to me of course as much as the thumbs which further to the east say russia simply things that they are asking nato to keep to that promise that was made all the days that years ago other cording to foreign ministry buildings this plan was actually put forward as far back as december and has been in negotiations ever since but will now seriously be on the table in the next months 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 on 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 i made the statement that russia would be is sending a troops back into the country to help in training afghan forces now russia's envoy

to nato to be a ruggles that has flatly denied that another area of potential cooperation is in a future discussion on the europe walled missile defense shield in the spiritual but improved a russian made so of friendship nato has said that it very much wants nato each of the russia role there to be a part of that discussion on how best to implement that missile defense shield across europe. has just said they've been foreign media reports suggesting that russia might be contemplating sending troops to afghanistan to help train local forces but as you know that nucleon of a russian global affairs magazine says the memories of this song that experience in the country still to rule them all to consider such action. russia's been going to start before and experience was such terrible that i can't imagine any circumstances under which russia will return to afghanistan. rumors are based i

guess. in terms of a discussion of world future although i understand which is also in the framework of need to russia neutral and so but it's not about the russian troops but disappearing and fighting it's about how russia can support future calls through a. regime of situation by other means spying on military means. and dr adrian padstow lecturer in politics at the university of kent says if russia is to provide helicopters and training to nato in afghanistan there's a legitimate reason for that i think the hardcore security interest that moscow is quite legitimately defending does 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 causes such terrible 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. and while nato has admitted it needs help in afghanistan there already is the end of u.s. military combat operation in iraq would plunge the country into chaos follows the explosive wiki leaks revelation of secret u.s. files challis widespread torture and killing by the new regime in baghdad with a blind date turned by america the documents of raise concerns that kurdish controlled northern iraq could develop with sectarian violence when u.s. troops withdraw sébastien. a dawn raid a race against time to catch militants off guard in the iraqi province of kirkuk we're 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. 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 sort of verge companies who are not worried about it but others mainly the city's non kurds are here in the downtown area around you why would you urge character are you with your own historic claim of that 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 the two thousand and nine field report that was recently leaked by the whistleblower wiki leaks states that

without strong and fair influence likely from a third party these tensions may quickly turn to violence after the u.s. forces withdraw all of this will in terms of security when the u.s. leaves there will be no independent security force right now the security's from the kurdish side of the city this is the truth when the u.s. leaves things will get worse it will be conflicts arabs will stand up and created and we should say with the mail and this will. go after a bit but wars will begin between the girl 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 terrorists missed it appears that despite the gains that the police are making. the american troop withdrawal could easily lead to a return to sectarianism we care cook 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 our two. you're watching us here and still ahead this hour u.s. senators benefiting from inside information when some of us make it seem to be using a little tap takes to plant some that pocket and i'm just a maker to this let's. not be climate for his dad house haven't written a thing global warming theory is just a lot of ad and want some real proof all the details coming out. recently discovered oil reserves in the eastern mediterranean looks set to become the latest point of tension in the troubled middle east at least for major competitors are staking their claim is rose lebanon outside all want to peace but with no clearly defined maritime border is the point could be lengthy and despite unclear border demarcation israel has a right to gain the upper hand and started developing two sites. takes

a closer look at the design deposits. prayer is a long time in coming more than we have been begging for a year a year 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 average 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 natural gas site off the coast of haifa point to potential for billion

barrels of black gold we will be able to buy future. energy. it will be less expensive which is how important. from a political. appointee we will surely we will be less dependent on the. import of foreign oil but it's not only israel lane came to the reserves greek cyprus and lebanon also say the oils there is and while the international law allows a country to drill in the so-called continental shelf of its coast the fact that israel and lebanon have never agreed on maritime boundaries makes it unclear when israel in and lebanon begins i know the club about how its version of think the border line will pass if and when they will have a negotiation i don't know that is what has its own version or the law but what they're not the agreement on whether and because the two countries are enemy states

there's unlikely to be any agreement anytime soon both have threatened to go to war over the issue obviously this is an israeli call. an israeli company. will not be. allowed to enter into lebanese territory or will have any further connection with. a lebanese gas lebanon 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 was the major political actor in lebanon. and strongly supported from. iran and it would seem if we take statements in public positions seriously which we are. really interested from and to really create internal. israel has the upper hand for now it's already struck a deal with cyprus and is preparing to start extraction while lebanon 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 policy r.t. television capitol hill insiders of the you are thought to bear views in their position to make some extra pocket money the wall street journal has reported that many in congress are taking unfair advantage of their knowledge of markets and as artists get education reports it's not even legal. the annual salary of members of the united states congress one hundred seventy four thousand dollars the profit they can make by trading on inside information priceless. a number of u.s. lawmakers and dozens of congress staffers several portably traded thousands of dollars worth of stocks of companies they or their process is wrote last for under

the u.s. law there is no conflict of interest here they're just plain cheating and it's not fair what they're doing currently all u.s. lawmakers and their highest paid staffers have to do is to disclose information once a year on their finances by the analysis of the wall street journal u.s. public servants have been phenomenally successful trading stock at the peak of the wall street crisis senator spencer backus made tens of thousands of dollars betting against the market that he's comedian helps oversee and he's the ranking member on the house committee on financial services. chris miller a top energy policy advisor to the senate majority leader harry reid nearly doubled his bat when his boss helped pass legislation that wander up benefiting the fur after his staff or his name was mentioned in a list of capitol hill stock traders mr reid reprimanded his eight.

course meal on. my attempts to talk to some of those involved were time consuming and unsuccessful. we talk a lot about exporting democracy one of the bedrocks of a successful democracy i believe is freedom from corruption the sense that elected officials are elected to serve the public not to and hence their own wallets or that of their friends or cronies or family congressman brian baird offered a bill that would ban insider trading on capitol hill years ago but the act received the support of phone the nine out of four hundred thirty five members in the house of representatives and none in the senate and in this case you've got. the possibility of making great amounts of money. in ways that are illegal in ways that are hard to detect congressman baird says annual disclosure reports are

not enough to my knowledge there is no human being employed by the congress of the united states who has looked at our financial reports with towards possible conflict of interest now there is no initiative to change the rules for the rest of america it's cheating it's perfectly legal for the country's lawmakers why would they want to change it as it is now a public servant stock market activities are hard to track there are no investigators here on the hill doing that and some believe those senators and staffers who have recently been caught in the spotlight are just the tip of the iceberg. are washington d.c. . let's now take a look at some of the top stories from around the world former president has died suddenly of a heart attack at sixty sending his nation into shock and mourning the husband of current president cristina fernandez has been expected to run again in the next election will be remembered for tackling a devastating economic crisis after taking office in two thousand and three so

years before his wife succeeded him and he also prioritized improving relations with neighboring countries. government have killed fifteen people as a couple in the western mexican city of tape eight the third massacre in the country in less than a week a motive for the unprovoked attack was not immediately clear but no informant official suspects to blame most of the victims were recovering addicts working at the kabul so the owners of the business running nothing in the same town where a man was killed may sound best to gauge whether the two incidents are related. a pakistani born american citizen has been arrested on charges that he carried out surveillance on the washington d.c. metro system in order to organize a terror time. met is accused of working with people he. believed there were members of al qaeda but who were actually u.s. secret agents the f.b.i. claims americans were never in danger says the agents were aware of the man's

activities throughout the u.s. counter-terrorism official said there is no indication that aftermath was ever actually in touch with any real militant group. global warming skeptics in the u.k. have gathered to mark what they've dubbed climate forces day. snow 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 activists claim the ironic coincidence was just more proof that the bill is a waste of billions of taxpayers' pounds one of those doubting thomases is reverend philip foster this is no reason to blame manmade c o two. there's not a particularly dramatic rise in c o two. anywhere carbon dioxide does not affect the climate i think that's a fundamental statement that is the misconnection climate warming alarmists so 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 whether extreme events always take place always have and always will blame them on human emissions is simply. pointless because there is no real connection. russia has the highest rate of youth crime in europe that's according to the world health organization where there are six thousand miners behind bars in special institutions so-called use blain alcohol and parents negligence with a grim statistics are says diapers small. 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 the suspects showing police just what happened when his gang carried out

a brutal murder the main perpetrator would soon join his peers in one of russia's sixty two young offenders institutions across an of has already served more than half of his sentence for committing a racial murder he was a fifteen year old skinhead when both him and his friends at decked a foreign looking youth i saw the guys knife lying next to him i suddenly thought he must have been using this knife to kill russians i stepped into i was given pasta to my three friends each knife to him stabbings account for almost half of the homicides carried out by youngsters in the european and central asian region according to a report 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. a change in psychology morale than 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

our media including television which stories full of blood in russia around five thousand seven hundred miners are currently serving prison terms the majority are either from a one parent family or an orphanage experts say about eighty percent of syria's 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 youth crime this iteration among miners is actually slowly improving the grim statistics among those who are of age talks for itself while many of these young boys hope they'll be able to survive crime free in the future it may be down to those on the other side of the barbed wire to ensure they don't become another those generation gary bush r.t.

moscow. talks bad as expected that money. benefits rather not a grazing the infrastructure of porridge you countries on the other. run an expert in u.k. your relations in our. thoughts

or other and thank you very much for talking to r.t. now first of all tell me how much it costs the u.k. to be a member of the e.u. well that's a both a very important question and a very tricky question to ask and so in the first instance the treasury writes a check to the european union every fortnight to the sum of eight hundred million pounds now that's not the whole picture because that is basically that's the gross contribution so that money comes back as part of the overall net deal over which the treasury has appeared limited so that's not necessarily well spent however. if you factor in the direct and indirect costs associated with you membership the overall bill for business and for the country could be as high as two hundred billion pounds a year the problem is that nobody knows this because there has not been a cost benefit analysis if you or your membership so there's a huge question mark there which taxpayers alliance and other organizations are campaigning to get the answer to where does that money go well

a lot of it doesn't come back into the in. the u.k. because the u.k. is after germany the second largest contributor to the the budget certainly in net terms and along with a small number of northern european countries it's one of the one of the few which are overall net contributors so you could say that a lot of it goes in terms of subsidizing and upgrading the superstructure an infrastructure of eastern and southern europe which from a british taxpayers viewpoint one has to question is a british taxpayer contributing billions of pounds a year effectively to another country is that it's not proper use of taxpayers' money so you're talking about one hundred ten billion euros which is an impossible think athame people to understand what does it mean what would it buy in real terms well let's let's narrow this down a little bit more i mean a hundred hundred ten billion euros is the overall cost including all the regulations and the red tape the cost of the regulations and red tape in this is based on the commission's own statistics the cost of the regulations is put in

terms of the u.k. is greater than the actual value of the trade that it's meant to regulate the second thing is if you just look at the simple physical cost and the membership fee that is the equivalent of forming a chain along appear and dumping a block of gold off the end of it every one hundred seconds. it's a gold ingots every hundred seconds just cast into the watery depths and in terms of schools and hospitals which is something that desperately needs to upgrade what about that now it's about a new hospital every three days i think it pays for the world family in two days i think it's something like every five days is the equipment to repairing every single cathedral in england and when we were doing the research for a book ten years on which is it looks hypothetically where the u.k.

would be indeed any country would it would be were we to leave the european union which is stop breaking down the but the benefits that we could be spending the money on other than into what's basically a financial sinkhole from the u.k. taxpayers point it's just a waste of money isn't it chair less in this sort of global economy to talk about british money for british people well not really because the british taxpayer of course is funding taxes and would naturally expect that the money to be spent on things which are of benefit to themselves i mean it's fundamentally old you know that their money and you talk about a global economy but of course the money isn't going to. say for north america it's a it's a european system it's not a global system so we're short of having a global. economy with the european union if that's what you really like a lot of politicians say that it's just not realistic to mean the e.u. wholesale but you think differently we already have with respect to the european

union about ten different levels of association with the european union you have countries which are full members such as france you have countries which have got certain dr such as the u.k. which is opted out of the single currency you have countries which are part of the you can economic areas such as norway you have countries which have got bilateral trading agreements such as canada and mexico there's even a special form of association for. countries like north korea now i'm not saying we should have a form of association with the year that pyongyang has but we're simply saying if you have ten different ways of of trading and allying in a series cheating with with the source and the opinion there's a mechanism in there somewhere which is appropriate for any country and it doesn't have to be for membership we live in a world they don't we which is essentially dominated by superpowers the united states russia china and india don't this smaller countries of the european union need each other well absolutely not it's good that we're cooperating where we want

to cooperate it's good that we're trading we're going to where we want to trade let's not kid ourselves i mean the european union is in the big picture it's big it's it's in danger of becoming a school or take part of the world the voicing economies in the world of obviously in the far east india china and also you know brazil indonesia and other places now rather than linking ourselves too closely with one part of the of the world trading system which is decreasing in importance the u.k. or any european country should be more about being involved in a more proactive free trade across the whole the world war than becoming part of a regional association which is risks becoming a pretext reproduction is look what we're seeing in europe at the moment is the degree of social unrest in response to the austerity measures because of the debt crisis do you see that impacting not just on the same but on the european union as a political entity yeah and the sad thing is it was something that you were skeptics who warning about even while the euro zone was being created we were

saying that if you're going to be creating a currency union then you have to have a full economic union in order to whether these the shocks and you have to have a model so that where there is an asymmetric shock in one part of the the. basically you can have the larger most on unemployed. you have to move from one part of the country to the other or you have large amounts of financial reserves which are able to support the idea. a couple of examples which your viewers might be familiar with in the u.k. you have for instance you have a single currency oh it's called a pound. and if liverpool is in recession what happens is because there is social mobility in the u.k. people from liverpool are going to find a job in manchester or down in london or whatever and also you have a central government which pays part of the tax revenue into the pool in order to

we generated now people accept that because there is this sense of of a democrats the sense of common citizenship in a sort of sharing together you don't get in the you thank you very much thank you. dave. these are the images. from the. operations or. the.

well i gather this is all secret so live from the headlines. the mines out all boundaries small suppose pushing a laser to consider a plant in the badlands a ministry presence in eastern european states which have joined since the collapse of the soviet union it comes ahead of a landmark russian nation summit in lisbon next month where the gratian of a single missile defense system for the airlines and on the security of a center stage. cancer made high kurdish controlled northern the wrong with theistic terror and violence with the run up to his less troops leave the region exposed the wiki leaks server links to secret u.s. files showing widespread torture and beginning has also highlighted some violence

between husband and son. israel's recent discovery of oil and gas reserves of them it's arabian fuels need an attention of the indians cyprus and lebanon and he with whom it's rather a race in the south ready for a job all slave labor is to the rich field disputes other maritime borders to the main trouble ahead. and there's the headlines our interview shows spotlight is coming up that spent a day at host al good no speaks with a russian justice minister a liaison the kind of olive about president dmitri medvedev search for all the countries penal system.