operation with. the successful completion of the new asia pacific house is in the country's interest in. a constructive life i would like to note that russia is going to this kind of cooperation especially the creation of alliances course many issues were addressed during the ac and working sessions for example the issues of natural disasters which of course this region is specifically prone to also various other issues like economic cooperation global security dealing with the aftermath of the global financial crisis all those issues were discussed to my satisfaction it seems from the a.c.l.u. region is a very attractive one primarily because it has a lot of growing economically growing countries china of course is one of russia's main partners and is of course a part of bric brazil russia india and china says some experts say one of the strongest emerging economies in the world today in those boys to deal with the

effects of the global financial crisis a lot better than the so-called economic giants like the united kingdom the united states and the european union support also its relations with vietnam go back a very long way and they do seem to be very strong ties as the russian president dmitry medvedev said in an article published in the local newspaper russia stood by the vietnamese as they fought for their independence and will continue to stand by them as they emerge a strong economy into the twenty first century into the world arena as my calling body is the notion of found out the economic ties between moscow and how we are growing stronger by the day. in the twenty first century it might look like a throwback to cool. but it's not the case. it's economy growing at an increasing rate and it's looking. to how. russian money being. companies are flowing to vietnam and bringing millions of

dollars of investment which is a good sign of healthy relations. but the biggest venture to the had to be vietnam's first atomic power plant it took several years for georgeson environmentalist to find the right place here in vietnam to build the country's first nuclear plant they turned the central province 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 a future project and the plans include eight 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. 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. but one long reach over the red river north of annoy vietnam the country's longest for 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 on its tail flying high twenty years on after the collapse of the soviet union russia is among vietnam's closest partners review notion r.t. vietnam. and on the sidelines of that summit moscow and washington vital to continue talks on the u.s. missile defense shield program and

a new european security plan the russian foreign minister lavrov met with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton the two also praised the successful joint drug operation in afghanistan and agreed to go on with the fight against the narcotics threat on thursday russian and u.s. special forces conducted their first major joint operation against drug producers in the region they destroyed four labs and seized almost a ton of heroin. and the former u.s. drug policy spokesman robert wiener says it's a shame that washington couldn't start solving the opium problem until russia forced it to act. unfortunate that it has taken this long to really come together with you there's been a 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 a hundred thousand troops we spent eight hundred 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. well still ahead for you this hour now it's he who is the most influential man in america. how do you. always doing. what american politicians are failing to win people's trust we report in the comedian who's managed to gain. to. lose the high ranking officials this gives. the child to get. some of the

specialized military equipment like this heavily on that they will have more from the state of the security hold where exhibition has just taken place outside. but first a new spy scandal has flared up between georgia and russia reports that twenty people have been caught allegedly spying for moscow with many experts say this could be a p.r. stunt but tbilisi. has more from georgia. what we do know about this story is that twenty people all of them georgia nationals have been arrested by georgian authorities no other details have been released in fact georgian authorities say that no information will be available and to the end of next week and they're all keeping mum about the details refusing to give out any comments whatsoever and fred we are from christian science monitor believes this is something to be this is something to pay special attention to when someone is arrested they're entitled to due process that means they can call

a lawyer that family members can be contacted therefore arrests are announced and it never happens i can't tell you how bizarre it is to hear a police spokesman say. i can neither confirm nor deny that arrests have taken place in secret arrests are the hallmarks of a police state and we do have to remember that the political situation in the country which has been in place for the past say year or so a lot of opposition a lot of opposition leaders and members are finding themselves under increasing pressure from the authorities a lot of them are essentially being oppressed and if we listen to one of the opposition leaders. we will find out that in fact you do not have to be a russian spy in order to be suspected by georgian authorities of spying for russia . which. i do not think. i know that quite you know to be some.

spinach may be there but if. you judge it. shows to make room. in fact a special report published by the u.s. state department in march says that there has been an increase in our soldiers kidnappings in the rest all of them politically motivated in georgia now many experts believe that this. so it could be yet another political stunt by president saakashvili experts in russia believe that georgian authorities are just looking at their american partners and learning from them of course many of us remember the spy scandal which rose in and the united states over the past summer with many juicy details and interesting personas such as on the chapman rising in the aftermath and of course as some say that we could expect something similar from this is spy scandal as well because of course the experts who are georgian

authorities are simply copycats are simply copycats of the american politicians now howard that is still or that still remains to be seen because we do have to understand that the situation the political situation often in relationships between georgia and russia has been somewhat complicated to say the least all of it of course culminated if we could say that in the south the city of georgia war in two thousand eight hundred rushes to board the support of the republic of south the city and now of course we still have to wait and see what exactly happens where the spy scandal in georgia the latest by scandal in georgia is going to go from here yet remains to be seen. from the georgian capital. could a comedian in america have more power than the president the majority of voters and the men's magazine certainly thinks so they. host a national daily talk show was the most influential man of the year in the u.s. and. reports this saturday we'll see if his popularity translates into political

action. when it's an bots get in the way of political promises he promised during the campaign change you're going believe been right it wasn't a change of the believe in in eighteen months when the media war 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 are 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 and 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. dissecting the lies being spun by pundits taking over

t.v. screens in america who. are you know you don't think you're going to kill you know you know you tell me we heard on the border collies doing the low lying areas. you. know. i don't know do you think it's dangerous well i wonder what the letters would have to say about that. 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 missionary 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 the last guy

out of a burning building and 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 had 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 stewards denies being a man of politics there is this idea out there that comedians do not have

a personal political agenda but it 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 a scary thought for all those politicians media pundits and the rest of the establishment so far feeling to earn trust with their own people once they see it you're going to see your. don't forget our web sites they're free twenty four hours a day it's dot com right now for example. where you find more than just its famous metro the capital has its own underground river right through the heart of the city. along the ancient waterway in our picture gallery. and most of them are flocking to moscow that have a trick for treats on the scariest night of the year however really mcalpin is not just fun it's also an exquisite on show. has all the details with plenty of other

features. a supply ship has successfully docked at the international space station the news will come as a great relief at mission control to automatic systems failed on the progress module and it had to be docked manually the cargo ship contains vital supplies along with letters and presents for the crew the spacecraft blasted off from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan on wednesday in july this year an electronic malfunction on another progress vessel delayed its arrival until the problem could be remotely fixed. well time now for a brief update on some international headlines yemeni authorities have arrested a woman suspected of sending explosive parcels to u.s. synagogues bombs were detected on u.s. planes in the u.k. by president barack obama called this a credible threat against the united states the focus is now on al qaeda branch

which attempted to blow up an airliner last christmas. career holding reunions for families separated by. sixty years ago hundreds of south koreans of travel to a mountain resort in the north for three days to meet their relatives on wednesday north koreans will begin reunions with relatives the last time such meetings were held a year ago there are no mail telephone or e-mail exchanges between citizens across the border. the number of dead in the suicide bombing in iraq has risen to twenty six officials say five more people died in hospital from their injuries the suicide bomber blew himself up inside a busy cafe on friday night in a town north of baghdad this comes during a period of relative calm in iraq the last major attack came on september the nineteenth when twin bombings in baghdad killed at least thirty one. an exhibition to showcase the latest equipment available to military and civilian security forces

has taken place in the region. one of the new vehicles at the front line of the war on terror. that's a fourteen inch knife. so that means a provision of states of here is a live demonstration going on today the moment we've got the honor guard say pending this ceremony and throughout the day they gave me all these ten months of life back the officials such as 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 buddhist service and specialized international exhibition at the medical equipment and technologies in that area is one of the largest offensive it's 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 do you have a demonstration by the russian in terror and n.s.a. pleasurable the combat operation and you can see now that the landing that i have also. been a specialist the so-called it will be going and taking this building here by its toll as well as a high ranking official says because all the participants of the exhibition a chance to get up close and personal 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 disappearance of big submission to see exactly how these vehicles were in combat situation. to bring us up to date for the moment i'll be back with a recap of our main news stories in ten minutes from now in the meantime the

business news is next with stephanie stay with us here. hello and welcome to the business bulletin one of the world's top auto parts suppliers has opened its fifth plant in russia canada's makan that is ramping up production here as more foreign carmakers are expanding their operations but as medina caution of reports the relative lack of locally produced components is putting the brakes on the russian auto industry. dashboards bomb 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 a serious of russia projects run by magna and late september the canadian company also announced the opening of three plants and simpy does back the total investment

into the kaluga project top seventy four million euros the plunge will manufacture components for folds fagging renal and trying for certain products. we still have to import. for example from outside. pretty sure this will change over time experts say this year global cop production could exceed pre-crisis levels with seventeen million vehicles rolling off the assembly lines russia will contribute about one point seven million to the total by twenty eleven for many of this are simply sampled han't 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 have been set up a store importing 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 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 outs and they say russia needs to produce more high quality natural. components if it's to fulfill its potential as a base for foreign carmakers might in the question of business r.t. region russia would 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 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 that the prime minister igor

sections of the talks in warsaw also included agreement in other areas of the energy sector. in the power industry we plan to export 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 isso informed about the privatization of some oil assets that will take place in the near future and we agreed that russian companies would be able to participate in this. russian equity markets finished high on friday here in moscow b r t s a raised earlier losses and managed to pull into positive territory by six also finished more than a percent higher energy majors lent support banks had losses on my sex about two percent higher claims. after climbing past the sixteen hundred level at the beginning of the week the r.t.s. couldn't hold on to those gains and that's why the rebound on friday but the r.t.s.

and the my sex and the week below where they started are the national capital explained what caused the downturn. quite well earlier in the week and towards the end of the week and the really big talking point of the stimulus package coming out of the u.s. but enough money into the u.s. economy not only get the u.s. economy back on track. to get those dollars into global assets one of which is russia. 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 banks is all about the privatisation this announcement is going to be privatizing states inspired by and can be got a lot of people pretty excited. you know there's been some pretty positive changes that have taken place but in the management and the way in which those banks are being being driven they're looking much more because of the pan. platform and people quite enthusiastic about that so the banks have done well and then the

utilities 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 city such as well and finally russia plans to create twenty one national parks and expand existing ones over the next decade the state will also increase spending on pay and training for park employees they will be provided with modern equipment to manage the forest and fight fires mr putin says he hopes the new parks will help develop eco tourism following this summer's devastating wildfires the government has pledged an additional two hundred forty two million dollars of investment for forests in two thousand and eleven. and that's a lot of business for this hour but of course you can always find more stories if you log on to our website that's all t dot com slash. to

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if you just joined very warm welcome this is all to come to live from moscow top stories this hour the russian president is in vietnam meeting with leaders of the region that's poised to become a major well planned commitment that it was already into deals build a nuclear power plant in itself east asian. and on the heels of a joint russia u.s. anti drugs operation in afghanistan the country's foreign ministers hint at more cooperation to come they see room for coordinated action on nuclear disarmament and missile defense system among others. and there's a lot of spies god will bring with reports of georgian authorities arresting twenty

nationals who said to be russian agents officials won't confirm or deny the reports but promise a statement in the coming months. that brings up to take a moment i'll be here with another update in fifteen minutes from now on the meantime preparing for freitas modern unders is here he's taking on the tour of haunted moscow that he for creative ways to celebrate halloween in the russian capital. live this weekend thousands of people will dress up as witches all ghouls.