stablish itself within the twenty first century world arena as a strong stable independent economy. big deal in the construction of the nuclear power plant is a major player. reach the goals we. count for reach energy markets. to develop a street that not only produces in prices but also uses the sources of energy which is very important in today's world. countries are eager to develop in the energy sector the agreement under construction. in vietnam demonstrates the specialities we have. to do shows we have been rushing to. continue working together in the oil and gas industry. 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. because it has a lot of potential 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 the noise whether here has been. very warm not too hot not too cold he also. saying that. might be a little too spicy but he actually. it was a very pleasurable experience for him not only did he take any experience he also met a grand. later part of his program we met in these ladies and he 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 to do

exactly that shaking lady's head he certainly seemed pretty good impressions for everyone so far. out of our reporting there from. now russia and georgia could be entangled in a spy scandal with reports tbilisi detained twenty people on friday for espionage an anonymous source quoted by reuters said those detained are all georgian and are suspected of being part of a spy network gathering information for moscow the georgian interior ministry has so far refused to comment and says it won't do so until next 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 experts say to greece's invasion shows how authoritarian the country is. when someone is arrested they are 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 hallmark 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 someone is trying to whip up. a social mood to support that. 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 don't know anything about these people but i know the three georgia it's quite enough to be some holding three zero i should know any spanish maybe sir but you for your failed business in russia are you family in russia and you are reading georgia it's quite enough for georgia law enforcement off shows to make criminal you're scared about said. and coming up on r t scouting for bombs two soldiers await sentencing for using a palestinian child as a human shield and forcing him to check for explosives while his family dog. in brazil the incoming leader will have to deal with the enormous gap between the rich and the poor learn about their first steps in a few minutes on our team. now the first ever joint u.s. russian anti drug czar operation in war torn afghanistan has been hailed a success special forces knocked out of four drug labs on the afghan border with

pakistan and confiscated a ton of heroin worth hundreds of millions of dollars afghan president hamid karzai condemned the operation claiming it violated the country's sovereignty but russian officials say karzai 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 withdrew from a decade long war against didn't surgeons. over reports how for some moscow's boost to the u.s. led drugs effort came as a complete shock. for this one died. under reagan national is showing his quiver it's killed in the suv it war in afghanistan two decades only four out of the food chain in this picture made it out alive

andree was a commando of a mine disposal unit and. in two years he schooled those sheep one people dozens of others. at them all mines used against soviet soldiers were american mate. the u.s. which supplied the mujahideen with the quitman weapons medicine. construe missiles which hope to shoot don't know. but. two decades after the soviet axid andree 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 food truck producing labs on the border between afghanistan and pakistan were destroyed in a special rate and the town of peregrine went over two hundred million dollars.

after we gave information to all u.s. and afghan partners the three signs around 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 full round was. its main 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 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 forges than any other country russia is convinced that

this can be confronted it is however those who know firsthand what fighting in afghanistan is light and learning against being drawn into a full scale war with the company. of course it 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 zone intelligence section of the operation itself and the wrapping up of the operation 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 afghanistan are seen as a threat to its national security and russia is likely to remain a fool sin the region even as the us what's out an x. it strategy. faced with bigger war is sound less reliable neighbors say 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 objectivity in afghanistan is a sign russia is back and this time around not as the us cold war anomie but as a mordant a ally it's a democrat you are t. mosco. it while key 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 having prisoners over to iraqi interrogators despite overwhelming evidence of torture the data also shed light and fifteen thousand killings over the past six years which had been previously unaccounted for iraq's prime minister who 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 had 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 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 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. 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 corbyn 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 correct on this is to divert attention away from the wiki leaks issue because wiki leaks if exposed to 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 into the behavior of the occupying forces and the iraqi army and its forces ever since the invasion of two thousand and three council 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 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 tariq aziz was sentenced to death by hanging on tuesday he served as deputy prime minister and foreign minister to iraq's former president saddam hussein he was convicted of killing members so she had political parties of course to set ours regime although he denied any personal involvement. so 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 so whatever claim to be conviction bypasses those

who allow the rap and practice to continue paul's 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 or 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's 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 took him with us put him 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 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 is

a general phenomenon i.d.f. soldiers you know use human shields that's absurd for much of the family they take comfort they find to 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. and coming up later this hour the streets of moscow are flooded with ballot bars and devils and pumpkins as it celebrates halloween find out more here on r.t. . now people in brazil are voting for a new successor to the highly popular president lula da silva in the first round earlier this month and dana rousseff got more votes than her main rivals was a set up it's widely expected that rousseff who has vowed to follow course will take power and will become the country's first one ever head of state millions

below the poverty line have benefited from the current president giving them better lives and as artie's lauren lister 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 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 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 two are marked by a before and after before outgoing president lula da silva took office and forgot to look at the people didn't recognise the poor today the rich are en route because

the poor on as poor as they were before people have an opportunity 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 a year while the richest. has grown only one and a half brazil is part of a trend in latin america 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. and her two daughters live together in one shared room about one hundred square feet in this food vella are 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 the familia and helps with food or sometimes i use it to pay a bill in return for both

a familiar 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 a lot of my fault 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. i want them to 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 the familia is responsible for a sixth of the reduction in poverty in brazil while it cost 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. but here you see how it's helping us see 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 history the walls separating church from poor don't look so set in stone. or in mr r. t. so paulo brazil. and out to some other world news this hour will keep police have released all the worshippers that were taken hostage during a catholic mass in baghdad militants attacked the country's stock exchange and then moved to the nearby church and killed at least two people they were reportedly

demanding al qaeda members in iraq and egypt to be so cruel. an explosion in istanbul main square has left at least thirty two people injured police say a suicide bomber was starving police officials the blast occurred near a place where riot police were present in case of protests after this blast more on detonated explosives were found and diffuse. yemeni authorities have released a female student suspected of sending explosives to u.s. synagogues earlier qatar airways said one of the two parcels posted from yemen last week had been transported onto planes before being seized in dubai 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 at holes in the system . and one during a set least fourteen people have been massacred by gunmen and during

a football game the group armed with assault rifles opened fire at white like rage at a stadium the northern city of sonic bedroom the motive is on clear but police believe the killings are only. to the drugs trade it comes almost two months after gunmen stormed a shoe factory in the same city killing eighteen people. now russia faces a skyrocketing crime rate among youngsters with the world health organization ranking at number one in europe for youth crime all experts say one solution is to offer young people activities to keep them busy and safe parties dalia meets someone who are barely out of school but already behind bars. please show us on the door 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 sharing

police just what happened when his gang carried out a brutal the main perpetrators would soon join the species in one of russia's sixteen young offenders in shelters and it was enough has already said more than half of his sentence for committing that racial he was a fifteen year old skinhead when both his friends at ten a four in the police muscle the guys noise lying next to him they suddenly thought he must have been using this knife to you there was no struggle so i stepped into ice event posted to my three friends who each night him stabbings account for almost half of the homicides carried out by youngsters in the european and central asian region according to our records by the world health organization and it puts russia with the highest rate of violence among the surveyed age group it's not ten to twenty nine is minute change in psychology or irrelevant even moral values well

this contributes to an extremely high crime rate wiped out by the activities of religious sex and i'm sorry just say this by all media including television which story is full of blood in russia around five thousand seven hundred. minors are currently serving prison terms the majority either from a one parent family or an overnight experts say about eighty percent of serious juvenile crimes take place in the evening or night when children in syria are supposed to be looked after by their parents however in reality many children often end up on the streets searching for their room entertainment. and that's primarily alcohol which is fueling so much of today's and from this situation and mine is is actually slowly improving the grim statistics and warning of age thankfully while many of these young boys hope they will be able to sue high crime spree in the future it may be down to those on the other side of the valve wired to ensure they

divide the come another goes generation. r.t. moscow. all which isn't zombies have been taking center stage in moscow as people get set for the freakiest holiday of the year halloween all this weekend clubs have been for with a crowd that has been has swapped its gladrags for real rags and wigs artist tom barton has all the details. it's halloween not time for trick or treating and 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 the whole variety of weird and wonderful god receive my rights to see the system policeman or see the little souls of professionals i don't say it is a time to all sing with me here is out in the sky he's a d.j. somebody named elizabeth yes the name of the last hole i'll leads out of the last minute and rest is over there is only a leans maybe it's about me and. people make

a long day at. the end of the city that was not all that we. want to see things become. seems to become the all over the world to me like i spent a lot of time in venezuela and now they really big on knowing they're told so to him and everybody every means into dressing up i mean a lot of me being a little scary going to this lives in different times mostly the same sort of time this time well no disrespect but you look like scary to me. but i'll be going beyond the whole road thing. like you down in the sky. i dunno i don't say scary i may try my best anyway that's why i don't want to cause a very good night and play with spam real funny and awesome comedy. well for more

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whole time not to have a look at the latest news and. this week's top stories on our t.v. russia seals the deal to build a vietnam's first ever nuclear power plant in a bid to help the country develop as an independent and modern state the agreement was signed as dmitri medvedev visits had ordered to boost cooperation with the region. fresh tensions flare as georgia has reportedly arrested that work of twenty people all georgians for spying for russia to b.c. has refused to either confirm or deny the claims. of the first ever joint

us russian anti drug czar operation in afghanistan has been hailed a success forces have destroyed four drug labs and confiscated a ton of marilyn worth over two hundred million dollars. now the us overestimates the threat of terrorism and therefore squanders billions of dollars in military operations abroad well that's according to antiwar activists blogger and author tom engelhardt who's been speaking to r.t. his interview is up next. 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 today with her latest to start off by taking a look at the extent of the u.s. military presence.