economic growth a deal hailed by both sides as a very significant one with the russian president of course reiterating the fact that energy independence is one of the crucial points any country any state needs to become truly independent and a fully fledged player of the international arena in the twenty first century. the deal in the construction of the nuclear power plant as a major project. and what leaf we reach the goals we set this plant will account for vietnam's energy market and we allowed to develop as a separate modern state that not only produces and processes oil but also uses other sources of energy which is very important in today's world and of course this wasn't the only item on the agenda many other issues. were discussed many other deals were made including a deal to build a hydro power plant in the country as well a deal to exchange intelligence and intellectual information gathered.

in the framework of military cooperation that exist between moscow and a lot of issues of course on the agenda but the nuclear power plant is what both sides were mostly excited about as the vietnamese president himself said this is a very important deal that signifies not only the extent of russian vietnam's corporation but also the level of trust that exists between the two countries both our countries are eager to develop. a sector of the agreement on the construction of an atomic power plant and demonstrates especially with russia and of course to do shows how much confidence who have been rushing to. continue working together in the trees. and. the visit was a very pleasant one with the weather and everything playing along nicely to the russian president who was very keen to note that whether specifically saying that it reflects the state of relations we. moscow and noise he also commented on get me

saying that it might be a little too spicy for some russian taste but he personally i enjoy it a lot and of course this kind of banter this kind of light hearted talk just goes to show exactly how comfortable the russian and the vietnamese are together and how much emphasis they place on their relationship presidents are reporting there now georgia and russia could be one step away from a fresh spy scandal was reports tbilisi detained twenty people for alleged espionage on friday according to an anonymous source quoted by reuters the detainees are all georgian and are suspected of creating a spy network to gather secret information for moscow the georgian interior ministry has so far refused to comment and says it won't do so until the end of the week russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov said moscow is not aware of any details as there are no diplomatic relations between the two countries observers say is a lack of clarification from tbilisi is an indictment of the authoritarian way the country is run 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. you know there is a new law before the georgian parliament which is called the freedom charter and it's something akin to the patriot act in the united states it will drastically increase the powers of the security service it passed its first reading in the in the georgian part parliament recently and it is possible that someone was trying to . a social mood to support that. george's opposition politicians are also condemning the authorities actions and the country's conservative party here says and to russia seem to be enough to bring

a prosecution by the police leadership. kind of charges russian links that are sometimes fresh in the spirit which is always used in georgia police. i do not think about these people but they know that it's like you know the whole thing results. in which may be true but if you do business you rush to your favor with georgia it's quite enough for georgia law enforcement officials to make clear. that. and a georgian opposition leader there speaking from tbilisi now could look at hatto what else is coming up in this hour here in our team hiding behind a child's bath. palestinian boys used as a human shield during the gaza war two years ago. and russia and the

u.s. are celebrating their referrers joint victory in a war out of ghana stands opium trade on thursday their operatives destroyed for drug producing labs in the country and seized a ton of heroin afghan president hamid karzai has denounced the operation saying it violates his country's sovereignty russian officials say they are puzzled by that statement as everything had been agreed with the afghan interior ministry in advance the drug raid marked a return for russian special forces to afghanistan over twenty years after soviet troops left and the fact that moscow had to step in and give the us a push in the right direction came as a complete shock. and now reports. it's reported this one this one this one this one. and this one lost his leg. and he got a mash is showing his corporate skilled in the soviet war in afghanistan two decades ago only four out of the fourteen in this picture made it out alive andrei

was a command over mine disposal unit in khandahar in two years his score to the most thirty five people dozens of others lost limbs a third of all mines used against soviet soldiers were american mate most of the us are our enemy which supplied them with drug dealing with equipment weapons medicine it was american stinger missiles which helped shoot down our planes. two decades after the soviet army is humiliating defeat and great will stake in a bag to find out that russia was back in afghanistan again this time with its former anime. these are the pictures he saw on the news reports food truck purchasing labs on the border between afghanistan and pakistan were destroyed in a special rate and a ton of heroin worth over two hundred million dollars he scored after we gave

information to our u.s. and afghan partners the three sides of 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. but many experts say washington needed a push before it started to act 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'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 two 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 with more of the truth poncing through its full just then any other country russia is

convinced that the scan which must be confronted it is however those who know firsthand what fighting in afghanistan is lined up to learn against being drawn into a full scale war. and of course there should be special operations carried out against drug cartels but again a special unit should be in charge of this nineteen year old boys should not be recruited for the job every single operation should be planned in detail starting from the intelligence section of the operation itself and wrapping it all up it's easy to get trapped in this war and hard to get out of it some of them are women. as long as islamist militancy and drunks emanating from afghanistan are seen as a threat to its national security rush is likely to remain a fool sin the region even as the us out an x. it strategy. faced with a bigger war is sound less reliable neighbors said the region the united states and nato appear willing to accept growing russian influence at this point they need all

the help they can get at the gathering florrie opportunity in afghanistan is a sign russia is back and this time around not as the us cold war anomie but as a modern day ally it's a democrat trouble r.t. most. now the way very soon brazil looks for a new leader as a president has a record breaking popularity we hear from the communities being lifted out of poverty. rocky lawmakers are demanding their government investigate allegations of war crimes the plea comes a week after the online whistleblower if we can leaks released four hundred thousand secret u.s. documents on the war in iraq files detail american forces handing prisoners over to iraq interrogators despite overwhelming evidence of torture the data also sheds light on the fifteen thousand killings over the past six years which were previously unaccounted for and iraq's prime minister nuri al maliki says the

revelations are aimed at undermining the country's political stability but that's an overreaction and an unlikely motivation for the leak according to one leading expert in the country. i think that would be very doubtful to imagine that the wiki leaks the soldiers responsible for giving these documents to them have the undermining of the iraqi government in mind when they chose this date and let's bear in mind that there hasn't been an iraqi government for seven months so it's not likely if there's many dates to choose from when it comes to releasing this in a sense this is u.s. military documents so it's really like unlike any previous media story or and it totally report from iraq this is words from their own mouth which makes it very difficult for them to deny it and they're not really doing that if you actually listen to what the pentagon and state department spokesman is saying what they talk about is the critical nature of the nature of the leaks and whether u.s. soldiers are informers or people working with us will be put in danger by them talking about the method of the message rather than the message itself now the

message itself paints a very different picture of the iraq the americans have been telling us about the last seven years some fifteen thousand iraqi deaths have not been accounted for so the history of iraq is being written by these documents which are as i say from the americans miles themselves. and staying in iraq saddam hussein's former deputy was sentenced to death this weekend tariq aziz was found guilty by the country's high court of persecuting opposition shiite islamic parties the decision to hang as he is his seventy four has drawn much international condemnation and some experts view the sentence as an attempt to divert attention away from the weekly leaks revelations british m.p. jeremy corbyn is among the critics of the trial the reason they're doing it now do you are correct on this is to divert attention away from the wiki leaks issue because wiki leaks have exposed the torture that has gone on systematically and i think the death sentence pronounced from tara to the user is there to divert attention policy absolutely no point in this form of victor's justice being carried

out to do nothing to reconcile people in iraq i think what we need is a real investigation into the behavior of the occupying forces and the iraqi army and its forces ever since the invasion of two thousand and three counsel the death penalty abandon the whole idea of the death and instead look at least use of human rights and justice and look at the behavior of forces ever since the invasion took place i do not see the value in executing terek izzy's any more than executing anybody else it will not bring the dead back it will further brutalise what is already a very brutal situation the death penalty does not work and that was british m.p. jeremy corbyn there now we are on top of that story line for you and our team dot com as well as more analysis of the fallout from the we can leaks revelations.

a russia struggling with an alarming crime rate amongst young offenders about the world health organization report also says that could be tackled by offering more to evidence to keep young people busy however some put the blame squarely a parent's as artie's cover now reports many different please show us on the dole where exactly you stabbed him with the knife it was here how many times. i don't remember roughly seven or ten times. in this reconstruction the suspects showing police just what happened when his gang carried out a brutal murder the main perpetrator would soon join his speech is in one of russia's sixty two young offenders institutions i live close enough has already served more than half of his sentence for committing a racial murder he was a fifteen year old skinhead when both him and his friends attacked

a four in the king youth i saw the guys nice lying next to him i suddenly thought he must have been using this knife to kill russians i stepped into ice event posted to my three friends each night him stabbings account for almost half of the homicides carried out by youngsters in the european and central asian region according to a report by the world health organization and it puts russia with the highest rate of violence among the surveyed age group from ten to twenty nine. a change in psychology morale didn't even moral values all this contributes to an extremely high crime rate went up by the activities of religious sex and i'm sorry to say this by all media including television which stories full of blood in russia around five thousand seven hundred miners are currently serving prison terms the majority either from a one parent family or an overnight experts say about eighty percent of syria's

juvenile crimes take place in the evening or night when children in theory are supposed to be looked at. to by their parents however in reality many children often end up on the streets searching for their own entertainment. and that's primarily alcohol which is fueling so much of today's youth crime this situation among minus is actually slowly improving for grim statistics among those who are on the beach to exploit so while many of these young boys hope they'll be able to survive crime free in the future it may be down to those on the other side of the barbed wire to ensure they do become another those generation dairy pushed over r t moscow. anti-government protests in france have continued to diminish over the weekend after president nicolas sarkozy is contentious pension reform was voted into law workers at all twelve of france's oil refineries broke a month long strike on friday the damages which drained petrol pumps and forced out

fuel imports or the culmination of months of protest against the government's plan to raise the retirement age the french energy minister says service stations should be back to normal by the middle of next week and douglas weber a paris based professor of political science argues that the protesters won't directly suffer financially from their own actions certainly the the protests and strikes of. course some economic damage of those probably quite a lot more than exact exact figure on those but one ought to bear in mind i think that the the people are actually striking they're not going to actually pay these these costs for the most part people are actually on strike from the public sector apart from the fact that they won't be paid for the days they were on strike they won't be affected by the negative economic fallout of the of these kinds of protests so that's the reason why in fact they are able to go on actually i think for so long. two israeli soldiers are awaiting sentencing after using

a palestinian child as a human shield during the onslaught on gaza almost two years ago was the first such conviction since tel aviv reinforced a ban on using civilians in combat against their will post leer mad the boy who was forced into the firing line. measured robber was just nine years old when soldiers grabbed him and made him check for bombs. i was just sitting here is really soldiers took me over there there were two bags and he told me to open them but i didn't know how to do it. he was terrified of the abandoned briefcases which the soldiers thought could be booby trapped and his fighting family forced to watch one of the civilian one of them put his hand on my son shoulder and made him go into the toilet cubicle i heard a few shots fired soon afterwards i felt like i was dying my little daughter he was with me kept saying they killed him. and yet it was five years ago that israel supreme court made the law crystal clear human shielding is an absolute absolute no

no endangered civilians deliberately is absolutely prohibited but the reality on the ground is still very different you who shows spent his army years in the palestinian territories he knew the supreme court's ruling but watched his sergeant ignore it so did he and the soldiers serving under him so what we did is we just bumped into a house nearby house we grabbed one of the kids we're talking with us put them in the front of the patrol you just walk your patrol in the village with your kid and then no one forced out one hundred sixty complaints were filed about the way soldiers behaved in the gaza war two years ago but only forty seven criminal investigations were ever tell without most of them have since been closed but i think that to ask a combat soldier and serve in the occupied territories where you use palestinians as human shield is like to ask you to drink coffee in the morning but israeli lawyers say convicting the two soldiers is to the i.d.f. scribus there are always soldiers who step out of line that's that's part and

parcel unfortunately of running a military operation to say that as a general phenomenon as i.d.f. soldiers you use human shields that's absurd for much of the family they take comfort they finally be getting justice even if it's only against low ranking soldiers and not the commanders they accuse of allowing human shields behind the laws back here r.t. jerusalem. let's take a look at some other stories from around the world and yemeni authorities have arrested a woman suspect sending explosive parcels to u.s. synagogues bombs were found on u.s. bound planes in the u.k. and by officials in yemen have also seized over twenty suspect parcels with suspicion falling on the country's active okada cell last year it attempted to blow up a detroit bound airliner. have mass occurred at least fourteen people during a football match in the northern one doron city of sampedro saw the group armed

with assault rifles pulled up in a car and opened fire at point blank range the motive is unclear but police believe the shooting may be linked to the drugs trade and it comes almost two months after gunmen stormed a shoe factory in the same city and killed eighteen people. iran says it's prepared to hold talks on its disputed nuclear program in a van der the move came after the u.s. confirmed it was working on a new fuel swap deal for the country the u.s. and other western powers accuse iran of using its civilian nuclear program as a cover to develop nuclear weapons iran denies the charges saying its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. the rescuers are searching for survivors after an overcrowded ferry capsized and sank in a river in eastern india leaving at least eighteen people dead and more than sixty others missing the vessel was carrying around one hundred fifty people even though it only had the capacity to take sixty passengers the victims were returning from a huge muslim religious event when the accident happened. in

a few hours brazilians will decide who they want to replace they are soaring with popularly year at stake are the hearts and minds of the country's millions who live well below the poverty line and who say president lula was giving them better wives he has served his maximum terms but has lined up a successor lauren lyster reports from some power where the gap between rich and poor is narrowing. in brazil there are those who live tucked away behind barbed wire walls. and those who live behind shanty cinderblock ones brazil is a rich country but the majority is poor guarded gates paved the road to that majority separating rich from poor and cementing the vast divide of inequality that in many ways is the story of latin america but in this developing nation in one of the fastest growing major economies in the world where they are pioneering deep water oil research and ethanol production for example signs of human development to

marked by a before and after before outgoing president lula distil the took office and forgot the world are the people didn't recognise the poor today the rich are en route because the poor own as poor as they were before people have the opportunity when he's increased the job market civil construction for me and for others he's giving jobs to people who didn't have it after lula's eight years in office is a brazil where more than twenty million of the vast poor have been lifted out of poverty were jobs but really social policies are bringing inequality down income from the poorest in the country has grown eight percent a year while the richest has grown only one and a half brazil is part of a trend in latin america of countries that are electing leftist governments that are essentially redistributing wealth to the poor in neighborhoods like this in brazil you see that most evidently and their program called both the familia for very little i've been in a and her two daughters live together and one shared. room

about one hundred square feet in this favela or slum she gets by on a few odd jobs and she gets the equivalent of twenty four u.s. dollars a month from the government through bolsa familia and helps with food or sometimes i use it to pay a bill in return for both a familia cash to name a has to show the government that her daughter samantha gets her vaccinations and is in school and intends at least eighty five percent of the time as a result and i think most of all she's ten years old and she knows how to read how to write in everything she even knows how to use the computer samantha's life is one of learning an opportunity where once in a slum like this reaching her age meant dropping out of school to work and help the family i worked when i was younger ten years old i was already a nanny i didn't have the means to study but a little government cash is helping to break that cycle and create a new one this is what i want them to set a lot so in the future they'll have a profession and they're not going to suffer like their parents suffered so i want

them to study. at the same time the parents are suffering less bolsa familia is responsible for a sixth of the reduction in poverty in brazil while it costs just a half percent of g.d.p. basically it's considered very cheap and efficient it's a model being transferred globally from mexico to new york city by some accounts it's still amounts to chump change. that reaches five dollars. for their lives but here you see how it's help resiliency beyond their cinder block cities turned football playing fantasies. into goals these kids say of being doctors and teachers and we're here for the first time arguably in its history the walls separating rich from poor don't look so set in stone. or in leicester r t so

paulo brazil. so aside dr years and the real reason behind the death of a u.s. soldier fighting in afghanistan that's coming up shortly.

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welcome back here with r t great nuclear power to get now rushes to build the country's first avenue clearly out there in the deal signed off during president medvedev says it is somewhat of southeast asian nations in a annoy. the new spice coulombs as georgia refuses to the firm are denying claims that it busted a network of twenty people allegedly gathering information for russia to lisa says it's keeping all the details of the matter secret until the end of next week. and joining forces in the war on drugs russia and the u.s. broke down on the ghana stance opium producing labs and in their first combined operation to tackle the world's heroin factory the raid marked the return for

russians by. forces to the country over twenty years after saudi troops left. and the weeks on the main news and down the ses devaney faces death for crimes against humanity we investigate whether the tariq aziz verdict was timed to take the heat out of the latest revelations from wiki leaks the online whistleblower has released four hundred thousand classified u.s. files on torture and killings which happened under washington's watch. next r.t. follows a quest for truth by the parents of an american a u.s. soldier who whose dad was blamed on drug abuse but turned out to be caused by medicine prescribed by his superiors. with you. live in the long term.