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troops out of iraq local forces drowned under the growing onslaught 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 that nuclear fuel will never make its way to power stations. here watching r t live from the russian capital welcome to the program all moscow has dubbed unacceptable japan's diplomatic protests over dimitri medvedev his visit to russia saw their gruel islands tokyo which claims the four islands as its own so the president's trip was regrettable and some of russia's ambassador to japan the island's law and the pacific. and are part of a larger russian held archipelago to the north of japan they came under bosco's

control at the end of world war two now the region has a rich fishing grounds and mineral deposits and is believed to have vast oil and gas reserves president get a became the first russian leader to visit the area parties x. on a boy reports. it's a leftover from the second world war old soviet tanks rusting on the shore with their barrels pointed towards your pan the cornish your island together with three other pacific islands was taking over 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 she katon after decades of seeing its population the window on it is now in the midst of a baby it will. have the highest birth rates in the interests. of young

people 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. the audience saw a large influx of japanese charities and officials trying to persuade the locals that they might be much better off if the audience 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 offer 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 role would send

a crumbling infrastructure betrayed they aren't 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 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 whole war a lot less good to be gained 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 medvedev stripped of the cool island is unacceptable it is our land russians and the russian president was visiting a russian territory i'm sure we've already explained this to our japanese partners . under international law the grill island 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 heart japan is still vying for them mind. you mortar is teaching japanese at a she could turn school has so responded by the japanese government. class is a very popular when you come to the school the children are already waiting for me commandos 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 a degree allowance may have a proved in recent years but what's to stop eyeing the horizon at some of the r.c. in russia's forests 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 largest christian churches the standoff ended when iraq your troops stormed the building and the far fight that ensued left the gunmen some security forces and many of the hostages dead now this latest incident highlights the deadly situations face by iraq's security forces following the withdrawal of u.s. combat troops joining us the space by iraqi security forces is after gilligan a journalist from the sunday telegraph was stationed in baghdad now andrew had the american troop withdrawal be considered the right move given the attack on the baghdad church and continuing sectarian violence in the country. it does look like the security situation having improved over the last couple of years is again deteriorating and there was an enormous suicide attack in baghdad the other week the latest of several and now we have this this shocking sectarian killing of

a number of christians in the church which is quite clearly designed to drive christians out of iraq where they haven't been since pretty much the the birth of christianity they've been in iraq and in the arab world longer than they have been muslims in the world and they are now being driven out their numbers are roughly half what they were before the american invasion in two thousand and three so it's a very serious situation. well despite the combat troop drawdown iraqi security forces can still call on u.s. support when they need it and how likely is it that iraq will ever be able to survive without american assistance. well clearly one of the main reasons so many people died in this hostage situation was because the iraqi security forces started a firefight inside the church is not clear how many of those hostages were killed by iraqi bullets and how many by the hostage takers bullets and and that is one of

the serious questions that probably will never be fully cleared up and there's a question mark over how competent the iraqi forces are to deal with situations like this tactically and then as you say strategically the security situation is deteriorating it's it's hard to know that the thing is whatever the iraqi people and whatever the situation might demand i think it's very very unlikely and the american forces will reengage in any kind of particularly large scale manner i think america has has essentially not exactly washed its hands but it certainly put iraq on the back burner and the entire focus now is on afghanistan iraq is a problem that the americans want to try to put behind them. all that well given the situation what future issues this this attack indicate the security forces in

the country will face. well again i do think it was quite clearly intended to drive the remaining christians out of iraq i mean one of the clearly saddam hussein was. a tyrant a murderer a monster in all sorts of ways but you know when i cover the country i could the country extensively before and after he was overthrown and i remember thinking we were there were different kinds of freedom and certain groups is absolutely no doubt that certain groups enjoyed more freedom under sadam than they do now and under democracy as it's called democracy there's no doubt at all for instance that women had more freedom to for instance work in jobs of their choosing under a rock they were and they were less didn't have to cover their hair and many many do you know and equally christians were you know in a somewhat better place under sadam than they were than they are now there's no there's no that's not to say that they didn't have difficulties they did but of course saddam hussein's deputy prime minister tariq aziz had just been sentenced to

death for his his role in the crimes of the regime he was a christian and and there were other christians in positions of power in iraq that is now inconceivable what we're seeing is a is a kind of islamic supremacist movement trying to eradicate all traces of christianity in actually a place where it predates islam all right well thank you very much for your inside andrew gilligan a journalist from the sunday telegraph he was stationed in baghdad. here with our team and the still ahead in the program if you will of the few sign claimed they found a green alternative to your green you though some doubt its effectiveness. the real power in brazil we take a look at how the country's new leader will drive its future. 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 discussed this autumn of plans you 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 better 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 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 lisbon and but before russia can come up with any answer to that pose a lover of so 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 and storing the 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 bought not cold war anime's but rather modern day allies or does that make 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 but we can talk about them and solve problems in terms of nato it was always the goal of germany to bring russia into the project of mutual defense i

have stressed that russia must work on the issue with us we are making good progress towards a poll just recently russia and nato two part in a joint special operations in again. as a result of which several tons of drugs were destroyed worth over two hundred million dollars and for drug 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 the son to clear and loud message today russia is not going to take part in the war in afghanistan. if there are speculations that russia will return to afghanistan so this is a problem it's totally out of the question russian troops will never return to afghanistan this is our firm position that will not be changed apart from global

issues like european security and the war in afghanistan of the two partners discussed stimulus packages for the economies modernizing the point to me is trade between the two and an a g cooperation in an issue which is important and crucial for the economies of both countries all feeding imaginary cows and growing nonexistent fruit are just some of what you taxpayers have to foot the bill for to the tune of over a billion euros a year that the european commission has found that fraudulent payments have doubled last year with most irregularities and fons going to the poorest regions shad herbert from open europe the think tag concerned with improving the direction of the e.u. says the union is wasting money by adding forms a phenomenal amount of money is spent on on farming subsidies and it is a very very complex procedure and how those those funds are attained by people in fact by farmers in fact and they have improved over the past years but it is 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 going to various have it schemes going to people who should be apply. 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 check out our website for a lot more stories blogs and videos and here's a taste of what's online right now if you don't have time bob is ticking for american students who are now over the government more than credit card debt hers and with no jobs around and most have don't wait pay. in moscow joined in with the

best of them and welcoming a night of spooks and fought for more goblins and vampires and witches had to r.t. dot com. brazil has elected its first female president dilma rousseff to succeed her tremendously popular mentored lead to silva well russo who has never before held elected office is expected to continue her predecessors left leaning policies however author and expert on south america nicholas kozlov says brazil needs to find its place in the modern world. she's 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. increase or to decrease poverty twenty million people left the ranks of poverty 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 rousseff will 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 but it raises the question alternately of what does brazil stand for in the twenty first century. and out to some other international news in brief the tipoff that led to finding a parcel bombs on cargo planes came from a repentant burn according to u.k. officials. detainees. handed himself into saudi authorities two weeks ago the parcels were placed with cargo with one a parcel seized in dubai and the other intercepted in britain u.s. officials have named a saudi bob maker as the key suspect in the attempt to set the explosives from

yemen to the u.s. . in vietnam a severe flooding caused by heavy rains and strong winds has left at least six people dead and 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. now the idea of eco friendly nuclear energy may have one seemed impossible but now scientists believe they found the fuel of the future for you is more than uranium and could and are at dieppe dependence on fossil fuels

. explores why the battle has still to gain a foothold in the market. we all use energy but at what cost. energy security why many morton wars are thought 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'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 chord and ablest 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 or three and a half million tons of coal. the amount of thorin that 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 three 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 ironically his ideas haven't been taken up there is 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 i think if they 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 and powered reactor was designed. many believe thore and 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 and 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 in which you split the fuel from the waste from the reactor they would have difficulties in actually store in the fuel. since two thousand and seven cities from london to sydney have held our turning the lights off to save energy proponents say if doria power became a reality we could turn the lights back on with confidence it's.

still 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 thore and conference say give it a go it might even change the world you're at it r.t. london. or russia is also seeking a new forms of energy to reduce its dependence on natural resources in a moment we'll be talking to the bad who's got an important task to develop the country's innovative potential.

yes. mr that means the end thank you for being with us today so why did the authorities decide to build the innovation center from scratch rather than use takes a base of science that is switched to moscow region alone has acquired a number of good i often joke of skin for instance. little. firstly this innovation center isn't designed to be the same as a science city in soviet times science cities were built in our country as centers for scientific research the way i see it skolkovo is primarily

a commercialization center the military industrial complex was the main consumer of products of sciences he's. everything is different its focus is on the junction between applied science and the commercial use of innovative technology products this is due to the fact that the market provides consumers for innovative products and development the consumer being primarily the population itself. if their ideas have high expectations regarding an american venture capital funds investment in why americans and what can we give them in return for investment that investors are afraid to invest into corruption and difficult business conditions as they put it. one. firstly i think it's rather obvious why we want the americans silicon valley is the world's largest innovation center today this means that it has accumulated the largest wealth of experience which is closely related to investments we're interested in international investments in russia's projects not merely for the

funds themselves but primarily for the experience competence expertise vision of the markers understanding of mechanisms and technology of business dealings that accompany investments. i venture investor always brings his experience along with his money when investing in a business and experience wise american phones are certainly the most experienced today. having a visit skolkovo last spring some investors criticize the project citing a lack of scientific minds is russia planning on involving russian experts from the west. i don't believe that in the modern world it's actually necessary to physically bring people back from the west from developed economies where they've undergone training in international universities and research centers rather establishing a fission to mutually beneficial cooperation with the most important of the modern world's doesn't really require someone's physical presence as long as they participate in a project in my opinion the development of technological diaspora networks has

become a commonly accepted concept establishing efficient cooperation with these is more important than bringing a certain limited number of our fellow countrymen back to russia. even though this is something that is possible and is also worth doing. well in your opinion is there a guarantee that's called will not turn into yet another costly but inefficient project which we have quite a few unfortunately how much does russia actually need it. in my opinion political will the will to carry out the project and an understanding of its necessity are the only possible guarantees. for the necessity i believe we absolutely do need us the scope of innovation center project is a response to a challenge of the market and integration of the russian economy into the global innovative technology system one of today's very significant challenges for our

country is the fact that we're poorly integrated into these international networks of added value to be more precise were integrated into them at the lowest levels a suppliers of energy resources raw materials and lower level process products however in order to meet today's challenges and to make our economy competitive at the next stage of development our task is to integrate into this market at the highest levels in other words into the developments production and sales networks of these high tech products. what role will raw materials play in the innovative economy. rowlatt aerials will undoubtedly remain one of russia's main sources of income for a long time yet i think we should openly admits that the current economic modernization in russia would have been impossible without raw materials because this sector pays it earns the phones which stays in private business invest in modernization projects an innovative economic development. block well nevertheless

we're trying to reduce our dependence on raw materials. in my view russia isn't trying to use its dependence on raw materials the thing is that those responsible for economic decisions. and only too well that we have quite a short time left to continue living off natural resources in the next ten fifteen or twenty years the world economic architecture will change so much that the raw material sector will simply lose the significance it has today in the next ten to fifteen years 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 and reorganize our economy and introduce innovative development then russia will turn out to be competitive in the world market.