it's stormy waters in the far east us president medvedev his visit to russia's korea will island sparks an outcry in japan something basco says is unacceptable. a country left in ruins with u.s.

troops out of iraq local forces drowned under the growing onslaught of militant attacks and. conflicts that we see today based around energy could go away scientists hail a revolutionary source of cheap green energy but critics say the nuclear fuel will never make its way to power stations. you're watching r t coming to you live from the russian capital welcome to the program well moscow has dubbed unacceptable japan's diplomatic protest over dmitri medvedev visit to russia's southern crew real islands now tokyo which claims the four islands as its own said the president's trip was regrettable and some of russia's ambassador to japan the islands law in the pacific and are part of a larger russian held archipelago just north of japan they came under moscow's

control at the end of world war two now the region has rich fish and browse and mineral deposits and is believed to have vast oil and gas reserves president medvedev became the first russian leader to visit the area are to avoid reports. it's a leftover from the second world war old thought via tanks rusting on the shore with their barrels pointed towards your pan the cornish your island together three other pacific islands was thinking over it by the soviet union sixty five years ago but the tussle to define its national identity still goes on. these cross appeared here a few years ago soon after the russian orthodox church opened its parish on the island of c. katon to dicky to phoenix population window on and is now in the midst of a baby will. we have the highest birth rates in the entire region where

a lot of young people votes of servicemen. their living standards are quite decent nowadays there are many kids here and parents bring them to be baptized it's wonderful to have children on the island building the church is part of the russian government's effort to raise the living standards of the korean island beach here means a reinforcing national identity. all but the band and in the nine hundred ninety s. the audience saw a large influx of japanese charities in officials trying to persuade the locals that they might be much better off if the on and on their japanese administration says you know if we get the oil is barak we won't move the russians who live there we know how painful it is then you look for them citizenship. but this is precisely why the president is here to tell the locals that russia has not forgotten about them and while the regional authorities tried to paint their prey to picture the

roads and rumbling infrastructure betrayed the almonds chronic financial problems so. it's an important part of our land we would definitely invest money into the region. reach in buyer and mineral resources the audience have been a bone of contention for over two centuries russia held them briefly in the nineteenth century before losing a war to japan took his defeat in the second world war a lot left to regain control of the territories which prevented the two sides from signing a formal peace treaty the president's visit wasn't missed on the japanese side tokyo sad the trip was regrettable and her japanese public sentiment. japan's reaction to president trip to the pool islands is unacceptable it is our land wishes and the russian president was visiting a russian territory i'm sure we've already spleens to our japanese partners. under international law the grill islands unequivocally belong to russia but due to

geographic and economic reasons its residents a form of frequent guest to japan than to the mainland. and while russia may be in their hearts japan is still vying for their minds erica huma morter is teaching japanese at ashika town school has salaries paid by the japanese government high the cause is a very popular in the country to school the children are already waiting for me amanda's people who i see there many people who came here last year i'm happy here sometimes it seems to me that i am with my family again and here class seventh graders study alongside their parents who hope to get a job in japan life a degree allowance may have a proved in recent years but what saw to stop eyeing the horizon is some boy r.c. in russia's far east political analyst yes it's lovely going off says there's no sign of a diplomatic solution to russia japan territorial conflict in the near future there

should be a strong political will on both sides but when the japanese call them into the japanese government claims that the islands are ours period. they do not leave any space for diplomacy i don't think there is much economics of their lives that is not critically important for japan which is quite self-sufficient it is a political symbol there are a few political symbols and japanese policy is japan has to rhetorical quarrels with every single neighbor every job was called just politician but most of the public in japan or think they are there is in russia of course people just do not understand why japan country which was allied to hitler which fought against our allies like the united states the united kingdom china should be rewarded by giving them the islands which were taken away after world war two. well that was political

analysts veges love nikonov commenting on the korea lalas dispute. now a deadly siege in baghdad by a group of militants on sunday ended with fifty eight dead and scores more wounded men in suicide vests and armed with grenades took an entire congregation hostage in one of the city's largest christian churches the standoff ended when iraqi troops stormed the building and the firefight that ensured left the gunmen some security forces many of the hostages dead now this latest incident highlights the deadly situation is faced by iraq's security forces while we withdraw all u.s. combat troops jim graham from the stop the war coalition told r.t. it is not in america's interests for involved vied its own security. i think the clear intention of the united states to leave iraq seems to me indispensable precondition for iraq to. rebuild itself. united

states forces are a powerful factor in iraq to politics and they are a kind of. central determining factor if you go back to two thousand and three the first head of the occupation administration in iraq he was only in there for a month general garner and he said look to the philippines at the beginning of the twentieth century said our forces were in the philippines for one hundred years. as a what he called a calling station he said our forces will be in iraq. will be our calling station in the middle east for years to come it's not that clear that it really wants. a real peace real trying quality which might exclude itself. here with our team and still ahead in the program fuel of the future you just click found a green alternative to your green you somewhat doubt its effectiveness. in staying

with the high tech nano technology for the twenty first century is the hot topic for hundreds of companies gathered in moscow that's in our business news in fifteen minutes time. now moscow does not feel that nato treats it as an enemy russia's foreign minister has said during talks with this german counterpart but the ministers streamlined their positions ahead of the russia nato council in lisbon later this month and they also discussed this all moment plans are to use it got to do you know has been following the talks. the central topic of the talks between the two ministers was global security and russia now is pushing for a new joint european security architecture and defense thus a defense as a part of it to be better protected against common global threats of course russia is keeping a close eye on the u.s. plans nato plans about deploying elements of missile defense system on the european

continent officially in september this year nato invited russia to participate in this missile defense system today sergei lavrov said certain work is being done with its nato partners in particular they're preparing joint assessment of threats and challenges of the twenty first century and he hopes that the document will be ready by the time this russian nato summit takes place in leesburg and but before russia can come up with any answer to that proposal lover of said it would like to know how nato partners see russia participation in that project and most importantly to come to a common understanding on where those threats originate now on strange questions on whether russia and nato nowadays treat each other as enemies both mr lavrov and his german counterpart said this was not the case and today russia and nato are not

cold war anime's but rather modern day allies these are just the image of the enemy shouldn't exist anymore and must be left in history we view russia as a strategic partner we've got mutual interests we of course have differences in opinion and we can talk about them and solve problems in terms of nato and it was always the goal of germany to bring russia into the project neutral defense i have stressed that russia must work on the issue with us we are making good progress towards that goal just recently russia and nato to part in a joint special operations in again. stan as a result of which some several tons of trucks were destroyed worth over two hundred million dollars sun for drop producing will bore a trace russia mostly helped nato its nato partners by providing them with intelligence data to carry out that open ration but anyway questions were raised whether russia was going to be back in afghanistan with its troops to that sergei

lavrov asunta clear and loud message today russia is not going to take part in the war in afghanistan if the ball is to last a little so if there are speculations that russia will return to afghanistan those divisions are probably cations it's totally out of the question russian troops will never return to afghanistan this is our firm physicians that will not be changed apart from global issues like european security and the war in afghanistan of the two partners discussed a stimulus packages for the economies modernizing the economies trade between the two and an a gene that hope ration and she which is important and crucial for the economies of both countries. well check out our website for a lot more stories blogs and videos and here's a taste of what's on line right now what are t. dot com a time bomb is taking for american students who are now over the government of war the credit card debt and with no jobs around most have no way to pay.

and moscow joined in with the best of them and welcoming a night of spooks and fodder for more goblins vampires and witches head to r.t.e. dot com. well brazil has elected its first female president dilma rousseff like the extremely popular ex leader lula da silva who nominated her she promises to tackle poverty and put gender equality as her number one priority now for more on this we can now talk to mark weiss. from the center for economic and policy research thank you very much for joining us mark now rousseff is expected to continue her outgoing pretty saucers left leaning policies now which is more important the fact that she's the country's first female president or that she's got big shoes to fill well i think the. shoes to fill are the more important thing well the growth important. thing is going to be going forward

the economic. i think that's how she that's really why she was elected brazil had done enormously better in the last eight years under the bush. than he had in the previous eight years under phone on though in reeky cardoso who is of the same party as you all ran against still more so the economy grew. by per person about twenty three percent. during the early years is only as compared to just three and a half percent previously and that made a big difference in especially i think be increasing the minimum wage which was very large sixty five percent increase after adjusting for inflation that helped tens of millions of people because not only did people make minimum wage but a lot of other incomes from that are tied to that so these kinds of changes were

really important you looked. alright while dilma rousseff has never been elected before into office does she really have what it takes to lead such a rapidly developing nation. well i think so i mean she has a lot of experience in government you know she was energy minister she was chief of staff you know people said if you look back to what people said about llewyn when he ran in two thousand and two. there were a lot of people saying he wasn't qualified and they even a lot of the media treated him i think if he didn't have a college education which was a first for him for president and of course unusual in the world and here he was he turned out to be the president that. not only presided over the best economic performance that that the country's had in decades but also he was the president that really. brought brazil to be

a major player on the world stage so nobody expected that and. again i do think that going forward the economic policies are going to be key brazil has enormous potential that it hasn't lived up to you know it's often put into the bric nations of the acronym brazil russia india china but brazil has not had anywhere near the growth in the last decade that russia india or china had and so they have a long way to go still and they're getting they're getting there. and the question is going for are they going to achieve some of the potential that they have. all right thank you very much for your comments that was mark was brought from the center for economic policy research. and now to some other international news at this hour the led lighting parcel bombs on cargo planes came from a repentant al qaeda member u.k. officials have said now x.

going to bottom obey detainees fyfe e handed himself in to saudi authorities two weeks ago the parcels were placed with cargo with one of parcels seized in dubai and the older intercepted in britain u.s. officials have named a saudi bob maker as the key suspect the attempt to set explosives from yemen to the u.s. . in vietnam severe flooding caused by heavy rains and strong winds this left at least six people dead and one missing one hundred thousand people have been forced to flee their homes and the weather has paralyzed traffic and destroyed houses while more heavy rain is expected in the next few days. a woman was wounded after a mail package exploded at a delivery company in greece two other packages found to be bombs were destroyed one of which was addressed to french president nicolas sarkozy two men were arrested over the attempted attacks which are thought to have been organized by

a domestic terrorist group. of all gainor in indonesia has erupted for the third time in a week prompting panic among thousands living beneath it. is one of the world's most active volcanoes and at least thirty eight people have been killed since it started spewing lava rescue workers have set up additional shelters for people who are living near body. now the idea of eco friendly nuclear energy may have once seemed impossible but now scientists believe they found the fuel of the future story and is more bond of the uranium and could end our dependence on fossil fuels artie's laura explores why the metal has still to gain a foothold in the market. we all use energy but at what cost. energy security why many morton wars are fought the oil's running out and there doesn't seem to be

a viable alternative insights but unbeknown to most there's an energy source that says clean green and abundant all over the globe story m z nuclear fuel and its supporters believe it will change the world conflicts that we see today based around energy could go away and that these energy sources that i'm talking about which don't emit carbon dioxide or or greenhouse gases and don't produce dangerous ways could enable us to have cleaner water cleaner air and less intrusion on our environment from energy production a ton of the silvery metal produces as much energy as two hundred tons of uranium three and a half million tons of coal. the amount of thorin that it would take who vied all the power to run your entire life. is about the size of a marble that big a group working on story in the u.k.

says it hasn't managed to get the british government on board so far so it's looking to cooperate with countries like russia for several years now a russian physicist has been proposing to build saurian power stations but i wanted his ideas haven't been taken up there's a lot of focus on renewables at the moment so maybe that's where they feel that there's more public support rather than. but truly understood the potential of story. then they would realize that it's a good investment research on thore and was largely halted in the middle of the last century after a year rainy unpowered reactor was designed. many believe also fell out of the spotlight because making a bomb out of it is thought to be almost impossible but today not all scientists are thore and converts. reactors don't really work for every challenge and it's

a whole new technology which has very insurmountable problems in my opinion they would have problems in developing the process and so i could why would you split from the waste from the reactor they would have difficulties in actually store in the future. since two thousand and seven cities from london to sydney have held our turning the lights off to save energy proponents say is the real power became a reality we could turn the lights back on with confidence. through. the rooms a divisive thing some say it's a technology that's being tried tested and found lacking others say that because the light water reactor got there first the room was never given a proper chance but while it's cheap abundant and even a possibility the scientists here at the annual story and conference say give it

a go it might even change the world were a bit. well ten minutes from now r.t. investigates the cost in blood of cell phones and laptops but before that let's check what russia has to offer in terms of innovation in our business bulletin that's after a short break hungry for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. in mosco lindsey's available in hotels for coolest i'm going to do you know over those a military term keep a promise it is congress hotel east west never told center no but. scott brown assume that's a yes lobby on sky book insulter historical hotels of its culture in the city so

it's in the sky because most. mid-air as it gets up until somebody struck for us to tropicana her toe. the. line. would be soon which brightened if you knew about sun from finest impression these. stunts on t.v. don't come. hello and a very warm welcome to the business news hundreds of companies from all over the world ah in moscow hoping to find out what russia has to offer in terms of nanotechnology an international forum is underway aiming to encourage more foreign

investment in the sector all correspondent daniel bushell is at the nano tech forum forty. well this often has become a hive of activity so it's venture funds in many cases for an american venture fund as well as russian meeting up with these startup these poor high potential russian nano expose these are the companies that are hoping to bring in innovative products to the russian market and all into the world no one company playing a key role in the whole or innovation six is troika dialog russia's oldest private investment company well i'm delighted to be joined by its head on pressure north of now tell us what will is trickle playing in the nano and quite sick sector at the moment. i think your first of all the troika dialog is also a management company for venture funds and currently we are running who are interest venture funds and one of them is together where you worst nonna and

business school school career established three years ago in moscow it's two billion rubles investment fund venture a venture capital fund when non-a has invested to one billion googles. about so t. me and yours dollars and. the same amount was invested by business school school caught up in this fund and the investment declaration is dedicated to the particular non-metric knowledge you and i will be sure east to find. such interest in startups. our partner for for future portfolio companies and invest them. go through the process use of growing this company and then to find an exit strategy for all this company as usual was known as one of the companies one of the nine hundred companies slated for privatization in the coming years how big

a role will try to play in those privatisation it would be very special case. it's . my judgment. so-called state corporation which should go privately through some transactions probably it's the only one the wrist should either state as a state corporation or should be liquidated so we means that the government sees private business potential for risk to exist as a. public incorporate the company and its interests and it confirms that. it should be important more years for the government than they would like to to move it as a big step well established private private and public company. time to take a look at the markets now and russia's two main stock exchange just closed with

both p. indices high. point age of twenty percent breaking a sixteen hundred points threshold and the my six point six to eight percent. european stocks were little changed doesn't vest as waited to see whether the federal reserve will announced sufficient asset purchases following its meeting this week to or finalize the global economic recovery. two point seven percent on the dax off to the carmaker's chief executive officer said that claims for damages could yet stop us from merging with porsche. the us stocks are showing more gains boosted by charging earnings reports and chinese data but investors stretch likely ahead of major market events later in the. hours hydro is for the first time purchasing and overseas russia's biggest renewable energy companies buying fifty one percent of a new hydro plant being built in vietnam the project is worth up to one hundred

fifty million dollars with a part is aiming to finalize the deal by the end of this year energy consumption in vietnam has been growing at an annual rate of about twenty percent. also plans to enter the markets of last indonesia and india. a microsoft will help russia to develop its own silicon valley in school about the u.s. software giant will conduct research and encourage innovative research at the business school head of the skolkovo project victor vets see better plans to sign contracts with nokia and intel have to vote saw a forty percent jump in sales for the first ten months of the year compared with two thousand and nine russia's largest comical sold around one hundred seventy thousand feet calls helped by the cash for clunkers program separately the company has recalled twelve thousand cars due to problems with the accelerator. well that's all we have time for knowledge join.