in the capital of russia's republic of chechnya a group of militants storming the parliament killed by security forces three others died in the crossfire and seventeen more were injured. the russian president has promised the french and german leaders he will attend next month's nato meeting. meeting in france is welcomed step. with the e.u. . russia is horrific car crash statistics calls to review a driving education system as many incompetent drivers bribe their way on to the road. and coming up in a russian row way to raise about. the next we'll tell you in about twenty minutes time.

global news live from moscow. welcome to the program a group of militants who broke into the parliament of russia's republic of chechnya killed in a shootout with special forces at least three other people died after the gunman stormed into the building in the capital grozny more details now from our correspondent. in crescent the maryland track the parliament building has been stranded by the militants the whole area is glauca to know and what we know so far use that for militants drove into the parliament's parking zone a fellow because one of the parliament members and the militants who are believed to belong to al qaida opened fire three people have been killed in the crossfire and several were injured as runs on credit of the head of the church and republic says the operation which was very short fifteen twenty minutes is now over three

police officers have been killed in the crossfire and seventeen people i know reported to be injured six police officers and eleven civilians there have been conflicting reports about the situation in chechnya like there were reports about suicide poor man's near the parliament and this was denied later on down the ministry over internal affairs there also were reports that one of the militants escaped and two cost injures and this was also denied and there were reports that one of the members of the palm and has been hurt and we haven't received any information about this so far. today at eight forty five am militants made an attempt to get into the parliament building as usual their plans failed police stopped them all the militants were killed. there's a curator measures in church near the border of the republic have been tightened

and these militants are believed to be linked to al qaida and they are believed to be connected with the same group who has attacked the whole village of the chechen president runs on producer of earlier this autumn. on a little child reporting well there have been a number of successful recent security operations in southern russia or which of revealed how the militants there have links to al qaeda r.t.s. nataly had no cover reports now on the impact international terrorism has on russia . it's too soon to say who is responsible for this latest attack on the chechen parliamentary building but indeed the investigations into terrorist attacks that have been taking place in russia recently have shown that behind many of them stupid international terrorist organizations and experts say the terrorists from different countries are in tight cooperation across the world what is happening in russia particularly in northern caucasus what is happening in europe because we know that it was a red collar threat

a few weeks ago there well that makes us think that this is sort of terrorist funded media in the world and whether these are international whether this is national i think that it is a global war both of them are already. in june this year the u.s. authorities have called google more of an international terrorist linking his activities with al qaida now in washer the man is the first on the list of wanted by the country's security forces and the country's authorities as he was behind the two explosions that took place in moscow's not sure in march this year when two female suicide bombers exploded themselves killing forty people and leaving another eighty eight injured just several months after that another explosion to place in the city of particular school in a car that was parked on one of the streets over the city exploded injuring thirty people luckily no one died in that one just two months after that another suicide

bomber drove a car sues the cars central markets and exploded himself in the car killing nineteen people and leaving t.v. hundred injured and many experts also linked with those two terrorist attacks to the international terrorist groups also recently i've actually been was arrested in the moscow region that man was the search spreading extremist literature among people he is the head of one of international terror. groups that is based in turkey but seems to be operating in the moscow region so. he is now. training suicide bombers by hypnosis and of course a cases like that give you an idea of the scale of the present from international terrorist groups in russia. after you can tell your network of reporting well you've got a political analyst and terrorism expert says that the russian caucasus is an important corridor for international terrorists both federal and local authorities

have handled the situation pretty well i've been studying the issue of the local separatism for a couple of the kids and i have to say that russian security forces have never been as effective as the are now you know those militants have nothing to do with national liberation it's very important to understand mostly those are people who are coming from other countries from turkey is a good strong broad those terrorist organizations that they see. here and other republics as the gateway into the bigger caucasus and fold expansion into europe so in this context of the ongoing war in afghanistan and americans are likely to lose this war quite soon now could have disastrous consequences all over the world and what we see what we have seen today in grozny you see it's actually one of the consequences of instability in the whole region. you always good to have your

company today and still to come divided over a pledge of allegiance. this country defines itself as a jewish and democratic state but if you ask just about any arabs here they'll tell you it's heavy on the jewish and rather light on the democratic we report on how a recently adopted loyalty oath to build a straining uneasy israeli palestinian relations even further also. temple drivers are supposed to go to a driving school and pass a test on a close course like this one that we're on right now as well as study the different tactics of driving from a written test but that's not exactly how it happens in most cases around moscow russia is renowned for its bad roads and reckless motorists find out how driving licenses come at a cost quite literally. russia's president dmitry medvedev will attend nato summit next month in lisbon it's welcomed as

a major move towards closer ties with the e.u. the announcement came during talks between the russian french and german leaders in the french resort over dovid. following all the discussions. many experts are already saying that the mood of resetting ties which started of course with russia and the united states is now moving eastward with relations between russia and the e.u. also growing closer stronger better tires all the three leaders russian president dmitry medvedev and his colleagues angle of merkel and sarkozy took the chance to reiterate the friendship and the nature of trust that exists at the moment between the three countries and they want to continue investing into that trust and building on that friendship to develop their relationship further and of course many. are seeing the signs in some of the aspects that came out during the press conference specifically of course the russian president's agreement to attend the

nato summit in lisbon that will take place next month that many already viewing as a sign that russia and nato are getting over some of its differences and difficulties and are willing to work together of course this is viewed as a very good sign by the european leaders. who are helping the russian president who will be taking part in the russian native summit in lisbon that's because nato has new strategic concept is aimed at corporation with the contras including russia i think russia has confirmed that we have to fight against terrorism and nuclear weapons and i think we should tackle easy shoes together. so of course this is a very important step for russia and the european union this decision to work closer with nato are discussing the potential for russia to join the european anti-missile defense program according to the leaders was also discussed and of

course a number of other issues on which previously europe and russia did not exactly see eye to eye on specifically of course the war in south to thousand and eight and today president sarkozy actually said. the best way for the situation to to develop and to progress would be for georgia to sign a non invasion agreement and for russia to agree to post european observers in those territories. we have to continue. to the. north. and the russian friends in return. many were expecting to hear more details about this proposed plan for a global european security system that was proposed by the russian president on a number of occasions despite the fact that all of the leaders did say they've talked about it there haven't been any definitive conclusions to come out of their discussions they have said that they will continue discussing and that they do need

a system like that because of course of the ever growing threats not only to states individually but to communities as a whole to europe to russia to the entire continent and that is why people need to work together and perhaps figure out a way to encompass of global security system that would be satisfactory to everybody involved but it wasn't of course the only item on the agenda many other aspects of the relationship between russia and the discussed pacifically visa free travel that is something that russian citizens are definitely looking forward to issues relevant to the international community such as peace in the middle east the ongoing negotiations the situation in afghanistan and of course iran's nuclear ambitions russian president. underlining the fact that everybody involved with iran in these negotiations and in their dealings with iran need to be very careful to stick not only to the sanctions but also to make sure to work on

a diplomatic way to get iran to cooperate with the international community. a law forcing prospective israeli citizens who are not jews to pledge allegiance to a jewish state has unleashed a storm of anger among arabs despite the israeli government wanting to extend the oath to jews arabs still refuse to swear loyalty to a state that has persecuted them as artie's polis live reports this photograph is all that remains from some mere why these family home the house survived for generations but it couldn't survive an israeli demolition two years ago in the middle of the coalition i started to have problems with the settlers ten years ago they wanted to take all of my land they took one house and then they wanted to take this house since then he started rebuilding or like i said i think god the supreme courts discovered their big documents they changed the name of my grandfather on the papers. but the discovery didn't help him hang on to most of his grandfather's

learned a family of israeli settlers now lives on property just a mere insists is his and his story only one of many. in the two hours we spend here therefore a wrist and the usual round of tear gas rubber bullets and blame and they are because the union shouldn't award anything they should say thank you israel thank you they are still here. and they'll be saying a lot more than that if the country's foreign minister at the door lieberman gets his way he wants all one million arab israeli citizens to pledge loyalty to the jewish state the arab world if they want us to give concessions for peace if they want to get some sacrifices for peace they should start looking at the us is legitimate state so lieberman has his supporters but he's also got his detractors arabs and many israeli jews are up in arms this country defines itself

as a jewish and democratic state but if you ask just about any arab here they'll tell you it's heavy on the jewish and rather light on the democratic. angry demonstrators take to the streets claiming the next step transferring arab israelis to a palestinian state but the government is doing its best to accommodate lieberman's demands and recently approved a loyalty bill by a twenty two eight majority in. the government under american pressure to freeze settlement building and needs lieberman support but arab citizens like you why the one never given. that argument i'm a muslim and i'm not allowed to swirl the world to two dollars a day as the world should work through his word to them. and as jerusalem announces preliminary. plans for two hundred fifty eight new

secure homes seems like there's so much more likely than arabs pledging allegiance to an israel that keeps them under the. policy r t tel aviv. now getting behind the wheel in russia means you could be taking your life into your hands each year around twenty five thousand people are killed on the roads in a country we're known for drivers with a distinct disregard for safety beginning a license in russia does not necessarily guarantee driving skills it may just mean the right person rather has been paid off as thomas now investigates. welcome to russia where the roads are notoriously bad driver safety seemingly optional and the traffic notorious. with very busy traffic which has been poorly organized and which requires improvements interchanges have been made in efficiently traffic lights haven't been working properly and road signs are located in such a way that drivers often can't see them all this results in numerous accidents.

in two thousand and nine alone there were nearly two hundred four thousand car accidents the human cost was twenty six thousand deaths and more than a quarter of a million people seriously injured the international transportation formalists russia and having the most traffic deaths per capita in the world many believe corruption and general lack of knowledge are to blame. do you know the traffic signs. i do what does this one mean. i don't know only i don't know oh isn't this amazing temporal drivers are supposed to go to a driving school and pass a test on a close course like this one that we're on right now as well as study the different tactics of driving from a written test but that's not exactly how it happens in most cases around moscow. there are two problems with fake driving licenses. the first is that criminal groups issue fake licenses of such a high quality that only

a specialist can see it's fake people buy a fake license and think it's real the other problem is bribes and driving schools to pass driving tests this girl wishes to remain anonymous but for the purposes of television we will call her like many russian drivers she's purchased her license illegally so how much did it cost her. well the actual amount is eight hundred dollars but there was that money i think she would be through my driving school i was supposed to attend classes and so on but i was living in st petersburg at the time so i couldn't show up at the school. but as katia learned learning how to drive properly isn't as essential as having the proper payoff time with my father the officials would back me only for money and that is why there was no need for me to upton my license in a traditional way it's easier to buy it he took me to some distant metro station in moscow suburb they are they invited me to a room issued my driving license to me and took my photograph i was so ashamed i

said i am sorry i will really learn how to drive the answer and it doesn't matter to us. and now even cartier thinks she may be a threat on the road. as i have a feeling that i am a threat to pedestrians a few days ago i feel to see a bicycle rider in the dark i think that can serve as just occasion prompting many to call for a complete overhaul of russia's driver's education system at the system or that it's not enough to fire a bribe taker it's necessary to change the entire system as long as there is the man that will be supplying we need real changes at the high level in the interior ministry we're probably even at the state management level hopefully making russia's roads a safer place to be sean thomas party moscow. now time to take a look at some other world news stories right now in france police have clashed with those protesting pension reform which would raise the age of retirement from sixty to sixty two youths. started throwing stones from a bridge police responded with tear gas and came to be area union leaders keep up

the pressure until the government scraps the unpopular plan some two hundred more protests are scheduled on changed. at least seven more people have died as thailand's worst floods in a decade spread further around the country the high waters are forced the closure of dozens of roads and hampered trade more than fifty thousand people have been affected since the beginning of the monsoon season in september. over one hundred tons of marijuana on route to the u.s. and worth at least three hundred forty million dollars have been seized in mexico heavily armed troops launched a pre-dawn raid in the border city of tijuana where they found over ten thousand sealed packages one policeman and one suspect were injured in a shootout with the suspected traffickers it was mexico's the biggest drug bust in years the operation began after local police were involved in a shootout with gunman in convoy vehicles. the death toll from floods in vietnam

has risen to forty one as a search is underway for nineteen people aboard a bus that was washed away emergency workers say the raging currents are hampering the search for the bus was submerged under the water which swept over the main highway in a highland province heavy rains in the country have forced over one hundred twenty thousand people to flee their homes and claimed over eighty lives in the last month . and after a short break it's time for charlotte with the business news. for the. we've got. the biggest issues get voice face to face with the news maker.

hello welcome to the business program here on octavia's michel i was folly russian railways' plans to raise about five billion dollars by selling subsidiaries and assets over the next two years the program for this to include selling thirty five percent of trans and ten percent of trans credit bank to raise six hundred million dollars russian railways will raise additional six hundred million this year by setting sixty three thousand carriages and leasing all the assets in total the company plans to sell stock in forty eight situation like two thousand and twelve now the russian government has a fifty billion dollar reason to improve the country's investment climate it has an extensive program of privatization as it wants to get the markets but as you noted in madrid reports is a plan that needs the help of foreign capital. hundred billion dollars has flowed

into the russian economy as foreign investments but it could have been more if not for administrative barriers of access to infrastructure and labor difficulties in the regions it's inadequate training of the workforce number two it's difficult to use for accessing financing number three it's high levels of corruption and number for unfair competition from the grey market the prime minister to nude of the criticism and assured this emblem investors and business people he understood their problems however he was keen to point out the progress that had been made the right to leave that had been slashed the fight against corruption and opening up of the russian market reforms would continue he said pledging that foreign investors could count on getting the same treatment from the offices of state as domestic companies which is in your position we do make a distinction between russian and foreign business when it comes to protecting the

rights of investors it's important for us to create comfortable conditions for those who want to make investments in russia to develop their business to promote their goods and services. the russian government has a strong incentive to quickly improve investor sentiment it has an extensive program of privatization to get away with this many as twenty of the country's biggest state run companies marked for possible sale the finance ministry wants to raise around fifty billion dollars from the assets over the next five years to help cover the budget deficit it's an ambition that will be hard to achieve my knees afraid to come here you know when we have a business r.t. . privatization program itself will help to improve investment climate in russia that's according to a letter to over president of morgan stanley in russia and the c.i.s. . i do believe it will because that's one of the concerns of the government is too involved governments are are very efficient in running the companies in any way and

the more companies become public they have to report to investors they have to depend the top independent directors the more transparent and open the economy will be so i think privatization is a very important stuff and. now another news hour of flight shares are heading for their highest close in more than two years that's after russia's finance minister recommended the government stole my now laura t. stake in the company as part of its privatization program currently the state owns fifty one percent of russia's national carrier which is a capitalization of two point five billion dollars. let's have a look at the numbers now the russian markets are following this hour with both forces sinking into the red arrows nickel lukoil are leading the declines down more than one point five percent on the r.t.s. over in europe stocks also on the flight technology stocks a week after poor results from apple and i.b.m. their profit from citi group lending a little bit of support there the footsie is down zero point three percent. russian

aircraft producers sukhoi narrowed its net loss by twenty percent to ninety one million dollars over the last financial year that's on the back of a twenty percent jump in sales the company's that its performance was helped by significant increase in government grants and a week of very cool. car production in russia has almost doubled in the first three quarters of the year more than eight hundred thousand vehicles rolled off the assembly line with a period earlier russia's economic ministry said expected annual car production to nearly double by two thousand and thirty. another news american mobile phone maker motorola is leaving russia will close its offices beginning of two thousand and eleven or no longer officially market or distribute its handsets in the country the company first came to russia in one thousand. three and gained a leading position but since two thousand and three it's seen its market share steadily decline in our culture just one percent of mobile phones sold in the

country motorola has set out a number of cost cutting measures this year including plans to close offices in africa and eastern europe. and some news in brief for you now computer giant apple has broken its own profit record and forecasts with its latest results but the market hasn't been listening less impressed with its trading outlook and the shares fell sharply on wall street a high tech company recorded a net income of three billion dollars for the fourth quarter up seventy percent on last year the main driver was in the doubling of the i phone sales or those sales of the i've heard so short of expectations of. not update for this hour but you could always find more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business.