this spy scandal if you will saying that they believe that there's no dues no need for russia to have a spy network in georgia at this is just the georgian side tried to play russia off as the bad guy again. but the more. this looks like another of george's internal political battles in russia he's used as the boogie man as usual russia doesn't need a spy network in georgia it would be waste of resources russian officials can get all the information in georgia without leaving their desks there's a massive georgian john spirit here in russia was strong toys to home loans so there's absolutely no need for any old spying methods to gather intelligence it's all basically nothing more than part of george's internal policies. peter as we know there have been a number of high profile spy spats between the two countries before can you give us some background that. yes sure in two thousand and six russian military personnel were arrested in georgia accused of spying for russia that resulted in the

temporary terminations of travel and services between the two nations and the relationships between the countries hit its lowest ebb in two thousand and eight following georgian aggression in south of this forced russia to send troops into the region and was altered in the military conflict in august of that year and in march of twenty ten this year we saw two russian citizens and one georgian receiving lengthy prison sentences here in russia on espionage charges so quite a few incidents over the past few years involving tensions between these two countries. ok peter thanks very much indeed for bringing us this update peter all over there. but tonight from moscow coming up in just a few minutes zero tolerance russia's new drink driving ban is getting tough as a games to cut the country's shocking record of pro death but some say it goes too far. how. russia and nato have joined forces to destroy heroin labs in

afghanistan why bring out two hundred fifty million dollars worth of narcotics. comedian jon stewart has more clout of the americas in president barack obama and that's the view of voters on an online man's magazine who picked the daily show host as the most influential man of the year in the u.s. and as honest as he took in our reports the saturday he's putting his popularity to the test in public. but when it's an bots get in the way of political promises he promised during the campaign change of the bully been right it wasn't change you can believe in in eighteen months when the media world is over with fear and anger . and the minds of a population are attacked with misinformation there's such a lack of truth on the airwaves were being dumbed down by the news business who are americans left to trust according to

a poll conducted by an online men's magazine comedian jon stewart is the most influential man in america after eleven years on the daily show how for a million voters bumped him up to the number one spot and i would be concerned if it was they said larry the cable guy was the most trusted man comerica so i feel like. one way of earning the trust has been confronting the mainstream media we need help from the media and their earning us they sect into lies being spun by pundits taking over t.v. screens in america but i. don't think it's going to kill you doing are you how do you we heard on the border collies doing the right thing there you. know. i don't know do you think it's dangerous well i wonder what

the letter would have to say about that. for the security in the u.s. these days it is taking a comedian to show that the lack of trust in the media is what's causing programs ratings to crash i have privately amongst my friends and also an occasional newspapers and television show. mentioned this show as being bad and you made the right choice you are leaving this place you know where you are you the last guy out of a burning building draw on. and you are so and so comedian jon stewart became the most trusted man in america he calls crap like he sees it and always uses humor humor and simpler reasons to he's just a handsome man he's just a handsome trustworthy fellow but it's far from just the early days appreciating the humor for the first time a sitting president has appeared on stewart's show just a couple of days before the midterm election the democrats this year seem to be running on. please baby one more chance. in the same poll stewart won the number

one spot obama didn't even make the top twenty with tens of thousands of americans if not more headed to jon stewart's rally to restore sanity this weekend the fight for truth in media and in politicians is moving almost right into the homes of the political elite and even those stewart denies being a man of politics there is this idea out there that comedians do not have a personal political agenda but has one i can say that we do if the comedian were to push his agenda forward the most trusted man in america would have his followers join him which should be the scary thought for all those politicians media pundits and the rest of the establishment so far feeling to earn trust with their own people and so i see it you're going to. have people trust john stewart because he questions power and that's what jeff cohen journalism professor at as a college things but he warns the comedian don't become

a politician. now i don't know that he's the most and one show but i think one of the reasons he's so popular is he is program is a small d. democratic spirit you look at people in power with skepticism you're going to. questioning what they're doing you have an attitude about them that's the democratic spirit that our country was found. we are all the laurels about the united states is this democratic spirit but when you look at the corporate mainstream media you see a lot of cozying up to power so i think the reason jon stewart in there is they make fun of or they make fun of politicians and were important they make fun of the media elite. and still have a this hour here in our tank top. carry up to ten so. you can see that he really does provide

a unique opportunity to take the big fish into thing exactly how these. gad's aboard the latest super vehicles have the russian military arms expo. russia is king to build on its historic links with southeast asia with the president in hanoi for the summit a grouping of the region's nations and yet now an ally from saudi times for two days where he hopes to boost trade which is already at record levels among the agreements as a deal to construct a nuclear power plant. vietnam in the twenty first century it might look like a throwback to cold war times but it's not the case vietnamese modernizing its economy growing at an increasing rate and it's looking to his old allies to help spur that alone. told well we're cooperating with many countries but among them is

one old friend an old reliable friend we trust greatly russia. russian cars are on the streets of vietnam while vietnamese streams are a much loved delicacy on russian dinner tables last year alone the trade turnover between the two countries reached almost two billion dollars with both hoping to increase to ten billion. russian money big companies are flowing to vietnam bringing millions of dollars of investment which is a good sign of healthy relations. but the biggest venture is still ahead russia has to build vietnam's first atomic power plant it took several years for georgia some environmentalists to find the right place here in vietnam to build the country's first nuclear plant they turned the central province main charge haiti's locals call it the land of sand and so on. there is no rain here now it's raining but it's for the first time in the last few months and as

a result few people live in here and that makes it an almost ideal place for a future project because the plans include a power stations within the next two decades we think the first unit we launched by twenty twenty it will provide us with cheap and safe energy to meet up to fifteen percent of the rise on demand local people welcome the idea of the region which is among the poorest in the country becoming vietnam's energy powerhouse communities here have traditionally been dependent on fishing and dries growing but now the sense of brighter future. infrastructure and give us opportunities i think one day my children could be working at this plant and for this they all work hard good education and be smart it's an honor. to do hungry man admits his knowledge about the biggest country on earth starts and ends with bears and. but

his sure that the joint enterprise apart from profit will help forge closely between the two nations it seems that the russian vietnamese friendship that goes back to the vietnam war now works well for peace and prosperity for both but one long reach over the red river north of annoy vietnam the country's longest four years it symbolized a long friendship between vietnam and its strongest ally the big communist brother u.s.s.r. its vietnamese name could be translated as rising dragon and it seems the drug it's still flying high twenty years on after the collapse of the soviet union russia is amman vietnam's closest partners or even ocean r.t. vietnam and russia has a zero tolerance approach to drinking and driving but still alcohol is blamed for around two thousand road deaths a year and opponents of the last think it's actually too strict they say new breathalyzers are so effective just eating food can push motorists over the limit.

operation in the braided driver is in full swing it's the latest attempt to combat russia's drink driving problem one of the worst in the world these offices are equipped with brand new breathalyzers an organiser or tolerance law that allows no alcohol at all and the driver system. instead of arresting more people who are reckless seen and drop people are deterred by the new laws and the the several dozen drivers stopped by the police and this night all test clean authorities say that the combination of tougher legislation and more in terms of policing is having the desired effect not everybody agrees drivers associations have been up in arms they say statistics show the drink driving has been on the wane in recent years regardless of legislation and they claim the new laws are unworkable and discriminatory drinking a small amount of alcohol has no impact on driving wire licensing is being

confiscated from those whose ability to drive isn't impaired. it's the same question current through just a gay dude in is asking. for benefits to gay tribes a government sanctioned breathalyzer. after a cup of tea he takes the test again now he's over the legal limit you know i got one of these government sanctioned breathalyzers for my birthday last year when the legislation was introduced i tried it and was surprised to discover alcohol content can be triggered not just by drinking small amounts of beer but i buy bread spicy food and milk now i'm starting a campaign against this law because i'm not a criminal. so that gary is still driving and hoping his coronary experience is one cost him his license while the police hope that the number of drink driving related falls from the two thousand recorded last year whatever it takes you go to moscow also take a look at some other stories from around the world and president obama said there

was a credible terrorist threat to the american people after an international security incident packages containing explosives hidden in cartridges more intercepted on airplanes in the u.k. and to buy the flights were all rooted from yemen both packages were addressed to u.s. jewish organizations. at least twenty six people have been killed and more than four dozen injured in a suicide attack in central iraq a man boy himself up in a crowded cafe in the town of seventy kilometers north of baghdad the attack was in an area mostly populated by shia kurds a common target for sunni insurgents. russia has worked alongside nato special forces in afghanistan for the first time a joint operation against drug producers saw the destruction of four labs and the seizure of almost a ton of heroin moscow has been trying to bring the scale of the drug problem to

washington's attention for quite some time as art is ridiculous canal reports. 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. 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 plan the inspiration 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 food drug producing 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 billion dollars and about two hundred million single doses of heroin but many believe this is just a start this is a very. well come news. not enough but it's a good start i think to fight the drug. eradicate the drug problem in afghanistan we should not look at it as an afghan problem it's a global problem russia's too close to get a sense of 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 in. greece in a number of drug users in the profit 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 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 the shipping winter maybe thousands of approaching but russian leaders relations seem to be only now heating up officials on both sides said that joint efforts seem to be the truth we want to have relations action and hope that this is the beginning of the end for outcome drug trafficking in of those guards me moscow. and former u.s. drug policy spokesman robert rayner can't believe it's taken us a lot to come around to the viewer eradication. unfortunate that it has taken this long to really come together with you there's going to reluctance in the united states to even go after the drug trade in afghanistan it's been a policy of the military to let it go and that's tragic and it's unbelievable to me that it took russia to tell the united states where the drug labs were when we have

one hundred thousand troops we've spent eighty billion dollars on intelligence we have one hundred thousand additional contractors so we had to know were crawling all over every inch of that country but it took you to in fact to out the united states to force us and to embarrass us to cooperate with you to stop the drug trade which is in the interest of the entire world including the united states. that was former u.s. drug policy spokesman robert wiener and your work and exhibition to showcase the latest arms of commitment available to military and civilian security forces has taken place in moscow artie's their first went along for a ride on one of the new super vehicles at the front line of the war on terror. politics. that's a fourteen inch knife. for the maids a provision of state security say the life of stations going on today at the moment we call the underdogs a putting this ceremony and throughout the day they gave me all these amongst the

iraqi officials just the russian forces are capable of this is a three day event that combines full connected specialized exhibitions one with the international exhibition at police and defense technologies another is the international specialized exhibition of technical systems and facilities the bota service and specialized international exhibition at the medical equipment and technologies in that area is one of the largest offense of its kind in russian is a very unique event with support from the russian government that's the only exhibition in russia that demonstrates in the way it does the technical capabilities that both the full says and the equipment he had a demonstration by the russian a terrible mistake. the combat operation and you can see now that the landing that i have also. been the specialist the so also to be going at it taking this building hit by so this was a high ranking officials this gives all the participants of the exhibition the

chance to get up close and personal to some of the specialized military equipment like this heavily armored vehicle. take it live they could easily carry up to ten sodas at a time and you can see that it really does provide a unique opportunity took the disciplines of big submission to see exactly how these vehicles were in combat situations and. an army of zombies and vampires is coming out to play this weekend in moscow but halloween is a fairly new thing here more about the go a celebration and rushing away to sedition of moscow moscow out rather next hour but here's a teaser. so it's it's midnight i took up my unfinished pumpkin and i'm all alone here in the fog just opposite the covenant. and it's about this time of night for all the ghosts or spirits i meant to come out. on whether some people

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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 often any two years of negotiations and legal delays 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 all polish partners to participate in constructing a baltic nuclear power plant but the shareholders. isso informed us about the privatization of some oil assets to take place in the near future so 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 and the two sides are still in talks. that are 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 but also those valuations that i mentioned 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. 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 a market there is

a 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 bombed 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 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 fagging raynal and to try and force products.

we still have to import. data for example from ford from outside. pretty sure this will change over time x. per se this year global crop 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 of 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 a 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. ponens if it's to fulfill its potential as a base for foreign comic minds in the business on reaching. russia next the markets finished high on friday here in moscow the r.t.s. it might is to just go into positive territory that my six gained more than one percent and as you may just lead support had better losses on the my sex was two percent higher close. russia central bank has left its refinancing rate unchanged at seven point seven five percent for the fifth consecutive month by gresini said weakening consumer demand and uncertain prospects in the global economy post added risks for growth however alpha by president says there was no

room for further rate cuts i will support it because the bigger for very serious years of inflation. the budgetary problems still there. for the budget speech and the soft i would say. also the. sort of mistakes so i guess they could be here at the. 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 this is.

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