as a strong stable independent economy. big deal in the construction of the nuclear power plant is a major player. in asia might leave you reach the goals we set this power plant will account for vietnam's energy markets and we allowed to develop as a sovereign state that not only produces in prices but uses the sources of energy which is very important in today's world. countries are eager to develop in the energy sector their group under construction. in vietnam demonstrates to specialties we have. to do shows we have in russia to. continue working together in the oil and gas industry both in the. region is responsible for sixty percent of the world's g.d.p. and as the russian leader himself said today it is the strongest emerging economy

in the world today russia of course wants a bigger role and it's a development in its ambitions because it has a lot of potential but the russian leader he was very pleased about his visit everything starting with the weather which he said was a reflection on how good the relationship between moscow and i know is whether here has been perfect blue skies very warm not too hot not too cold he also spoke about his experience of vietnamese food saying that for some russians it might be a little too spicy but he actually preferred that way so it was a very pleasurable experience for him not only did he manage to take an experience he also matters to grand. later part of his program he met one vietnamese lady who said that as somewhat of a role model for her and that her biggest wish would be to shake his head the russian president said that is possibly one of the easiest wishes to grant and proceeded to do exactly that shaking ladies had he certainly seemed pretty good

impressions for everyone so far. artie's katerina is out of our reporting there from hanoi. now russia and georgia could be entangled in a spy scandal with reports tbilisi detained twenty people on friday for espionage and then autumn a source quoted by reuters said those detained are all georgian and are suspected of being part of the spy network gathering information for moscow the georgian interior ministry has so far refused to comment and says it won't do so one term next week russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov said moscow was not aware of any details as there are no diplomatic relations between the two countries experts say tbilisi's invasion shows how thought teria the country is. 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 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. past its first reading of the georgian part parliament recently and it is possible that some of this trying to create. a social mood to support. one of the country's opposition leaders says tbilisi uses the slightest link to russia as an excuse to prosecute. this kind of charges russian links russian ties russian is spirit is always used in georgia's political propaganda i just know anything about these people but i know the three

in georgia it's quite enough to be some holding three zero i sure know any spinach maybes there but you for your failed business in russia or you are family in russia and you are waiting in georgia it's quite enough for georgia law enforcement officers to make criminal you're scared about said. and coming up scouting for bombs two soldiers await the sentencing for using a palestinian child as a human shield and forcing him to check for explosives while this family dog. in brazil be incoming reader will have to deal with the enormous gap between the rich and the poor learn about their first steps of a few minutes on. the first ever joined us russian anti-drug software a ship in war torn afghanistan has been hailed a success special forces knocked out for drug labs on the afghan border with pakistan and confiscated

a ton of hair when worth hundreds of millions of dollars now afghan president hamid karzai condemned the operation claiming it violated the country's sovereignty but russian officials say cars i statement is confusing as the raid was led by the afghan interior ministry the operation marks russia's return to afghanistan twenty years after soviet troops from a decade long war against murder here dean insurgents are today's you've got that you have got two of our reports for some moscow's boost to the u.s. led drugs effort came as a complete shock. this one died so did this one and this one this one died to. undeceive got a mash is showing his crime rates killed in the suv it war in afghanistan two decades and we feel we're out of the food chain in this picture made it out along andree was a command over mine disposal unit and. in two years the school took the stairs one

people dozens of others. at all mines used against it soldiers were america mate. the u.s. . which supplied the mujahideen with the quick weapons medicine it was american streaming signs which. don't know. but. two decades after the soviet. and great will stay can a back to find out that russia was back in afghanistan again this time with its 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 with over two hundred million dollars. we gave information to all us and asked them point is the three signs around the operation for three

months we used about seventy special forces units three landing helicopters and six of. the whole operation lasted less and. less 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 a 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 full just than any other country russia is convinced that this can't be confronted it is however those who know crossed hand

which 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 abrasion should be planned indeed to start and. an intelligence section of the operation itself and the wrapping up of the operation you know it's easy to get trapped in this war it's hard to get out of it as long as islamist militancy and drunks emanating from of ghana stand are seen as a threat to its national security rush is likely to remain a fool sin the region even as the us works out an x. it strategy. faced with a bigger war is and less reliable neighbors in 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 exiting the bachelor party moscow. iraqi lawmakers are demanding their government investigate allegations of war crimes now the plea 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 had taken prisoners over to iraq interrogators despite overwhelming evidence of torture the data also shed light on fifteen thousand killings over the past six years which had been previously unaccounted for 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 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 please 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 unlike any previous media story or 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 problem spokesman is saying what they talk about is the critical nature of the nature of the leaks and what the 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 role 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. this week a top aide to saddam hussein was given the death sentence on charges of murder and crimes against humanity but the verdict has drawn international condemnation british m.p. jeremy corbin says referring to the old regime was a ruse to deflect attention from the revelations by wiki leaks the reason they're doing it now that you are correct on this is to divert attention away from the wiki leaks issue because wiki leaks have exposed the torture that is going on systematically and i think the death sentence pronounced for the territories is 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 of 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 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 the seventy four year old as is was sentenced to death by hanging on tuesday he served as deputy prime minister and foreign minister to iraq's former president saddam hussein was convicted of killing members social political parties opposed to saddam's regime although he denied any personal involvement. two israeli soldiers are awaiting sentencing for forcing a nine year old palestinian boy to check for bombs during the invasion of gaza almost two years ago activists ever claim to be conviction bypasses those who allow the rampant practice to continue paulus leader met the boy who was thrust into the line of fire. 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 ship i want to complete 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 rules 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 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 which if i tell you dealt most of them have since been closed 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 it's i.d.f. soldiers you use human shields that's absurd for much of the family they take comfort they find to be getting just. just even if it's only against ranking

soldiers and not the commanders they accuse of allowing human shields behind. jerusalem. and coming up later this hour the streets of moscow are flooded with vampires devils and pumpkins as it celebrates halloween find out more here on our team. our rebellion in france against raising the retirement age has weakened after president sarkozy's reform was voted into law union said they would end strikes at nationwide all refineries and ports where protests have been taking place for several weeks the law has been successful passed by the parliament of the country's petrol station should resume normal service by the middle of next week but experts say it is not only the protesters who suffered from the strike but the country's economy as a whole. certainly the of the protests and strikes of. course some economic

damage with probably quite a lot more than exact exact figure on those 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 on strike or in the public sector are 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 these kinds of protests so that's the reason why in fact they are able to go on actually i think. people in brazil are voting for a new successor to the highly popular president lula da silva in the first round earlier this month. her male rival she was a set up it's widely expected that he will take power and become the country's first woman to head of state hillary as below the poverty line have benefited from the current president giving them better lives and authorities lauren lyster

reports from sao paulo. the gap between rich and poor seems to be narrowing. in brazil there are those who live tucked away behind barbed wire walls. and those who live behind shanty cinder block ones. the majority is. 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 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 two are marked by a before and after before outgoing president lula da silva took office and forgot to what are the people didn't recognise the poor the rich are en route because the poor long 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 eight years in office is a brazil word jobs that really social policies are bringing inequality down income from the poorest in the country has grown eight percent each 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. the i name and her two daughters live together and 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 bolsa familia and helps with food or sometimes i use it to pay a bill to not turn for both a familiar cash to naina has to show the government that her daughter samantha gets her vaccinations and is in school and ten zillion. eighty five percent of the time

as a result a lot of my squad she's ten years old and she knows how to read how to write and 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 when 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. 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 familias 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 a 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. but here you see how it does help resiliency beyond their cinder block cities and football playing fantasies. into goals these kids say is being doctors and teachers and we're here for the first time arguably in its history the wall separating church from poor don't look so set in stone. for a mr r t so paulo brazil. and now to some other world news this hour an explosion in istanbul's main square has left at least thirty two people injured police say a suicide bomber was targeting police officials the blast occurred near a place where a lot of police were present in case of protests after this blast more on detonated explosives were found and. one of the two explosives posted from

yemen last week was transported onto planes before being seized in dubai qatar airways has said bombs were found on u.s. bound planes in the u.k. and dubai u.s. officials are now going to yemen to check security practices and holes in the system earlier yemeni security forces arrested a female student suspected of sending the explosive parcels to u.s. synagogues students have gathered near the university of yemen to protest the arrest of their colleagues. in honduras at least fourteen people have been massacred by gunmen who during a football game the group armed with assault rifles opened far point blank range at a studio in the northern city of sun. the motive is unclear but police believe the killings are linked to the drug straight it comes almost two months after gunmen stormed a shoe factory in the same city killing eighteen people. at least twenty

five people have been confirmed dead after a boat capsized in the bay of bengal fifty were rescued and about one hundred others are still missing the boat was carrying it nearly one hundred fifty muslim pilgrims from a shrine rescue workers have suspended their search for the night for any survivors . now this week global warming skeptics in the u.k. market the second anniversary of what they've dubbed climate fool's day two years ago as the british parliament was debating a bill to tackle climate change the earliest snow in almost a century fell and london activists claim the chilly coincidence was just more proof that the bill is a waste of taxpayers' money writer and legal analyst john o'sullivan says climate change is a natural process but it's become a source of profit for governments. nobody disagrees that climate change is climate change before point five billion years we're not arguing about something trivial

like the issue of climate change the real issue here is corruption now what we're trying to do is ask the governments around the world to show us the evidence it's not good enough to tell us that they have the records we found time after time here in england with the c.r.u. last year recently in new zealand when challenge to the government agencies cannot produce the records. that was writer john o'sullivan they're. now witches and zombies have been taking center stage in moscow as people get set for the freakiest holiday of the year following now this weekend clubs have been full with a crowd that has swapped its glad rags for real rags and wigs artie's tom barton has all the details it's how we got time for trick and treating dressing up but here in moscow it's really an occasion for just to go there's a night of one of the clubs that we've seen not just scary costumes

a whole variety of weird and wonderful garb to see my rights to see system policeman to see the little souls of professionals i don't say it's a time to party with me is out of the sky he's a d.j. . england for the last hole on the weeds out of a new and fresh saving lives on the weeds maybe. it will make a little. bit of the end of the save there was no other way. to do things but. seems to have become more popular all over the world to me like i spent a lot of time in venezuela. a really big on the way there also to have been everywhere every instance of dressing up i mean i want to be a little scary monsters but this lives in different. cities of time. well no disrespect but you look like scary. i'll be going

beyond all right. thank you down to the sky. i didn't know i look so scary let me try my last anyway that's why i don't want to marry goodnight spam real funny. comedy. well for more on how moscow celebrates the scariest day of the year head to our t.v. dot com. and you can also check out the latest news and analysis here's some of what's on why for you right now americans put their trust in a comedian above politician as as satire as jon stewart is maybe the most influential man in the u.s. . and in moscow authorities sound the alarm as estimates suggest the city is crawling with rats some thinkers even claim the rodents outnumber people and the russian capital find out more of our team dot com. an update on our

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drugs. a success forces have destroyed. over two hundred million dollars. now the u.s. over estimates the threat of terrorism and therefore squanders billions of dollars on military operations abroad well that's according to the war activist a blogger and author tom engelhardt who's been speaking to r.t. this interview is up next. or to sitting down with tom engelhardt tom dispatch dot com a blog described as a regular antidote to the mainstream media and author of the american way of war how bush's wars became obama's sir thank you for sitting down with us to be here i'd like us to start off by taking a look at the extent of the u.s. military presence throughout the world right now it's global.