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 is a major project. you reach the goals we set this power plant will account for vietnam's energy markets and we allowed to develop as a sovereign modern state that not only produces and processes oil but also uses the 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 exists between moscow and

a lot of issues of course on the agenda but the nuclear power plant deal 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 cooperation but also the level of trust that exists between the two countries both our countries are eager to develop. a sector under construction of an atomic power plant and demonstrates the specialties we have with russia and of course to do shows how much confidence we have to acknowledge. continue working together in the gas industries. the visit was a very pleasant one with the weather and everything playing along nicely to the russian president who was very keen to know that whether specifically saying that it reflects the state of relations between moscow and he also commented on getting me saying. that it might be

a little too spicy for some russian taste but he personally enjoyed 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 question as are reporting their georgia and russia could be one step away from a fresh spy scandal with reports tbilisi detained twenty people for alleged espionage friday according to an anonymous source quoted by avoiders the detainees are all georgian and are suspected of creating a spy network to gather secret information for moscow but 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 the lack of clarification from tbilisi is an indictment of the authoritarian way the country. 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 ideas to hear a police spokesman say. i can neither confirm nor deny that arrests have taken place secret arrests are the hallmark 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 meeting in the in the georgian part parliament recently and it is possible that someone was trying to whip up. a social mood to support that. georgia's opposition politicians are also condemning the authorities actions the country's conservative party leader says any links to russia seem to be enough to bring

a prosecution by the police leadership the kind of charges russian links russian ties russian experience is always used in georgia's police. i do not think it will these people but i know that it's like you know to be some whole reason russia. has been ajmi be there but if you are business you russia or you are family in russia and you are with the georgia it's quite enough for georgia law enforcement officers to make criminal use. georgian opposition leader there speaking from tbilisi. now a quick look ahead of what else is coming up in this hour on our t.v. hiding behind a child's back. to meet a palestinian boy used as a human shield during the gaza war two years ago. russia and the u.s. are celebrating their first joint victory in the war in afghanistan's opium trade

on thursday their operatives destroyed four 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 but russian officials say they are puzzled by the statement as everything happened in green with the afghan interior ministry in advance of the drug raid marked their return for russian special forces to afghanistan over twenty years after soviet troops left and for some the fact that moscow had to step in and give us a push in the right direction came as a complete shock because you know her child reports. it to the board. this one this one this one this one. and this one lost his leg and he got a mush is showing his quote brits killed in the soviet war in afghanistan two decades ago only four out of the fourteen in this picture made it out alive andree was a commando of

a mine disposal unit in kandahar in two years his school to thirty five people dozens of others. a third of all mines used against soviet soldiers were american mate most of the us or our enemy which supplied them with dean 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 dre was taken aback 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 for drug producing lapse on the border between afghanistan and pakistan were destroyed in a special rate and a ton of heroin worth over two hundred million dollars. after we gave information

to our u.s. and afghan partners the three sides planned the operation for three months we used about seventy special forces units three landing helicopters and six supporting ones the whole operation lasted less than four hours. 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 you know 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 truck passing through its food has than any other country russia is convinced that the scan which must be confronted at its source however those who

know first hand what fighting in afghanistan is like learning against being drawn into a full scale war because. of course there should be special operations carried out against drug cartels but again special units 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 and remember it. as long as islamist militancy and drunks emanating from of ghana's stand are seen as a threat to its national security rush is likely to remain a force in the region even as the u.s. works out an x. it strategy. faced with big worries less reliable neighbors say 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 of the us cold war anime but as a mordant day. it's only got trouble r t. the dust settling in france as we report in a few minutes and after weeks of angry protests over time for a look at whether the massive public demos were worth crippling the country. iraqi lawmakers are demanding their government investigate allegations of war crimes and police comes a week after the online whistleblower wiki leaks released four hundred thousand secret u.s. documents on the war in iraq the files detail american forces handing prisoners over to iraqi interrogators despite overwhelming evidence of torture the data also sheds light on fifteen thousand killings over the past six years which were previously accounted for iraq's prime minister nouri al maliki says the revelations are aimed at undermining the country's political stability but that's an

overreaction adding a likely motivation for the leak according to one leading expert on 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 as if there's many dates to choose from when it comes to releasing this in this sense this is u.s. military documents so it's really like unlike any previous media story. to 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. 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. staying in iraq saddam hussein's former deputy who was sentenced to death this weekend targus he's was found guilty by the country's high court of persecuting opposition shiite islamic parties the decision to hang as easy as his seventy four has drawn much international condemnation and some experts view the sentence as an attempt to divert attention away from that we can leaks revelations british m.p. jeremy corbyn is among the critics of the trial the reason they're doing it now correct on this is to divert attention away from the wiki leaks issue because wiki leaks if exposed to torture that has gone on systematically and i think the sentence pronounced for the territory is to divert attention absolutely no point in this form of victor's justice being carried out will be 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 cancel the death penalty abandon the whole idea of the death penalty and instead look at the issues of human rights and justice look at the behavior of forces ever since the invasion took place i do not see the value in executing terakhir disease 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. that was british m.p. jeremy corbyn there are fifty thousand u.s. troops remain in iraq to train and support local security forces but in many places like kurdish controlled kirkuk the legacy of the american led invasion remains uncertain what of people there fear a civil war could eventually erupt as suppressed in mine are reports. a dawn raid a race against time to catch militants off guard in the iraqi province of kirkuk

where in the suburb of duck cook and the police have just a few minutes to get into position before sunrise. daybreak's and the raid begins police under the supervision of the u.s. army go door to door searching rooms and checking residents against lists of unknown terrorists. dominated heavily by kurds have been remarkably successful recently they have cut terror attacks by over fifty percent in the past few months these guys are very good they are very good and they're very good at intelligence and develop they are gathering intelligence and developing intelligence and the other submerged current police who are not worried about it but others mainly the city's non kurds are here in downtown you're going to give them i would urge characters that are used to their own historic claim of the kirkuk is a unique city in iraq a two melting pot of all the different ethnicities in the country but this mixture continues to lead to extremely volatile ethnic tensions the two thousand and nine

field report that was recently leaked by the whistleblower wiki leaks states that without strong unfair influence likely from a third party these tensions may quickly turn to violence after the u.s. forces withdraw all of this in terms of security when the u.s. leaves there will be no independent security force right now the security's from the kurdish side of the city this is the truth when the u.s. leaves things will get worse it will be conflict arabs will stand up and prayed and we should say with this will. god for a bit but wars will begin to grow as. an example of this violence wasn't long in coming no more than five minutes after we finished the interview a roadside bomb targeting the police detonated in the center of the city. luckily for the police the terrorist nest it appears that despite the gains that the police are making. the american troop withdrawal could easily lead to or turn to sectarianism in care cook for kurds arabs and turkmen alike the consequences of the

u.s. led war have left the future of kirkuk very much uncertain sebastian meyer care cook for two. and on the way for you here in r t brazil looks for a new leader as a president record breaking. bad we hear from the communities being lifted out of poverty. to israeli soldiers are awaiting sentencing after using a palestinian child as human shields during the onslaught of gaza almost two years ago and it's the first such conviction since tel aviv reinforced a ban on using civilians in combat against their will fall asleep the boy who was forced into the firing line. majeed 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 they 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 us of 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 had to show 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 for a start 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 carried out most of them have since been closed but i think that the 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 bringing a military operation to say that as a general phenomenon it's idea of soldiers you know 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. anti-government protests in france have continued to diminish over the weekend after president nicolas sarkozy's contentious pension reform was voted into

law workers at all twelve of france's oil refineries broke a month long strike of friday the demos which drain petrol pumps and forced out fuel imports were 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 one directly suffer financially from their own actions. certainly the protests and strikes that. cause some economic damage of those probably quite. exact figure on this 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 actually on strike from the public sector are the power 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 these kinds of protests so that's the reason why in

fact they are able to go on actually i think for. a look at some other stories now from around the world and some fifteen people have been injured after an explosion in campbell's main square the blast happened near a spot where riot police were stationed in case of demonstrations and a cause of the blast is unclear but turkish police suspect it may have been a suicide bombing that injured include nine police officers and six passers by among them two are in serious condition. yemeni authorities have arrested a woman suspected of 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 cell last year it attempted to blow up a detroit bound airliner. gunman have. massacred at least fourteen people during a football match in the northern home during city of san pedro sula 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 comes almost two months after a gunman stormed a shoe factory in the same city and killed eighteen people in the u.k. this week global warming skeptics held what they call climate fools day if mark two years since politicians debated a bill to tackle climate change but that happened at the same time as a country had its earliest snowfall for over seventy years campaigners say the coincidence highlighted the fact that taxpayers' money is being squandered for what they see as a pointless cause environmental author philip foster insists man's actions don't have any effect on climate change. there's not a particularly dramatic rise in c o two. anywhere carbon dioxide does not affect the climate i think that's a fundamental statement that is the misconnection that the climate warming

alarmists made but there is climate change of course but that is a natural thing but no it isn't due to a man's actions anyway man's amount of carbon dioxide represents a tiny proportion of the shift anyway about four percent whether extreme events always take place always have and always will blame them on human emissions simply . pointless because there is no real connection. that was environmental author of philip foster there brazilians are having to the polls to decide who they want to replace their soaring we popularly are at stake are the hearts and minds of the countries millions who live well below the poverty line and who say president lula was giving them better lives he's served his maximum terms but has lined up a successor such as lauren lister reports from some powell were 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 cinder block ones. with the majority. guarded gates pave 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 and 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 mark by a before and after before outgoing president lula da silva took office he woke up going to talk to people didn't recognise the poor today the rich are en route because the poor as poor as they were before people have the opportunity to think 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 jobs but really social policies are bringing inequality down were

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. janina and her two daughters live together in one shared room about one hundred square feet in this for vela 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 both the familia and helps with food or sometimes i use it to pay a bill in return for both the familia cash to naina 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 of our lives. she's ten years old and she knows how to read how to write 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 said he 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 both the 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 though by some accounts it still amounts to chump change. that. five dollars. for their lives but here you

see how it's helped 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. lauren lyster r t so paulo brazil and coming up as a recap of the week's top stories here on r.t. .

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a return for russian special forces to the country over twenty years after saudi troops left. in the weeks and other main news saddam hussein's deputy faces death for crimes against humanity and we investigate whether the tariq aziz verdict was time to take the heat out of the latest revelations from weekend weeks the online whistleblower has released four hundred thousand classified u.s. files on torture and killings which happened under washington's watch. well up next we're taking a tour of underground places across russia designed for people to survive and thrive. it's always docking people who come from face things just you know jim incarnation trying to go to doesn't look like. a long time ago now they played. and even a performer in the.