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a raid repelled a group of militants linked to al qaeda has stormed the parliament building in russia's republic of chechnya but killed in the security operation. speaking regionally agreeing continentally and uniting globally russian french and german leaders meeting the french to talk about visas and security. glamorous russian agent gets the pages of a men's magazine and is the latest edition of maxim describes the country's men more than its national football team and. around the clock around the world this is r.t. here in moscow a group of militants who broke into the parliament of russia's republic of chechnya

have all been killed in a shootout with special forces at least three other people died and seventeen were injured as the government stormed into the building in the capital grozny more details now from our correspondent. we are in front of the parliament that has been attacked by the militants earlier this day the investigators are still working on the scene what we do know is that four militants drove into the parliament spark in so they followed the car of one of the parliament members the militants who are believed to have links to al qaeda opened fire killed a security guard. probe into the building and later on they were blocked in this building are a several security guards who were killed on the tour of the head of the chechen republic says that the operation to counter terrorist operation was short and successful all the militants were killed some of them are believed to be suicide and their bodies are yet to be identified seventeen people have been injured during

this attack six of them are police officers and eleven civilians should not believe the russian interim minister who has been in chechnya at the moment overtax says that the operation was successful and this is how he commented on the situation we're here. today at eight forty five am militants made a chant to get into the parliament building as usual their plans failed police stopped the militants were killed. there have been conflicting reports about their tack earlier this day like there was information that one of the militants escaped to kasich is but this was later on denied by the interior minister they have also been reports that these children have been mined which is not true and there have been speculations then one of the members of the palm and was injured during their tax and we haven't received any confirmation so far these militants are also believed to be connected to the group that attacked the whole village of credit of

the church and president earlier this fall right now investigators are working on the scene this is curative measures in grozny and throughout all the borders with other republics have been tightened. there's been a number of successful security operations in southern russia recently which have revealed how militants have links to al qaida parties nataly enough of the reports now on the impact international terrorism has on russia. interior ministry blames that south unforeseen got caught who recently left the group of terrorists headed by doku umarov a double one of his number one on the list of people wanted by the russian security services and the countries are stored as he's the one with duke's there sponsibility for the deadly blast that took place in moscow as met show in march this year that one two female suicide bombers exploded themselves at two separate central moscow metro stations killing forty people and leaving and the other eighty eight injured and dooku lot of was named an international terrorists that has

links with al qaida by the u.s. authorities recently and a lot of the terror attacks that have taken place in the washer recently were associated with international terror groups as investigations into them have shown and experts saying that says terrorists across from different countries are in sites 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 in the world yeah and whether these are international whether this is national i think there is a global war both of them are already just several months after the terror attacks in moscow's met show another explosion took place in the city to be divorced when

a car that was parked on one of the streets over the city exploded injuring thirty people luckily no one died in that one but in the other major attack took place just a month after that in the city of oakland to come. when a suicide bomber drove a car into the city's central markets killing nineteen people and leaving another two hundred injured also russian security forces recently arrested guy that could be wooden who just outside moscow was spreading extremist literature among people and he's the head of international terror group that is based in turkey but according to the security forces he was operating in the moscow region so that gives you a scale of the presence of international terror groups in russia. up scene for you here on r t divided over a pledge of allegiance. this country defines itself a situation 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. report on how

recently adopted loyalty oath bill is straining on easy israeli palestinian relations even further also this hour. temple drivers are supposed to go to a driving school and pass a test on a golf 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. those stories still to come but first a law forcing prospective israeli citizens who are non jews to pledge allegiance to a jewish state has unleashed a storm of anger among arabs there was an aversion issued last week required only israeli arabs to swear allegiance well despite the israeli government now extending the oath to jews arabs still refuse to swear loyalty to a state that they say has persecuted them as artie's paula smith reports. this

photograph is all that remains from some mere will why these family home the house survived for generations but it couldn't survive an israeli demolition two years ago there was a code i started to have problems with the circulars ten years ago they wanted to take all of my own land they took one house and then they wanted to. since then he started rebuilding. the supreme courts discovered that 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 land a family of israeli settlers now lives on property to samir insists is his and his story only one of many. in the two hours we spend here therefore a recess and the usual round of tear gas rubber bullets and blame and their ability shouldn't complain about anything they should say thank you israel thank you that

we are still here. and they'll be saying a lot more than that if the country's foreign minister avigdor 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 he demands

and recently approved a loyalty bill by a twenty two eight majority on. the government under american pressure to freeze settlement building and needs lieberman support but arab citizens like well why the one never given all of us a lot of that argument i'm a muslim i'm not allowed to swear in the world you two are jewish the word true in the first word to them what do i think them for. but what if young and as jerusalem announces preliminary plans for two hundred thirty eight new secure homes scenes like this are much more likely than arabs pledging allegiance to an israel that keeps them under the thumb policy r t. but a high clemency from jerusalem's hebrew university said the bill is provocative while professor there from the big incident center for strategic studies says there's nothing offensive in it. we are talking about every new york. over the.

pledge of allegiance like if except in many countries in the world like in even the united states every child every morning take the pledge of allegiance here with the final third of the jury statement that's why we won the pledge of allegiance you mentioned that the united states to the united states does not mention any particularly stick element in its pledge of allegiance and of course for non jews it's very difficult to take this kind of. pledge because it has a particularly steep religious element it's very suspicious why twenty two arabs cannot accept one day in the region once we accept that poor nations they don't agree to accept their. faith not two thirds of the nation it's clear is that it's a provocation and it's meant to be a procreation and it's a shame that the israeli government is supporting lieberman in this initiative that

zero only purpose is to bring to school still it's the interim all to study between arabs going jews within the state of israel. 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 renowned for drivers with a distinct disregard for safety but getting a license in russia doesn't necessarily guarantee driving skills it may just mean the right person is being paid off r.t. shaun thomas vandar. welcome to russia where the roads are notoriously bad driver safety seemingly optional and the traffic notorious they were doing. with very busy traffic which has been poorly organized and which requires improvement 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 forum lists russia as 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 really i don't know oh isn't this amazing drivers are supposed to go to a driving school and pass a test on a quote of 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 cunt yet like many russian drivers she's purchased her license illegally so how much did it cost her well the actual amount is eight hundred years dollars but there was that money i think should be from a 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 country learned learning how to drive properly isn't as essential as having the proper pay off some of my fathers or their fishes would black me only for money in that is why there was no need for me to obtain 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 the 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 doesn't matter to us . and now even cardio thinks she may be a threat on the road. yes i have a feeling that i'm a threat to pedestrians it is a go i think to see a bicycle rider in the dark i think that can serve as just prompting many to call for a complete overhaul of russia's driver's education system but it's not enough to fire a bribe it's necessary to change the entire system as long as there is demand there will be supply we need real changes at the high level in the interior ministry in probably even at the state management level hopefully making russia's roads a safer place to be sean thomas moscow. all immigrants in germany should actively integrate into society the german president said in an address to the turkish parliament christian wolf is the first german president to visit the country in over ten years the statement career traits chancellor angela merkel's comments last week that multiculturalism had totally failed and as it grapples with integrating

its three and a half million mostly turkish muslims german identity is in the spotlight best a former british m.p. and chief executive of the foundation for care of the victims of torture says politicians are playing on voters' fears. i do not think people mean by integration that everybody should look the same they should all wear the same clothes they should all the same cuisine but they do mean that people should live in harmony with one another one of the problems that one faces in most countries now have very mixed populations that's a result of globalization of much greater ease for people to migrate from one country to another not necessarily permanently or temporary reasons but you've got to remember of course germany really set the trend a long time ago by bringing in the gas star biter from turkey i mean these were people who were invited in by the german state just as indeed britain invited many people in from the caribbean in order to help rebuild britain and to do some of the

jobs. which british people were not necessarily prepared to do themselves but there is an interesting point in that is that at the same meeting the various regional leaders said the christian democrat party is actually committed to a dominant german culture and opposed to a multicultural one of me and they saying then that germany simply only for germans well i don't think any country should be a prisoner of its history but i think it should be mindful of it so those kind of comments i think of particular unfortunate so why are so many and germany exactly so why are we getting those sort of comments now from german politicians i think a lot of these things and germany is not alone or where political parties are banding around these sort of the they're very populist is usually a political party that in some desperate straits with the poles and wants to gain some more support it's a very disingenuous and i think disgraceful thing to do to play on that kind of

populism but people do tend to be parochial they do tend to want to blame somebody for heels that they face themselves and that very often is foreigners which is a great shame we see that this throughout europe in fact the reality of course is quite the opposite it's usually the foreigners who've come in who've helped to bring in new cultures to change the culture sometimes in very beneficial ways. pete best talking to me a little earlier here in r.t. russia is present in the treatment that it would attend the nato summit next month in lisbon welcomes a major move towards closer ties with the e.u. you know it's meant to came during talks between the russian french and german leaders and the french resort of the real katrina server is there following the meetings. singing from the same hymn sheet and all smiles at a summit in the french seaside town of deauville the leaders of germany france and russia were so keen to emphasize their newfound similarities the even spoke alike

dialogue and compilation verne ship they were not after concrete results rather the aim was to shape future relations and central to this was me the middle age of accepting an invitation to attend the nato summit in lisbon next month. we're happy dmitry medvedev will be taking part in the russian nato summit in lisbon that's because nato has a new strategic concept is aimed at cooperation with other countries including russia i think russia has confirmed that we have to fight against terrorism and nuclear weapons and i think we should tackle these issues together and not be enemies any more. this is significant because the summit in lisbon is a kind of milestone as the north atlantic treaty organization is rethinking its strategy for russia to be included in this process is a guaranteed sign of an integrity participation in the european union the time where we had a. desirable we have

a near with which russia is very much a part the true also drew attention to the format of the summit. i hope this cooperation format will be kept in the future. this is a very useful format which allows us to discuss all sorts of issues in a friendly and transparent manner. and the reason why so many are paying attention to it is because it isn't the first time. france germany and russia stepped up to the plate together in two thousand and three they formed a coalition of the unwilling refusing to support the u.s. invasion of iraq seven years on they definitely have more than a hand in deciding the financial future of europe so a first glance the success of this summit in this quiet french city may not be immediately obvious but the shift in relations is more than evident the french region where this summit was held is famous not only for its wine and cheese but also for its apples apple pie apple cider apple those all those things are made

here in normandy and it seems to be the perfect backdrop for russia and the european union to put away their apple of discord and enjoy a much more fruitful relationship. catherine as our. friends. russian agent ana chapman is in the headlines again this time she took an erotic photo shoot for a moscow based men's magazine. visit to the publications headquarters. news is that the redhead or also known as the russian james bond girl is about to hit the pages of the most popular men's magazine in the country and the preview video off that photo shoot is already in the internet and shopmen is pausing from the cameras in a rather intimate atmosphere and previously i spoke with the director off the months in russia magazine and he said that he has no doubt this photo shoot will

sell she's not only a russian celebrity she's a worldwide celebrity she's more than that she's like a brand almost she's as famous as a machine gun on russian ballet these days since the whole this spy scandal it. did a deal getting on the cover seriously enough we turned out to be in the right place and the right time when we have found the right words just waited on it to do it with us we. made the shoot in august. it's extremely smooth and well because she's talented she learned to be a great while i don't know time. and i believe it was one of the best shots we have a make a lot of controversial controversial ideas sure in the west media but i do believe that in russia she she did more for exciting penetrating.

russian males than the cheap. pull of our work at the combine you know she's really a national hero and she's a beautiful we're just sick she rushed in here and i'm sure that if she decides to go to politics they will be a lot of followers who will vote for them no. the latest photo shoot isn't and a chapman's first that off to her expulsion from the u.s. on espionage charges she posed for another russian men's magazine publication reported skyrocketing sales after that american don't manufacture made a quick buck out of his sudden popularity by moving a topless action thing. well i was also receive some decent proposal sort of the world's largest adult movie studio offered her the lead role in one of the films which she declined. well that's her bridge update for the moment here in our to the business news next we shot it. hello welcome to the business program here on r t with me was folly russian at

railways plans to raise about five billion dollars by selling subsidiaries and assets over the next two years the program for this year includes selling thirty five percent. and ten percent to trans credit buying to raise six hundred million dollars russian railways will raise an additional six hundred million this year by selling sixty three thousand pages of assets in total the company. forty eight degrees by chief ellison's and twelve. the russian government has a fifty billion dollars reason to improve the country's investment climate it has an extensive program of privatizations it wants to get back to the market but as the night imitative reports it's a plan that needs the help of foreign capital. hundred billion dollars has flowed into the russian economy as foreign investment 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. 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 and has an extensive

program of privatization to get away with this menace to enter of the country's biggest state run companies market 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 if i was certain my knees afraid to come here you know and when we have a business r.t. . the privatization program itself will help to improve investment climate in russia that's according to a letter to talk of the president of morgan stanley in russia. i do believe it will because it's one of the concerns government is too involved governments know or where 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 economies will be so i think privatization is a very important stuff and direction. take

a look at the markets in the u.s. stocks are falling further proof that we're going to live had a strong streak of perspective bank of america report a surprise to most of the nasdaq it's thinking more than two percent of. investors or the russian twice the price for to point hike in china's benchmark lending and the poles that rate was drawn from a markets in europe so when you say future persian gold and shares are related stocks the. six times in a rush the markets reversed gains as all the metals retreated and finished tuesday session in the red that's all to china raise interest rates dumping the outlook for producers removed from the core and you call that the decline is down more than one percent from the r.t.s. . meet in brief russian aircraft produced a soup or a narrowed its net loss by twenty percent to ninety one million dollars over the last financial year that's on the back of the twenty percent jump in sales the company said it before mix was helped by a significant increase in government grants and. staying with transport

news car production in russia has almost doubled in the first three quarters of the year more than eight hundred thousand vehicles sold off the assembly line within the period of russia's final from history that expected annual contradiction to nearly double by two thousand and thirteen. and that's the latest in the world of business here in moscow you can always buy more stories on our website.