also as new testament to the gambling zones cradle to gas whole thing where and in most of the country is a match to tell us that the black sea coast into a russian las vegas. i'm going to get an enormous looking. out and pay to tweet a russian gotten a school's tweet saying right in the middle of the senate council session by the president meant that it passed out. hello and welcome to all t twenty following news live from moscow. on main story now president barack obama has made a rare live televised address to the people of america to mark the official end of combat operations in iraq in a fifteen minute speech should pay tribute to what he said was a huge american sacrifice which allows iraq now to determine its own future iraqis

are a proud people they have rejected sectarian war in the end only iraqis can resolve their differences and police their streets only iraqis can build a democracy within their borders the united states has paid a huge price to put the future of iraq in the hands of its people through this remarkable chapter in the history of the united states and iraq we have met our responsibilities now. it's time to turn the page. so president obama emphasized his pledge for all remaining u.s. troops to leave iraq in a year's time despite the departure of combat soldiers fifty thousand troops are staying to help train local forces he said afghanistan will now receive new resources with intensified operations against al qaeda leaders but stated it's not an open ended war with withdrawal to follow that to you cools. excuse me obama

ended his speech by telling however to the faltering american economy vital need for recovery. and alison weir direct the u.s. council flash more interest things obama said nothing unexpected especially with so many americans concerned about the country's current economic situation. i suspect we're going to see the very partisan divisions that we're seeing too often these days. even he called for unity in his speech it was a patriotic speech even extolled the virtues of the united states as every president always says so he sort of hit those notes the way you're supposed to do as a president i do think that the majority of people in this country dislike the kind of partisan bickering that we continue to see i think that part of the speech will go across. so i think they'll be mixed reactions i think the publicans will see it a certain way and democrats will see it another way and meanwhile the number of troops sent to afghanistan will increase he did of course go on to talking about

the economy i think you want to switch it to that because of course that's what many americans are concerned about their so many people that have lost jobs here that have lost homes so the economy and its direct result from the war is a major factor here and i think he tried to discuss that and move in that direction and tried to give people the impression that something positive would be going what happening on that sphere again i think you'll find that democrats supporting him and the republicans yesterday one of the roles of the president of course is to be a leader to make people feel confident that there's some that their nation is in good hands one of the important rules is to inspire people to certain action to keep it's his and sometimes of compassion so i think that was an element of his speech that he was trying to assume that important position and he may have six i think you covered we succeeded with many people but i don't think he did succeed with everyone will be my guess. meanwhile iraq remains in political deadlock after

inconclusive elections in march and displayed by insurgent violence dozens of civilians died in a wave of terror attacks last week baghdad based journalist rosen has chronicled the who says that while america's declared victory it's come at a very high cost to the iraqi people they did get rid of saddam hussein at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives of iraqis millions of displaced tens of thousands of iraqis who were languished in american prisons years of their lives were lost. is destroyed shattered dirty desperate people are very poor living amidst. during hours of checkpoints and desperately trying to obtain electricity so yes there are some freedoms. that exist now that didn't exist before but there's also the iraqis say a democracy of death or random bombings in the freedom to down the street so

there's no way to say whether it was worth it and what strikes me every day that i'm here is not a family i meet that hasn't had their men murdered kidnapped beheaded defend these displaced not a family you meet that hasn't been touched by the occupation the violence that came with it so while the american administration is celebrating its victory i think we should never forget the high cost of iraqis paid for this american victory. you know we've all seen and coming up later in the program writes under fire. for some of the right to shoot for courses later living in america means that we should be able to carry our hair and. find out why people in the u.s. state of louisiana learn longer feel safe fearful of the government stripping them of their right to bear arms. and russia's high tech norway are exchanging tweets in the workplace taking notes from the president.

residents of an indian village who say they're facing starvation after two years of drought have vast to commit mass suicide unless they get urgent aid from the also as he's they say they're being ignored however despite their astonishing threat current saying has the story. here in the village of gerard in a remote part of eastern india so intricate mollies spends time with his family including his little grandson this may look like one happy picture but the reality is quite the opposite with no food to eat so reined in over twenty other farmers in the small village of about three hundred families have threatened to commit mass suicide. we will have to die sometime so while you suffer like this every day it's better to die now we're so hopeless that we've come to the conclusion that committing suicide is the best option would like to die early

a little food to eat how many days can a person want to live. the region has had an acute drought for two years now this has driven villagers from girard to write a letter to the president of india and the state governor asking for rations and in a geisha in facilities if help fails to work they say they'll commit suicide. he says we requested immediate food aid from the governor and for the long term some development work could provide us with employment such as digging a new well and improving the route to a village which is in a bad state the farmers are desperate as the entire state of charge can grapples with a forty two percent rainfall deficit this year julie mooned shows me his field which should have been full of crops at this time of year but lies bad and instead. and i've used up all our seeds but for the last two years there has not been enough

water for our crops to grow seeing the desperate situation in our homes and we're thinking what is the point of living this suicide request has george did the local administration into action promises of food and development have been made but little has actually reached the village officials at the district headquarters didn't respond to our request for an interview meanwhile enjoy the villagers wait for the promised aid. all the senior officials have visited us from the local administration along with our elected member of parliament they've given us assurances but i do know when to expect action it may take five days fifteen days or even a month we are roof folk and clearly not so important to the government. this crisis has been in the making for two years now and this letter has just brought it out into the open with an entire village driven to despair the government will have to take urgent steps to prevent this from snowballing into

a major crisis got and saying r.t. from the village of nice to me india. america's remembering the eighteen hundred victims of hurricane katrina five years since the disaster struck west hate towards the city of new orleans as its trees flooded with water the city became so much to violence and looting residents complain that not only did the authorities fail to protect them they stopped them from protecting themselves their reports. it's a sunday afternoon in louisiana i just came out here to shoot practice. and guns are a blazing at this shooting range. so our forty percent believe everybody should have the right to defend themselves at any cost in this part of the united states the right to bear arms is part of everyday life i believe person has a right to sue for i ask questions later. but rob to go on for before i know what

it's like i believe that. living in america maybe said we should be able to carry a handgun but that wasn't always the case so what do you do it so we take in your weapons. richard styrene and his friend wayne shoom were on lake ponchartrain about a week after hurricane katrina made landfall and i had almost to say any way shape centrist a foot of water in the house. but it was still there they went to styron's house to get his things but we heard. stuff that was going in a wall and all the shooting and the people that were getting heard some killed from what i've been told. while heading back across the lake the pair was stopped by law enforcement and asked to give up their weapons. from your order for a minute your proverb property. don't have any right taking the wrong. as the

hurricane toke the city by storm residents felt their constitutional rights were being blown away the armed populace keeps a government in check the government should not be in charge of the populace the populace should run the government at whatever the government has the guns and the populace doesn't have the guns the government does what it wants in the aftermath of katrina new orleans was in complete chaos law enforcement couldn't handle all the problems and on streets like this one every single building with looted except for one occasion is pov as they are three smith and wesson club action shotgun the twelve gauge semi automatic join guido's is the owner of cajun's pub she decided to take things into her own hands there was vans with. them and they were breaking into and businesses where they are so no sign of anyone around and that they didn't mess with us here because i stood out front. with my shotgun we don't

protected her patrons when law enforcement was nowhere in sight after guarding her pub for about a week we dose decided to evacuate u.s. marshals came across this in front saw me with my shotgun you know they pulled about a dozen m. sixteen saw us put our body against the wall checked our bodies id took all my weapons and then left she couldn't believe this was happening in the united states i was furious i had no way of protecting myself beyond the physical destruction they saw their city and even their country transforming before their eyes look at the communist countries look at cuba look at nicaragua look at any country you want to take where the the government has the guns and the populace is and look at how they live and how they're treated it's a story they want remembered so it never happens again preassure either r. t. new orleans louisiana. has been a big day for germans have been marking twenty is says they were formerly reunited into a single nation the capital. and the country were spinning to heart after world war

two but the fall of the burning room paved the way for united germany on the thirty first of august one thousand nine hundred treaties sued east germany's integration with the west. unification process was unfair and. the. german democratic republic was bankrupt they didn't have any money anymore and what they were expecting was a fifteen billion marks loan from western germany and western germany was not ready to extend it so there was a very clear cut question from one day to the next how could this part of late to unify germany's survive and under these circumstances it was very clear that the political way to the power was a very clearly on the side of of the westerners and no doubt many easterners must have felt. the next one thing is very clear the joblessness percentage is much

higher in eastern germany that it is in the western part of these companies that went bankrupt after the very hasty unification process that is very very difficult to replace and build up again and the effect of the unification was for eastern germany also during. a currency problem as devastating and of course we have this let's say this minority feeling among many easterners that they feel that the majority of westerners is not doing what they would like to have done in their part of germany political analyst christopher her still talking to us from germany. you know as last year restricting gambling in russia forced casinos to move to four designated zones in the remote regions they however have struggled and leaving russia with only one legally operating casino promoting investors to

suggest new locations that has been our skin looks at how big a gamble our plans for russian vegas. this is a gamblers paradise the oracle offers all kinds of games from the army of one armed bandits to poker and roulette. however most of the time the place is deserted. this is the only legal casino in russia a private company invested ten million dollars into its construction and even though there are a few willing to build gambling spots here in the area it still looks like most in the industry see those making bats in a burning house last year russian lawmakers banned all casinos and gambling clubs across the country to be replaced by force specially designated and developed zooms in siberia western russia the south and the east the industry reacted immediately like you know shutting down the facilities moving them abroad or going underground

even the most successful the southern gambling zone is mostly being ignored by the enterprise nurse. most investors are passive mainly because as if city is far away from other major transportation hubs the local airports and the developed and the roads and not like that only there and the other factor is that the gambling burned in russia is really hard to enforce. in cities just a few hundred kilometers away from us all police discover illegal gambling down every week. of course it's officially prohibited but in our neighborhood everyone knows where to find the underground gambling den you can have a good time there if you play your cards right the regions of georgie's have come up with a new plan to make the rules work they want to relocate the whole southern guy. zone closer to popular tourist destinations like the black sea coast resorts are phenomenal and inspired by les vegas they wanted to be more than just gambling. we said why can't we try and do something like that in russia without making the

same mistakes we can use that there's that las vegas has to offer refined by decades of experience essentially we've come up with a new concept a family resort gambling will be just one of the highlights the idea will have to get support from the russians the duma possibly together with other amendments to help reverse the odds of getting the new gambling rules to work so for now the future of russia's biggest still looks dim leaving more questions than answers for its supporters and skeptics why. our team crossing the region. tweeting are posting short online messages has become the rage with some of russia's politicians not least president medvedev and one however twittery a bit too far when he was caught tweeting away in the middle of an important meeting and the question by the president himself. boosting something on his twitter page right now or during district council session as if he has nothing

else to do. but the tweeting didn't stop with the president's remark as more members of the council joined the online exchange the russian leader himself as an archaic tweeter and a big fan of the high tech gadgets his friends and created steve jobs a computer giant apple who presented him the latest i phone when they met. let's not check some other international news stories this hour two yemeni about how been arrested after arriving in the netherlands from the following suspicion that they were attempting to commit a terrorist attack what officials are finding a mobile phone straps to a medicine bottle along with knives and water as both are currently being questioned. hamas has admitted responsibility for a gun attack which killed for israelis in the west bank one of whom was pregnant it comes on the evil crucial summit in the u.s. to relaunch peace talks two women and two men died when their car was fired on by

a gunman near hebron and around five hundred ultra nationalists jewish settlers live under heavy guard among one hundred thousand palestinians in the volatile area . nature such as a roadside bomb blast has killed four american troops in eastern afghanistan and at fifty u.s. soldiers died in the surging the talkin the surge in the south and it comes after a similar violence on monday which killed eight nato soldiers in the same area american troops have been killed in the country since saturday. and tens of thousands of children in pakistan are bearing the brunt of all to illnesses that are spreading due to severe flooding in the country officials say they were affected by a rise of cases of malaria from the stagnant water more than one hundred thousand pregnant women are also facing the risk of infection and disease they want to stop a flooding in the country has claimed sixteen hundred lives with seventeen million affected in title. back to remind you of all top stories in ten minutes the first

which will make it a political scientist and president of the most go based political foundation a non-governmental research and political. organization and he gives his assessment runs the russian build nuclear power plant that's up next to you know. today we are joined by a mr vyacheslav nikonov he is

a political scientist and he's also the founder and president of the polity foundation thank you very much for joining us. now the first question i'd like to ask is iran has now launched its first nuclear program it's a first in the middle east and russian engineers are a big part of that now what is the implication on russian earing and relationships and how can russia be sure that they're really pursuing this for peaceful purposes actually russia provided a. nuclear reactor the same to americans who are supposed to provide to north korea to prevent them from having nuclear weapons this is a light water reactor which is not capable of providing any weapons grade uranium and all the fuel will be provided by russia and all the waste fuel will be taken away by russia so it is safe facility which is very important which is the

first nuclear power station in that part of the world which i think is extremely important. as you may know russia was the first to build a nuclear power station which is the first to build a nuclear power station in in the middle east which i think is so important. if you follow the reactions of the major countries on bushehr opening we should by the way is not yet their station will produce electricity only. december the reaction is quite neutral or even positive the only country which reacted negatively was israel but interacts negatively to whatever happens in relations with iran any other country since they are for isolating iran i don't think russia is on the position of. the russian government

saying. with iran diplomacy. still can work so all the controversy with that we've been hearing in the past few months with major west europe reacting to iran sad. wanting to build nuclear power stations all this is unfounded if you're saying that technically speaking it will not be possible to produce nuclear weapons not this station isn't capable of producing weapons grade uranium the iranian nuclear program which war is americans and europeans and russians is not about bushehr it's about some other facilities which are on. stress the russian being very critical of iran north korea lee following all the procedures of international atomic agency still does not agree on whatever

is in washington the london or paris or berlin as far as iran is concerned because russia has its own agenda with iran which is somewhat sometimes different and sometimes not related to nuclear energy at all russia and iran. difficult history of relationship. at the same time they have quite a while agenda. economic agenda including. the development of the riches of the caspian sea we have some common strategic interests since for as international terrorism is concerned in iran is very. the us is. certain aspects

of. fighting terrorism so we have some interests in common we of course in russia north supportive of your rainy and nuclear military program at the same time there are also though it's whether iran is really up to a bomb. or just a capability which of course is a big difference. say germany or japan countries with nuclear weapons capabilities they just do not have any bombs and that is their choice so as far as i read this situation in iran is not in a suicidal move and i don't think they really want to bomb they want to keep ability and a capability is harmless the capability is harmless if the government is responsible. depends on whether these

government really. wants to. keep peace with the neighbors or has some aggressive inks things for we are not quite sure about the things of the iranian leadership so we should be cautious of course but at the same time iran is an important country it's a country with great history it's civilization itself persian civilization. with self-esteem which with growing economy. and they or russia's partner for quite a few issues moscow has said that it will ensure that iran does not pursue one peaceful means how those russian tend to get that in terms of will share there is

no way it can be perceived for non peaceful means in terms of general policies over on the russian proposal is quiet clear we are not against iran developing peaceful nuclear program that's their right including their rights in the nonproliferation treaty to which the member. it is. very important to. to make sure the. program is peaceful one of the ways to do it is to go with. russian and french proposals to. enrich the uranium to iran for research purposes but. all. should be under control and should be returned to the countries. france russia so

there could be a proposal we could really engage those two purposes. develop their nuclear program and to make it peaceful. today. these are the images. on the street.

headlines from all see president obama in a live t.v. address says the rockies are responsible for that own future and the end of u.s. combat operations that means americans time focusing on economic recovery. dollars in indian village people trying to get tried to commit suicide unless they get into eight claiming they're being ignored by the will so as he's. designated gambling zones fail to get to the ground in remote parts of the country bush's plan is a notch below brush in las vegas. and up next thank god because of the financial wall that played out in the kaiser report. you. guys are welcome to their car is a report card to her susumu in the room the world.