high tech spy network so in this story we're waiting for some of these other details when photos indeed it is thought that a lot of those things will come out fairly steady and it'll be interesting to see how it's the situation is handled and whether it will in fact take its lead from the way that the situation was handled in the summer since situation president mikheil saakashvili came to power in two thousand and four the relations between russia and georgia really started quite dramatically at that point that culminated in the south the search in war in two thousand and eight where juta attacks in russia was close respond to protect this distance in southeast texas i know it's not actually the first time that there has been a spy scandal involving children and russia in two thousand and six full russian officials were arrested and accused of being spies and they were eventually released back to russia that's certainly didn't help relations the situation and again as this thing with this story is certainly not going to help the situation

between the two sides the tensions that have remained at the many years especially since the two thousand and eight war. reporting that well let's discuss this new spy scandal with dr. he's a political analyst from the people's friendship university of russia thank you very much indeed for joining us in. the twenty. people should these allegations be taken seriously do you think. get this information and i see it is. because they are trying to do war. people. looking for new. information it's the only.

people. say deed exactly. what. external relations you're talking about domestic situation and russia we know that relations between russia and georgia have been far from good. a war in two thousand and eight do you think perhaps this scandal is aimed at making the situation relations between the two again. international organization as it. started. to explain to people. becoming more and more they are now looking for. this new.

new. publication so you're talking about provocation how should russia react because clearly. this is a provocation towards russia. people . or russia. people only existing regime but in any case the russian government is trying to. do the condition and you know the last time. but it's a phone. problem a because they won't do it to me. because this. russian and.

you know why. it means that. russia is doing only. we're also seeing that obviously russia is improving its relations with nato and of course georgia was a stumbling block and that is still a stumbling block between the two do you think perhaps this is another reason perhaps improvement in relations between russia and. you know the last time russia also improved. relations with the united states and nato. georgian government. becoming.

united states leaders. to have such. good. to have the good relations with russia because part of the reason the. united states to fight against terrorism and why i think. you'll be. a mix. states and russia. joining us live in moscow thanks very much indeed for joining us we appreciate your time and of course we'll be keeping up to date on this breaking news story throughout the day thank you. russian and u.s. special forces have conducted the first of a major joint operation against drug producers in afghanistan destroying four labs and seizing almost a ton of heroin russia's top anti-drug and forces says moscow and washington can only tackle the. trade if they work together and in

a going to school has the details. in a puff of smoke. for drug producing labs in the mountains on the border between afghanistan and pakistan more than a ton of heroin and morphine destroyed in the process this is rushing nato working together closer than ever before in a first ever joint operation on a grand scale it's courtney's laboratories in the mountainous area near the pakistan border after we gave information to our u.s. and afghan partners the three sides plan the operation for three months we used about seventy special forces units three landing helicopters and six supporting ones the whole operation lasted less than four hours as we discovered and destroyed for drug producing labs and seized more than nine hundred kilos of heroin it took russia nato and afghan anti-drug forces three months to organize the joint operation and only three hours to carried out the estimated value of drugs

destroyed a quarter of a billion dollars and about two hundred million single doses of heroin rushes to close to ghana stand for comfort and has been asking for help from international organizations in fighting drug trafficking across the border an influx of opium leads to an exponential increase in the number of drug users and the profit from the drug trade is said to go to sponsor international terrorists who threaten russia's southern regions here's a statistic say thirty thousand people die from drug use every year predominantly young people i think it's important to realize the growth of the drug trade has grown to forty four times since the beginning of the u.s. led operation in afghanistan and we must remember that a u.n. mandate. exists coalition forces to counteract drug trafficking. or maybe that's approaching but russian leader relations seem to be only now heating up officials on both sides said that joint efforts seem to be the true relaunch of relations in

action and hope that this is the beginning of the end for out drug trafficking in the coast guard c. moscow. we can discuss the developments with a political analyst from the moscow state university relations joining us thanks very much indeed for being with us here in russia and nato have shown that it is possible to fight together against the drugs trade in afghanistan so why hasn't this been done. well that is controversial first of all nato was not was not really committed to fight crime see nothing to stop nato and the united states will war kmita the fight. but also drive and drive usually was never the right word to pull them from russia on the controversy bryan. and then know when they decided that they want the final goal they sent to my house rushing to get. my friend made being raided to take the

drug world and seriously and russia became. well you know and to drugs politics in afghanistan has really been a very well the main source of contention between russia and nato with this operation in afghanistan the u.s. said that they are not going to eliminate poppy fields as it's sometimes the only source of income for farmers do you think that policy could change. i think that the united states and nato countries they are under pressure from russia and from other neighbors over. the fountain about. growing. well this is not going to stop however i must be there right now in the united states really a radio. to eliminate world for this they are a good little farm up there a front row when you go down field for the book but not the growth of the real and

then the nation and run yes russia would like nevertheless to lead the us isn't doing what the russian would like to let scale there is definitely this is indicative of cooperation between the two now we thought in the last couple of days that russia may provide training to afghan police and also military helicopters to nato so all we know seeing i mean so full here this recent example of how this recent operation of how the two can really live together in a constructive way. well i think yes we will see this there were examples of cooperation also before but i think that what we call a restart in the russian and american relations yes this corporation. and probity both sides want this cooperation more and i would stress that it becomes quite practical from what we can see from this example over the may tend. to be a good. bowl of drugs that in this operation what would become quite practical

that's one practical example we've got the the nato summit coming up which the russian president will attend what are the practical ways tangible ways do you see the two for us right now. besides our biggest on across issues of europe and security a new european free yeah on the security on the phone finance and missile defense this very well be sure that they jammed the gridlock. and you see major agreements coming out of this so forth coming some ways or just another the pulse towards the cooperation do you see anything major happening perhaps. well i am not afraid of the saying right now but i think that. besides political decisions . to be done by decades the left shoulder brushing the cold practically teachers like the child or even very interested here would have

a say in this going on in this from the moscow state university of international relations joining us live and we thank you. well coming your way this hour here on. her somehow managed to push. so he. finds party looks into what's caused. some people's close encounters with. in this case wild russians. that story still to come but first the european union has bowed to the demands of its heavyweight members who've grown weary of paying for the mistakes of the smaller nations at a summit in brussels they've agreed to change the current workings of the bailout system become short of the tough punishments for overspend as proposed by germany which paid dearly to rescue greece from its crisis and its. face is what's turned out to be the u.k.'s pass into the realms of financial security because

those who face the changes to the lisbon treaty adopted controversially less than a year ago they want countries that have fiscally irresponsible and a prominent. funds to bail these countries out when they do get into trouble. in germany to once a pay the price of the country it was the money management again. where your. so there you are created with this economic block a trading block. a very powerful bloc of crises if the individual member states who have to pick up the pieces and. they meet. but this is the euro skeptics say the reason it's not working is because it's fundamentally flawed the economies in the eurozone differ so much it's impossible

to have a common monetary policy and it's the strong soffits germany particularly take the lion's share into a seven hundred fifty billion euro fund to bail out greece earlier this year it was a move that was opposed by more than half of all german chancellor angela merkel now says she couldn't do that again without risking action from the constitutional court in germany in theory changes to the lisbon treaty would mean individual countries would be able to hold a referendum on whether to stay in the e.u. but there's increasing your a skepticism relating to the cost of being in the e.u. and the benefits involved if countries did hold a vote it's not a total clear what would remain of the union. from the. one changes to the treaty the too small to be considered a success. the commission and the the council seem to be suggesting that although

there's a treaty change it's considered to be a minor treaty change bearing in mind that the last change with respect to the m.e.p. numbers adding a few more days to the numbers that was achieved by a short meeting held in brussels without recourse to any referendum i'm not sure to what extent there is going to be a sort of a massive treaty change at the still a lot of play for because the the commission is going away and the various governments are chipping into a process when we actually see a series of proposals coming out next summer and then after that there's another two year century not the two years before the the the change the treaty or fight so there's still a lot to play for but i think if you look at how the economic and monetary union was put together and you compare that with how. fragile currencies such as in the states in the nineteenth century and equally in germany how they were put together you can see how there's a long process where power is constantly going towards the center i think this is

just one small step in that i think there's a lot more to come yet don't forget we've got much more for you on our website is r.t. dot com including top videos blogs forums and and or is it's all there is a quick look at what might catch your eye today if you log on you know giving away the bride without telling the father korean newspaper reports that putin's daughter is set to get married to a korean suitor something prime minister's spokesman says simply isn't true. move over muscovites humans in the russian capital are now outnumbered by a certain four legged friend by about thirty five to one. for all the details on this story more had to r.t. dot com. it's one of the enduring myths about russia hungry bears roaming the streets but

now there could actually be some truth in it but natural food supplies twenty ling this year many wild animals have headed into tells in search of a meal peter oliver has more than a bear's necessities. the bear one of the iconic images of russia recently though the relationship between these animals and the people who live alongside them has been less than kordell the searing heat empires which swept through russia this summer at the storied much of the bear's winter food supply forcing them to search for alternatives in these russian city of sifted carter clinton six year old man had a very little escape he was attacked by a band right in the center of the city the man was bitten in the neck realizes how fortunate he was there although i still can't understand how i escaped death or somehow managed to push the animal away so he felt crushing a finance. elsewhere in the city there was a little more carbons and involving a bear while visiting a cemetery two women saw what they believed to be

a large man crouching on a grave as they got closer they realized that it was in fact that there was a dug up of body feeding on the women screen scared beyond the way it's at least a hundred turns to guard cemetery and still far school there has been no sign of the banks that so we had the situation under control. it's not just the fumin residents that have had some close encounters with bears airport c.c.t.v. caught this guard dog having to run for its life after drawing the attention of an inquisitive bear it another story we were told that the bear came from the direction of the tongue the dog attacked it tried to smother the dog the dog got away and started leading of the bear way from the grass a lot of it almost certainly bears have also taken to attacking livestock as a source of food in the year kamensky district of central russia hunters had to be employed to protect cattle in some cases humans made. themselves would be is

strongly recommended not to try and defeat the animals in order to get phones who opportunity so those incidents of contact between humans and increase around rush hour at this time of year it's important that we respect these iconic creatures so as not to become the next victim of bear attack peter all of a r.t. brief look now at some of today's other stories before stephanie joins us with the business news several cargo planes being grounded us over fears they've got explosive devices on board the plane to be taken to remote locations at newark and philadelphia airports to be searched according to several officials these investigations were prompted by a suspicious device found in the cargo plane touching down in the u.k. . following a powerful tsunami in indonesia has now reached four hundred people another three hundred still missing and bad weather is hampering rescue operations survivors are having to live in makeshift camps out of the house as we watch the way the giant waves many others are being treated in hospital among them a two month old orphan who was recklessly pulled alive from the drain.

recap of our main stories in about eight minutes from now in the meantime as promised the latest business news with stephanie coming up next. to the business bulletin the russian government has unveiled its general plan to develop the oil industry and till two thousand and twenty it focuses on maintaining extraction at current levels but the extra investment this will require maybe at the expense of government support for a finance. reports. taught me if spent five and a half billion dollars to build the state of the art oil refinery in central russia the refining official sell this complex is unique for russia to seven per cent of all the crude the the rife's here is turned into a usable product with only three per cent waste analysts warn however such

expensive projects may stop making economic sense if the government increases x. producing on refined products up to ninety per cent of the tax on crude. from you are all safe says the government is thinking about the conscious deficit and which areas of the oil industry and its most wants to develop they just might be looking for this sector that it's not yet tax and taxed enough and not this generates income so what they seeing with observing is that there's the. lack of cash for investment in the upstream so perhaps the shift. from segment at the moment the average x. producer on refined products such as patch oil and kerosene is about fifty five percent off that on crude the prime minister says the rabbi two hundred fifty two refineries in russia producing a very low quality product bought to making a lot of money on prisoner and tional taxation putin wants the government to

introduce a new tax regime for the oil sector by the end of this year but analysts warn against an indiscriminate price for refiners the best way to turn courage complex refining seconder to pasture would probably be to increase its life so that companies that are producing too much heavy fuel oil would penalised the biggest problem for the oil sector is the lack of new oil field projects and the massive on their investment in the construction the government wants to ensure there is no tailing off in the country's crude output even if that is done at the expense of refiners that channel but if the business are to. staying with the energy sector russia will increase supplies to poland by as much as forty percent following the signing of a new agreement after nearly two years of negotiations i'm legal delay's the deal has been sealed the outline of the contract was agreed in january this year but it

then faced a long process to comply with european antitrust law under the new arrangement poland will be able to import over ten billion cubic meters of gas a year as opposed to seven and a half billion in the previous country. the price of russian gas for ukraine may be around two hundred thirty dollars for one thousand cubic meters in the first quarter of next year the announcement came from the ukrainian prime minister after his meeting with vladimir putin however says this is not the final decision and the two sides are still in talks and. we have an existing contract of course which defines the current price and is corrected every quarter depending on how the price for oil products changes so those valuations that i mentioned at different times are no way contradict each other they simply mirror the current situation so no new agreements regarding the price of gas have been made right now all the talk is about what the price could be according to the price calculation in the contract

but you should talk to him and you can watch the full version of that interview with spokesman on the spot like next week. now let's have a quick look at how the equity markets are performing european stocks minister just dipping into the red on friday against me tell us the sector failed to offset falls in basic resources and british airways down three and a half percent close. and u.s. stocks are mixed on friday the technology sector is lending some support u.s. economic growth rose slightly in the third quarter in line with expectations but not enough to end investors expectation of that money actually using from the federal reserve. and russian x two markets finished high on friday here in moscow the r.t.s. will raise enough money so just. who into positive territory my six games more than one percent and you may just not support had losses on the my sex two percent higher. refinancing rate

unchanged at seven point seven five percent for the fifth straight month. weakening consumer demand and uncertain prospects in the global economy posed other dressings for growth. hasn't bennett says there was no room to cut rates but. i will support it because they go for very serious years on. the budgetary problems still there. for the budget station the soft i would say. so i guess they could be here at the. business use now but of course you can do a spinal business stories if you go to our website. slash business.

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breaking news this hour naughty there are reports that twenty people have been arrested in georgia for allegedly spying for russia reuters news agency quotes a source in the georgian interior ministry saying all twenty georgian citizens. united they fight russian and u.s. forces wipe out a ton of afghan heroin and destroy in the first joint operation. says moscow and washington can only tackle the afghan narcotics trade if they continue working together. leaders of the blocs heavyweights. financial mistakes and agree to amend this been treaty to come as the measures include

punishing those members that overspend and creating a stash. comes true as really wandering the streets of russia. their winter food supplies to destroy a grave concerns about the choice of human remains as part of the it's. the weekend here in the russian capital takes on a tour of haunted special weekend edition. looking for creative ways to celebrate halloween here in moscow.