the state department reports a detail human rights abuses including kidnapping and assault and there are growing concerns that we've also heard commentators say that the tension certainly created with russia is actually a tactic of georgian leadership so we can hear more now from the state duma deputy again it's a good calls about this unfolding story. for them what this looks like you know there are of georgia's internal political battles in russia. when russia doesn't need responding. would be waste of resources russian officials young get all the information in georgia without leaving their desks. spirit here in russia which is wrong towards the homeland so there's absolutely no need for any one message to their intelligence which will be nothing more than political georgism to a new policies. of from the fact that these twenty people have been taken there are few exact details on the story at the moment but of course already reminiscent of

the spy saw good that we saw unfold in the summer a recap on the details of that situation we saw at ten russian people in the u.s. . accused of spying as you know it was very interesting about that case was that as the details unfolded they were more was that what you would hear from old school spy novel situations such as using invisible nk and certainly it was thought no real substantial date so important dates are ever really acquired that we saw as well the sensationalization in the media of a lot of those facts and people like anna chapman who was one of the russian people in the u.s. becoming a very very well known indeed if not situation so it's not known at this point whether this is perhaps a tool of a certain there are a lot of similarities in this case already and a lot of children and russian commentators picking up on this fact you can hear now from political. and less about the similarities.

it's can be compared to. that took place in summer between russia and the united states in fact there was nothing in substance in it but a media tool is a lever that may be useful there are enough police collateralised detailing the similarities of this case now that was resolved very quickly they despise us what's in the case in the sun and with the minimum the fuss intention will kill it should now be following the lead from that case in the summer it's not known yet but suddenly with two countries whether such a history of tension remains to be seen how the story will unfold talking about the relations between georgia russia history of tension can you just remind us how they have become so silent absolutely well since the georgian president mikhail cyclists came to power in two thousand and four the situation between russia and georgia

really deteriorated very substantially that culminated in the war the south the cesspool in two thousand and eight which had ties and russia was forced to response to protect its citizens now so we know that there is that history of tension it's not actually the first time that a spice of this type has happened between georgia and russia we know that in march of this good to military offices and a georgian system to russian military institute assistant were given a lengthy prison sentences when they were found to be spying for the tbilisi and in two thousand and six for military offices if you were caught spying in georgia and in that case they were sent back to russia but they really did was sometimes it's not situation must recalled its ambassador and certainly not coming back from that so as we started the case as it unfolds in this time i will remain to be seen whether the tensions he was. and again thanks very much indeed that's our first

reporting from central moscow. russian and u.s. special forces have 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 and driving forces says moscow and washington can only tackle the afghan narcotics trade if they work together well it is going to scar 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 the school these laboratories were in the mountainous area near the pakistan border after we gave information to our u.s. and afghan partners the three sides planned 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 we discovered and destroyed four drugs should you see lamps 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 made the united states will hold more committed to fighting them but not the drug i found drug asia was never the top priority for them from russia on the controversy brian thought prioritize the show and them now when they decided that they want the final budget they said i have rushing to get that russia's too 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 profits from the drug trade is said to go to sponsor international terrorists who threaten russia's southern regions using statistics say thirty thousand people die from drug use every year predominantly young people i think it's important to realize the group 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 to ship it all winter maybe that's approaching but russian leaders relations seem to be only now heating up this is on both sides said that joint efforts seem to be the truth we want our relations in action and hope that this is the beginning of the end for out and drug trafficking in the coast guard c. moscow and my colleague spoke with afghan parliament member diode sultanzoy who says although this operation could be held a success broader efforts in needed to win the fight against drugs we should not

look at it as an afghan problem it's a global problem requires a multi-pronged multitrack approach that would require the russian and the european and american cooperation not only in afghanistan but also outside afghanistan to interdict trafficking to dry up the chemical precursors that come from chemical companies in the world and to also track down the banking systems that launder money and also taking money to the rest of the war of the trafficking is a more rote lucrative business than cultivation for afghanistan to be able to join this war and succeed in this war of being scare we have to find alternative crops and alternative livelihood for these farmers who are cultivating these things because of poverty not because they're making a lot of money that money's made elsewhere and europe and beyond but so it seems like you're shifting the blame away from afghanistan. saying it's the rest of the

world that has a drug problem tell me this how is it then that ninety percent of the world's opium comes from afghanistan who's to blame. i think of the ninety percent of the opium that comes from afghanistan finds its markets are elsewhere so there's a demand that's why their supply we are just pretty cultivating poppies in this country but. heroin goes to europe and america because there is demand we have to. stop pointing fingers at each other we have to look at the problem as a global problem not just an afghan problem that's what i'm saying i'm not trying to dodge the blame from afghanistan but i'm saying that we have to look at it as a bigger problem so. well still to come here. i still can't understand how we're going to be somehow managed to push the animal away so he finds we're looking towards cause them unusual and rather than dangerous

increase in people's close encounters with the third kind in this case while the russian bear. story still to come first the european union has battled to the demands of its heavyweight members who've grown weary of paying for the mistakes of the smaller nations summit in brussels they've agreed to change the current workings of the bailout system but it comes short of the tough punishments for overspenders proposed by germany which paid dearly to rescue greece from its crisis parties more and it has more. 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 want punishments 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 to other countries irresponsible money management ever again as they did earlier this year

where your in all dues so there you are creative of this economic block a trading block. a very powerful block where when there's a crisis it is the individual member states who have to pick up the pieces and slowly dawned on the elites who run the orders 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 who've suffered 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 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 tool clear what would remain of the union. more and that that will go into his head of the e.u. referendum campaign in the u.k. and he believes being part of the e.u. club has had a devastating impact on the british economy. it's costing us forty eight million pounds a day in the u.k. and our prime ministers today who had the backbone just spine of a blown moan and gave away another four hundred million pounds of our money out of figures do all got a democratic mandate to do that we need a referendum on the football and david cameron some would say was strong and he saved the u.k. taxpayer even. 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 come on that there was more spin than a washing machine assembly line he basically told us that he was going to save us the lot he knew he couldn't do that he knew the minimum wage have to 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 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 keisha but for germans and french under the twenty seven countries in the european union polite society if you've been rubbing your hands with glee then 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 the euro is crashing and burning thank goodness we never joined the single currency we now have a situation where there's rice 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 or let me just ask you one thing in the turbulent times we've seen that in the greek crisis in fact the eurozone survived they're now saying 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 the unions all about isn't it and that's why the unit has survived so who has survived will it survive i'm saying initial age of austerity that has nothing to do with the working man we didn't cause the problem it was the bankers

a lot regulations by politicians right across as you wrote 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 on very confident now that referendum will come we had a poll out this year and while it was empty five percent of the u.k. population want a referendum seventy five percent why when 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. talking to me a little earlier here on r.t. and don't forget we've got a lot more for you on our web site you can see the interview in full there of course on r.t. dot com including top videos blogs forums and galleries is

a quick look at what might catch a ride date in the way the bride without telling a korean newspaper reports that putin's daughter is set to get married to a korean suitor something the prime minister's spokesman says simply isn't true. also online move over muscovites humans in the russian capital are now outnumbered by a certain four legged friend thirty five to one for the details of that story and more had to r.t. dot com. it's one of the enduring myths about russia hungry bears roaming the streets but now that could actually be some truth in it with natural food supplies drinking this year many wild animals have headed into towns in search of a meal if you don't have a has more on the necessities. the been one of the iconic images of russia

recently though the relationship between the animals and the people who live alongside them is being less than kordell the searing heat and fires 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 a twenty six year old man had a very lucky escape that he was attacked by a band right in the center of the city the man was bitten in the neck and 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 fell crushing a fan is. elsewhere in the city there was a carb incident involving a bear while visiting a cemetery two women saw what they believed to be a large man crouching trying to graze 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 to turn to guard cemetery and still far school there has been no sign of

the vanished that so we had the situation under control who. 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're told and then they came from the direction of the tongue the dog attacked it trying to small the dog the dog got away and started leading of the bear way from a lot of it all a certain bears have also taken to attacking livestock as a source of food in the year kamensky district of central russia one tis country employed to protect cattle in some cases humans make problems for themselves with bears it's strongly recommended not to try and defeat the animals in order to get a photo opportunity so as incidence 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 bad attack peter oliver r.t.

. now at some of today's other stories before the business news with stephanie a major security sweep is underway in the u.s. and u.k. the fears bombs planted in cargo several planes have been grounded and the suspicious packages being investigated in new york initial reports suggest that no explosive devices were found as a result of the researches in the u.s. according to several officials investigations were prompted by a suspicious device discovered in a cargo hold in the u.k. . north korean soldiers of exchange for across their border that's according to south korean officials who claim some of its troops were hurt and if it comes to weeks ahead of the g twenty summit in seoul there's been no response from north korea. we got another update in ten minutes from now in the meantime business is next with stephanie.

nothing the international association of russian language and literature teachers with the world's festival of russian language. are you interested in a better understanding of russian language and culture can you sing russian songs well. participant of the world festival of russian language and will an exciting trip to st petersburg in russia. for more information visit the festival website. 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 the two years of negotiations and long delays the deal has been sealed the contract was agreed in january this year but it then faced a long process to comply with the european and he trusts deputy prime minister igor section of the talks and also also included agreements in other areas of the energy

sector. in the power industry we plan to export russian electricity to poland we. must participate in constructing a ball to nuclear power plant but. also inform this about the privatization of some oil assets to 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 gazprom says this is not the final decision on the two sides all still in talks. 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 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 when you show your total and you can watch the full version of the interview with gas prospects going on spotlight next week. one of the world's top auto parts suppliers has opened its fifth plant in russia how does mark know it is ramping up production has more foreign carmakers are expanding about creation because medina question of reports the relative lack of locally produced components is putting the brakes on the russian auto industry. that aborts bomb paris the radiator grills and other components that's what this newly built plan and the cougar region will produce and more importantly that's what the fast recovering russia call market lacks at the moment the coal nuclear 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 kaluga project top seventy four million euros the plunge will manufacture components from false fagging school into renal and trying for certain products. but they're all the same if there are lots of parts we 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 dot total by twenty eleven for many of this 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 have been set up a still 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 call 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 it stands some change in the manufacturing process need to be arming analysts say russia needs to produce more high quality national. if it's to fulfill its potential asked of banks for foreign comic minds in the business and reach. let's take a quick look at how the equity markets are doing here u.s. stocks off lots of positive on friday the technology sector is lending some support to u.s. economic growth growth slightly in the third quarter in line with expectations but

not enough to end investor expectation of mother she easing of from the federal it's a. european stocks finished just dipping into the red on friday gains in the ten the t. sector failed to offset pulls in basic resources british airways which is down to three and a half the cent close. russian equity markets finished high on friday here in moscow the r.t.s. money should just pull into positive territory in my six going to more than one percent and if you majors that support have been losses on the my sex two percent it's. russia's central bank has left its key refinancing rate unchanged at seven point seven five percent for the fifth straight month sees said weakening consumer demand and on certain prospects in the global economy posed for growth. president ben says there was no room for further rate cuts. i would support it because the bigger for. the budget problems.

for the budget speech and the sort i would say. would be asleep so i guess they could be here at. the business news for now but of course you can always find one stories if you log on to a website that's called slash business.

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mr treaty to avert economic collapse the new measures include punishing those members that overspend and creating a bailout stash. well i'll be back. soon about fifty minutes from now the meantime martin andrews takes on a tour of haunted moscow looking for creative ways to celebrate halloween here in the russian capital. this weekend thousands of people will dress up as witches or ghouls and celebrate halloween when it comes to actual.