japan mccool's it's possible to russia amid a diplomatic dispute so the president medvedev his visit to the russian far east and turkey of the critical islands. also on r t as voting begins in the u.s.

midterm elections some are more concerned about the corporate backing of candidates and question what it means for democracy. and a decade in the stars the international space station marks ten years of being a manned mission as experts strive for the scientific believes needed to justify its future costs. and coming out in the business update news that coca-cola has become russia's biggest g.'s produce to find out the details about twenty minutes time. warm welcome to you buy from our headquarters in central moscow and you're watching our team with me and he said now way it's two pm here in the russian capital eight pm in tokyo and japan has recalled its ambassador from russia as the diplomatic route with moscow escalates and follows president madrid

a visit to the creel islands which are internationally recognized as russian territory but also claimed by japan let's cross live now to our correspondent peter all over he has the latest for us peter the situation has been pretty tense between both countries but now it seems to be deteriorating further and fast bring us up to date. well ambassador kono the japanese ambassador here in russia has been recalled by tokyo this is as you mentioned that the visit by president medvedev to the. delisle ins in the far east now internationally they are now regarded as belonging to russia however japan say they have a claim to them now this is interesting as it comes with the head of the apec summit which will be taking place next weekend a new yokohama in japan as it stands the most of the kremlin is saying that president medvedev will be going to yokohama however the japanese side of said that it remains unclear as of yet if planned bilateral talks between the japanese prime minister and the president of russia will go ahead the japanese foreign minister

had this to say on the recall of the ambassador. it is extremely regrettable that president medvedev visited the karylle islands even though japan had earlier notified russia that there could be a negative impact on bilateral relations we decided that ambassador kono should return home temporarily so he can brief us on the background of the visit. of constantine cos the chair of the heads of the state duma committee for international affairs here in russia was very critical of the move to recall the japanese ambassador he referred to it as one mistake and a litany of mistakes by japan concerning the canal island so we can listen to what he had to say right now. there's a scandal developing in our relations with both hands and is being provoked from the japanese side alone with the status of the islands and isn't disputable an internationally recognized organ for the rules and along to russia is and i deeply regret that japan has chosen to challenge the song because they're making

a mistake i'm sure they're holding our relations will continue because our countries have many common interests you will additions coming up with the relations between our two people should be built to last would oppose abortion and would. a lover of the russian foreign minister also critical of the japanese response to president medvedev visit to the cadet islands he said that they could islands are internationally recognized as russian territory and as the president of russia president medvedev should be allowed to go and visit them up. this dispute has been going on for decades now one of the main factors at stake here is mostly about the island's rich natural resources or something else at play. well it's not just decades centuries we can go back and see that these islands have been disputed since the first explorers went there in the seventeenth century but the particular bilateral dispute that we're seeing at the moment between between japan and russia has its roots in one nine hundred forty five in the end of the second world war now the reason these islands have been same so important is they are very mineral rich

they're also believed to have very very high. deposits of oil and gas so economically very important islands. all right peter all of our reporting live outside the russian foreign ministry thanks for that. they have kenya from russia's diplomatic academy says territorial claims of this kind by japan are part of a familiar pattern here. japan has similar problems not only with russia not only with china but also with south korea so with all its neighbors and if you look at those policy on this issue i mean territorially sherwood for many. border with china four thousand kilometers of it has been quite successful this settlement done the same with norway recently and with most other countries so it's japan who has quarrels with its neighbors with all its neighbors on the territorial issues we're ready for a compromise united fifty six was signed

a joint declaration with japan and we agreed to give them two islands all of this for us though we can see that those file as well as our islands but we decided to do it as a just show for goodwill and geoff produce agreed with it and goes to ireland for a month but then they changed their position by the way on that the influence of them wanted to prevent good relations between russia and japan and now they have a new position we're ready to negotiate a new deal but when you go straight before the negotiations they already have the circle position you know it's it belongs to us it doesn't belong to them if they want to go shake shoes i think we're ready to continue those negotiations. here with our team live from moscow and coming up here in the program ten years in orbit the international space station marks that milestone we'll look at whether it is justified by stratospheric cost and what comes next for mankind's gateway to the final frontier. but first to the u.s.

where the midterm elections are underway in some parts of the country americans are casting their vote to decide the future of the house of representatives and the senate as well as state and local offices well opinion polls predict a setback for barack obama's democrats which would have republicans a majority this artie's going to it's to can report some voters are more concerned about the corporate backing for many of the candidates. the typical attack ad from this election season. was. trying to. exact the opponent to approve the ad is herself an expert in months throwing washington post and the organization that back surgery is funded by view enters. this election cycle as being the torrijos in the amount of dirt candidates were pouring onto each other their bankrupting america and leaving our children the bill this is a special election year in the u.s. for the first time corporations are allowed to funnel as much money as they want

into political campaigns and they're definitely not missing out on the chance to buy influence on capitol hill what they're hoping to do is bend laws and regulations or prevent new laws and regulations from being approved they'll cut their bottom lines at the problem is that a lot of these rules and regulations exist for a purpose they're supposed to protect the public interest the election system in the u.s. is such that it's virtually impossible to run for office without strong financial backing but the bigger the backing the more candidates will hold to their benefactor it's increasing the norm of the you know quality in influencing policy makers policy made can increasingly good process in influencing the regulatory process because we. are behind all of these contributions not oregon citizens or for united states but basically the most power for a breach of mental people to watch the fluency in action take republican leader in

the house of representatives john boehner wall street invested millions of dollars in his campaign he's also a darling among the large health insurance or firms and drug manufacturers beaner is campaigning in a gas all kinds of government regulations as well as a tax increase because the rich and other candidate wanting for reelection. republican congressman spencer baucus who is the ranking member of the house committee on financial services he has reportedly taken over four million dollars from wall street and pledged to find against top four rules for the financial market the list of corporate favorites on capitol hill is long and not only republicans are on it the democratic process is supposed to be a check on corporate power and instead what we're seeing is corporations hijacking that system in order to funnel more money to themselves many argue the new supreme court decision which made it possible for corporations to invest unlimited amounts

of money in politics and be able to be credited as anonymous donors has basically legalized corruption one definition out of core option. probably but to think of public party fear mongering is arguably the main tool corporations use to gain public support for the candidates they choose some channels like fox news are especially good at getting where they are massignac crocks and it's clear that pushes people to the streets i would like my boat to come and should be more democratic. less money and some fear their interest may be left down because of someone's special interest on the outside this democracy is new voice people coming to a polling stay friends putting a cost before the name of a candidate they like but in these elections with the influence of corporations on me it seems a really has a vote in american mail is money going to check on washington d.c.

. a little later today we bring you the story of an afghan woman forced to decide between her children and her parents you can find out why c. ters look forward and why her case is one of hundreds reflecting the plight of afghan women. one of the most ambitious projects in history in the international space station is marking a decade in manned orbit and that big milestone for space exploration it's the longest period of human habitation outside the earth's atmosphere our team has more . november second two thousand the first permanent crew reaches the international space station as the world watches its arguably humanity's most i'm bishes engineering project to date a mixture of science technology and political cooperation between formal sworn enemies in the ten years since the ourselves has expanded to the size of

a football field and received two hundred visitors. now the station is nearly complete but the jury in what it has achieved is still out but for a short bit of optimism for the i.s.o.'s is a breakthrough corporation of before there were separate space agencies now they work together it's a leap forward this station has cost the taxpayer one hundred billion dollars and that's just absurd it's too much but it's their money now admit they were not sure what to expect from the station and that includes the expedition one cosmonauts themselves you to get them going up trains but then i says crew members his own training was more chaotic the more to make of that when i said when we started training for the station itself did not exist but there were no manuals for in europe there were no exercise machines with the first crews job was to fully activate the station much of it had been in some will shortly in russia and the united states and the first time beast parts came together wasn't space a similar show with be the first two weeks on there were extremely stressful but if

we failed in that we'd have to return to earth and abandon the station it would never have been constructed as a planet we could expedition one was a success despite problems with construction following the columbia shuttle disaster three years later most of the modules were eventually successfully docked the completed space station provides a unique platform for experiments and weightlessness we could develop new materials and medicines starting real now and next year we're going to find out if you have researchers tinkering in space we can have breakthroughs if not the whole thing was a waste but others believe that the value of the i assess is not that it scientific discoveries it's lifespan has already been extended to twenty twenty and possibly beyond that if we're looking at projects of using that i assess as a docking port for missions to the moon and even mars. and if mankind does venture further afield i search will serve both as a blueprint and an instruction manual of space should do and don'ts whatever its

limitations and budget over and the assess as. important at the tar worth no longer seemed like everything was fossil in space and there were no longer the cold war budgets to fund that all the isis still proves that space research can be right to the edge of human endeavor either of nerve i'll see moscow. where the first european astronaut to command and i assess mission told r.t. that the m. best s i s s project was made possible by global cooperation the international space station is there of course because we had the soyuz vehicles in the time that his specialty was not flying now again our so use vehicles will be the only ones who will be able to transport the crew to the international space station for a certain time technology and. transport capabilities for sure helped a lot the international space station gets very big corporation the space station would not be there would not exist to be dealt cooperation between russia and the

u.s. were to also have to take into account a smaller part of the european space agency the japanese space agency canada. they all make great contributions to the international space station and i think this is the great string of just a station is that it's really an international corporation there for the benefit of humankind for sure if you want to continue space exploration if you want to have sustainable space exploration to do now to asteroids to mars we will have to make some breakthrough technologies butin propulsion be then energy being it and life support systems and i know that space agencies from all over the world are walking working on these breakthrough technologies and i hope that in the next ten years we'll see the american troops. frank divin there he was the first i asked as commander from the european space agency. in other news russia and norway are taking their neighborly relationship one step further so good lover of the russian

foreign minister is in the middle of a busy visit to the norwegian capital the two countries are expected to see the new agreements on tuesday with as well holding hosting i should say a forum of north european nations but with the vast untapped riches of the arctic up for discussion as well russia and norway are hoping to set a good example to other nations involved in september two countries long running territorial dispute by dividing the barents sea between them at least five countries including russia are now eyeing the un claimed north pole which is believed to hold vast amounts of oil and gas reserves. women's rights in afghanistan continue to be violated despite international efforts to intervene a shocking number of women face domestic violence and abuse with a growing percentage committing suicide because of a lack of trust in the justice system but with courts destroyed and judges killed artie's polls there are reports now on a situation that shows little signs of improving. it's

a choice no mother should ever have to make to children all her family her husband's thrown her out and this woman's parents will only take her back if she abandons the children she had with him. i'm feeling so alone my husband he does mean a lot i'm sheik my don't you see. my other two children are with him. her family was against the marriage from the beginning the man was from another tribe already married and taking drugs but at the age of fourteen desperate to be with him the goal ran away and married him. my brothers want to kill me i'm very fraid of them they say if you come back alone will accept you. but if you come with your children you are view and also afraid of my husband. the twenty four year old now hides in

a shelter last year the human rights commission received eight hundred and fifty some of the cases and that's only in the book it says the justice system is falling far short of helping these women but afghanistan the problem about our promise we have no women prosecutors and most provinces and women police family courts whenever a woman is accused of something and there's no one to help her with us these judges are listening to a case of a young girl who wants to break her engagement they tell her to come back in the next hearing a husband wants to divorce his wife because she visited her parents for a week without his permission you know part of women feel helpless and even in the rare situations where they cases get to court if no justice has not been served in the last six to seven years the problem of women burning themselves has grown especially in herat and kandahar provinces to suicide because women feel they have no way out afghan court officials say they have enough to deal with even before

trying to help these women were freed in all of them within a three decade war has damaged the capacity of the afghan judicial system we've had fifteen judges killed across the country many of our court buildings are destroyed and we have problems with transportation and staff. in remote areas the problem is worse many judges simply refuse to be posted there complaining of bad salaries. and even worse security. for. all those security help implement law that on the border security are better areas but unfortunately the villages are not ready to correct these kinds of them. and often there's precious little the courts can do especially in places when warlords and special allegiances of the law we've got to pay to the judges higher salary so that we can cope with their. needs of daily life provide them a place to stay in

a specially made or look area in the district area. training of them and also. reporting the cases we did decide you know so that the public should go so while this woman waits for the courts to hear her there's no guarantee that even after they do she'll be any better off policy r.t. kabul. and now some other international news for you this hour france is expected signed three u.k. certainly outlining greater military cooperation including nuclear testing president nicolas sarkozy is in london for a summit on the issue with prime minister david cameron the defense partnership will include assembling a joint army expeditionary force and sharing a quick meant a nuclear testing center will be set up in france while technology is to be developed in the u.k. . two roles have started taking place in baghdad for the victims of sunday's seizure at a catholic church during evening mass fifty eight people were killed and almost

eighty injured when a rocky troops stormed the building after al-qaeda militants had taken the congregation hostage the insurgents were calling for the release of al qaeda prisoners security is being stepped up across the country after what was the deadliest recorded attack against iraqi christians. two leading israeli rights groups have accused the state's internal security service of violating the. rights of palestinian detainees the report is based on the testimonies of more than a hundred people who've been held for a year the documents says palestinians are badly treated during interrogations and held in cramped and dirty cells the jewish state denies the allegations. so it's triggered by heavy rains in vietnam have left at least six people dead three others have been reported missing and hundreds of houses are submerged drenching rain has pounded the region over the last three days forcing more than ten thousand people to flee and more rain is forecast. but don't

forget we've got much more for you on our web site that's our team dot com including videos blogs and forums here's a look at what's on mind right now foreigners are getting closer to the real russia through classes in everything from drama to traditional cooking find out how you can join him. and watch children's balloons help a criminal gang steal millions of dollars from various a.t.m.'s around moscow tea party dot com reveals how they did it and how they were caught. well let's get down to business charlotte lomas farley joint. there you i understand have news that the r.t.l. stock exchange plans to hold an i.p.o.

next year i know that's right the russian bulls aims to expand his approaches in russia and the c.i.s. move place around six hundred thirty million dollars worth of shares more details on this story a bit later while the top story this hour hundreds of russia has moved into fourth place in attracting investors and it's going to hit record of another four which is underway here in moscow correspondent daniel bushell who's at the event for us has the latest. there's a real buzz about the place today it comes off to the head of microsoft's steve ballmer kicked off proceedings with a deal to join russia silicon valley called skolkovo the head of russia's nanotech corporation probably those high tech sector most high profile of the market not a technology kind of tell it to myself build another joint venture fund which will invest in question take me take rooms around this event feel good but with investors many from the original silicon valley in california speaking to russian in fences for him to come up with the next big thing and investors have been

telling us that they see formal potential for a growth rate because the sector is so far out tops unlike the moment your economies like the united states someone who knows pretty well success is cool kind of off the massachusetts institute of technology and she joins us now know this kind of are so me how excited are you by the things that you see here but this is a really impressive display i have must say more so than i expected when i came here the scale of this exhibition is very impressive and the number of different regions around russia that are represented here i also find to be a very interesting aspect of it what are the pros and cons of russian high tech at the low. well i think russian high tech is of course at a fairly early stage compared to some other. economies but it's a very smart move by the move in this direction many countries are recognizing that

the future economic growth really has to come from innovation from new ways of doing things both in business and in technology would still be nice with voice russia silicon valley to succeed i would say my main piece of advice is to keep open it's very hard to predict which way things are going to go and be as open and as competitive as possible allow companies to fail and then start new ones. and in an exclusive interview the head of restaurant and it's hard to buy ask a volunteer hints about was not his most promising contacts. we're here for more than ninety projects and it's a both. of them which is serious and interesting it's about ten of them which is very interesting it's about three or five of them which may change the whole sector of us and it all there are three projects. which may change the world.

now in other news the russian stock exchange alter yes was decided to hold soon as next year bulls aims to increase come fly as asian and to expand its operations in russia and the c.i.s. no plays at least twenty percent of shares worth around six hundred million dollars . check the numbers now in european stock markets are making a slight gains with the london markets boosted by polls results from b.p. both ways b.v.a. bad drugs buying stocks out on news that we do with turkey guaranteed going to see in london the fruit seize up no point eight percent share of imperial tobacco group up nearly one percent reporting revenue. and here most credible says up to no trace investors here and globally are anxiously awaiting the outcome of the us federal reserve's three day meeting they were holding off on and big moves from i expect it's looking into that. and the news in three now the world bank is loaded up to

russia's growth to revise its g.d.p. vocals to four point two percent from four point five percent this year and down to four point five from four point eight percent the coming year it follows fears about the slowing pace of the global recovery. now a majority of russians buy medicines without insurance and nineteen percent say they called afford them however spending on medicine in russia is still only eighty two dollars per person that's a third of the level in great britain ten the u.s. russia's national public opinion center also found that forty percent buy medicine without beautiful eyes of the doctor russian authorities say they're considering a drug prescription system in the country but no sooner than two thousand and thirteen. online advertising is close to overtaking outdoor and print media according to russian association of communication agencies russia's internet advertising companies and two hundred forty million dollars in the third quarter was predicted the internet may become russia's most popular promotion to all of the

television as early as the fourth quarter this year. coca-cola has become russia's biggest juice producer the wells top soft drink company has bought one hundred percent of russians on the deal worth two hundred eighty million dollars puts coca-cola ahead of such companies as ski and build the company and two clients with a capacity of producing five hundred sixty million leads to drink a year. and russia is the third largest food retailer ok has listed on the london stock exchange it's just over fourteen percent of its stocks and is on course to raise around four hundred twenty million dollars the funds would be to expand the supermarket chain fifty two outlets and cut short term debt first half sells of the grocery chain rose twenty one percent to one point two billion dollars. that's the update for now we can always buy more stories on our web.