to look for violations during israel's raid on an aid flotilla heading for a blockade of gaza. and a new political movement and russia is campaigning on a pledge to decriminalize internet piracy. it is eight am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie welcome to the program russian oil will be pumped to china by next year president dmitry medvedev has visited the country to take part in the opening of the pipeline along with chinese leader who jintao but the two giant countries also looks set to boost trade and security in the region while we can now cross live to a correspondent on a boy who has all the details for us. politics and well the two leaders often see each other as we know during various international summits but it still seems they

have a lot more to discuss face to face. yeah absolutely they have a lot on their plate today in fact in about half an hour's time the two presidents are expected to sign a raft the for agreements more than a dozen of them most of them dealing with the area of anarchy for example russians are going to sign a technical contract to build to two war nuclear reactors here in china in addition to another two that they completed back in two thousand and seven also president hu and president are going to attend a completion ceremony for the chinese section of the first oil pipeline to link the two neighbors to the talks all of this began about fifteen years ago but the construction was only able to begin back in two thousand and nine and to be exact it's not yet completed the chinese section is yet to be completed. the chinese

authorities wanted to use the presence of the russian leader to give this advance some more pomp and ceremony these sections is expected to be finished around october and possibly in the bamber and the first oil is expected to you flow up until the end of this year now it is a very a man to say occasion for both countries because when this pipeline reaches its full capacity which is expected to take place possibly next here it's going to increase the amount of russian crude sold to china by about three times and again it's a very beneficial for both countries it allows china to get its hands on these so much needed hydrocarbon that allows russia to diversify its supply markets away from western europe so it's very good for both countries overall the relationship between russia and china could hardly be better at this moment both economically

and politically the trade between the q. has reached forty. billion dollars in fact in two thousand and nine china for the first time surprised germany is russia's largest trading partner politically if the countries are also doing pretty good with both leaders have already stressed of a doubt they are going to take the relationship to a new level of sound let's not talk about the economic ties between the two countries in more detail as on the surface they seem to be thriving but how perfect are they in reality. while economic ties are pretty good as i mentioned in fact the traitor number is expected to increase up and up to you about fifty billion dollars this year but there definitely is some for our corners for example it is weapons trade you know back in the ninety's china was

the leading buyer of russian of weaponry in fact at some point it purchases account for about fifty percent of russian weaponry experts but over the last few years russia intentionally scaled back on selling its weapons to china and one of the reasons for that is concerns that many have that china may be using its scientific and technological progress to kofi and some of the russian designs and to. sell them to other countries essentially undercutting russia's own share of the military market so there definitely is some or is it rationing but again the two countries are very keen on increasing that return over further. expanse of the technological advances of course ok well the two countries as we know have a long history of relations and back at the beginning of the fifty's the soviet union did a lot to modernize china but now its present inventive so it seems wants to learn

from beijing's experience in the field doesn't mean. it's a very interesting point you know back in the fifty's in the sixty's the soviet union spare the absolutely no expand in trying to industrialize china training its labor standing in a lot of equipment but now of course we are coming in full circle here because china is one of the most more than economy is here in asia so much so that one of the russian papers even called china a country where modernisation reigns and more that is asian as we all know we've the very important topic for the russian president in fact he sat on a number of occasions that he sees his main goal as a presence in our grading russian economy both economically again of course and improving its infrastructure and obviously china has a lot of can teach russia on this point and present it if himself admitted that on this third leg a few visit here to china he is going to go to shanghai to visit the trade acts for

and he said that he will be meeting with a lot of business leader is that chinese officials in trying to. take the partnership of russia and china beyond its traditional energy sphere and take it to a new level possibly through the area of telecommunications space and other sectors that will also allow russia to you more denies its own economy. thanks very much indeed for bringing us the latest from beijing exxon avoid a reported death. china is a prosperous society and its people are enjoying freedoms like never before and that's how american author and public speaker john astrid sees the state of things and the country and you can watch the full interview with the expert and political observer doris as bit at about twenty minutes here's a quick preview. social and personal freedom in china the third is never been before in the history of china and that freedom has

allowed the people to contribute to the whole and to create. an ever greater and more prosperous society so that every level whatever they're doing their work more incitement more. and of course physically. the appearance of a child is just gone to the most modern country in the world. now the u.n. human rights council will investigate israel's attack on a gaza about aid flotilla in may of recent un report concluded israel's military broke international laws during the raid which left nine activists dad it also describe attack as brutal and disproportionate israel still claims the incident will sell to fans and considers the turkish charity group which led the flotilla terrorists linked to hamas parties possibly or reports. the pictures that

catapulted a relatively little known him go on to the world stage in the world in which we live today where simple sizes or sympathize with are also being called terrorists it's no wonder. it is being accused in this way the turkish charity first popped up on the cia's radar few years ago it's been banned in israel in germany he states strongly linked with hamas in gaza the last thing is my ill humans would call himself is a terrorist he's a father of three and says he. boarded the ship for gaza for his three daughters to listen to gaza the children should have a right to live freely we want this so why join that organization if another event of this kind was organized i would go again sit up in the early ninety's to help bosnian muslims the i h h or humanitarian relief foundation has offices in one hundred twenty countries but over the roads the people. we will go

home show or sell the very thing for these people and it shows solidarity in pakistan ethiopia lebannon indonesia iraq china as well as with the palestinians we have hospitals schools we have impress we are pulseless for the pupils palestinian writer had a commie says israel is trying to portray the group as a terrorist one in order to try and justify the deadly flu to low grade in the immediate aftermath of world condemnation of what israel had done these really is. mounted a defense which was you know we quite clever but but not based on any on any facts it's now for the investigators to decide to a key israel and the united nations each with the only inquiry police here r t. a moratorium on settlement construction in the west bank has expired in jerusalem

the israeli government imposed a ten months ago as a move towards peace talks with palestinians but it's lifting could derail current goshi ations palestinian leaders have warned they'll pull out of u.s. sponsored talks currently underway there is renewed building in the west bank jewish settlers in the area have celebrated the bans lifting by allaying foundations for a new can of garden the israeli government has ignored pleas from the international community to extend the moratorium in the light of the current peace talks earlier artie's alice hibbard god of years of palestinian rights activist jarome berger and a jewish settlers representative eve harrow in jerusalem. first of all we need to keep on freezing through keep on freezing we have to get into serious negotiations in order to find a true solution to the church disputing the list and after having some kind of two state for two nations solution and if israel will be able to say that we

have bring peace i put the question to you do you think that an end to this moratorium will help the peace process be the end of it. i don't think that freezing jewish building into d.n.c. america has anything to do with peace whatsoever we have missed identified what the cause of of not having peace here is and the cons is the arab world at large and the palestinians in particular not accepting the right for the do to have a state here and so therefore the phrase has nothing to do with peace whatsoever and never did. speak. with the outside. we'll just get this solution try to get us we should do everything we can to stop. making israel a country which to keep on existing on earth the camp that mr berger represents has

almost disappeared from the israeli political scene at their representatives in knesset are almost completely gone in the parliament because israelis have woken up and they realize that this messianic idea of the far left that all we have to do is say what we think is right and everything will fall into place is just absurd and what we are doing most israelis is actually listening to what the arabs have to say and giving respect to what they say. of country of their will as much as the jewish people like me we believe that we have to keep on freezing. in order to get israel into a real peace. watching r.t. coming to live from moscow coming up later this hour pirate politics larry. you know it's. a group in russia has started a political movement hoping to win over voters with pledges of you're restrictions on internet piracy. tell the stories venezuelans have been

voting in a general election it's being seen as a test of popularity of president hugo chavez and his ruling united socialist party r.t. is jihan halfassed reports now from caracas. what we did see today at the polling stations was that most people said it was a very easy process there were no problems despite a lot of allegations from different sections here in venice well of that there were going to be a lot of problems on the actual voting day what has been reported that three tables were audited manually so the process here is an automated process so what you do is you have a receipt but you also vote through a machine and because of these three tables being counted manually the election results are yet to come and these three tables seem to be circulating on the independent media here in venezuela as a problem for the most part now another issue plaguing this election of course is the two sides that seem to be polarizing the different views here in venezuela for example the opposition a lot of different chavez supporters insist that they're being funded by u.s.

forces and while that cannot be confirmed there are leads here in the country that we've been following that the i.r.i. the international republican institute has been here for the past three weeks and according to their two thousand and nine annual report they were giving six hundred thousand dollars by the national endowment of democracy which is a usa idea partner for projects here in venice well i know where that money is going we cannot say that a lot of people are circulating speculation that the opposition is going to win three states here let's take a look at how venice once hit the polls and what they had to say about their electoral process and. the sun rises to a contentious day here in caracas after months of intense campaigning and p.r. maneuvers from both sides penicillins from all over the country hit the polls to vote for the national assembly the obvious signs of election day paint the city. less traffic business is closed down to accommodate voters the military is on high alert and lines wrap around the polling stations the rumors start to flare on the

eve did election allegations that voting machines were out of order began to circulate on the opposition side. but here at a station that is predominately. proposition there were no complaints did you having trouble voting just now no no problem no nothing a problem i'm very surprised what has been drilled into their heads is that the opposition will win close to fifty fifty. six. members. in the house you know that in the congress and maybe sixty seventy what the opposition claim all along used to be a message that they hold a majority on the contrary throughout the best to live in years to a revolutionary process us one a real lection and these do is going to be a victory for us. towards the inner city however the crowds display more support for the government my point station you can hear people saying vote up to the left

read the government's party this school is not only one of the most historic landmarks in the city it's also one of the largest voting districts and the opinions here for the most part are split fifty fifty but there are lots of expectations let's hope the results are what we expect for the sake of our one at this polling station there were also no problems with voting some were even helping people with how and who to vote for to get back on the streets of caracas it's almost impossible to avoid election time to get busy getting the venezuelan people know this election in many ways isn't it illogical dispute one deeply rooted in the history of latin america into what this is more than under the old war it's a work of interests and power the power that the right has always had over latin america more than any of your logical war it's about the right of the people in the of latin america to make our own decisions to solve our problems according to a real need decisions that will eventually reflect after this election is finally

over r t caracas venezuela well take a look at some other stories from around the world. and the colombian president has hailed the recent raid on fark rebels as the beginning of the end for the insurgents he made the comments during a visit to the jungle area where the military killed a senior a far cleaner along with some twenty others the revolutionary armed forces of colombia movement have been fighting to take control of the country for five decades. at least twelve people have been killed and dozens injured in a bus crash on a motorway near berlin police say the vehicle was forced off the road by a car merging into the traffic and slammed into a concrete bridge support the bus was carrying about fifty polish tourists returning home from space. file sharers and russia are pushing to make internet piracy legal and destroy its negative image they have decided to follow the example of their european comrades by setting up a political party and the spy being

a new phenomenon in the country they are already putting pressure on russia's music industry as a group as can offer reports. has been in show business since the lead nineteen eighties back then giving away demo tapes was the best way to gain fans after two decades his formula seems to be making a comeback. except now to spread the word publishers his music on the web for free so people pay to see him in concert. you see the album was already uploaded and downloaded a hundred times before i even published it i know there's no point in fighting it some going to use it instead. according to some estimates piracy leads to over ten billion dollars in losses globally every year. anything can be found on the internet many musicians are forced to hold more concerts while just a few years ago they were merely the second source of income. a record companies

are accusing pirates of stealing their money but there are those who want to draw a fat line between selling counterfeit c.d.'s or d.v.d.'s and sharing files on the internet or just the noncommercial exchange of information being free. by the what is the leader of the pirates of russia party. the internet is everywhere i just need to click a button a couple of times and download a movie or some new album i want to listen to the old distribution model is pointless now dated. the party wants to see new laws in russia legalizing all nonprofit file sharing on the web formed in july in two thousand and nine it's also one of the founders of the pirates parties international a movement which unites so called pirates. from around fifty countries we need to really take our chance again to take a stand and also tradition and taking back the freedom that once belonged to rephrase somebody's last name is and take in one hundred years for. barrett sort of

unite some websites accused of facilitating illegal file sharing in the global anti compu right movement have millions of registered users and last year two members of sweden's pirates party even managed to get two seats in the european parliament. and these people are naive and lost with poor noise of economics and history a free economy cannot exist criticism supported by some deputies of the state duma who see by making the plans of russia party official its organizers could get more than they bargained for the establishment of the pirate party while lot liberate the people from the criminal liability for awhile it into law the parents of russia are seeing the current laws are outdated and unfair and claim that he will be backed by most of the internet users in the country and that is around forty percent of the electorate piracy surely it is

a controversial subject but let's face it it's now grown into an international phenomenon that some official pirates even getting into european politics but before the pirates of russia can even dream of getting into the state duma they'll need at least forty five thousand members just to register and the question is even if they do have the right amount of supporters are they ready to come out and name themselves you've got this kind of r t moscow. well it brings us up to date here in our to remember that for more than any of the story that we cover from here can always log on to our website which is our t.v. dot com and after a short while we'll have the business update with kerry. i'm great for the. we've gone to. the biggest. voice ceased to face with the news maker.

and i welcome to business on this monday morning here in moscow poland and russia will hold the next round of talks on a new gas supply contract in a week's time both sides aim to agree on pricing pipeline management and few re exports poland now gets about two thirds of its gas from russia the country reached a preliminary agreement with gazprom in january the contract was not signed the new deal should raise annual deliveries of gas to poland to ten point two billion cubic meters from the present seven point four billion and extend the previous contract

to two thousand and thirty seven. let's have a quick look at the markets asian shares are rising on monday with export stocks meeting the tokyo market high of hong kong shares open shall be high only have with a strong friday finish on wall street going to banking and local property. here in moscow the voices ended the week in the black bouncing back from earlier losses in the session positive sentiment was in line with global trends to good manufacturing data from the u.s. and a rise in the german business confidence ranks provided the most support with banking more than two and a half percent. global markets advance last week on optimism that the economic recovery will continue arsons stocks follow the international markets but were trading in low volumes analysts expect them to be dependent on external trends across the way the markets are ready to paupers i pretty much like having your last week but at the same time with new significant triggers without for talking about

russia specific again is going to be more or less a dull russian problem address. pretty much like sitting on their hands of the stage doing very little we are very much driven by the external factors of this new global markets we should be following pretty much like a story with a sovereign debt based here in the. continental europe basically various computers and was going to happen in europe but the worries about the sovereign debt issues again sort of reemerged once again in the morning. private capital outflow from russia reached twelve billion dollars in a loss this year the head of the country's central banks it gave not to have said the majority of the funds were exported in january last week the banking regulator predicted total private capital outflow wouldn't exceed eight point seven billion dollars by the end of the year now the second wall street movie hits russian cinemas on monday it's the follow up to all of us stone's highly successful chronicle of insider trading and corruption released in one thousand nine hundred

seven and which gordon gekko famously declares great it's good but is there any crossover between fact and fiction and would such a movie possible in russia a correspondent in a video spoke to alexander get chick who spent over ten years as a trader in america and also performed in a series wall street boy. russia as of now as of now they already deserve for one simple reason just the popularize you know the people some people when you talk to somebody about this lack of change the people are scared you know this is like a bad word or you know. we're going to have a lot of young guys twenty twenty two years old who works for our accompany worked with us and with the parents find out would they do it like a casino it's nothing to do with the casino if you do really and i was in your work you can make money and everybody knows that it's got a big problem was that i think burst of the rushes of now deserved to have maybe not a big movie may be not with the example of big name actors but i think personally

and even say i would shoot the movie which of the movie but financial industry just explain people what it's all about it's not them to be afraid i mean why the people with the money in the bank some time would like known the and pulled the minded there because somebody is promising them percentage and they do that with the money and the financial firms which can really hit themself and probably sometimes make more money it's just for a population than the popularisation i think they can really come up with a movie like that not long ago russia adopted an insider trading law hali activity would be as of now i think personally it's not going to be effective at all for russia for one simple reason that i saw the law on the fines are extremely small people are not afraid in united states for insider trading you just go straight to jail decided this year was in line and everybody knows as a martha stewart as a loss because everyone and you're talking about martha stewart who who did not really made money she just saved sixty thousand dollars because she got the

information early she served nine months in jail if the person want more of the story go to jail for sixty thousand dollars that everybody is afraid the regular jewish boy i mean in the regular human being who is getting the inside information is just going to go to jail the lawyers got to be definitely it's got to be more street and everybody knows that the fines are going to be much bigger. the finds are a service where the people are not afraid so there's nothing to be afraid of it's not going to change anything what would you call the main difference of russian and american stock exchange's main issue of course it's a liquidity for one simple reason you cannot really compare changes the one which is over one hundred twenty five years and another one which is exist barely for a little as of the fifteen years the one major problem is there is a perhaps ten to fifteen stocks in let's say in the russians like exchange which has a liquidity i mean a large liquidity for international funds to be in other major problem. of course

the number of players in united states where the liquidity is coming from the eighty seven percent of the liquidity comes from the large farms but the fifteen percent comes from a mamas and papas operation i mean everyone from five years old to ninety years old are investing their money obviously it provides a large liquidity that you have that for now but i'll be back with more next hour.

today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations are all the day. coming to you live from moscow let's take a look at the top stories saving china's relentless thirst for an edgy dimitri medvedev goes with the flow of russia's giant neighbor was a new oil link that's a dream the russian leaders are discussing

a whole host of issues with his chinese counterpart.