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 a still had russia is to build vietnam's first atomic power plant it took several years for geologists and environmentalists to find the right place here in vietnam to build the country's first nuclear plant they turned the central province the main challenge haiti's locals call it the land of sand and sung. 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 future project and the plans include a power stations within the next two decades we think the first unit we launch by two thousand and twenty it will provide us with cheap and safe energy to meet up to fifteen percent of the rise in demand local people welcome the idea of their region which is among the poorest in the country becoming vietnam's and a g. powerhouse communities here have traditionally been dependent on fishing and dries growing but now they sense a 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 to get a good education and be smart it's an honor. due to hunger in admits his knowledge about the biggest country on earth starts and ends with paris and.

but his sure that the joint enterprise apart from profit will help forge closer leagues 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 annoying vietnam the country's longest for years is 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 at its tail flying high twenty years on after the collapse of the soviet union russia is among vietnam's closest partners griffin ocean r.t. vietnam and on the sidelines of that summit in viet nam's capital russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has met with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton they praised the first joint russian nato and. drug operation in afghanistan which happened on thursday lover of said it set an

example for others but added it shouldn't stop there an agreement to share information on drug trafficking and terrorism has been made between moscow and washington as are reports that russia has been trying to bring the scale of the drug problem to the west attention for quite some time. 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 we used about seventy special forces units three landing helicopters and six supporting ones we discovered and destroyed for drugs producing labs and seized more than one 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 it's a good start i think 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 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. 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. it is coalition forces to counteract drug trafficking. winter

may be thoughts approaching but russian leaders relations seem to be only now heating up officials on both sides said that joint efforts seem to be the true relaunch of relations and action and hope that this is the beginning of the end for outcome drug trafficking in the those guards he calls go and former u.s. drug policy spokesman robert waiter says washington had to be shamed into taking action against them drugs trade in of ghana stamp. 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. as former u.s. drug policy spokesman robert wiener in new york. and coming up on our t.v. zero tolerance has a new drink driving ban it is getting tough as a means to cut the country's shoppy record of pro death but some say he goes too far. to. find out why americans trust a t.v. comedian more than anyone else and much more than the president that's in just a couple of minutes here in our teeth. and then the spy scandal has flared up between georgia and russia after reports of twenty people have been caught

allegedly spying for moscow georgian officials have so far refused to confirm or deny any parts of the story but have said they will make a statement soon peter all over try to shed more light on the story. well on friday the reuters news agency is reporting that twenty people have been arrested in georgia accused of spying for moscow the report cited a source saying that all twenty were georgian citizens however way yet to hear any official response from the georgian sides over those arrests now we may not hear until perhaps november the fifth when the georgian foreign ministry has said that they will issue a news conference to talk about the situation the georgians might not have said anything but russian political figures have spoken out on they say this by 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. this looks like another of georgia's internal political

battles in russia is 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 is a massive georgian johnsbury here in russia was giong toys to homeland's 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 twenty thousand and six russian military personnel who were arrested in georgia accused of spying for russia and all that resulted in the the temporary terminations of travel and services between the two nations and the relationship between the countries hit its lowest ebb in two thousand and eight following georgian aggression in south assessing this force russia to send troops into the region i 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. peter all over there comedian jon stewart has more clout of america then president barack obama that's the view of voters on an online man's magazine pick the daily show host as the most influential man of the year in the u.s. and as our tease out of the future king reports this saturday he's putting his popularity to the test in public. when if an bots get in the way of political promises he promised during the campaign change you're going believe in right it wasn't a change of the believe in in eighteen months when the media was 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 four million voters bumped him up to the number one spot i would be concerned if it was they said larry the cable guy was the most trusted man in comerica so i feel like. one way of earning the trust has been confronting the mainstream media we need help from the media and they're doing us dissecting the lies being spun by pundits taking over t.v. screens in america i. know you don't think it's going to kill you doing it how do you learn that border collies doing the learning period. you. know. i don't know do you think it is dangerous well i wonder what

the letter would have to say about. 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 initially version 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're the last guy out of a burning building draw on. and you are so up and so comedian jon stewart became the most trusted man in america he calls crap like you 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 ladies 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 democrats this year she would be

running on. please baby one more chance. in the same pool 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 politicians is moving almost right into the homes of the political elite and even though stewart denies being a man of politics there is this idea out there that comedians do not have a personal political agenda but as 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 be willing to earn trust with their own people and so i see it you're going to see who your. people trust john stewart because he questions power and that's what jeff cohen journalism professor at

ithaca college sayings but he warns the comedian don't become a politician. you know i don't know that he's the most influential but i think one of the reasons he's so popular is he is program is imbued with a small d democratic spirit that you look at people in power with skepticism you look at them. questioning what they're doing you have an attitude about them that's the democratic spirit that our country was founded on that 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 power they make fun of politicians and weren't portly they make fun of the media elite themselves. and so i have for years our on our team tanks to.

carry up to ten so did at that time you can see that it really does provide a unique opportunity to get to the big vision to see exactly how they work in combat. artists our first get on board the latest to super vehicles at the russian military arms expo. now 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 are so effective just eating food can push motorists over the limit. operation in the 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 zero tolerance law that allows no alcohol at all and the driver system. instead of arresting more people were actually seen and drop

people are deterred by the new laws and the the several dozen drugs stopped by the police and the snide 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 and they say statistics show the drink driving has been on the wane in recent years regardless of legislation and they claim the new laws unworkable and discriminatory drinking a small amount of alcohol has no impact on driving licenses being confiscated from those whose ability to drive isn't impaired. it's the same question current through their surrogate dieudonne is asking. for a benefit to gay tribes a government sanctioned breathalyzer. after a cup of tea he takes the test again now he's over the legal limit. 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 by bread spicy food in milk now i'm starting a campaign against islam because i am not a criminal. so the gay is still driving and hoping his coronary experiences won't cost him his license while the police hope that the number of drink driving related their fall from the two thousand record last year whatever it takes you can order on the party moscow. now some other stories from around the world then president obama said there is a credible terrorist threat to the american people after an international security incident the packages containing potentially explosive material hidden in toner cartridges were intercepted on airplanes in the u.k. and by the flights were all route to chicago from yemen as part of what's thought to have been a test run for a larger terror attack both packages were addressed to u.s.

jewish organizations. jesus' most volatile kaino is erupting for the third time in a week's ash in neighboring villages and some schools are now inaccessible and have been closed it falls and tsunami that hit several islands on monday leaving almost fifty thousand people homeless and the number of dead from the two disasters has reached the four hundred forty three but scores are still missing. the two candidates in brazil's presidential runoff have had their final debate ahead of sunday's vote is expected to be close and sees the workers' party dilma rousseff pitted against girls a sierra of the social democrats the first round of the election took place earlier this month with getting forty six percent and just short of the fifty percent required. at an exhibition to showcase the latest arms of clinton available to military and civilian security forces it's taking place in moscow are you sarah first while long for a ride on one of the new super vehicles at the front line of the war on terror.

here is. the fourteenth international red for the missions the provision of state security say the live devastation is going on today at the moment we're told they only got a ping this ceremony and throughout the day they gave me all these months of my back the officials just the russian forces a capable of this is a three day event and it combines full connected specialized exhibitions one with the international exhibition of police and defense technologies another is the international specialized exhibition of technical systems and facilities the board a 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 very next addition to russia that demonstrates in the way it does the technical capabilities the full service and the equipment you know devastation by the russian and tara and

n.s.a. . the combat operations and you can see now that the landing that have also. been the specialist the so-called it'll be going and taking this building here by the stove as well as a high ranking officials this gives all the participants of the exhibition the child 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 a big submission to see exactly how these would work in combat situation. reporting there and an army of zombies and vampires is coming out to play this weekend in moscow but halloween is a fairly new saying here so the goal is celebration russia now latest edition of moscow our next hour but here's a taste or. so i was it's

midnight i took up my unfinished pumpkin and i'm all alone here in the fog just opposite the cabinet. and it's about this time of night but all the ghosts or spirits i'm going to come out. whether some people like it or not following it is definitely being right in. the middle. and access so we can business have a date with kareena don't go away. hello and welcome to our weekend business program one of the world's top auto parts suppliers has opened its first plant and canada's magna is ramping up production here as more foreign carmakers are expanding their operations but as muddying the

question of reports the lack of local produce components is putting the brakes on the russian auto industry. dashboards bomb her 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 a serious of russia projects run by magna in late september the canadian company also announced the opening of three plants in simpy does back the total investment into the kaluga project top seventy four million euros the plunge will manufacture components for false fagging renal n.p. troy and for certain products. for sale the 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 cop production could exceed pre-crisis levels with seventy million vehicles rolling off the assembly lines russia will contribute about one point seven million to the total by twenty eleven for many of those are simply if somebody's hand rather than build from scratch the biggest bottleneck for production in russia is the lack of social components there is 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 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 car market is such that x. prize believe more foreign manufacturers will be looking to set up joint ventures with domestic firms but as the industry here expands some kinks in the

manufacturing process need to be are in our analysts say russia needs to produce more high quality natural. opponents if it's to fulfill its potential as a base for foreign comic mind in the question of business and region. russia will increase gas supplies to poland as much as forty percent following the signing of a new agreement after nearly two years of negotiations and legal delays the deal has finally been sealed the outline of the contract was agreed in january this year but then faced a long process to comply with european antitrust law deputy prime minister of section said the talks in warsaw also included agreements in other areas of the energy sector. getting in the power industry we plan to explode russian electricity to poland we've offered our polish partners to participate in constructing a baltic nuclear power plant but the shareholders and in other forums. are informed

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. russian equity markets finished higher friday here in moscow the r.t.s. raised earlier losses and managed to pull into positive territory because it's also finished more than a percent higher energy measures led support and banks had losses otherwise x. bank was two percent higher. after climbing past the sixteen hundred level at the beginning of the week the r.t.s. couldn't hold on to these games despite the rebound on friday both the r.t.s. otherwise its end of the week below where they started or nash nation's capital explains what caused the downturn. mark the start of quite well earlier in the week and then it came off towards the end of the week and the really big talking point is over the stimulus package coming out of the u.s. can keep enough money into the u.s. economy not only get the u.s.

economy back on track track but to get those dollars into global assets one of which is russia is to say it's the russian companies move to sectors that are really in the public eye right now the first is the banking sector and the second is the utility sector and banks is all about the privatization this announcement that russia is going to be privatizing stakes and bank and b t v has got a lot of people pretty excited and you know there's been some pretty positive changes that have taken place but from the management and in the way in which those banks are being being driven they're looking much more because of the pan russian platform and people are quite enthusiastic about that so the banks have done well and then the utility side there's a lot of speculation about when tariff reform will actually take place and we had some very good news this morning that finally the markets expectations have been met and tariff reform seems to be on track and so we've got a lot of money coming into the utility sector as well. that's all we have for you on this weekend's business program headline news is next.

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market so why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy is reported on march. fourteenth you live from moscow a reminder of the top stories how we're play plans for russia to build get announced first ever nuclear plant fuel closer links that's this president medvedev has to find a way for a summit of asian nations. before it's a russian spy ring being busted in georgia threaten what's left of relations between the two but experts believe it's just another tbilisi p.r. stunt. on funny business a poll shows the most trusted opinion maker in the u.s. it's a comedian while president obama doesn't even make the top twenty. and actually follow

a quest for the truth undertaken by the parents of a u.s. soldier and his death was blamed on drug abuse but turned out to be caused by a medicine prescribed. caused by the medicine prescribe by his superiors watch our special report right now on our team.