soon which brightened. the sun from the sun's toothbrush you can see. stunt on t.v. don't come. to. mind of recall there are buses to russia following a diplomatic dispute between the two nations over president get a visit to the russian far east inter three of the credit islands. also an r.t.s. voting begins in the us midterm elections some are more concerned about the

corporate backing a candidate in 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 leaps needed to justify its huge cost. its three pm in the russian capital and you're watching our team live with me and he said now way first up japan has recalled its ambassador from russia as the diplomatic route with moscow escalates it follows president made his visit to the creel islands which are internationally recognized as russian territory but also claimed by japan our correspondent peter all over is following the story from russia's foreign ministry. i'm buster kono the japanese ambassador here in russia

has been recalled by tokyo this is due to the visit by president medvedev to the could ill islands in the far east now internationally they are regarded as belonging to russia however japan say de have a claim to them now this is interesting as it comes ahead 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 story minister had this to say on the recall of the ambassador. it is extremely regrettable that president made very to visited the crew 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 a cousin thing cause 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 could ill islands. there's a scandal developing in our relations with japan and is being provoked from the japanese side alone the status of the islands is indisputable and internationally recognized it will belong to russia and i deeply regret that japan has chosen the challenges on us because they're making a mistake i'm sure they're holding our relations will continue because our countries have many common interests surrogate lavrov the russian foreign minister also critical of the japanese response to president medvedev visit to the kid 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 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 japan. and russia has its roots in one thousand nine hundred five in the end of the second world war now the reason these islands at the

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 well you know from russia's diplomatic academy says territorial claims of this kind by japan are part of a familiar pattern 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 zero policy on this issue i mean territorial issues with for many of the lower border with china four thousand kilometers of it has been quite successful this settlement then we've done the same with norway recently and with most other countries so it's just found who has quarrels with its neighbors with all its neighbors on the territorial issues we're ready for a compromise in the region fifty six was signed a joint declaration with japan and we agreed to give them two islands all of this for all of us though we can see those silas as our islands but we decided to do it

as a gesture of goodwill and jeff and use agreed with that in those two islands from us but then they changed their position by the way on that the influence of washington washington 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 shake it before the negotiations they already have the position you know it's it belongs to us it doesn't belong to them if they want to go shay shoes i think we're ready to continue those negotiations. and jeff kingston an expert on asian affairs says it's japan's territorial quarrels with other countries that's pushing the government to have such a hard line with russia. so then this is not a dispute this is it is just and so i think that you know this whole dispute is played against the background of the ongoing dispute between china and over the same. i think and was bears by china believe how

telling and releasing the fishing trawler captain and so this is a very embarrassing moment for two very embarrassing for the prime ministers so it's all the more reason why he wants to take a tough stand on the disputed northern territory. that was jeff kingston there giving us his views on japan's reaction to president midget's visit to the islands well still ahead for you in the program ten years in orbit as the international space station marks that milestone we'll look at whether it has justified the stratospheric cost and what comes next for mankind the gateway to the final frontier. but first to the you asked 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 opinion polls predict

a setback for barack obama as democrats which would hammer republicans are going to already but aren't you going 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 viewing nurse. 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 us 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 an 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 in 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 its enormous me you know equality in influencing policy makers policy made can in increasing the legal process in influencing the regulatory process because we. are behind all of these contributions not to or against citizens of the united states but basically the most power for a drink to affect men talk a population to watch the influence inaction 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 oil firms and drug manufacturers beaner

is campaigning a gas all kinds of government regulations as well as a tax increase for the rich and other candidate wanting for reelection. republican congressman spencer baucus who is a 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 tougher 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 of of corruption private. of

public party here 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 their message across and it's clear that pushes people to the streets i would like my boat to come should be more democratic. next monday 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's also really has a vote in american mail is money going to check on washington d.c. . russia's former richest man mikhail khodorkovsky who's been in prison since two thousand and three has made a final address at a moscow court hearing and what's the second case against him but he's found guilty

of fraud and embezzlement he could stay behind bars until twenty seventeen live now to our correspondent sara firth who has the latest for us hi there stark news. sum up for us what's happened in court so far. but we had like the to close the giving his final speech today ahead of verdict day and just what some had it will be his final words the full that verdict is delivered it's now the verdict is expected to be around mid december and the precious former richest man try to close big city currently in prison at the moment on charges of cuts of age you know that was an eight year sentence he was see for days charges i know one year from release and he's up on the second round of charges and does lead to this he said that it expects to be dated december. take the back a little bit a lot of history here how do these charges differ from what he's already been in prison for. with the forty seven year olds was charged in two thousand and three

charges of tax evasion as i said just the eight year sentence that this time around the charges of investment in him and his business plan his pull out of business but not have been the keys. and that's that's having that that working with the funds will come from the yukos and the studio the two hundred eighty million tons of oil with that company now waiting to be found guilty on these charges he could be behind be behind bars now until twenty seventeen as we say just to get from his release good old this little bit of resentment so this round if he was going to go see the possibility of him being it's instantly all right sorry for live with the latest on the me call for the course of the hearings and the so called you quote scandal thanks for that. but one of the most ambitious projects in history the international space station is marking a decade in manned orbit and epic milestone for space exploration it's the longest

period of human habitation outside the earth's atmosphere. has more. november the second two thousand the first permanent crew reaches the international space station as the world watches its arguably humanity's most them vicious engineering project to date a mixture of science technology and political cooperation between formal sworn enemies in the ten years sense that our sense has expanded to the size of a football field and receive two hundred visitors. now the station is nearly complete but the jury in what it has achieved is still out for a shock but up to before the i.s.o.'s is a breakthrough of corporation 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 then get out trains but then i says crew members his own training was more chaotic than we're going to give them and i said when we started training for it the station itself did not exist there were no manuals and there were no exercise machines with the first crews job was to fully activate the station much of it had been assembled separately in russia in the united states and the first time beast parts came together wasn't space three militia with be the first two weeks on there were extremely stressful because if we failed we'd have to return to earth and abandon the station it would never have been constructed as planned 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 that 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 scientific discoveries its lifespan has already been extended to twenty twenty and possibly beyond that if we're looking at projects of using di 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 thought word no longer seemed like everything was sponsible in space and there were no longer the cold war budgets to fund that all the still proves that space research can be right to the edge of human endeavor eager of nerve all to see moscow. russia and norway are taking their neighborly relationship one step further sergey lavrov the russian foreign minister is in the middle of

a busy visit to the norwegian capital that you countries are expected to feel new agreements on tuesday with also hosting a forum of north european nations but with the vast untapped riches of the arctic up for discussions as well russia and norway are hoping to set a good example to other nations involved in september of the two countries settled a long running territorial dispute by dividing the barents sea between them at least five countries including russia are now eyeing the unclaimed 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 well 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 with courts destroyed and judges killed artie's polis leader reports now on a situation that shows little signs of improving. it's

a choice no mother should ever have to make who children all her family her husband's thrown 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 heats me a lot and seek 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 that last year the human rights commission received eight hundred and

fifty similar cases and that's only in the book it says the justice system is falling far short of helping these women got off on the sagnac problem and about from us we have nine 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 that these judges are listening to a case of a young girl who wants to break off 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 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 and all of them with

a three decade war it 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 who help implement law security are better. but unfortunately the villages are not ready to correct these kinds of them. and often this precious little the courts can do especially in places when warlords and special allegiances are the law we've got to pay to the judges higher salary so that we can cope with the. needs of daily life provide. police tuesday specially

need or look in the district. training of them and also. reporting the cases we did decide you know so that the public should do so while this woman waits for the courts to hear her there is no guarantee that even after they do she'll be any better off policy r.t. kabul. what's coming up to twenty minutes past the hour let's take a look at some world news in brief for you that authorities say there been an explosion at the swiss embassy in athens no casualties have been reported at reported so far come from it heightened security alert in the greek capital suspicious package has also been found at the mall garion embassy on monday police arrested two men for allegedly trying to post for mail bombs one of which injured a korea. france is expected to sign treaties with the u.k. shortly 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. . funerals have started taking place in baghdad for the victims of sunday's at a catholic church during evening mass fifty eight people. were killed and almost eighty injured when iraqi troops stormed the building after al-qaeda militants have 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 iraq e christians. in 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 one hundred people who've been held for a year the document says palestinians are badly treated during interrogations and

held in cramped and dirty cells the jewish state tonight as the allegations. well you're up to date from the news desk this hour here on our t.v. later today we have for you paint ball wizard russia covered up in glory and the other team and dickie mass as it winds its third world championship in the sport you can see that colorful story and get the rest of the sports news next hour here on our t.v. . well charlotte joins us soon for a live business update after a short break. hungry for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. in some petersburg ots available in hotels a story and i'm going to. read a science bill to kowtow to triple the sotto the true story toto gold you gold you

know tilson to elvis you still dostoevsky. in the sea in this column if you visit. hello welcome to the business program with michelle m's folly russia's moved into fourth place in attracting nanotech invested and is adding to its record of the nano four which is under way here in moscow our correspondent allan 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 steve ballmer kicked off proceedings with a deal to join russia silicon valley called skolkovo the head of russia's nanotech corporation for those high tech sector most high profile of the market that of

technology anatoly to myself and of the joint venture funds which will invest in boston take the meeting rooms around this event feel good about where the 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 oil growth rates because the sector is so far out tapped unlike the more mature economies like the united states one man who knows the prince of success is cool kind of off the massachusetts institute of technology and he joins us now first colors are and tell me how excited are you by the things that you see here 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 moment 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 to try to move in this direction many countries are recognizing that the future economic growth really has to come for innovation for 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 an exclusive interview the head of us now an intelligent guy asked gave us a hint about us then i was most promising projects. we're here for more than ninety projects and it's of 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 sectors and it all there are three projects. which may change the world. now the russian stock exchange yes it decided to hold an i.p.o. as soon as next year falls aims to increase capitalization and to expand its operations russia and the cia it will place at least twenty percent of shell it's worth around six hundred thirty million dollars just. in time to check numbers now european stock markets are making it's like going to london markets bruces by polls or results from b.p. spain's b.b.b. a bank drag spanish stocks on news video with turkey guarantee you can see in london if it sees climbing making more sense now. and here in moscow both as a fast enough to trade investors here and globally i'm just new ways in the outcome

of the u.s. federal reserve's two day meeting so they're holding off and to me. that's a very well you know the world bank has lowered its outlook for russia's growth its revised its g.d.p. for calls to four point two percent from fire four point five for this year and down to four point five from four point eight for the coming year it follows fears about the sewing pace of the global recovery. the news just in police have surrounded a bank owned by russian tycoon alexander lebedev national reserve corp is one of the key al says of the owner of the london evening standard an independent newspaper has also owns moscow's. liberties person spokesman. said he didn't know the reasons for the raise according to. website police was said to be interested in documents relating to russian capital but was rescued by live

during the economic crisis. now in other news the majority of russians buy medicines without insurance and nineteen percent say they can't afford them however i knew all spending almost in russia is still only eighty two dollars per person says that of the level in great britain and a tenth of the u.s. national public opinion center also found that forty percent by medicine without the five doctor russian authorities say they're considering a jug scription 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 two hundred forty million dollars in the third quarter this project of the internet may become russia's most popular promotion to off the television as early as the fourth quarter in this year. next in coca-cola has become russia's.