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look forward to be held don't see. the pain and suffering will never be forgotten. as well as the joy of liberation. your spring of nineteen forty five on our. it's stormy waters in the far east us president medvedev said visit to russia skrill island sparks an outcry in japan something moscow says is unacceptable. a country left in ruins with u.s. troops out of iraq local forces drown under the growing all slaughter of militant

attacks and. conflicts that we've seen 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 station. you're watching r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital welcome to the program moscow has dubbed as unacceptable japan's diplomatic protest over dmitri medvedev his visit to russia's southern korea i once tokyo which claims the four islands. as its own so the president's trip was regrettable and solemn russia's ambassador to japan the islands lie in the pacific and are part of a larger russian held archipelago to the north of japan they came under moscow's

control at the end of world war two now the region has a rich fishing grounds and mineral deposits that is believed to have vast oil and gas reserves president medvedev became the first russian leader to visit the area artie's exon a boy called reports. it's a leftover from the second world war old soviet tanks rusting on the shore with their barrels pointed towards your pan because the ship island together with 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. this 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 interest region we have

a lot of young people lots 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 reinforcing national identity. all but the band and in the nine hundred ninety s. they are and saw a large influx of japanese charities and officials trying to persuade the locals that they might be much better off if the aunts were under japanese administration because you know if we get the owners bark 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 a prey to picture the road city rumbling infrastructure betrayed the audience

chronic financial problems so. it's an important part of our land we would definitely insist money into the region. reach in buyer and mineral resources the islands 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 of effort to gain 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 visits trip to the cruel islands is unacceptable it is our land russians and the russian president was visiting a russian territory i'm sure we've already spleens to our japanese partners. under international law the real island on the quickly belong to russia but due to

geographic and economic reasons its residents upon the gas to japan than to the mainland. and while russia may be in their hearts japan is still vying for their minds erica huma mortar is teaching japanese at a she could town school his celery speed by the japanese government high on the cause is a very popular when you come to the school the children are already waiting for me amanda people who i see there are 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 at the career law lands may have proved in recent years but the white sought to stop eyeing the horizon it's a work of art in russia's far east political analysts vyacheslav nikonov says there's no sign of a diplomatic solution to the russian japan territorial conflict in the near future

there should be a strong political will on the both sides but when the japanese fallen into the japanese government claims that the islands are our worst 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 not just politicians but most of the public in japan or think there was 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. that was a political analyst got just love deacon off commenting on the career islands

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 stick an entire congregation hostage in one of the city's a largest christian churches the standoff ended with walking troops stormed the building the firefight that ensued left the gunmen some security forces and many of the hostages dead this latest incident highlights the deadly situation spaced by iraq's security forces following the withdrawal of the west combat troops well jim brann from the stop the war coalition told r.t. that it is not in america's interests for iraq to provide its own security. i think the clear intention of the united states to leave iraq seems to me a 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 fact 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 back to the philippines at the beginning of the twentieth century said our forces were in the philippines for one hundred years . as what he called a calling station he said our forces will be you know 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 r t and still ahead in the program the fuel of the future scientists claim valid a green alternative to your ring though some doubt its effectiveness. and stay with the high tech and that of 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. all moscow does not feel that nato treats it as an enemy russia's foreign minister has said during talks with his german counterpart now the ministers streamlined their positions ahead of the russian nato council in lisbon later this month and they also discuss this armament plus artes it. has been following the talks with central told people the talks between the two ministers was global security in russia now is pushing for a new joint european security architecture and defense data 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 and nato plans about deploying elements of missile defense system on the european continent officially in september this year nato invited russia to

participate in these missile defense system today sergei lavrov said certain work is being done with its nato partners in particular they're preparing a 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 lisbon and but be full russia can't come up with any answer to that proposal love 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 onscreen the questions on whether russia. and nato nowadays treat each other as enemies both mr lavrov and his german counterpart so that this was not the case and today russia and nato ah not cold war anime's but rather modern day allies the saudis the image of the enemy

shouldn't exist anymore and must be left in history as 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 the mutual defense i have stressed that russia must work on the issue with us we're making good progress towards that goal just recently russia and nato two parts in a joint special operations in afghanistan as a result of which some of several tons of trucks were destroyed worth over two hundred million dollars sent for drug producing laborde 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 but to that sergei lavrov the son to 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 visions 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 the stimulus packages for the economy as modernizing the economy so trade between the two and an a gene at hope ration in energy which is important and crucial for the economies of both countries. well feeding imaginary cows and growing non-existent fruit are just some of what taxpayers have to foot the bill for to the tune of over a billion euros a year and the european commission has found that fraudulent payments have doubled last year with most of regularities and funds going to the poorest regions shot herbert from open europe a think tank concerned with improving the direction of the e.u.

says the union is wasting money by forms a phenomenal amount of money is spent on on farming subsidies and it's a very very complex procedure in how those those funds are it tamed by people in fact by farmers in fact and they have improved over the past years but it's it's just not working because if you look at the substantial amount of money which is is going to for example cows that don't exist and go into various schemes going to people who should be applying for it i mean we really have to ask questions if this is the right way we should be spending our money we do need to look at where the funds are spent in terrible sort of wasteful ways and whether there are clear cases of fraud spending so much of the budget on subsidizing farmers is not really the way to make us grow and to make our economies more competitive we need to seriously look at our priorities we need to seriously invest in things which add value like research like development. well check out our website for

a lot more stories blogs and videos and here's a taste of what's online right now at our t.v. dot com that's one of the sticking for american students who now owe the government more than credit card debt errors and with no jobs around most have no way to pay. joined in with the best of them and welcome at night of spooks and fun well for more goblins vampires and witches head to dot com. brazil has elected its first female president dilma rousseff to succeed her tremendously popular mentor lula da silva rousseff who was never before held elected office is expected to continue her predecessors a left leaning policies however author and expert on south america nicholas calls off says brazil needs to find its place in the modern world she is going to continue to consolidate the economic achievements that she's going to consolidate

the institutions of political institutions and you know that's all for the better. was able to. be increased or or to decrease poverty twenty million people left the ranks already under the administration so i think that dilma rousseff would probably continue along those lines and in that sense. it would be progressive unfortunately there are limits to what we'll do and i think that ultimately brazil is a pragmatic country doesn't really want to rock the boat too much just wants to preserve and consolidate the economic stability of recent years there raises the question ultimately of what does brazil stand for in the twenty first century. and out to some other international news this hour to call off the fighting parcel bombs on cargo planes came from

a repentant al qaeda member you can you officials have said excellent autumn obey detainees. handed himself in to saudi authorities two weeks ago the parcels were placed with cargo with one parcel season dubai and the other intercepted in britain u.s. officials have been named a saudi bob maker as the key suspect in the attempt to send the explosives from yemen to the u.s. . in vietnam severe flooding caused by heavy rains and strong winds has 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 male 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. a volcano 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 nearby. now the idea of eco friendly nuclear energy may have once seemed impossible but now scientists believe they've found the fuel of the future for you is more abundant than your am and could end our dependence on fossil fuels artie's lore emmet 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 more wars are thought the oil's running out and there doesn't seem to be

a viable alternative in sight 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've seen 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 cool would 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 ore three and a half million tons of coal. the amount of thorin there would take her via 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 the foreign reactors don't really work 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 in which you split from the waste from the reactor they would have difficulties in actually store in the future. two thousand and seven cities from london to sydney have held our turning the lights off to save energy proponents say the worry of 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 thorin conference say give it

a go it might even change the world you are at it london. later we talked to russia's innovation tech expert about the importance of seeking new forms of energy . in the next ten fifteen or twenty years the world economic architecture will change so much but the raw material sector will simply lose the significance it has today a considerable part of the ultimo bill fleet will operate totally differently it will be electrical environmentally clean etc who will then need us and our oil if the world stops consuming oil as an energy resource in such huge amounts and if we fail to diversify reorganize our economy and introduce innovative development then russia will turn out to be uncompetitive in the world market. will see that interview in just over an hour of a for now let's check what russia has to offer in terms of innovation and our business bulletin.

that's right time to have a look at what's happening in the world of business hundreds of companies from all over the world all in moscow hoping to find out what russia has to offer in terms of nanotechnology in an international forum is underway a mitri encourage more foreign investment in the sector all correspondent daniel bushell is up there was not a tech forum for r.t. . well this often has become a hive of activity so it's venture funds in many cases for an american venture funds as well as russian meeting up with these start up 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 i'm delighted to be joined by its head on pressure north of now

tell us what will his trick of playing in the nano and crytek sector at the moment . think of first of all the troika dialog is also a management company for venture funds and currently we are running sure when triple venture funds and one of them is together will you worst nonna and business schools call cory stablished 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 burbles. 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 be a particular moment to acknowledge you and our mission east to find.

such interest in startups. our partner for for future portfolio companies and invest them. go through the process 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 . giant. so-called state corporation which should go privately through some transactions probably it's the only one the rest should i this state as a state corporation or should be liquidated so we means that the government sees private business potential for responding to exist as as a. public incorporate the company and its interest in it

confirms that. it should be important more years for the government and they would like to to move it as a big step well established private private and public company. and in an exclusive interview the head of ruth's not enough gave archie a hint about not those most promising projects. were here for more the most approachable. so in jolt of them which was gross in the industry it's about ten of them which is very interesting it's about three or five of them which we changed the whole sector was. it more or there are three projects. which machines of war. time to have a look at how the markets are fairing and russia's two main stock exchange just closed with both key indices higher the archie has gained point a to three percent

breaking a sixteen hundred points threshold in the mice it's climbed to point six to eight percent. european stocks were little changed as investors waited to see whether the us federal reserve will announce sufficient asset purchases following its meeting this week to revitalize the global economic recovery. dropped two point seven percent on the dax after the comic as chief executive officer said that claims for damages could get stop at merging with full shape. and yet stocks are giving up the bulk of the sessions earlier bonds dragged lower by foundry banks and utah to stock striding children cautious tone ahead a closely watched event speed week. rose hydro is for the first time purchasing an asset 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

billion dollars sorry million dollars with their part is aiming to finalize the deal by the end of this year and as you consumption in vietnam has been growing at an annual rate of about twenty percent more spider also plans to enter the markets of laos indonesia and india. microsoft will help russia to develop its own silicon valley in school come up the u.s. software giant will conduct research and encourage innovative research at the business school head office called a project that plans to sign contracts for thorough care and intel. and leading french defense contractor d.c. and will build vessels with russia's state owned ship building corporation d.c. and this is a specialist in naval carriers and will help to build both military and civilian ships. moving on russia could create a regional weak futures market with the chicago mercantile exchange the planned

venture would add another global platform for trading in an exclusive interview with business r.t. deputy director of the commodities markets off the russian stock exchange said the path is almost clear. there are no obstacles regarding the legislation all the required measures have been adopted the technological process has also been set up and flying today on the basis of similar pressures middle contracts to make the decision to start treaty we need to gather a critical mass of traders right now we're in talks with the market players to get their agreement to participate in such creating a book. that said from the business to him you can get more stories more website r.t. dot com slash business. thank you. all.