning republics an ideological backwardness and a vivid example of that until things which are at 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 officials says it's already for celebration we are grateful to the people from russia to the government of pressure to our great friends in russia were. instrumental in making course witnessing today. had not been the assistance of the russians certainly would not have been witnessing such a great deal with temperatures well over forty degrees centigrade the plant is

a vivid example of why iran needs to produce more even with air conditioning running at full tilt the heat is still too much to bear for years russia's top nuclear officials sergei kerry younker has been working up a sweat to defend moscow's cooperation with the rand it when you go it's a unique venture because it's very difficult to build new equipment into the equipment that was there from the start the plant 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 few people of pushchair also have reasons to be fearful valeri and that alina. i have been working at this station for three years the says initially she was apprehensive about bringing their children to iran for medical reasons but knows she and her husband have other concerns with you what would you saw reports in lying when israel is planning to bomb it's scary but 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 for many here is a real threat to bomb the station painful memories of the 1980's when saddam hussein's old tillery berridge the c.-t. causing substantial damage to the station itself yet iranian officials i'm confident history will repeat itself. we are not too soon because we know this is a game so international rules are tending to need new beauty sleep and these are on the board to serve these. off the media. it's a psychological war we do not take it serious although we are and there we are vigilant but this does not mean what they are saying that 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 the race enrichment for peaceful purposes. r.t. will share iran. independent nuclear scientists john lodge's critical of the bush era knowledge saying that iran is only seeking to get its hands on the technology it needs. for example we ran off for a few years could say to the russian federation technicians go we're going to take control of this no but importantly the preparation issues are primarily with the training the equipment the peripheral quick moment and the management systems that the russian federation and the international community will actually put in at bushehr to enable that plant to operate as safe as it can for that type of technology the equipment etc all of that is transferable and capable so you could put that nuclear technology into the enrichment plants in the tents and into the

reactor that the iranians are building in a place called iraq so there is the potential for proliferation transfer however security expert in moscow believes it's important to differentiate between bushehr and iran's nuclear weapons ambitions i think the. difference between and the problem that could be military. military already on the program and the. program for peaceful organization on the planet. regarding peaceful decision on the planet i think practically any proliferation of nonproliferation songs i mean this is a major victory of course for iranians because iran is going to be practically has become a cross the country in the new year in middle east which has. active . existing atomic power block. for russia it's also

a very great success because russia has proved that russia abiding is abiding for more liberation standouts well more russians bandits and brutes according to the. well still ahead. we'll look at why russian arms dealer who is wanted so badly by the united states. but first one of the suspected organizers of the 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. ought to sean thomas reports now from one of the metro stations hit by a deadly blast in march officials are telling us that the mouth about bob. has been killed in an operation in the southern republic of dagestan along with four others now this is important because he has been wanted on the federal and

international most wanted list for more than two years he's also thought to have ties to marry i'm sure of about who is one of the two suicide bombers blew themselves up on march twenty ninth at that would be uncle station she was out with the station and then another suspected bomber blew themselves up here at the park or to a metro station about in this operation we're told that firefighters had a building surrounded there was a fire inside that building they realized that this was about bob and 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 is thought to be one of the masterminds in the organizers of the moscow metro bombings on march twenty ninth happened during rush hour on the breadline on the and part of three metro station right here killing forty people and injuring more than one hundred people so this

has been someone that authorities have been trying to get to for some time and at this point time they say they have successfully killed. as well as four others in this operation. and also in russia's northern caucuses one policeman was killed and four wounded during a special operation in the chechen republic security officials say police call of 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 victim back home he's accused of being an illegal arms trader and on friday a thai court ruled he be extradited to the us a decision condemned by russia as political and low tone a court had initially rejected washington's extradition bid with a final decision to hand over breach is still to be made by the thai government which says it will thoroughly check the latest court decision the debate was arrested in bangkok more than two years ago and kept in custody ever since the u.s.

accuses boots of terrorism and conspiracy to supply arms to colombian rebels charges he denies what has been a chance of getting crucial police who does a lot of information about shady u.s. dealings and that's why he's regarded this 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 the cia made several approaches to record to refuse him all of the sticks of legal and illegal arms supplies all around the world and because now it's too much he is more dangerous than we kill weeks for the u s smuggling role not only in africa and latin america but all over the world. in this guinea chris. just ahead close up team travels to a secluded location. now on

a four hour journey by prone to one island that's on the excessive border in the summer months on this island where the city village populated by the more people who are meeting relatives to explore the lives of the more people. here asked us. some other world news in brief for you in a world update prosecutors in sweden have dropped rape charges against the founder of the we can leaks web site. julian assange but he could yet face charges of the station website says the allegations were without basis that they had previously been want to expect dirty tricks as it was in sweden last week where he announced the whistleblower scientists to publish a final batch of secret documents on the war. australia's heading for a hung parliament in the intelligence general election in the country for more than forty years seventy five percent of votes processed neither the ruling labor party

or the opposition coalition appear likely to get enough votes to win outright prime minister julia gillard says it could be days before the result is known but still hopes to form the next government. tony abbott says it's clear the ruling party has lost both its majority and the just b.c. . thousands of taking to the streets or trying to go in kashmir protesting against the arrest of about twenty people for throwing stones early demonstrations department for used to disperse the crowd chanted and indecent sixty demonstrators have died in clashes with police over the past two my. fourteen year old has set sail in a bid to become the youngest person to cruise around the world for the project from a portuguese port on route to spain's canary islands. a boat is expected to last a year attempt has been criticized by the dutch child protection agency as being too dangerous. new york city's iconic taxis are on the road to

extinction with the economic recession pushing forward to introduce new fuel efficient cars the production of the star vehicle will soon be stopped nor mr has been finding out many on the streets of the big apple feel that losing a jewel in the city's crown. in a city that never sleeps the flow of taxis never stops for very long. the line for cabs is tough taking this pounding in the city twenty two hours twenty four hours a day but for cabbies it's even tougher. so if you don't hustle for cash during peak hours. and for drivers like this one time banker. 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. it has kept them running for a while now. since ninety six ninety for practical reasons it runs and runs and runs but to much of the world this car is more than just a dependable cab this is 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 the ford's going to make. 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 and the last of them will be off duty for good in

a few years. come twenty fifth classic new york taxi cab will officially be a thing of the past this street will be filled with more cabs that look like this this one's a hybrid. and may get better gas mileage and cabbies money but it's not. exactly that iconic new york taxi ride times. people to a few of those take this one but if you ask anyone in the big apple things in new york move real bad things change that change however isn't always for the better. or would anybody want to see. and for that cab woven into this city's asphalt fabric that's what you need you don't need a car that's. three kids to practice and built into the livelihoods of cabbies. you know. these all these they're forcing us to buy that who are struggling.

will new york be losing more. than this american steel from the street this looks like the new york is not going to be a problem along with you know maybe for the i love new york people that can have a minute of ourselves i think for me at. that is yellow cab start to look the same from manhattan to russia to egypt does new york it's a little piece of itself yes. yes. it's going to be. either it's on the floor in list or it's the end of an era you know our t. . new york. you can find out more on this story and everything else we're covering at the moment and you can do that on a website called. see what else is online for you right now at the moment a couple of stories including russia has one month to prove it's the legal owner of

the kremlin descendants of the country's founding dusty the roots are suing the state to get the property that built and lived. in an american tourist in a russian cruise ship refused to leave. collided with a cargo ship details on those stories and plenty of other features on t.v. dot com. well now a chance to discover parts of russia cut off from the traditional tourist trail a close up team is on hand to take you to diverse and undiscovered areas of the country without leaving your seat.

this way curry being in the coastal region of a tangle skin north west russia for generations the local people's livelihood and heritage has been intertwined with the sea just sailors fishermen help doesn't fly from the natural resources of the landscape. or found out a way of life that is a timeless as the sea itself. they were one of the first conquerors of the northern waters. killing the northern end of rush season now feel good but salmond is a northern fish it comes to rivers for spawning shipbuilders sea captains the morse have a bond with the sea unbroken for centuries. my grandfather used to build one mast into most boats he was one of the best ship builders out there everyone in my family is connected to the sea they were the sailors captains. bourque of is

a native of but to keep the island one that he calls the homeland of captains so we travel 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 morse descendents 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 elision certain of all this is a car bus a coastal kind of boat it's very stable on the seat it rises and falls smoothly with the waves. making their own fish nets. raiding the ropes used for making those fish nets or catching their own fish but i've been fishing for a long time now this year i call to big fish this big and living in 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 few more hours adapting to whatever mother nature throws at them has become second nature this bridge for example is down every winter and rebuilt every spring. yet this will soon and is also what has kept the cultural life throughout the century. and cousy asked equally sharing a heritage they're proud to call their own. play version sing in my life my mother sightings as we collect old reel tales 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 the desires she hopes to pass along to her young grandson tesser cilia r.t. region. well later on don't miss mawson andrews on his tour of the golden ring cities around moscow he continues his trip to glitch deep into the history of an ancient town and also visiting attractions that for the fainthearted. museum of myths and superstitions already look sound spooky to me. this museum opened ten years ago it has a laws to splay of items and models of characters sets of lived in lakes forests and houses both good and evil this one here is of domovoi he's a house elf. and

you can see the last of them from now here. now though it's time for the weekend business update that special coming away stay with us for the. hello welcome to the business program with me charlayne was folly russia will 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 pay for waves were inevitable a.c through the high street indeed of question of reports. we. all know bread and even five grain bread while russian saved more bread that nearly anybody else in the world so any change in price of this staple would make seriously impact the mind of

the money in people's pockets because of a court that's right even on the government's business of raising products where price is right this is a subject of 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 that 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 the 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 tonnes 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. 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. of local markets down here in russia the stocks that tracked global trends then closed down for the third day on friday both all a metals were in retreat dumping the investment of pain of quality producers. iron and steel drop three point seven percent while gas from ended down one point more

than. looking back on the week sentiment has been broadly negative on the russian markets we've also shown some volatility simon burke from consultancy invest cathay wraps up the last five days trade. this week was a kind of usual week for august because. it's end of summer and august is very scary months for russian traders and for russian 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 indices and we don't break that. recent economic statistics from the u.s. is not encouraging because for example on thursday you were saying this is where it went down big deal because of the statistics about manufacturing activity and about the job was claims commodities prices right now are not supporting. the current commodity levels are. already in the prices of the russian stocks there was

a lot so today in terms of fertilizer industry. in syria might emerge soon and the information which came in on friday about chinese company which might participate in the oil for four quarters corp so that information. is quite important for us. crude oil without a six week low is being struggling to break out of the seventy to eighty dollars range for moments of bravery hitting eighty two dollars the beginning of august prices have slipped back on concerns about faltering economic growth and high in the trees in the u.s. as alexei caulking for metropol explains the risks appeared to be maybe only a downside for the rest of the year. i rather doubt there's going to be a major breakthrough or three say. in the next three to six months but we'll probably see you well going through eighty to the eighty five range in

two thousand and eleven if we were experiencing it in excess supply. probably see prices troyer at the big question is is demand sustain this level and there's some doubt as to chinese chinese demand if you look at the three year and you know growth apparently enchiladas it went down quite dramatically to about three percent a year so the question is was the high demand in the first help you to someone else a fan for instance of a program to help the chinese companies to increase the strategic stocks of crude and products and perhaps just now well for us that's the case that i have in my potential kerry case so for the other sixty five. we will be able to make it worse by the end of the year. and that's all for this hour but you can always find more

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