actual high tech spy network so in this story we're waiting for some of these other details will close indeed is that a lot of those things will come out. and it'll be interesting to see how it the situation is handled and whether it will in fact take its lead in the way that the situation was handled in the summer since the jews in 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 coleman eight in the south the certain war in two thousand and eight which tied to russia was forced to respond to protect is this 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 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 that's a reporter sarah firth in moscow and the deputy of the russian state duma a member of the national security committee you're not a good coffee told r.t. that russia simply doesn't need a spy ring in georgia. this looks like another of george's internal political battles and russia is used as the bogeyman as usual russia doesn't need to spy network in georgia it would be a waste of resources russian officials can get information in georgia without leaving their desks there's a massive georgian diaspora here in russia strong close to homeland so there's absolutely no need for in the us to gather intelligence is obviously nothing more than part of georgia's internal politics. we can discuss this with dr. from the moscow based think tank the institute of world economy and international

relations joining us there in central moscow. what do you make of these reports from georgia. it is very difficult now to say anything unfair because the information was not confirmed. by bar georgian side no a by a russian side so it will take time to see how the development will take place in any case i think though that may be really interpreted as. breaking news on the eve of the weekend nevertheless let's still speculate here we know of course just this past summer there was a so-called spy scandal threatening russia u.s. relations and it calls obviously quite a stir in the international media and it turned out that those agents didn't get hold of any secret information do you think this could be a copycat campaign if it is true maybe. based on not us experience.

well in fact i think. this is a sort of a form of political for good or for much of making news maybe a raising profile of the georgian side you know it can be compared to the scandal that took place in summer. between russia and the united states in fact there was nothing in substance in it. i would rather. there is nothing secret that russian officials cannot know sitting in moscow. but as a media tool is a lever that may be useful media tool publication boy the georgian authorities. a reason another reason behind this is some people say that georgia has recently been accused of human rights abuses could perhaps this be an initiative. this goal is perhaps the arrest is actually a crackdown on the opposition maybe it's something

a message the government wants to give the georgian government wants to give to his opposition. in general the position of the ruling the regime in georgia in the world in international affairs. losing in power and. the opposition in georgia is extremely active their active in russia they have very actively in the west in the united states and europe and. the regime of saakashvili does not feel safe and they use any possible tool again even in their struggle against a position which still is not consolidated body is getting in more and more this could also have implications could on foreign affairs where we've recently seen a significant improvement in russia with the u.s. and nato georgia of course has been a stumbling block between the two. do you think perhaps this could be aimed at

undermining this gradual improvement in relations between nato and russia. i very much hope. the environment of the president of saakashvili. and seeing him in particular such examples as russian polish in. really know this to represent money in general between russia and the united states russia and the west in general russian nato i do not think that so well there is scandals or anything of that sort i can seriously be regarded by by the ruling elite as is a possibility to diminish the weight of russia in the world affairs or to spoil relations between russia and the west in fact there may have adverse effect just finally how do you think more scotia be reacting to this latest development if there is substance in it how should it should should react to this. was still have

again i have to repeat the confirmation of the information there was no. confirmation but even ether it is confirmed even is going to firmed i really can cannot imagine the words fresh air what moscow official moscow can undertake now because the relations between official relations between russia and georgia are not zero they are below zero they are minus in. there to only means that that will take another time more time for them to improve it in a complex guy very interesting to hear what you have to say we appreciate your time political analyst from the moscow based institute of world economy and international relations thanks for joining us there in moscow. thank you. 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 but it comes short of the tough punishments for overspend as proposed by germany which paid dearly to rescue greece from its crisis ortiz nor emmett's has. this is what's turned out to be the u.k.'s postes into the realms of financial security because those who are using this arguing for changes to the lisbon treaty adopted controversially less than a year ago they won't punish them and for countries that are fiscally irresponsible and a permanent centralised funds to bail those countries out when they do get into trouble essentially france and germany don't want to pay the price for other countries irresponsible money management ever again as they did earlier this year where your in all the. so there you are creator of this economic block a trading bloc a very powerful bloc where when there's a crisis it is the individual member states who have to pick up the pieces and.

the elites who run 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 paid 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 germans 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 yuri 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. reporting there in london well to discuss european politics we're joined by. the e.u. referendum campaign in the u.k. good to see you thanks for joining us now in your campaigning for a referendum on whether britain should stay in the e.u. why shouldn't it stay in the. show you're breaking up i can hear that could you say that again for your campaigning for a referendum for me yes in britain to stay in the e.u. why shouldn't it stay in the. no we're campaigning for a referendum and basically we just want the british people to have a choice to either state or get out three leaders of each other would give us that opportunity tony blair was a manifesto commitment then gordon brown and then david cameron when he was in opposition there was a cast on guarantee you would have a referendum we haven't had it that's an affront to democracy and the mess that is happening in europe over the last couple of days just proves there's a major problem with there the european union superstate and we at the e.u.

referendum campaign are demanding our democratic rights we want to have a vote on whether we stay in or get out that's what we're asking for but i get the sense that you really would want to get out wouldn't you. that i would like to get out what well i've never told anyone in my career which way to jump which way to vote what i feel that we need when it's costing us forty eight million pounds a day in the u.k. and our prime minister today who had the backbone just spine of a blown moan and gave away another four hundred million pounds of our money i don't think is due a lot to a democratic mandate to do that we need a referendum on the view and then people must make their own decisions but have a qualified thorough debate and people make their own decisions if they want to stay in or get out because generally only mess of the moment but vote on david cameron some would say was strong and he saved the u.k. taxpayer i'm paying even more in some ways assertions that actually gave the u.k.

a very strong voice and it prevented further budgets being asked from the u.k. by the e.u. come on that there was more spin than a washing machine assembly line he basically told us that he was going to say was the law he knew he couldn't do that he knew the minimum it after pay is the true point nine billion pound commitment because there was no way out of it and that's what's happened today he's trying to spin it that he saved the other four percent garbage absolute garbage and i'm worried as well there's been some dodgy deal done with the germans and the french so that there isn't a referendum on the changes that they want to the lisbon treaty as well this is an affront to democracy not just for you case it's but for germans and french and the other twenty seven countries in the european union we need a referendum and i hope the irish take them to the court not to sort of you've been rubbing your hands with glee then when we see a lot of this intense internal debate over the bailing out of weak economies obviously a lot of dissent between some of the major players would you rather then see the

whole or do you think this perhaps could be the beginning of the end of the european union. yeah it is the beginning of the end of the euro is crashing and burning thank goodness we never joined the single currency we now have a secure. mother's right on the street in athens parish we've also had riots of course in barcelona in parts of spain and of course now the germans and the french don't want to bail out these so-called pig economies and one can understand why the german people are upset one can understand why angela merkel wants to renegotiate the lisbon treaty but hold on a minute my friend they took ten years to negotiate that and we were told if there are any more changes cameron said it only three weeks ago and so did william hague our foreign secretary that there be a so-called e.u. locked up and we in the e.u. referendum campaign dot com we said that was pathetic we said that it was just a shop we've been proved right we need a full referendum should we stated well should we go and out of the europeans all

over the block to have the same referendum put. a tag on this political elite now out of church who are the people on the street the people who are really suffering in this age of austerity or let me just ask you one thing in the turbulent times we've seen this in the greek crisis in fact the eurozone survived they're now saying this the euro will strengthen this latest summit they've had to introduce the new crisis mechanism there's a lot of positive thought that's exactly what a unit should be doing getting together sorting out the problems and moving forward even the saying this is a tool a mechanism to fight the crisis that's what a union is all about isn't it and that's why the unit has survived. no one has survived will it survive until you my friend in the lisbon treaty look at the irish situation there were the first to take them to court clearly states in the constitution if there's any changes to the lisbon treaty there has to be a referendum of the people don't forget ireland's really have to referendums they can't send them back to the gave the right answer to satisfy the political elite

i'm saying in this way age of austerity that has nothing to do with the working man we didn't cause the problem it was the bankers a lot tribulations by politicians right across the eurozone we don't fit in our understand well we have to feel the pain for that and it's obvious the german people feel the same way which is why angela merkel is trying to change as i've been treated now what i'm saying if you want to change it you've got to have a referendum and very confident now that referendum will come we had a poll out of iran while ago it was empty five percent of the u.k. population want a referendum seventy five percent why one of the political elite gives it what are they scared of i'll tell you what they're scared of the ordinary man and woman on the street who pay for their extravagance they don't need a two point nine billion pound rice they need to be cut back and cut back to size because it's rich nations like the u.k. and france and germany that are paying for this expensive party you make a persuasive argument thank you very much indeed john golems for joining us to her you're invited me it's a pleasure to talk to you thanks very much hell of

a referendum campaign in the u.k. thank you for joining us a lot thank you. well let's have a quick look now at some of today's other stories a major security sweep is underway in the u.s. and u.k. over fears a bombs being planted amongst cargo several planes have been grounded and a suspicious package is being investigated in new york the planes have been taken to remote locations at newark and philadelphia airports to be searched according to several officials investigations were prompted by a suspicious device found in a cargo hold in the u.k. . north and south korean soldiers in exchange far across their border that's according to south korean officials who claim some of its troops were hurt the incident comes two weeks ahead of a g. twenty summit in seoul there's been no response from north korea as yet. russian and u.s. special forces that conducted the first ever 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 afghan narcotics trade if they work together. 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 rounds as we discovered and destroyed for drug producing labs and seized more than nine hundred 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 it. billion dollars and about two hundred million single doses of heroin made in the united states will walk a man to go fight in front of them but not the drive and drive issue was never the top priority for them in russia on the controversy brian thought prioritize the feel and then know when they decided that they want the final budget they set up by not rushing to get the russians to close to get a sense of comfort and has been asking for help from international organizations in fighting drug trafficking across the border and the 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 statistics 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 which orders coalition forces to counteract drug trafficking is that they should get a winter maybe thoughts 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 outgunned drug trafficking in the coast guard c. moscow. let's take for the moment stephanie we're here with all the latest business news that's in just a few moments stay with us here. for the full stop we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. wealthy british style it's time to. go.

to. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy is a report on our. hello and welcome to the business bulletin russia will increase gas supplies to poland by as much as forty percent following the signing of a new agreement after nearly two years of negotiations are 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 deputy prime minister igor sechin said the talks in warsaw also included agreements in other areas of the energy sector. in the power industry we plan to export russian electricity to poland we've offered partners to participate in constructing

a baltic nuclear power plant but the shareholders and in other forums isso informed us about the privatization of some oil assets that would take place in the near future and we agreed that russian companies would be able to participate in this. the price of russian gas for ukraine and maybe 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 god's promise says this is not the final decision on the two sides are still in talks. we have an existing contract of course which the for. the current price and it's corrected every quarter depending on how the price for oil products changes so those valuations that i mentioned are different times or 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 if you talk

to him and you can watch the full version of the interview with gazprom spokesman on spotlight next week one of the world's top auto parts suppliers has a plant its fifth plant in russia how does america is ramping up production here as more foreign carmakers are expanding their operations but as medina a question of reports the relative lack of locally produced components is putting the brakes on the russian auto industry. dashboards bomb paris the radiator grills and other components that's what this newly built plan and the kaluga region will produce and more importantly that's what the fast recovering russian call market lacks at the moment the kaluga plant is just one of the serious of russian projects run by magna in late september the canadian company also announced the opening of three plants in simpy does that the total investment into the cooper project top seventy four million euros the plunge will manufacture components from false

backing renal and try and force certain products. but they're all for a big. part so you still have to import. data for example from from from outside. pretty sure that this will change over time experts say this year global top production could exceed pre-crisis levels with seventeen million vehicles rolling off the assembly lines russia will controversy about one point seven million to about total by twenty eleven for many of us are simply a sample hand rather than build from scratch the biggest bottleneck for production in russia is the lack of so some compliance plenty of manufacturing plants but the source of supply of world class quality components is pretty limited and a lot of the plants that are being set up

a store importing the vast majority of components so now the big question really to consolidate the restoration of the russian car industry the growth potential of the russian car market is such that x. prize believes more foreign manufacturers will be looking to set up joint ventures with domestic phones but asked the industry here expands some changes in the manufacturing process need to be arming analysts say russia needs to produce more high quality national to. ponens if it's to fulfill its potential asked a base for foreign comic minds in the question of business on reaching. russian equity markets finished high on friday in moscow the r.t.s. it managed to just pull into positive territory the my six gained more than one percent and as you may just let support and banks had their losses on the my sex was two percent higher at close. russia central bank has left its key refinancing

rate unchanged at seven point seven five percent for the fifth consecutive month gresini said weakening consumer demand and uncertain prospects in the global economy post added risk for growth however offered by president says there was no room for further great cuts i would support it because they come from very serious years of inflation. of the budgetary problems. for the budget station the soft i would say. from. my viewpoint so we're going to stick so i guess they could be here at that. and that's the business news for now but of course you can always find most stories if you log on to our website that's our team dot com slash business.

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you just joined is a very warm welcome this is all to live in moscow top stories now there are reports that twenty people have been arrested in georgia for allegedly spying for russia which is news agency quotes a source in the georgian interior ministry saying all twenty one georgian citizens . you know today fight russian and u.s. forces wipe out a ton of afghan heroin and destroy it for laughs in their first ever joint operation russia's top anti driving forces says moscow and washington can only talk only. strayed if they. working together. and you need to give way to the mall and to the blokes heavyweights tired of paying for all this financial mistakes and agree to amend the lisbon treaty to avert economic collapse new

measures including punishing those members overspend and creating a plain out stash. with more developments more news in less than half an hour from now in the meantime we follow a quest for the truth undertaken by the parents of a u.s. soldier whose death was blamed on drug abuse but turned out to be caused by a medicine prescribed by his superiors that's in a special report next. what was it like being on the base finally you know i think. the guy who was. very nice guy took me to are true.