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leg delayed comeback a technical glitch the international space station postponed the return to work of three high fliers until saturday. we sell defense corporation and risk assessment takes center stage at the u.n. general assembly on the arabian president becomes the hot topic after his speech prompts a walkout. big political messages have been sent from the united nations get all the latest updates in our report from new york and head in the program. expectoration of the american dream india becomes the go to place you opportunities as many of us on this illusion with their prospects at home. coming up on the business news we look into the development of
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a carbon trading market in russia and lots more in twenty minutes. twelve noon here in the russian capital the international news twenty four hours a day this is out. two russian cosmonauts on the nasa astronauts are stuck you know a bit after a fault they were unable to leave the international space station so you spacecraft phone to dock on time or to. brings us the latest. the crew is safe but it was originally decided that say you spacecraft would undocked from the international space station at three thirty am g.m.t. but due to technical difficulties with the automatic lock that connects the two together so you spacecraft failed to do so right now engineers are working to fix it originally it was decided that the undocking would be dispelled by three hours
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now at the time was extended to twenty four hours currently there are six people in the international space station among them there are two cosmonauts. cosmonauts including a captain licks on that score itself and engineer. and another student from nasa tracy caldwell now the mission spent nearly six months and they are assess and apart from maintaining the space station their duties included unloading progress space crafts as well as some scientific experiments right now of the mission is back in to the international space station and they're all safe is. an alarm went off aboard the spacecraft saying that the airlock isn't properly secured and the vehicle isn't isolated from the vacuum of space after a thorough inspection it turned out this was a false alarm we could have proceeded with the undocking and landing today but we decided to do it tomorrow just to be sure there is nothing wrong with either the
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station or the landing module. now in case of emergency in case the spacecraft fails to undock again there's always a back up. that they can he's too far i about to earth however that model only fits three people inside and considering there are six people in their eyes says right now it is unlikely that they will use it. a fiery speech by the iranian president at the u.n. general assembly has caused a public outcry both inside and outside the new york building the u.s. and e.u. delegates walked out during a hoot and a dinner jones addressed as he lashed out at western dominance and pointed to conspiracy theories surrounding the attacks of nine eleven and i see churkin as more. considering how hard the international community especially in the last couple of days have been trying to say over and over again that they're willing to reach out a hand of dialogue to leave the door of dialogue open with iran it's like man who
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definition tries to provoke the community more and more and see how far he can take it he did end up crossing the line with the u.s. delegation again when he talked about nine eleven had to do is there were several viewpoints first that a very powerful and complex terrorist group able to successfully cross all the years of the american intelligence and security card to date the attack this is a privilege viewpoint which has been supported i mean the obligated by american statesman second that some segments within the u.s. government orchestrated the talk to reverse the declining american economy and its grips in the middle east in order to steve design is regime the majority of the american people as well as most nations and politicians around the world agree with this view quite a lot of protests have been taking place here in new york in this these last couple of days today was the biggest ones were taking place in d.c. buses of people arriving just outside our studio because we're two blocks away from the united nations headquarters carrying people to these protests people carrying
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banners saying mahmoud othman did a shot is a tyrant a murderer or a terrorist they're criticizing him for the human rights situation in iran as well as of course they are controversial uranium enrichment program obama of course did mention iran widely he spoke a lot about nuclear nonproliferation and he said that the united states while being very satisfied with the fact that russian the united states have been able to sign a new start treaty he's really hoping is that iran will come back for dialogue offered the islamic republic of iran an extended hand last year and underscored that are there as both rights and responsibilities as a member of the international community. iran is the only part of the n.p.t. that cannot demonstrate the peace the peaceful intentions of its nuclear program. and those actions have consequences speaking on the sidelines of the un general assembly russian foreign minister sergey lavrov has explained exactly what kind of
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signals the international community has been sending to iran now what the international community wants iran to do is to start fully cooperating with the international atomic energy agency as well as prove that all of its intentions are peaceful and put an end to all of the concerns of the international community as well as sign up to a range of international documents a nuclear nonproliferation and the russian foreign minister said that this is a way for iran to become a country free of economic sanctions. we see signs proving that to ron is seriously reviewing the current situation listening and studying the propositions which were given to worry iranian colleagues the foreign ministers of russia the us going to china france germany u.k. holding meetings where the big you asleep confirmed that are to start negotiations we expect that soon we will hear from iran that they are ready to begin this process another important issue commented on by the russian foreign minister is the
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lead us proposals of the of nato secretary general to call upon russia and the north atlantic treaty organization to try to plan together when it comes to missile defense and work together in that area the russian foreign minister has said that it's important that the interests of both sides are considered taken into consideration and really worked on before any specific plans can be put in place he has said that the scheme that is currently being discussed and put on the table of by the barack obama administration is definitely more balanced than what has been pushed by the bush administrations in the last couple of years however the russian foreign minister said that before any decisions are made all the risks and concerns of all parties have to be taken into consideration because we want to have a clear view of what new tools new strategic concept will be like firstly how ready are we need to colleagues. to start making the principle of into visible security established in the one nine hundred ninety s. the first of certainly is russia to nato we were assured that need to views this as
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porkers and not upon the thirteen years what is needles the attitude to the international law first of all regarding the principles of use of force in modern foreign affairs security is a very important issue between the alliance and russia so this is something that was underlined repeatedly however no plans were set in stone and this was a meeting that took place ahead of a big summit that is being planned in november this year in lisbon. we're still ahead in the program a new land of opportunity find out why american business brains are looking to india for their break. some other traffic but you don't have to pack your bags just join our close up team as we explore the vast and varied regions of russia. and today we continue our journey across russia sakhalin region in the country's
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far east it's not only famous for its stunning beauty and wildlife it's also one of the most diverse parts of the country. reports. close up team continues its insight in the cycling region in the russian far east and this time we'll talk about what this region is like in terms of its social structure and now to talk about what this region is like in terms of its missy and so surely we join in usenet. professor. state university. many thanks for joining us for being us here in. my first
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question to you obviously the most general one. ethnically can you tell us more about the. place of the russian far east in terms of. composition we have historically. different minority groups still not been particularly probably the most visible. cycling career. is about six percent of the entire population. to have the presence of muslim population. most of them i mean rather migrants from central asia and they probably composed of five. percent or something like that and another interesting minority group that is native sapolio or we call them the indigenous people of cycling chiefs and other nations so. historically. the world the
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second world war. on population here was formed by migrants from all over the country and people from the brain from caucasus from other parts of the game here so it's kind of. because many thanks this was a professor from the state university now we mentioned population north koreans living in the soccer league and we did a report with inside on the tragic story of these migrants in this part of russia let's have a look at this report right now. korean team that prefers to be cool. russian style this ninety year old man worked inside school mines for more than four decades under two different political regimes he still remembers the nine. his life changed completely. japanese soldiers came to our village in korea in one thousand nine hundred three and dragged me and some of my family out of our house they said
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they were taking us to sakhalin to work in a mine and promised we would only be there for two years but as you can see i'm still here kim lives in a small mining village in eastern sakhalin home to several hundred people whose share his story koreans were sent to cycling by japan as forced labor migrants to work and call mines thus they supply talk with the resources needed for the war. the japanese occupation ended more than six decades ago and most of the coal mines are no longer operational but the koreans are still here. just under a thousand koreans were sent to cycling by talk while their country was on the japanese rule. now there are almost fifty times as many living on the island and if the third generation has adapted to life here some of
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the older people who see themselves as forced migrants still dream of going back given their holiday gatherings turn into political rallies i think we demand historic justice. this organization deals with actually a shan and has helped more than fifteen hundred koreans return home over the past twenty years its president says this number would be higher if talkee or provided help because. we believe japan is guilty of causing a situation in the first place since nine hundred eighty five we've heard tokyo apologize twice but it hasn't gone anywhere from there there's been no action that's why we rely on our own resources and help from russia and south korea. moscow's stance is to assist the report's relation of the sakhalin koreans and local authorities say they try to do just that but the number of people wanting to leave is diminishing every year. with a but will fully cooperate with local green organizations on the pattern but ethnic
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koreans are getting more and more into south and in life they held positions in the administration there is successful in regional business and they get a good education that's why some even come back after patch nation to korea. says he'd happily return to korea but all of his family are here so like many within the diaspora he sees no point in leaving his home even if this was not the home he chose alexy russia ski artsy reporting from the cycling region. israel has rebuffed the united nations report that concluded its raid on a gaza bound for terror and may broke international law the probe described the incident in which nine turkish activists were killed as brutal and disproportionate as well criticize the findings as biased and says its soldiers at in self-defense report will be submitted to the un rights council on monday or shane dylan who was
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arrested for being on board one of the terms ships these un report is credible. force that was used as the united nations. group said the force that was used was extremely brutal all necessary it was it was way over proportion to anything that was on board any of the vessels there was no. civilians on board the vessel that mostly humanitarian person go there this was a very concise process that was guarded by the you know united nations group and they interviewed a lot of people in the united kingdom in france and in geneva and also in the middle east they also they asked persons that were on the flotilla or myself as a c c man they asked me what i had seen and it was point to point it was to the face there was no blasting of the information that washington who was on board one
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of the ships in the a tenner. well as look at some other international stories making headlines today the u.s. has carried out its first execution of a woman in five years to raise a lewis was convicted in two thousand and two of conspiring to kill her husband and stepson to claim their life insurance she enticed two men with offers of sex and money to carry out the killings both gunmen were sentenced to life in prison and one committed suicide four years ago judges rejected an appeal by lewis's lawyers would argue the execution would be unconstitutional because the women had learning difficulties. in. japan or said it would release the captain of a chinese fishing boat was arrested disputed waters want a diplomatic route to beijing suspended high level contact between if you want to meet the chinese vessel allegedly crashed into two japanese patrol boats day twenty one a fortnight ago earlier four japanese men were detained in china over illegal filming
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in a military. in. colombia as military forces have killed the top military strategist of the country's named rebel army the fark or a brit then known as one of four died in a military operation targeting a rebel stronghold he was responsible for a number of attacks on security forces in the one nine hundred ninety s. government officials say boy's death is the most significant strike against the group in recent years. and opponents and supporters of the venezuelan president hugo chavez upheld their final rallies ahead of sunday's parliamentary election the socialist leader denounced his opponents as the yankee party candidates hundred sixty five seats in the national assembly are up for grabs present it's almost entirely pro chavez nearly eighteen million people are registered to vote and more than three hundred candidates are competing in the polls. now with the world economic crisis still lingering in the minds of many in
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the u.s. some are seeking pastures new and india seems to offer a better chance of living the american dream yet the financial perks come with pitfalls as ex-pats struggle with a huge culture shock parties pressure went to see whether the grass really is greener on the other side. it's thursday morning in bangalore india. in the morning bustle is just beginning. but beyond the bustle on the other side of bangalore a different kind of morning is underway a quiet morning at the center of what's being called india's boom there's definitely a sense of excitement here things are looking up for india even throughout this recession things have remained positive here and you can really say the same thing about the states for collin murphy that excitement drew him here to the campus of one of india's biggest i.t. companies infosys the forty three acre self-contained community both twenty first century architecture form a dining and environmentally friendly transportation for the outsourcing giants
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employees we have students from stanford students from harvard students from mit they get to understand what is infosys what's the i.t. industry because most of the internships are based in india what is india and part of that is just about breaking maids and misconceptions it's an ironic twist after decades of what was called the indian brain drain a new era has begun one in which thousands of americans are packing up their things and finding better jobs in this land of new opportunity infosys is one of a handful of indian companies that is actively courting america's top talent every year the company brings more than one hundred elite american students to its campus for a ten week training program to learn about india and its prospects. economic opportunities people from all over the globe. that will leave. you and. india valerie reasons he came to work in an indian startup after spending three
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years in silicon valley india has been an increasingly interesting market and as it becomes easier and easier to be here with better infrastructure and things like that. more and more people are bound most americans who come to bangalore for work don't live on the modern manicured campus at infosys and when you move house play across the planet to india you also have to deal with the problems here like traffic congestion power outages in mind soon but despite that experts predict that by twenty fifteen american companies will move three point five million jobs abroad and many of those jobs will come right here to india. they've moved all the people from different nationalities coming through them in pursuit of a common goal this is all about being the power of globalised if it's all about raising the bar of the new economic. order
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a new economic order that might just turn the world upside down preassure either our t. bangalore india where online twenty four hours a day r t dot com where you plenty more of the stories from the current is just a selection that's on the right now russia's state documents that go into how much for just twenty five thousand dollars in the united states but it's actually just a book which details the collection. undiscoverable and muscovites a scene from a few pigeons on the streets of the russian come forward details that took long to auntie dot com. especially joins us now with a business update and news for the economy we understand the country could achieve a zero budget deficit soon after two thousand and thirteen as kerry that's
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according to the russian government but it will depend on diversification we have more on that from tyrants to putin in just a moment but first. russia office tremendous potential for carbon trading a group of international experts have gathered in moscow to discuss the possibilities for developing the market which some say could be worth more than two and a half billion dollars a year but dina cochon of a has the details. carbon trading was one of the key elements for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to greet and vicki are the product russia was the last to ratify the product which came into effect in two thousand and five under the trading system and government issue permits to companies to a certain volume of greenhouse gas if a company then once to invent more c o two equivalent than it can by the right for enough a company that will emit less the system also works between countries but even if the mechanism were widely adopted it still would not properly address the problem
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of greenhouse gas emissions the challenges are it's more from what your political poll i mean we have you know china is a new power and in the world that is growing and it's growing its emissions we have the united states that is still a bit reluctant to reduce emissions because that will hurt the economy and we have for europe the european union that's very active the first domestic carbon trading proposal was made by russia's knowledge as bankers burbank the c.m. thirty five companies made bids for seventy seven point five million tons of c o two equivalent meanwhile ukraine's national environmental investment agency wants to created join carman trading platform between russia and belarus carbon trading russia really just kicked off with the approval of fifteen projects which reduce emissions small scale so far we've only seen somewhere in the region of just under
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forty million tonnes of carbon to put out the context of surround three hundred to three hundred fifty million euros but the potential is much greater however the private sector. is has returned to long term investment in carbon trading as the kyoto protocol expires in twenty twelve and its success has not yet been a great the weak governmental support for missions trading is adding to the uncertainty market with the long term view because we believe that aspired to be few could do so we are observing in terms of. a new international agreement we believe we will be living in. a war so far very little money has been made from carbon trading in russia without profit incentives it's hard to persuade private companies to get involved in the market but the governments will get enough a chance to rewrite the rules in two thousand and twelve when begin to protocol expires and possibly build in need financial incentives for companies to go green
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might you know i want to. now let's have a look at how the acting markets are performing in asia stocks are mixed the nikkei ended one percent lower after a volatile session and giving up weak gains after the dollar spying to get things done for speculation of intervention in the currency markets by japanese or tortillas in expected u.s. jobless claims data pushed u.s. stocks lower overnight. and european equities are down for a fourth straight session mining shares away again that's on that weak u.s. jobless data raising concern that global economic recovery is faltering. and here in moscow both the r.t.s. and the white sets of differing into the session echoing forcing global markets banks and energy majors are seeing the biggest losses. the russian government believes it will be able to achieve zero budget deficit soon after two thousand and thirteen but prime minister putin says this will be dependent on generating income from sources other than war materials. we will
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continue to decrease our budget deficit. thirteen the deficit will be less than three percent to. zero deficit judging by the changes that happen this year it could happen quickly first of all to balance the budget we're counting on economic growth it's quality development and we need to not just the revenues from. the takeover battle for neurosurgical between two of russia's most notable billionaire has become a little clearer the dispute escalated at this year's a.g.m. when the hospice result lost one seat on the west board in favor of autonomy interests for the past painted this one against a previous agreement to share control of the mind and said he would challenge the vote in court but at a meeting of nicholas board of directors in moscow its chairman claimed everything
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was done in accordance with the rules. we believe that the annual general meeting be to place in june was in strict compliance with russian law and we recommend that the make up of the board remains as it is. russia's international reserves have risen to the highest level since two thousand and eight the value of the world's third largest transfer just jumped five point six billion dollars last week to four hundred eighty one billion dollars again with nearly all down to a revaluation of the euro which has recently been trading significantly higher against the dollar the financial crisis the government made extensive use of the funds to support the ruble and to pump liquidity into the russian economy. and that's your business update for now but i'll be back with more of you next hour and of course you can always find those stories if you log on to our web site that's slash business.
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1930's england and france tried to reason with hitler's germany demands are going to land and gets its way they also have been traded a safety net for themselves nineteen thirty nine the whole of europe isn't in war efforts to establish a system of collective security nine hundred thirty eight failed and it's still on the agenda. the lesson was to be learned from the munich agreement on our teeth.
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