speech recently friended multiculturalism. evening up the flood to date on an extremely sensitive issue. which is also called gaza strip because from how my blood's up to the u.s. bank he's becomes more and more arabian with high immigration if the past few decades germany has seen the developments of monocultural communities such as new claim in west berlin foreign influence in this area really is very evident you got a lot of foreign finds and foreign shopfronts and add to this the discussions about education failures welfare abuses and crime within immigrant groups and you've got real problems with many of the fishies popping in for president says a lot of people fill holes about immigration. the recent survey conducted by the foundation in germany found that almost a third of respondents felt that immigrants were coming to exploit the country's

welfare system and should be sent home when jobs were scarce almost the same amount the country is being overrun by foreigners here you have a mixture you have a german here and you have in english here and english here and this is turkish this is this is nice so everybody can read that but if it is only only turkish people very few strangely. where am i living this is an arabian city merchant the ensuing debate has focused on muslim immigrants with some migrant families reluctant to integrate into a society that they feel it's prejudiced against them but i have my own personality or my i believe things on my own. the way i've been brought up and don't think that changing my personality the way i look the way our talk or my even my mother tongue would change. where we. 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 take families likenesses sending their children to private school where they do not yet learn german despite the tough rhetoric from the top germany acknowledges that immigration is desirable for its economy 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 not of germs 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 getting himself. no i would talk much but i see if they knew how often they misunderstood others and a major challenge now with that they play why dave would be to chime bridge

cultural divides which have been simmering quietly for a long time. there i see. the russian anti terrorist committee has confirmed that it's busted a foreign financial network used to fund terrorist groups in the north caucuses officials say the recent surge of militant attacks have been made possible by the growing flow of money from abroad with more details here's stacey bevan's. the russian security forces believe that this foreign funding is directly tied to the increase in unrest in the north caucasus and they're primarily looking at dogs. and chechnya the agents say they have uncovered a network in which dummy companies deposit money into banks that money is then withdrawn and then brought into russia via money mules and how much money has made it into the hands of militants is unclear but investigators assisted the money makes it to military leaders and then is dolled out to foot soldiers one of the

leaders that it's it's expected to have been a state from this money is doku umarov now you name remember him as one of russia's most wanted criminals he's on the international most wanted list and he's also believed to be behind the moscow metro bombings that killed forty and left more than a hundred injured the most recent attack happened at chechnya when militants attacked the parliament building in the capital and killed three people also in the past month militants detonated a car bomb in a busy market in north the said investigators are saying that they feel if they put a hold on some of this violence that they're putting a good defense on it because they were able to stop some of the money flow but they're still investigating to find out exactly where all of this money is coming from and what groups are associated with this cash. meanwhile an appeals court in warsaw has to close the case russian terror suspect. who's been in self exile in

london since two thousand and two he was arrested in poland russia's request but was later released by the court on the grounds that he had been granted asylum in the u.k. russia accuses terrorism and other crimes and demands his extradition he faces a life sentence if he returns to russia convicted britain's refusal to extradite the decision to grant him political asylum was among the top reasons for the souring of relations between moscow and london in recent years. well a little bit later we explored marriage but without the children find out why they went in india being encouraged to put off parenthood and what money has got to do with. washington is 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 the

documents detailed u.s. forces handing prisoners over to iraqi interrogators despite overwhelming evidence of inhumane treatment many detainees were said to have died violent deaths u.s. military officials say their orders were not to intervene directly washington's refusing to investigate the allegations despite an outcry from half a dozen arab countries former cia analyst rana mcgovern says the american media is now trying to divert public attention from the wiki leaks report by slamming its founder julian assange. 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 horrid details that have come out in these documents and have been on ad hominem argument 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 pledge before that word because that's the way defiant 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 i want to point some apache helicopter soldiers say we have some civilians that i mean i 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. it's own in southern sweden has been in the grip of fear for over a year after a series of random shootings left one dead and eight wounded police suspect of the attacks are being carried out by a single gunman who's talking the immigrant community for more on this we can all cross live to local journalists to have it she was for waiting for us in the swedish capital so well what more can you tell us about these incidents on the hunt for who have a public right of them. well we found out the police the police announced about a week ago that they had connected these shootings that happened over over you know over a period of a year in malmo which is sweden's third largest city it's a city with a large immigrant population and what they noticed was that a lot of shootings in the city had the same hallmarks they were aimed at immigrants they were random nobody really saw the man who had shot these people and so since

they made this announcement there have been a series of there being four more shootings on top of the fifteen that happened in the in the previous year so this is this is something that's really concerning police in the city and i think that they're trying to get to the bottom of the problem now if indeed this is a racially motivated series of hate crimes is it or is it a separate case altogether or is it perhaps some sort of reflection of sentiment in swedish society well this is this is the big question i mean it comes just a month after the swedish election in which the sweden democrats which are a far right party the hostile towards immigration and and sometimes a hostile towards immigrants as a as a group in general it's they were elected to parliament for the first time last month now the fact that this is come to light since then does does it ties together if you themes in swedish society. reinforces this worry the there's a general hostility towards immigrants but on the other hand you can't say that

these shootings are a reaction to the sweden democrats being elected because of course they started a year ago long before the screen democrats made it into parliament but it's a sign that perhaps of increasing disquiet among a small minority of swedes about immigration in sweden so are you saying that it's just a minority that has the general attitude about attitude towards islam islam in the country or is it is on a broader scale. i think the general sort of extreme dislike and disquiet about immigration is very much the the province of a small minority i mean about just under five percent voted for the sweden democrats in the general election which is you know it's a sign of how relatively marginalized they are but nonetheless among among a very small group the there is a there is a certain concern about immigration but on the other hand what we shouldn't do necessarily is read too much into the connection between the sweden democrats and this is this one individual who i think most people would including most democrats

would agree is something of a well he's a he's a loner and he's an extreme he's an extremist way beyond the political so-called extremists in the been elected to parliament now sweden has a population of around nine million people tell me how often do shootings like this occur in the country if ever. i mean it's rare of course it's this is this is this is a peaceful country the violent crime is relatively low but there is there is one interesting parallel for nine hundred ninety one where a man called john i so near us who was a man in fact of german descent went around shooting immigrants in in the capital and he killed one person and shot a large number of others. and. he was known as the laser man from the from the for the laser point that would that were the laser prick that would point at people

when they were shot now he said he in that sense he was very similar because he was shooting at immigrants and he was shooting randomly and it also happened at a time which a far right anti immigrant party had been elected to parliament. back in one thousand nine hundred one so so you know these are very interesting parallels with some wonder whether this is a cop with this this is some sort of copycat. series of shootings although we won't know until the police catch the man if indeed they do all right live from stockholm journalist james savage thank you. well still to come this hour here on r.t. turning to god after the crime we report on how an ex-con turned a priest has dedicated his life to helping other sex offenders and he's doing it the old fashioned way. now let's get to some other world news making headlines this hour despite overnight protests in france opposition movement 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 blockades for more than ten days the action and said to be costing the country over half a billion dollars a day. high tribunal has passed a death sentence on tariq aziz once the international faced so saddam hussein's regime he was convicted over the persecution of islamic parties last year was sentenced to fifteen years in prison for his part in the killings 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 kurds from northern iraq during saddam's rule. iran has started loading fuel into the core of its first nuclear power plant so iran 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 year a new me richmond program which the international community fears it will be used to make weapons something. well many criminals just out of jail say they have no place to go and no suit system to help them get back on their feet but russia's first church rehabilitation center is giving former offenders another chance offering a home and support in return for hard work and abstinence. reports. that of those about hope and treat the confidence of a man has been doing it though his life in fact this is the first real job he's had spent more than his life in prison for burglary drugs offenses and murder you know nick and weave when i came here i had nothing no relatives or skills 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 funded rehabilitation center on the outskirts of moscow the first of its kind in russia those who comb mostly for the criminals and drug addicts are given bed and board instead of that plea in exchange they agree to avoid by a set of strict rules. that are sleeping quarters as you can see the conditions here are spartan not an extent is due to 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 their xander was a young offender himself then arrested and soldier before finding god when he started to serve the nearly three decades ago the church was in ruins its

surroundings a waste. to do this but it did not succeed god chose me to do this to carry the cross this is a difficult job i was once the victim of an assassination attempt but i have the strength to do it. father alexander says anon 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 still enough eventually. i have found

a boyfriend here now i don't want us to get a job maybe study i want to go back into the wild. either of her and have. and if you like to get your news online we've got lots more on our website. interesting fact all available. waiting for you right now it might be the end of an era. during the summer. months to go. for the christmas break. for the holiday get all the details on that story.

india's newlyweds are being paid not to have babies the government is 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 issue as 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 to years without having children the government will pay them one hundred ten dollars a lot of cash in rural india the big one but one of my good at the money is important but i was moved worried about my house 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 forty in every five couples have a child within the first year of marriage but the health risks here are immense i doubt that much of our 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 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 was just out of town didn't i get on with the biggest hurdle is the

elders of the family though the newly weds 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 giving the backcourt family when i had my neck 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 my neighbors will start asking me what kind of daughter in law have you brought into your house who can't 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 the. 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 the business is next with stephanie. miller 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 are pouring cold water on the move as industry leaders warn at the country can't even provide for itself during a bushel 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 already 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 yes that i see in russia's place in the world water market is taking shape we have a quarterly world's fresh water reserves and will use our competitive advantage to the point yet at the moment russia can't even supply itself two thirds of drinking water reserves don't meet sanitary standards or storage fees admit to in three water pipes need urgent repair if they exist at all. in moscow we're buying the technology to improve our water quality 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 their ratio is likely compared to their western standard and

a lot of money to be spent on infrastructure as a for the drink of water or for the waste water saw. the world for the technology and design for what the treatment they've always rated recompiling. is to me or anybody most russians use bottled 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 new goal but until their own citizens trust the safety of their water it seems. little charles put forward. and i want you to go. energy efficiency with the top issue at the presidential commission on modernization dimitri medvedev told the meeting in the russian republic of tatarstan why he believed it was essential for forming the country's economy the. 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. in its 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 and fifty fourth out of an index of one hundred eighty countries that's even worse than the two thousand and nine ranking and despite their current efforts of the government to crack down on bribery there was also bad news for the us which slipped out of the top twenty at least corrupt countries small countries made the bulk of the top of the list with denmark and new zealand the cleanest.

and now let's turn to the equity markets russian stocks are on the slide for the second day that's on the low all on metals prices energy wages are in the red as the price of crude has fallen gazprom is shedding more than one percent banks are also suffering d.t.p. is down one point six percent and spread one cuz tumbled down one point eight percent this hour. markets in europe are also down with the footsie showing more than one percent basic resources shows are coming under pressure us off to arsenal mid to full cost of far weaker fourth quarter than expected the world's biggest steelmaker did post a forty eight percent jump in net profit for the third quarter to one point three billion dollars. and wall street is low in early trade that's a day off the indices hit a five month high a stronger dollar and disappointing corporate results are putting pressure on stocks. russian billionaire alexander lebedev is launching

a new daily newspaper in the u.k. called r.t. it's the third title in his growing british publish publishing empire which includes the independent and the evening standard that would have says he hopes the new paper will attract readers of quality news who have abandoned the traditional format in favor of the web that death has extensive business interests here in russia hearings novaya gazeta a potato farm and a sizeable stake in nash national airline reflect. and so the business but you can always find a story if you know going to a website. called. in

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promised. the headlines now. immigrants are refusing to integrate trying to change the country needs. to multiculturalism. leading many germans to demand that foreigners shape up or ship out. cracks an underground network used to fund terrorists in the north caucuses or his money was being sent from overseas organizations to be linked to the recent violence in the preacher. and washington. report ignored civilian deaths in iraq a former cia officer says the u.s.

is now on a mission to discredit the publisher of the exposé publication of the military became the biggest leak in u.s. history and led to international calls for an investigation. more now on one of our top stories german 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. angela merkel said recently that multiculturalism had failed white public debate and the issue of immigration firmly in the spotlight wellheads talk to us more about this issue we're joined by. also and kristin them.