many metropolises but here in china you would normally find a russian district in their place sprawling all across the country their track thousands of vendors on a hunt for knockoffs says that since you were there when there was the answer here is to be an open market with rows of counters only recently they've built everything at our expense if i may say so. but it's shamelessly low prices and high turnover areas like this one in beijing manisha transformed themselves from shanty towns into glitzy shopping quarters also helping china to surprise germany as russia's largest trading partner last year. and ceremony commensurate with the trade volumes meeting for the fifth time this year presidents of russia and china both stressed this church e.g. comport and serve their alliance. russia and china are committed to strategic partnership concerning all issues it helps our countries to adjust to

a constantly changing geopolitical situation we have good coordination concerning the international agenda and regional issues. or willing the joints of diplomatic corps reality our russian hydrocarbons about four hundred thousand barrels of russian crude crosses the border each day when these pipeline the first between the two neighbors reaches its full capacity next year the amount will triple along and russia among other things to diversify its supply markets away from western europe . have these alliances not without reservations over the recent years russia scaled back its weapon sales to china due to concerns that beijing may copy the designs and later on in other foreign military markets. chinese used to buy some of for example forward quick mint and then produce those that equipment it's by itself so of course it's also reduces the boredom of military trade between russia and

china but there's also something that russia would like to borrow from china back in the fifty's the soviet union spared no means to industrialize its communist neighbor but now it seems the tables have turned the russian officials now preoccupied with an idea of modernization but very much like to copy china's economic miracle. to war in the recent decades china made a breakthrough in high technology and called duration in these field is mutually beneficial for all countries nowadays we both have some ideas and experience to share with each other so we have a great respect if in the high tech little. two thirds of the cabinet traveling with the president russian delegation in china proved among the largest in recent years and they all did their homework for the course of this visit russian officials took a particular liking to side in confucius and china scholar how among other things had by peaceful hours again developing friendship with somebody who can a teacher any good well china is definitely not the case this country has made such

a dramatic leap forward that even a former communist big brother russia is more than willing to learn from it from a boycott or beijing china. doctor yet at the pinnacle the no from the moscow state university of international relations says while russia is concerned about his energy supplies to europe winning the chinese market will be an easy task either. russia is concerned with the situation in europe whether this situations in this two regions are quite different now the situation is in europe is quite settled and we are not witnessing any doff gas or oil warsaw in this direction right now however with the channel we see some controversial issues yes we did agree

about all supplies and we did agree about gas supplies but we should remember quite well the china is also the versifying its suppliers not only russia is the r.c. find it supplies. we know that china is building very good relations with central asian states with australia with salva station so there are plans to supply gas to china as well but there are no agreement on the exact prices for at the moment. if we compare the prices which are already agreed by china on turkmenistan for example we require a process whether we can. we can show more stability because we will build a land line pipeline to china and by this thing the. chinese supplies will american author and china expert join nato says unprecedented freedoms is allowing the far eastern giant to thrive and you can watch the full

interview with him on political observer in about twenty minutes time right here on our t.v. but first here's a preview. there's a social and personal freedom in china that there is never been before in the history of china and that's freedom has allowed the people to contribute to the whole and to create. an ever greater and more prosperous society so every level whatever they're doing there is doing it with more incitement more energy and of course physically. the appearance of china is just gone to the most modern country in the world. jewish activists aboard a boat sailing towards the gaza blockade to say they expect israel to intercept

them but campaigners say their objective is to show that not all jews support their government's policy towards the palestinians and the attempt to deliver humanitarian aid comes almost four months after an israeli raid on another for tiller ended in nine activists being killed the incident was condemned worldwide and they attack was labeled a brutal and disproportionate attack the jewish state still claims the incident was self-defense and considers the turkish charity group which led the flotilla terrorists linked to hamas party's policy 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 sympathizers or sympathize with are also being called terrorists it's no wonder that i age is being accused in this way the turkish charity first popped up on the cia's radar four years ago it's been banned in israel in germany who say it strongly linked with

a mass in gaza the last thing is male humans would call himself as a terrorist he's a father of three and says he boarded the ship for gaza for his three daughters all this in a 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 wherever in the world the people. we will. show or solidarity for these people and it's shown solidarity in pakistan ethiopia levanon indonesia iraq china as well as with the palestinians we help we'll hospitals schools we have impressed we have apostles for the peoples. mr new writer had a commie says israel is trying to portray the group as a terrorist one in order to try and justify the deadly fratello grade in the

immediate aftermath of world condemnation of what israel has done in these really is. mounted a defense which was you know we quite clever 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 policia r t. a recent un report came to the conclusion that israel's military broke international laws now are to talk to u.n. watch a group that is part of the american jewish lobby monitors the activities of the u.n. it's exactly of director hill believes the ongoing investigation is nothing more than another attack on israel the human rights council held an emergency session only a day or two after the flotilla incident happened they declared israel guilty of quote an outrageous attack so the outcome was entirely pre-determined and this is

not something that's exceptional in fact mary robinson who was the un rights chief said that the human rights council has a pattern of acting politically and not for human rights let's remember who the membership is saudi arabia china colonel qadhafi of libya is now a member of the human rights council this is not a body that cares about human rights this is a body that is political that is in gauged in a constant campaign to digitalize israel and human rights is the last thing on the minds of members like saudi arabia cuba and saudi and libya the human rights council as kofi annan said it is selective politicized and casts a shadow upon the reputation of the un as a whole. the outcry over the flotilla death stood lead to an easing of the gaza blockade although some restrictions are still in place and. from the united nations relief agencies says easing the blockade doesn't mean easing the humanitarian

situation i don't think that is being. a great influence on the humanitarian situation or the circumstances of the people here in the gaza strip we need jobs in gaza we not only we mean just ignore the tracks that follow normal the gods or or visit the builders or something like that we need building materials to get into gaza because we have tens of thousands of homeless people in the gaza strip great projects for the u.n. system and the private sector is completely paralyzed and we have more than four thousand factories i have been destroyed during the war and because of the percent of the population is still depending in you and humanitarian aid organizations it is an unbearable situation here in gaza. live from moscow this is r.t. and a file sharers in russia trying their luck in politics in an attempt to legalize the free use of copyrighted products and comes as lawmakers actually attempt to

strengthen the existing laws against pirates that you've got a person off looks at the winners and losers in any crackdown on russia's pirate infested music industry. yeah you can use it has been in show business since the late nineteen eighties back then giving away demo tapes was the best way to gain fans if you two decades his formula seems to be making a comeback. except now to spread the word 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 for the. 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 to be free. by the way 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 all 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 players from around fifty countries we need to really take our chance again to take a stand and also tradition. taking back the freedom that once belonged to us to

rephrase somebody's last name this. and take in one hundred years for. wired so you know right some websites accused of facilitating illegal file sharing in the global copyright 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 knowledge 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 party well a lot. of people from the criminal liability for. 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 is a controversial subject but let's face it it's now grown into an international phenomenon not some official pirates even getting into european politics but before the pirates of russia can even dream of getting into. need at least forty five thousand members just to register and the question is even if they do have the right amount of supporters or are they ready to come out and name themselves you've got this kind of orgy moscow. but as well as a ruling party backed by a president who go shopping his house won the country's general election but early results show it missed out on the two thirds needed for an outright majority now the opposition could block bills put forward by the ruling party opposition leaders also claim they won the popular vote which would be a major blow for the country's president the elections are seen as

a popularity test for chavez ahead of the two thousand and twelve presidential elections as you can have this has been following events in caracas. the rumors start to flare on the eve of the election allegations that voting machines were out of order began to circulate on the opposition side. but here at a station that is predominately pro opposition there were no complaints did you having trouble voting just now no no problem no nothing no problem i'm very surprised what has been drilled into their heads is that the opposition will win close to fifty fifty. six eighteen nineteen. members. in the house you know they are in the congress and maybe sixty seventy towards the inner city however the crowds display more support for the government. what the opposition claim all along is that media messages they hold the majority on the contrary throughout the past eleven years to

a revolutionary process has won every election and these do is going to be a victory for us. 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 and they also want to largest voting districts and the opinions here for the most part are split fifty fifty. at this polling station there were also no problems with voting some were even helping people with how and who to vote for. on the streets of caracas it's almost impossible to avoid election time because the venezuelan people know that this election in many ways is an ideological dispute one deeply rooted in the history of latin america and this is more than under the old war it's a war 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 america to make our own decisions decisions that will eventually reflect after this election is finally over. r t caracas venezuela so fully

back on earth seemingly unfazed by the technical glitch which threatened their return are so screw members supreme talking about their experiences in orbit their minds were surprisingly fixated on the things they missed most while in space. you know. i love spicy food i make real hot chili sauce myself i missed it badly i finished off all the spicy kitchen up stuck on the ice s. and shocked everyone by making eating with subway sandwiches now it's more fuel is good as a rocket. the thing you miss there most of all is the earth itself i missed smiles i missed trees i even dreamt of them i even hallucinated i thought i smelled a real fire and something being bbq donate i ended up putting pictures of trees on the walls to cheer myself up he'd do miss the fair. the cruise first attempt to undock the soyuz shuttle from the international space station failed because of

a technical malfunction as a result russian cosmonauts and an american astronauts return home it was postponed by a day the problem was quickly fix than three crewmembers landed safely in kazakhstan after their six month mission in the planet. our let's check out some other news now making headlines all around the world and the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas has postponed a decision on whether to quit peace talks with israel for at least a week it's after a moratorium on jewish settlements in the west bank imposed by israel ten months ago has now expired the ban was viewed as a move towards peace talks with palestinians but palestinian leaders have warned they'll pull out of u.s. sponsored talks currently underway if the building restarts jewish settlers in the area have already celebrated the end of the ban by laying foundations for new settlements. north korea's

a ruling communist party is preparing for its largest political meeting in decades it's where the current leader successor could be decided it's predicted the country's leader kim jong il will pass key positions to his relatives as a part of his succession plan with one of his sons expected to land the top job in one thousand eight. he took over control of the country from his father the first hereditary transfer of power in the communist history. well next hour we take you to russia's south where the country's gateway to five seas is located known for its fertile agricultural land it's also boasting a high tech industrial hub watch r.t. to discover a multifaceted city of stuff on dawn that's coming up in our special report.

the right to work around the. right will stuff you now joins me with the latest from the world of business and staff for news of on among usual natural resources to add to russia's list of exports yes rory following the global ban on elephant ivory and ethical alternative has been found in russia's mammoth tusks more later on in the bulletin but first russia's largest banks pet bank says it has billions of dollars to spend on much

just an acquisition and the bank wants to become a bigger global player and is looking to expand in asia eastern europe on c.i.s. countries. and graham says spy banks capital adequacy is substantial but the problem is finding quality assets to buy just fabulous crowd by the russian d.p.s. bank and its current examining a takeover of kazakhstan and e.t.a. . on let's have a look at how we got to markets of doing european stocks are still trapped in mix having given up any gains but food and beverages shares are high on news unity but is to acquire a quiet a u.s. company with three point seven eight billion dollars t.v. but it's the top performer on the footsie top two point three percent. this hour. here in russia markets are also makes luke orders dragging on the my sex its shares are down more than two percent this hour banks are also shedding gazprom is fucking the trend more than half a percent in the black on the last telecom is the top performer up one point nine

percent the sun. rushes record has almost five percent of it shows from conoco phillips for two point four billion dollars it's less than half the stake the american firm put up the sell under an option that expired on saturday you call says the aim of the buyback is to enhance its attractiveness to investors and support the share price. the second wall street movie hits russian cinemas on monday it's a follow up to oliver stone's highly successful chronicle of insider trading and corruption released in one nine hundred eighty seven but is there any crossover between fact and fiction and would such a movie be possible in russia c. the idea of a speaks to a man who spent over ten years as a trader in the u.s. and performed in the series wall street warriors. when you talk to somebody about this lack of change that people are scared you know this is like a bad lord or you know. we're going to have a lot of young guys twenty twenty two years old who works for our kompany who work

with us and when the parents find would they do it like a casino it's nothing to do with the casino if you do really and i was in new work you can make money and everybody knows that it's got a big problem was that i think bristol 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 of evil it's a i would shoot the movie which of the movie by the financial industry just explain people what it's all about it's not them to be afraid i mean a way that people put the money in the bank sometimes with like no means and build the minded there because somebody is promising them percentage and they do that with the money and the financial firms which can really hate themselves and probably sometime make more money it's just for a population than the popularisation i think they can really come up with a movie like that russia adopted an insider trading law holly 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 cause loss because everyone and you 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 with more of the story go to jail for sixty thousand dollars that everybody is afraid the regular jewish lawyer be in the regular human being who is getting the inside information is just going to go to jail the lawyers got it definitely it's got to be more street and everybody knows that the fines are going to be much bigger the fines are 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 mean different. russian and american stock exchange's main issue of course it's a liquidity for one simple reason you can't really compare two changes the one

which is it's over one hundred twenty five years and another one which is it is barely for a little less than fifteen years that 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 liquid at the for international funds to be in other major problem of course number of players in united states where the liquidity is coming from the eighty seven percent of the liquid that comes from a large farms fifteen percent comes from a mom and pops operation i mean everyone from five years old to ninety years old are investing their money obviously it provides a large liquidity. and finally russia is adding a new natural resource to its long list of exports amid a global ban on elephant ivory the country is taking up a mammoth tusks to meet a growing demand for ethical by free at a price of roughly five hundred twenty dollars a kilo sixty tons of the ivory other exported i needed to china the world's biggest

market scientists believe the should be a plentiful supply of the tusks because they estimate as many as one hundred fifty mama to buy frozen beneath the siberian tundra. and that's all the business is for now but i'll be back with more for you next hour and of course you can always find most stories on our website. slash business.

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political. published many books about. china. thank you very much to you both for joining us now i'll start review mr nesbitt now you first visited china about forty years ago and obviously a lot has changed now what is the post dramatic or surprising change that you've seen nineteen sixty seven when i first read there was.