to keep to that promise that was made all those years ago other calling to foreign ministry buildings this plan was actually put forward as far back as december and it's been in the stations ever since but will now seriously be on the table in next month's allow mug russia nato meeting to take place in lisbon and possibly even before that when they take secretary-general anders fogh rasmussen visits moscow well one the particular area in which both russia and they say you can cooperate is in the own going issue of afghanistan and maintaining peace in that area and also in the ongoing fines against drug trafficking that comes out of afghanistan earlier this week several leading u.k. newspapers and made the statement that russia would be sending it troops back into the country to help in training afghan forces now russia's envoy they say to be at ruggles and has flatly denied that another area of potential cooperation is in

a future discussion on the europe walled missile defense shield in these spiritual improved russian aid so of friendship nato has said that it very much wants nato h.b.o. russia rather to be a policy of that discussion on how best to implement that missile defense shield across europe. if you're the editor in chief of the russia in global affairs magazine says the memories of the bitter soviet experience all too fresh from moscow to send troops back into the country. russia's been going to start before and experience was such terrible the i can't imagine any circumstances under which russia will return to afghanistan. are based i guess. in terms of a discussion of the world's future or going to stand which is also in the framework of need to a russia neutral and saw but it's not about russian troops but disappearing and

fighting it's about how russia can support future of course through a. regime of situation by other means spying on me. and dr adrian pabst electoral politics at the university of kent says if russia is to provide helicopters and training to nato in afghanistan there's a reason for that i think hard core security interest that moscow is quite legitimately defending is two things one is terrorism moscow is worried that extremism from afghanistan pakistan will spread across central asia and also perhaps fuel conflict in in russia and secondly the flow of drugs which is a major security and health issue because it of course is part of organized crime and cause a substantial social and. physical damage among drug users in russia so russia's got a legitimate interest it's defending them and it's just right it does so well while

nato has admitted it needs help in afghanistan there already fears that the end of operations in iraq will plunge the country into crisis it follows revelations from wiki leaks which claimed torture is already widespread whistleblowing website also raise concerns that could have controlled northern iraq will erupt into bloodshed when u.s. troops withdraw sebastian meyer has more. a dawn raid a race against time to catch militants off guard in the iraqi province of kirkuk where in the suburb of duck cook and the police have just a few minutes to get into position before sunrise. daybreak's in the raid begins police under the supervision of the u.s. army go door to door searching rooms and checking residents against lists of unknown terrorists. police dominated heavily by kurds have been remarkably successful recently they've cut terror attacks by over fifty percent in the past few months these guys are very good they are very good and they're very good at

intelligence and develop they are gathering intelligence and developing intelligence and the other submerged wrong place for not worried about it but others mainly the city's non kurds are here in downtown there are going to be a divide with her cherokee turkmen due to their own historic claim on the kirkuk is a unique city in iraq a true melting pot of all the different ethnicities in the country but this mixture continues to lead to extremely volatile ethnic tensions a two thousand and nine field report that was recently leaked by the whistleblower wiki leaks states that without strong unfair influence likely from a third party these tensions may quickly turn to violence after the u.s. forces withdraw all of this in terms of security when the us leaves it will be no independent security force right now the security is from the kurdish side of the city this is the truth when the us leaves things will get worse there will be conflicts arabs will stand up and pray to him we should say with third and this

will. i got for a bit but words will begin between the ethnic groups as. an example of this violence wasn't long in coming no more than five minutes after we finished the interview a roadside bomb targeting the police detonated in the center of the city. luckily for the police the terrorist nest it appears that despite the gains that the police are making. the american troop withdrawal could easily lead to a return to sectarianism in kirkuk for kurds arabs and turkmen alike the consequences of the u.s. led war have left the future of kirkuk very much uncertain sebastian meyer care cook for r.t. . well still ahead the convinced global warming is just a lot of. talk to activists who say mother nature gave them a sign that they are right by sending snow two years ago all the details in a few minutes from. about eighty percent of serious juvenile crimes take place in the evening when children in theory are supposed to by their parents.

investigate put russia at the. crime table. a story still to come the first recently discovered all reserves in the eastern mediterranean looks set to become the latest point of tension in the troubled middle east at least four major competitors staking their claim israel lebanon turkey and cyprus all want a peace but with no clearly defined maritime borders the fight could be lengthy and bitter and despite unclear border demarcation israel has already gained the upper hand and started developing two sites. takes a closer look at the divisive deposits. prayer is a long time in coming more than you have been begging for a year yeah please lord don't let me down don't let me down and finally jackie relations prays have been answered the oil company he's invested in reportedly hitting bingo underground still talking about the largest amount of oil ever to be

discovered in the state of israel there's a joke in israel that when moses led the jews out of egypt he took a wrong turn on his way to the promised land bringing them to the one spot in the middle east that has no oil but that punchline might need to change because it seems that moses might not have been so wrong after all in two thousand and nine israel announced the discovery of a first major natural gas field off its coast but the most recent reports from the giant live ethan natural gas site off the coast of haifa point to a potential for billion barrels of black gold we will be able to future. energy. it will be less expensive which is how important. from a political. appointee we should we should be less dependent on the. import of foreign oil but it's not only israel lane came to the reserves greek cyprus to

keep and lebanon also say the oil is and one international law one lousy country to draw in the so-called continental shelf off the coast the fact that israel and lebanon have never agreed on maritime boundaries makes it clear that israel in and lebanon begins i know the club about how its version of think the border line will pass if and when they we have a negotiator i don't know that there is what has its own version or the pub but they're not in the agreement on whether and because the two countries are enemy states is unlikely to be any agreement anytime soon both have threatened to go to war over the issue obviously this is an israeli company. as an israeli company and . will not be allowed to uncover into lebanese territory or will have any further connection with ration of lebanese gas let alone filed

a complaint with the united nations after israel placed floating markers extending two miles into the sea and weighing in on the conflict hizbollah says because the major political actor in lebanon. and his strongest supporters from the syrian euro. and it would seem if we take statements and public positions seriously which we are. they have an interest in. creating tension israel has the upper hand for now it's already struck a deal with cyprus and is preparing to start extraction while living on still needs to sort out the boundaries of its economic zone with cyprus and syria and it will be years before it has the evidence it needs to show that israel's fields extend into lebanese territory. whatever gets much more for you on our website is to simply go on and explore what's there here's a quick look at. the moment. is forward with its twenty fourteen winter olympic

preparations a massive construction work reveal secrets of russia's ancient past. to discover why archaeologists not athletes are racing to the site. and. also on the web sites going against tradition you can find out why young couples in india face family fallouts for taking money to put off parenthood all available at all to. global warming skeptics in the u.k. have gathered to mark what they've dubbed climate fools day when on this date actually two years ago snow fell in london as the british parliament was debating a bill to tackle global warming it was the first such early snowfall for over

eighty years and i think the ironic coincident was just more proof that the bill is a waste of billions of taxpayers' pounds all of those doubting the reality of climate change as reverent philip foster who joins me now live from london thank you very much indeed for joining us now supporters of climate change theory say there is hard evidence taken from ice showing a sudden rise in c o two levels in the last century. proving climate change so how do you see it all. the answer is that there is not a particularly dramatic rise in c o two. and anyway carbon dioxide does not affect the climate i think that's a fundamental statement that is the misconnection that the climate warming. alarmists of made so you saying there's no connection with c o two obviously was caused by man by industry so you're doubting the fact that there has been a climate change as a result of mankind's actions yes there is climate change of course but that is

a natural thing but no it isn't due to man's actions anyway man's amount of carbon dioxide represents a tiny proportion of the shift anyway about four percent but when we look at the statistics i'm sitting here in moscow where we've just seen the hottest summer on record here in russia it was an extraordinary summer never seen before before that we had one of the coldest winters in europe in centuries most people would say well i'm not a genius there clearly is something going wrong and if it's happened since records began bearing in mind the industrial revolution and all the industry in the pollution that's been caused now surely there must be a connection. i don't see why this should be as a matter of fact i think hundred thirty two or so years ago very similar conditions prevailed both droughts and heat in russia and also the monsoons in pakistan though i'm not the expert on a colleague of mine called piers corbyn is so no weather extreme events always take

place always have and always will blame them on human emissions is simply. pointless because there is no real connection with how come governments and businesses are taking climate change very seriously we're all being encouraged to change our lifestyles they would be doing it for nothing surely. there are all sorts of reasons why governments want to do things not all of them are very intelligent one of the reasons they want to do it is to raise taxes on the carbon taxes that they tend to put on business. again i think this next year our ways of raising revenue and of course revenue is a problem. so the consensus so-called science does not work by consensus science works on skeptical looking at the evidence and i'm afraid they don't do that your argument is quite persuasive but not many people well should say not many but there are many who simply don't support your theories they they say

that you're wildly wrong you're not taken seriously so are you not getting your message across rightly because some people quite frankly say you're not it's there is something going wrong you are getting it wrong. it's i'm afraid it is rather a war of words like that we were actually the list of things we were talked about we were called dinosaurs called catalysts which was a nice one and flat earth has which is another nice one all three nice little insults which i chalked up intriguingly the only basis that nominees have on their computer models which are actually ironically flat earth models they are circular discs they're not spheres on which they play around with modeling climate most unsuccessfully incidentally or so i'm not sure who the clatter of us are as to why we are sort of a small group in a corner doing this it's very difficult to get the opposite position out into the media we're very grateful that russia t.v. at least gives us an airing we can't do that with our own national television here

in london the b.b.c. just pays no attention but then their pensions are paid by green industries as it turns out so they have a reason in their case for not letting skeptics speak or philip foster enjoying climate fulls they there in london we really appreciate we don't need well thank you very much and thank you joining us the climate change skeptic and author joining us there in london thank you you thank. well now let's have a quick look at some other stories making headlines around the world this wednesday the former president of argentina. has died of a heart attack the news a shocked the country's many expect the sixty year old to win the next presidential elections and it's thought he might succeed his wife cristina fernandez she's currently in office actionable be responsible for his six pre-med i should say will be remembered for his successful battle against economic crisis and attempts to build bridges with the country's south america and. also all the states the government in relation to no confidence vote in the parliament over planned

austerity measures thirty thousand protesters hit the streets in the capital book arrest on wednesday to demonstrate against proposed budget cuts the us was forced to cut public sector wages and government spending to comply with an i.m.f. loan that helped keep afloat. when russia has the highest rate of youth crime in europe that's according to a world health organization report tracking crimes committed by minors across the continent well that with more details on this has done a pretty calm. i need three hundred please show us on the dole where exactly you stabbed him with the knife it was here how many times. i don't remember roughly seven or ten times. in this reconstruction of the suspects showing police just what happened when his gang carried out a brutal now the main perpetrators would soon join his fee is in one of russia's sixteen young offenders institutions i live close enough has already served more

than half of his sentence for committing a racial murder he was a fifteen year old skinhead when both his friends attacked a four in the can use subtle motion muscle the guy's noice lying next to him i suddenly thought he must have been using this knife to kill the russian years ago so i stepped into ice event posted to my three friends each night him stabbings account for almost half of the homicides carried out by youngsters in the european and central asian region according to our records by the world health organization and it puts russia with the highest rate of violence among the surveyed age group from ten to twenty nine. million a change in psychology are irrelevant even moral values all this contributes to an extremely high crime rate went up by the activities of religious sex and i'm sorry to say this by all media including television which story is full of blood in russia around five thousand seven hundred minus

a concious serving prison times the majority either from a one parent family or an overnight experts say about eighty percent of serious juvenile crimes take place in the evening or night when children in theory are supposed to be looked after by their parents however in reality many children often end up on the streets searching for their own entertainment. and that's primarily alcohol which is fueling so much of today's with driving this situation among. mine is is actually slowly improving the grim statistics among those one of each take for itself while many of these young boys hopefully will be able to survive crime free in the future it may be down to those on the other side of the volved wire to ensure they don't become another of those generation. r.t. moscow. one of the few moments in el stephanie will bring you an update on the business news stay with us after a short break. for the full story we've got. the

biggest issues get the cuban voice face to face with the news makers. wealthy british style it's time to. go to. the. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy cars report on our. hello and welcome to the business bulletin the american company responsible for running operations that suckered in one may be swapped for a russian company x. x. on gas has twice asked the government to raise subsidies for the oil and gas project while production has for the audit chamber says involving russian companies

in similar ventures has previously raise production and cut costs but according to the energy minister the issue of replacing the operator hasn't been considered as yet its. top russian still produces a concentrating on domestic consumers to boost profits recent train just in tax law and other government incentives have made the market more attractive this is also giving a competitive edge to russian companies over the european and asian pe is but in a question of reports. top russian national producer severs open to new plants and the moscow region to supply can manufacturers to you is just one of a number of firms that are ramping up production to profit from growing domestic demand you have asked is upgrading its plant in the world mountains while i am m.k. plans to invest up to three billion dollars and the country to build capacity. we are planning to produce ten million tons of metal this year we're going to increase

the output by some twenty percent by twenty level by another twenty percent the year after our aim was to restore the pre-crisis output recent changes in taxes have made it more profitable for russian companies to sell processed muscle to domestic consumers rather than exports and in addition the state has gone for tax breaks to foreign carmakers if they buy supplies from russian producers it's a part of the government's plan to encourage manufacturers to produce cars from start to finish with locally sourced materials the russian market is recovering has recovered enough little sure enough straddle xed here to consume all finished feel and therefore make the russian steel makers even a better positional competitor compared to the global still acres. selling percent still in russia can be three times as profitable as sounding it abroad but the market is being distorted by government intervention worldwide the demand for still

has yet to recover from the financial crisis and prices remain weak so producers here have little reason not to take advantage of the situation and i didn't question the business on. the list of the top fifty most influential question businessmen has been published the russian paper news service in mayaguez that commissioned the list. they met up russian railways boss of couldn't and was so c.e.o. at that a past the top thirty seven eggs. butts compiled the survey from a total of one hundred seven candidates placing them in four categories of influence minimal moderate high and very high. that's not going to be x. markets european stocks finished and low on what this day follows some weak u.s. manufacturing data at the footsie shed more than one percent but mine is leading the declines under frank but tech stocks are dragging on the dots. on wall

street is no early in whedon's days session that follows that weak durable goods data on the best i can nation out of federal government take a more cautious approach to stimulating the economy is back. on here in moscow the russian markets finished a low on by mistake with both indices shedding more than one percent of the blue chips finished in the red sox are among the worst performers beats you can start with and two percent on the line sex plus left also underperformed down two percent but it's. russian broadway's of the i.p.o. price range to shed and its subsidiary trying to contain them at seventy nine to ninety nine dollars per share the company could raise as much as five hundred million dollars a month interesting. and russia's biggest mobile phone retail i never said is considering selling a thirty percent of it says on the london stock exchange in march the company has already started discussions with bonds to underwrite the offer but it still needs to get the agreement of some of its biggest shareholders. about one fifth of

russian insurance companies are facing bankruptcy insurance watchdogs said out of seven hundred funds up to two hundred fifty are in financial difficulties however major market players say the industry is in need of some rationalization. both or not as they will yourselves. leave the market april the market will fell through. the whole of the market of what you believe probably sees five of them still. cost the most the will nords wrongly be affected by these cooling of the market global copper duction at this year could reach pre-crisis levels according to pricewaterhouse coopers the number of cars produced this year could reach seventy million and hearing russia it could rise to one point seven million us.

says in two thousand and seven global manufacturing was about just under seventy million units and it looks as we estimate that it will come back to seventy million units globally in two thousand and ten so we're back to where we were pre-crisis book but there's a big difference because the bric so-called bric countries were just under twenty percent of the two thousand and seven production but it's going to be up to about thirty percent of two thousand and ten in other words has been a bit of a shift from the rest of the world basically to countries. and that's all for business news for now but of course you can always find the story if you log on to our web site that's our teeth up called flash with.

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festival website. this is good to have you with us top stories now that's how russia is seeking to prevent nato from placing major forces close to its border with it and that would limit the military presence. hoping for closer cooperation with moscow particularly on european missile defense and afghanistan. tensions high in northern iraq. to u.s. troops leave the kurdish controlled region concerns intensified after the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks released documents highlighting cases of hostility between kurds and arabs. and a showdown looms between israel and lebanon over recently discovered oil reserves in the eastern mediterranean with turkey. claims without clearly defined maritime

borders experts predict the countries are likely to reach agreement any time soon. to bring it up to take a moment. from now in the meantime technology update takes a shine to metal and how it's still helping to change our lives. hello and welcome to technology update this month the show goes middle only without the head banging we're talking about the most elementary of materials that have helped build our civilization and still find innovative new applications today the soviet metallurgical industry was blasting past competitors around the same time heavy metal started blasting out speakers but.