a furtive debate on an extremely sensitive issue. which is also called gaza strip because. it just becomes more and more. with high immigration over the past few decades germany has seen the developments of monocultural communities such as new cologne in west berlin. in this area really is very evident in lot of foreign finds and foreign shop fronts and at best the question is about education failures welfare abuse and crime within immigrant and you've got real problems with many of these issues popping in the president says a lot of people fill holes about immigration. a recent survey conducted by the foundation in germany found that almost a third of respondents felt the immigrants were coming to exploit the country's welfare system and should be sent home when jokes were scarce almost the same

amount the country is being overrun by foreigners do you have a mix so you have a german here and you have in english here and here and this is turkish this is this is nice so everybody can read that but if it is only in arabia only in turkish people they feel strange when they think where am i living this is an arabian city much of the ensuing to date has focused on muslim immigrants with migrant families reluctant to integrate into a society that they feel is prejudiced against them i don't think that changing my personality or the way i look the way i talk or my even my mother tongue would change. what would. have an effect on the german culture projects like this local community center and aiding integration and teaching.

children the german language from an early age but with few bilingual arabic or taking families likenesses sending their children to private schools where they do not yet learned. despite the tough rhetoric from the top germany acknowledges that immigration is desirable for its economy that migrants have to be willing to integrate we need people in all of the industrial countries because we have not so many kids anymore i have no kids lots of germans have no kids so where should the kids come from to work and help the industry going on so we need people from other countries to come in get it himself said it would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others and a major challenge now with the debate blown wide a parent would be to chime bridge cultural divides which had been simmering quietly for a long time. sarah first. belin. meantime. german

christian democrat says politicians who've been criticized for the strong comments about immigrants were merely being realistic. i don't think that harsh words were used in the right words sensibly politics begins with looking at the reality you know this reality there are millions of examples of the best kind of integration but there are also too many examples of refusing to integrate those receiving welfare among immigrants is three times as high as among the population of one kind of chinese i find the system of local benefits in germany very good but not alone those who come to germany must respect the law of the constitution and our cultural traditions. and you can watch that interview in full right here on our two you know about twenty minutes time. for the russian anti terrorist committee has confirmed to r.t. that it has busted

a foreign financial network used to funk terrorist groups in the north caucuses officials say the recent surge of militant attacks has been enabled by the growing money flowing in from abroad was probably live to our state of evans for details on this so i still see just how big a blow is this to the terrorist networks in russia so. hello to you are russian security forces say that they believe the funding this foreign funding is directly tied to the under us in the north caucasus and this is just an increase that's going on that they say they've notice and this is particularly the case the darkest time if you search and chechnya now the amount of money that's made it into this area is unclear but investigators say that they were uncovered and not work and which does dummy corporations transfer money into banks that money is then withdrawn and carried into russia the money now they say that this money is collected by military leaders and then doled out to. footsoldiers and one of these

leaders that's believed to benefit from this money is. now you may remember that he is one of russia's most wanted criminals and he's also on the international most wanted list and believed to be behind the moscow metro where forty people died and more than one hundred were injured. this is a high profile victory for the authorities isn't it following a spate of major. right well the north caucasus has really seen an increase in violence in the past month the most recent happened last week in chechnya where militants stormed a parliament building in the capital and killed three people also during that month there was a bombing or an attack in a in the north of setia. very big market so. officials say that they have really put a damper are they really put a clamp on this money flow but that they say that they're still investigating just

to find out where exactly this money is coming from. reporting live from moscow thank you. well here's a glance at what's ahead for you this hour and israeli soldiers under fire for truth movement the army with new human rights abuse. well washington's denying it ignored numerous cases of iraqi torture and killing over the past six years the allegations stem from four hundred thousand secret u.s. files on the war in iraq leaked by the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks documents detail u.s. forces handing prisoners over to iraqi interrogators despite overwhelming evidence of inhumane treatment many detainees were. u.s. military officials say their orders were not to intervene directly washington's refusing to investigate the allegations despite an outcry for. half

a dozen arab countries full much cia analyst ray mcgovern says the american media is now trying to divert public attention from the wiki leaks report by slamming its founder julian assange which. you know goes back to the ancient greek times when you didn't like the message you shut shoot them but you kill the messenger and in those days so what they're trying to do is deflect discussion of the hard details that have come out in these documents and have been on ad hominem arguments against a song to make it sort of to trivialize it and to make it sort of a personal sort of thing the treasure trove of documents is precisely what you would expect from a war of aggression and don't plan to before that word because that's the way defined what we did in going into iraq and afghanistan i wouldn't turn back said and it was justice jackson our own supreme court justice who said perpetrating

a war of aggression is to commit the supreme international crime differing from other war crimes only in so far as it contains the accumulated evil of the whole what's the accumulated evil torture kidnapping shooting civilians it's all there right in the wiki leaks at one point some apache helicopter soldiers say we have some civilians that i don't want to surrender and the lawyer from headquarters says he can't surrender to a helicopter. and those civilians i mean it's the worst kind of thing and wiki leaks has done a great service to our country by exposing that. he is a military contributor says that u.s. forces should not be held responsible for turning a blind eye to atrocities in iraq all of this because they were under the influence of their superiors. the question that has been mostly ignored by the international media is how come the despite the highest standard of the

code of ethics in the united states army that some of those individuals in the us uniform were involved in criminal negligence when the civilian support torture in their presence by the iraqi security forces or how come the sub culture of impunity in the u.s. forces in iraq has been totally ignored by their political masters back in washington d.c. the answer is that the united states armed forces was held hostage to political expediency of them masters so before you blame the military for what did happen in iraq take a break and think about who their real masters of the u.s. military in the overseas conflicts. that was artie's military contributor colonel

you're going to have. an israeli truth movement breaking the silence has posted new photos depicting abuse carried out by soldiers during the gaza war two years ago the israeli defense force condemned the group for publishing the pictures on facebook and stead of talking to the military police there have been a series of photos and videos posted online showing the inhumane treatment of palestinians by troops one such case is now in court two israeli soldiers are awaiting sentencing after being convicted of using a palestinian child as a human shield the founder of breaking the silence. says the army is using the two as scapegoats to fully show civilians human rights are up the. way a political trial and this is a trial to try to clean the system these two late low ranking soldiers are going to pay for the mistakes of all the of separation of all the military tradition big

problems of the strategy and weapons that were used in operation cast lead for the rules of engagement and they're going to pay for it and in the way the army is trying to sacrifice them to clean itself and this is i think a problem there is a history of this of more and more cases of soldiers complaining of policy and complaining and still it seems like the ground level in the military cannot accept in a way this change because when you are in the field you always think that the judge and jury system they have their own idea about how to do things and you know how to do things and this is the way you were trained on and that's why this is the way you do and in a way when you're in the system and when you're on the ground enforcing the occupation you in a way you lose the ability to really distinguish right from wrong and former israeli soldiers and the founder of breaking the silence that's you who to shore sharing his thoughts with us here on well a little bit later we explore a married. but without the children find out why the words in india are being

encouraged to put off parenthood and what money's got to do with it. now let's get to some other world news this hour that despite overnight protests in france opposition movements against pension reform in the country are losing momentum nevertheless students are set to stage more nationwide demonstrations the bill is still expected to be passed by politicians later this week france has been crippled by strikes and blockades for more than ten days the actions said to be costing the country over half a billion dollars a day. iran high tribunal has passed a death sentence on tariq aziz once the international face of saddam hussein's regime he was convicted over the persecution of islamic parties last year as e's were sentenced up to fifteen years in prison for his part in the killing of dozens of merchants in one thousand nine hundred two he was also given

a further seven years for his role in the forced displacement of codes from northern iraq during saddam's rule. iran has started loading fuel into the core of its first nuclear power plant tehran says the russian built a reactor will stop producing atomic energy early next year russia will help operate the facility supply nuclear fuel and take away the waste iran has a separate uranium enrichment program which the international community fears will be used to make weapons something that iran denies. paul the octopus one of the stars of the two thousand and ten world cup thanks to his psychic abilities has died the mystic mollusk gained a world prominence after correctly predicting the outcome of all of germany's results this summer by climbing into a box sparing the nation's flying even went on to predict spain would win the final it remains a mystery whether. this one coming. while many criminals just out of

jail say they have no place to go and no system to help them get back on their feet but russia's first church really put attention center is giving former offenders another chance offering a home and support in return for hard work and abstinence. as the story. goes about his carpentry with the confidence of a man who's been doing it all his life in fact this is the first real job he's had he spent more than for his life in prison for burglary drugs offenses and murder. and we've when i came here i had nothing no relatives or schools some people to me address but as soon as i came the allowed me to stay now my life is here. but that and thirty others live in this church from the driblets. on the outskirts of moscow the first of its kind in russia those who come mostly for the criminals and drug

addicts are given bed and board indefinitely in exchange they agreed to abide by a set of strict rules. that are sleeping quarters as you can see the conditions here are spartan not an extended to do that the material limitations but also see the ethos of this place people who stay here get up at seven work all day and then lights out that eleven those so-called drinking or smoking are excluded. most of the residents credit this man for saving them for that are xander was the young offender himself then addressed. and soldier before finding god when he started a center nearly two decades ago the church was in ruins its surroundings a wasteland. with human tried to do this but it did not succeed god chose me to do this to curry the cross this is a difficult job i was once the victim of an assassination attempt but i have the strength to do it for that alexander says another one hand is needed to deal with

people more used to living by prison rules for eight days his son's punishments from reducing someone's portions at mealtimes to toilet cleaning and worst of all banishment. he knows everything about everyone a bad father is one who doesn't punish his children on the other hand if you have the smallest problem down to a torn shoe he's the man to take care of you. he's an extraordinary person although there is nothing wrong with me i have been here for years because of him. but for most the purpose is to leave eventually. i have found a boyfriend here now all i want is to get a job maybe study i want to go back into the wild. either and have. and if you like to get your news online we've got lots more on our website blogs

features and interesting facts all available on cd and he's a taste of what's waiting for you right now it might be the end of an era muscovites as the new mayor promises to stop the practice of switching off the hot water for weeks on end during the summer. with just two months to go some petersburg gears up for the christmas break promising tourists over a thousand new hotel rooms in time for the holidays get all the details on that story and everything else recovering on line at artsy dot com. indians and newlyweds are being paid not to have babies the government's offering financial compensation to couples who remain childless in an attempt to keep a lid on the country's ever growing population but in

a family oriented society the topic is a sensitive one charan singh reports. she told job of and her husband have promised to honor and keep kids out of the equation at least for now if they manage two years without having children the government will pay them one hundred and ten dollars a lot of cash in rural india. and my dad at them the money is important but i was moved worried about my health really even logan levels were very low and the nurse began giving me magic ation delaying pregnancy made sense to me also i had just married into my husband's family and didn't want to have a baby right away. here. in western india for him every five couples have a child within the first year of marriage but the health risks here are immense i doubt there. are maternal deaths and infant mortality are quite high to bring them

down the mother's health has to be improved before pregnancy that will help the child as well so many miscarriages happen due to anemia. that's where the government's honeymoon package comes in and two thousand four hundred couples have already signed up but there's more than individual wellbeing at stake india is experiencing an unsustainable population surge pushing it towards being the world's biggest and with the birth rate here dropping from seventeen birth thousand to fifteen point four the honeymoon package is a proposal that other states are now keen to accept but at the village level it's not so easy i just thought of how i did it so that i want the biggest hurdle is the elders of the family though the newlyweds are willing their parents are usually against it due to the social pressure to bear a child right away. and that's exactly what's dividing the family.

when there is immense pressure on us we know the scheme is good but my mother is adamant that we have a child immediately. went along. learn and they if they don't marry neighbors will start asking me what kind of daughter in law have you brought into your house who can produce a child they will also start to question my son's reality what is the point of one hundred dollars if you don't have social respect. population controls are emotive in family oriented india but where stricter policies are field it's hope that shifting attention towards health and prosperity will help young couples focus on their future instead of society's traditions god and seeing harvey in western india . labour's our two talks to a german member of parliament about the immigration problem in the country but for us let's turn over to the business to ask for the financial headlines with stephanie.

hello and welcome to the business bulletin a top government official has told r.t. that russia plans to make water a major export it comes as alarming new figures show most of the world's population is poised for shortages but some of pouring cold water on the move as industry leaders warn the country can't even provide for itself daniel bushell reports. two in three people will like water the u.n. says within fifteen years russia which has the world's largest drinking water reserves plans to plug that gap but we shouldn't be buying bottles of perrier we should be selling our own abroad with boosting export volumes by improving conditions for businesses to do so because exporting water is not a job the government cross border disputes own ready springing up from the middle east to north america and africa now top ministers of called a clean water summit to make it a multi-billion euro export second only to oil and gas that russia's place in the

world water market is taking shape we have a quarter of the world's fresh water reserves and we will use our competitive advantage to the fore. yet at the moment russia can't even supply itself two thirds of drinking water reserves don't meet sanitary standards storage fees admit to in three water pipes need repair if the exist at all. in moscow we're buying to technology to improve our water quality but in other parts of russia it's still a question of fitting water pipes to homes. so foreign firms are doing deals at the summit but it's to clean russia's water not by its infrastructure in. whitely compared to western standards really. a lot of money to be spent. for the doing for water or for the waste water saw. the world for the technology and design for what the treatment of always is

a radiant recompiling our customer community pretty most russians use both brands or if they can't afford that filter and boil tap water before drinking just picking up steam is a bit to tap what's becoming a goal but until their own citizens trust the safety of their water it seems little charles put forward. that you want your business r.t. . energy efficiency was the top issue at the presidential commission on modernization dmitri medvedev told the meeting in the russian republic of tatarstan why he believes it's essential for reforming the country's economy. energy efficiency is paramount to the modernization of our economy and social sphere by achieving these goals we create the shape of a new economy and increase competitiveness of our goods and services create new ventures new branches improve environment and quality of life the whole project is

difficult and frankly speaking we haven't done much yet budget allocations need to have opportunities for attracting private investments that's why we need to get rid of the barriers for using energy service contracts. and the russian stocks are on the slide for the second day that's on the low or on metals prices policy gold rushes largest gold producer shedding value energy majors are also in the red as the price of crude has fallen and banks are suffering with both right and the to beat down more than one point three percent of the sound. and markets in europe are also down the fifty seven point eight percent basic resources shares are coming under pressure that's after astronomical forecast of far weaker fourth quarter than expected the world's biggest filmmaker did post a forty eight percent jump in that profit for the third quarter to one point three billion dollars. europe is recovering from its deepest recession in the last fifty

years growth in all countries except for greece and portugal will be positive next year according to the latest economic outlook from the international monetary fund global g.d.p. growth is now approaching pre-crisis levels forecast at four point six percent this year and four point three percent next year where she has also received positive forecasts from the i.m.f. inflation is expected to be six point six percent by the end of this year and unemployment seven point five percent christophe klingon from the i.m.f. told business r t what was behind the growth of the economy. in terms of domestic demand and export exports in russia back to the. that they used to be before the crisis and also the development of domestic demand was much more strong in russia than in the in the rest of the region the matter of fact there are two countries where domestic demand is rather strong in the region and that is russia in turkey. but despite the positive outlook russia is still beset by age old problems and this

latest survey transparency international says russia continues to be the most corrupt major economy in the world the berlin based organization place the country one hundred fifty fourth out of an index of one hundred eighty countries that's even worse than the two thousand and nine ranking despite the apparent efforts of the government to crack down on bribery i will say is bad news for the united states which slipped out of the top twenty least corrupt countries small countries made the vote at the top of the list with denmark and new zealand the cleanest. and that's all the business news for the south but of course you can always find love stories if you log on to our website at r t dot com slash.

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we've got the future covered. headlines now irritation in germany locals. refusing to trying to change the country. after the chancellor multiculturalism is failing leading many to demand that foreigners shape up or ship out. underground network to terrorists in the north caucuses to claim the money was being sent from overseas organisation. to the recent violence in the region. and washington. ignored civilian. cia officer

says the u.s. is now want to discredit the public show. the public military became the biggest leak in u.s. history and led to international calls for an investigation. more top story with german anger at immigrants failure to integrate. speaks exclusively. from the german christian democrats about this divisive issue he says the main problem is that foreign citizens expect society to adopt their way of life rather than the other way around that's next here on r.t. . angela merkel said recently that multiculturalism had failed its white public debate and put the issue of immigration family in the spotlight has talked to us more about this issue we're joined by.