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the chechen parliament terror attack was a demonstration tell qaid of the russia's north caucasus has a new militant leader jostling for power according to experts and. truth or dare the race for ratings by u.s. news channels leads to dramatic reporting of facts and events which aren't what they seem. and for legislation against human traffickers turn n.d. into sex trade with girls and women from poor villages promise big city jobs ending up in brothels. this is r.t. coming to live from moscow i'm marina joshua welcome to the program now the man thought to be behind tuesday's attack of the chechen parliament it left three people dead as a new terrorist leader in the region that's the view of the republic's interior

ministry it's believed hussein wanted to show all caius capable of leading militants here recently broke away from dockum are one of the world's most wanted international terrorists our correspondent suddenly had a has more. we're standing in front of the chechen parliament that has been attacked by the militants three people were killed and seventeen injured as the chechen terror and minister reports the man behind this attack could be her same kind of annual leader of the chechen militants and this is the way he's showing what he's capable off before her send her car was operated under dog mara the notorious and most wanted criminal in russia doc or maher is the man behind moscow metro blast which killed forty people talk omar has been forced on the most wanted terrorist list by the do or see just to remind you that the militants drove into the parliament parking zone killed a security guard opened fire and stormed the parliament the federal forces blocked

the militants inside the building and the operation was success all militants were killed and this is how rooms on can do of commented on the situation. the police did a very good job we sent two teams of six people in there in fifteen minutes to kill all the militants regulated all members of parliament from the building the whole area and right now is been cleaned and today the chechen parliament resumes its normal working hours and victims as far as we know will be receiving compensations from the state. they are now russia and nato should face their common challenges together german chancellor angela merkel praised president to be out of the city into a tan a key nato summit next month in lisbon artie's got to realise our has been following talks between the russian french and german leaders in the french resort of divel. singing from the same hymn sheet and all smiles at a summit in the french seaside town of. the leaders of germany france and russia were so keen to emphasize their newfound similarities they even spoke alike

dialogue and operation vern ship they were not after concrete results rather the aim was to shape future relations and central to this was meeting with bit 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 but 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 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. 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 us invasion of iraq seven years on they definitely have more than a head. and in deciding the financial future of your 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 the summit was held is famous not only for its wine and cheese but also for its apples apple pie apple cider apple kind of all those all those things are made here in normandy and it seems to have the called the perfect backdrop for

russia and the european union to put away their apple of discord and enjoy a much more fruitful relationship. casuarinas are about r.t. friends. top russian diplomat responsible for smoothing relations with europe says russia's relations with nato will thrive while cold war stereotypes are dropped in the four interviews coming up next hour but here's a preview. of what we have a full fledged dialogue with nato there have been certain unpleasant incidents of course but today we have a common understanding of the fact that we have to move forward we live on the same continent so we've been facing up to the same threats and challenges for quite some time that i think that nato has new strategic concept should be free from such a vista concepts of receiving russia as a possible threat of were hints about nato as a global role in the circumvention of international laws. and the u.k. has to announce massive budget cuts expected to bring in savage twenty five percent

reductions for most government departments it follows yesterday's cuts to its defense budget worth almost five billion dollars and that will mean that its nuclear deterrent renew your will be delayed and the army will be reduced the announcement follows similar calls from germany and france it has caused washington to worry over nails capabilities but john stevens a former conservative peace as these cuts show a new era of equality is coming for the alliance. the time when it was essential an american operation in which everybody else was a satellite i think is now over i think that's no longer financially sustainable for the americans and so what we're seeing i think with the british move towards from in the nuclear area with the discussions between the french and the germans with the other initiatives in european defense to build a serious european pillar so that what is a partnership of equals between europe and america the more your appear nato

becomes the more favorably disposed it will be towards your appeared the feds because certainly the french and the germans and i think the british too increasingly recognize that there is such a thing as you're a sure there is a europe here and russian defense interest in a sense the time where we had a. western in the old east is over we have a new we're in which russia is very much a part facing a new east if you like which is the rise of asia the rise of china in particular. i want to live from moscow still is on the sour a report from one of the global sex trades biggest hobbs. we have no work in our village i have two young children and when i was promised a job in mumbai i decided to take up golf or find out how these women became victims of sex trafficking driven into a life of misery and exploitation. can we visit one of the world's most polluted

towns of the russian urals to see there is any hope for a clearer future for the people there. how the early bird may gather worm but it may be the wrong were marty's previous leader found a scramble by twenty four hour news channels in the us to break a story first soon sees them backtracking to gather facts straight. brigade mainstream cable stations to favorite words we're following some breaking news important breaking news but is it really news we're seeing or could it be something. what is this thing far worse it's what we call a global killer could it be the end of the world. ok maybe a slight exaggeration but what the cable news channels do when it comes to breaking stories isn't much better you have to engage people and the way to engage them is with conflict and fear remember when the brooklyn bridge was shut down because of

a suspicious package i would also point out that this news comes as we've also reported this other story to you today we don't know if there's any connection here but you know the news that the pakistani taliban wants to carry out an attack because the times square attack failed a potential terrorist attack oh wait five minutes later fox had this to say. moments ago we told you about the brooklyn bridge shut down in both directions because of a suspicious package well we have just now learned and why p.d. has declared all clear apparently a false alarm hoops no big deal what could. bin the pakistani taliban turned out to be a suspicious flashlight we asked a media expert christopher chambers to have a look they could basically create their own experts who can back up whatever soon threat of corroboration it is and then they link it to this story journalistically even twenty four hour news cycle that look good should probably be the last thing

that they say and that isn't the first time mainstream news channels have used flashy graphics and dramatic music to convince us of imminent doom and danger remember the failed christmas day bombing attempt last year while as the situation unfolded fox claimed that there could be a second incident on the same plane and just as quickly as the story became a multi-pronged terrorist attack with multiple scary players fox had this to say this was not a big deal the second source say it's a sick passenger i think with fox it's about the balls it's about the hits on their website it's about the ratings the evolution of the breaking news story is so ridiculous and over dramatize that it's become a laughingstock for popular comedic news sources that just sort of tend to fill twenty four hours of programming here so that happened somewhere today even members of the mainstream media have to laugh at themselves about the high news broke of a disturbance on board an airplane bound from washington d.c.

to denver for that first hour or so after the news broke the story got a lot of maureen components early reporting was that a man from qatar a diplomat from qatar its embassy in washington had reportedly tried to light an explosive device from inside the plane's bathroom while it was in the air and of course after further clarification turned out the story went more like this the diplomat from qatar had not been trying to light an explosive device he didn't have an explosive device there was no explosive device on the plane he was however apparently smoking in the plane's bathroom with a twenty four seven cable news cycle and channels competing for a dying viewership it looks like just about anything flies when it comes to a story. there are t. washington d.c. . check out our website for the latest updates on everything we're covering as well as expert analysis blogs and videos that are t. dot com here's a taster of what's there right now. prada cover to cover and russia's most

glamorous spy gets hot for russia's prominent man's magazine back sam after coming in from the cold. and early start a new research suggests born twins in the wal-mart making friends with each other as early as four and a half months into pregnancy. campaigners in india say the country has the biggest sex trafficking problem in the world and hundreds of thousands of girls from poor families are being brought to major cities like mumbai with promises of good jobs but end up in brothels are just currency investigates. rush me may be young but she's gone through more than most girls her age to leave her village for the bright lights of mumbai only to find she was

heading for life in a brothel she said he wants to reach my why did you go with them. i didn't want to you force me to india is the epicenter of this ecstatic industry right now in the world and the reason is that there is no enforcement of laws against traffic bins and joins it's court more than a quarter of a million been trafficked in india each year some are as young as nine and come from the rural areas of neighboring heading for. neither their parents nor they had any idea of what the real world is like the parents may know a little bit if television is in the village about what bombay is and to them bombay would represent a life state rather than a broad true it's easy to cross the border between india and if there are well established routes for trafficking in the northern state of bihar rescue groups

keep an eye on the trains passing through they have identified what they believe are being trafficked and ordered them from the train but they're not there but when we ask youngsters where they're going they say they're going to study it for girl is travelling with the boy she says he's her father but when we demand their identity cards we see the aren't related to the two girls are questioned by the local police but claim they are travelling to mumbai to work wise i'm not saying we have no work in our village i have two young children and when i was promised a job in mumbai i decided to take up the offer but. girls are misled by people offering them jobs in big cities we apprehend them and then hand them over to women's shelters there are also girls who are convinced they can be part of a dance group and are conned into coming to india. it's easy to convince young girls in a village hundreds of kilometers away that they can make it big. but once you're

unsure two brothers they're condemned to a litle bondage. to see villagers admit given more warnings of the dangers and the police more active in clamping down on traffickers. r.t. . all immigrants in germany should actually integrate into society and that's why the german president has told the turkish parliament his statement in ankara chancellor angela merkel's comments last week that multiculturalism had totally failed at a concert and made a rise of immigration issues and europe including playing down a roma migrants in france and a swift end to immigration are taking seats in the country's parliament former british m.p. says that it's the germans who set the trend for movement of labor around. i do not think people mean by integration that everybody should look the same they should 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 a result of globalisation of 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 guy. 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. and the issue of immigration is also the topic for debate in the latest edition of crossed up which you can see on our team just over two hours' time. governments in europe in general are facing dire economic problems and it's very easy in such a context to play on anti immigrant feelings within societies and

to conjure up the front. of foreigners who are to be blamed for economic social and political problems when clearly governments are failing to tackle these very problems every survey in sweden shows that it's a huge cost even taking account tax benefits from immigrants and the immigrants that i'm talking about this is not a western this is not a norwegian story english or whatever it's mostly from culture. that our cultural far from sweden those are usually muslims right is that what you're saying i'm saying i'm saying mostly from the middle east and africa ok we're going to say but . now look at some other news stories from around the world and over

a million people have taken part in public protests in france demanding the government backs down from plans to raise the retirement age from sixty to sixty two the spy demo stretching into their seventh day president sarkozy remains adamant that the reforms must go through and has promised to crack down on troublemakers the strikes have brought much of the economy to hold with long lines for petrol and hundreds of flights canceled. emergency workers are scrambling to get aid to victims of recent floods and central the rising waters and harsh storms have killed more than forty one residents have been forced to to flee. hundred thousand homes or swamp the number of dead could rise even further as rescuers search for a bus packed with passengers which was swept away by the rating currents. now in terms of your holiday destination there is one part of russia's picturesque you will switch off your list the town of karbala just one of the most polluted places on earth so for of now reports of what's being done to clear its reputation.

it's a bleak sight that greets you when you arrive in the small russian town of care about a legacy of environmental destruction once earned the title of one of the most polluted towns in the world it's a large copper smelter and a century of toxic fumes and chemical waste left the landscape here devastated but it's the residents who have really suffered from the. cardiovascular diseases respiratory diseases and justice system diseases are common in the world for mancow article diseases here which is rather high. under new ownership since two thousand and three the plant has begun cleaning up its act to progress slowly. we immediately began renovation but you can see for yourself the problems that a company of an inherited were doing a lot to preserve and develop but of course lots more still remains to be done. the

smelt was found it takes put the region's rich copper deposits and has contributed to the economic progress in russia over the last twenty years the price to pay for the economic boom has been enormous with the social and environmental scars. tall hills of black industrial waste surround the residence a caravan when you're in the town the air quality is extremely poor. to do the windows blowing in a different usually you can see your own outstretched arm because of gas concentration people are being literally poisoned but the plant is the town's life when it was closed in one thousand nine hundred seven after being branded an environmental disaster in the town fell into poverty so it was a relief to the people here when it reopened even though residents near the more of the same pollution an unhealthy working conditions they were at least able to provide for their families. this industry is really doing druce it's

a rule everything the units often feel and all impurities come to tyrone on the other hand things did used to be much worse so there have been some improvements despite millions in investment to modernize the plant when we visited the working conditions still seemed wafl inadequate at times we found it really hard to brave many of the staff appeared to be working with no breathing equipment whatsoever but there have been some successes here the waste used to be dumped into the water has stopped and the company say that they're winning the battle to cut emissions and with further investment plan and care about our hope for clean a future. we are done with the plant yet we're going to turn the plant into a modern european type factory so everything you see around the plant will soon become history. for the residents of care about the mistakes of the past the

time being the main ever present. us he care about. what we have going on now in the studio with all the way there's a new year's that is in the now we can agree that european investors are a lobbying for a visa free regime between russia and you that's right but that's in exchange because they want russia to get rid of those special registration rolls that point as required to do when moving around the country more and that coming up in the program. but first shares in f. shares an air flight have enjoyed a strong run up to finance minister lucy couldn't say the government should sell a minority stake in the airline but on a quick reanimate from what i'll see of things it's unlikely the government will be willing to lose control of the flagship to the private sector. but then. so. it's also.

what you approaching they're all showboat build a national champions in different industries so it will stage that last year to create is it. on an airline industry and go to. so i don't see a reason to change. and they're in private company. look at how the markets are doing now asian stock markets are mixed up to china's surprise interest rate hike raised fears that chinese growth will slow way down on the global economic recovery the nikkei is losing one point seven percent this hour and hong kong and hong kong's hang seng is down point eight percent european shares are flat south to gains for drugmakers offset falling banks number nordisk gained six point three percent up to u.s. health regulators declining to approve a diabetes drug problem other than pharmaceuticals financials among the worst performance on concerns that other banks may be forced to take back billions of dollars mortgages here in russia markets are lower and the afternoon of the arts

has is down nearly less less than a percent this hour them isaacson's also slightly lower drug energy majors gazprom rosneft and look all citing losses on both the bourses bucking the trend is gas. and gold has halted its first significant drop in price since its record breaking level at one thousand three hundred eighty eight dollars per ounce last week the price fell two point one percent to july levels amid a strengthening dollar and china's central bank's decision to raise interest rates . now staying in the precious metals several styles gold mining unit is seeking regulatory approval for a one billion dollar initial public offering in london the i.p.o. may start in early as as early as this mouth according to sources. close the deal the sale will be the largest overseas share offering by a russian company since united raised two point four billion dollars in hong kong in january. and russian road and bridge builder most trest has set an indicative

price range of six point twenty five to eight dollars per share for its upcoming i.p.o. the company would raise up to half a billion dollars for managers to sell twenty five percent of the shares allocated to the initial public offering the road show starts on wednesday and is expected to be concluded in about her. and wash a second largest chemical fertilizer producer hume is planning to sell five hundred twenty five million dollars of bongs to apparel to pay debts and may revise its plans for a public listing in its latest results the company announced it had increased its share of domestic sales to forty percent in the first half its lead lost in the period had narrowed to thirteen million dollars from fifty six million on a forty percent rise in turnover canceled its plan i p o in london in april saying volatile market conditions would fail to give it a fair value. european investors

a lot going for a visa free regime between russia and the e.u. but in exchange they want to make it easier for foreigners to move about once they get here without having to register if they go to a different city. we have discussed for example with the foreign minister about a month ago russian foreign minister we have. current third discussions or continues discussions with the european union officials european commission but also all member states governments about it we are clearly in favor of visa free regime but what is also being said from the side off to your being straight all through this is that on the other side then russia has to also ease the regime for foreigners here in the country which means that the registration and the limitations on free movement in russia should be removed yahoo's net profit went up one hundred thirteen percent of the third quarter of two thousand and ten the world's second largest internet search engine earned nearly four hundred million

dollars that's up from one hundred eighty six million in the same period in two thousand and nine guy whose overall performance was flat as it continues to climb out of financial stagnation recently who was subject to a possible takeover by a.o.l. and a group of private investors however no special bids happened. and that's all the update for now will be back with more in less than one hour but you can always log on to our website r.t. dot com business and five more stories that.