a longstanding territorial dispute has sparks flying between moscow and tokyo. russia's japan has recalled its ambassador to russia following a diplomatic diplomatic this is between the two nations following president

medvedev a trip to the could islands. the democratic process is supposed to be attractive on corporate power and instead what we're seeing is corporations hijacking that system in order to funnel the money so the u.s. both in mid-term elections with opinion polls putting republicans in a strong position but many fear massive corporate funding has put democracy in danger. and triumph of science and human endeavor the international space station marks a decade as a manned mission as critics demand results from the multi-billion dollar project. and in business are to police have surrounded one of the banks owned by the russian tycoon. details will be joining me live via correspondence i did see their trip steve who is now at the bank's office in the central moscow.

live from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching our team with me and you so now way our top story scandalous that's the way russians are viewing the recall of the japanese ambassador from moscow over an escalating territorial dispute tokyo was protesting against president madrid his visit to russia's southern creel islands which japan claims as its own let's get the latest now from marty's peter all over who joins us live so peter we are we expecting any kind of response from moscow following tokyo's recall of its ambassador. well the latest we're hearing is that sergey lavrov the russian foreign minister has said that the that the russian ambassador to japan will not be recalled in a tit for tat type move the foreign minister also pulling no punches in his language using very strong language to condemn japan's actions saying that the stirring up of emotion in japan by by condemned by calling the ambassador in the

wake of president medvedev visit was scandalous he also said that this was an internal matter for japan to deal with and if they want to call their own boss today than that was up to them. but he also said the medvedev president made this any one of the other three carolyn's historical islands of the disputed in the region the president of may make third the visits to those in the future this to this all comes just a week before next weekend these two countries would were supposed to be meeting at the apec summit and they were being planned bilateral talks between the president of russia and the prime minister of japan now the kremlin have said that president medvedev is still attending those talks in japan and yokohama away from the japanese side we're hearing that whether those bilateral talks go ahead or not is still to be decided now the japanese foreign minister had this to say about the recalling of his ambassador. it is extremely regrettable that president 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. well it's been lots of response from russia over the recalling of the out japanese ambassador constantine course a chill fuz the head of the state duma committee on international affairs very strong words from him as well we heard from sergey lavrov that he was very upset at the move that's being made cousin think was the choice of saying that this was the this was just one mistake and the litany of mistakes by japan concerning the kittle islands now he said. that this was just a not as a another mistake we can hear what he said right now. they believe the. behavior of japanese assurity as we now try to present. try to pressure on russia is a big mistake because it does not create any further motivation for russia to

demonstrate. and does not create any further. interest for these discussions. now peter this dispute has been going on for decades now what are the main factors at stake here why is japan taking such a hard line on its claims for the islands. of these disputed islands and with these islands being disputed in fact goes back centuries since the first explorers went there in the seventeenth century but this this dispute that we're seeing right now at the moment between russia and japan has its roots in one thousand nine hundred five the end of the second world war japan says that the islands that before the second world war belong to japan should be returned to them russia says that they've now belong to them and if the internationally regarded as being part of the russian federation now the islands themselves a very rich in minerals as well as in gas and oil reserves so in economically they're incredibly important pawns in the chess piece. all right peter all of

a reporting live outside the russian foreign ministry on this escalating diplomatic route thanks peter. these again you bash on the from russia's diplomatic academy says territorial claims of this kind by japan are part of us the mill your 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 territorially sure for managed to set a low a border with china four thousand kilometers of it has been quite successful this settlement then with 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 compromise in my view and fifty six was signed a joint declaration with japan and we agreed to give them two islands all of this for all ones though we can see those silas as our allies but we decided to do it as

a gesture of goodwill and jep and use agreed with it 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 where rigid to negotiate a new deal but when you go straight before the negotiations they already have the subtle position you know it's it belongs to us it doesn't belong to them if they want to go shaffer's i think we're ready to continue those negotiations. to the us now where americans are voting in mid-term elections to decide the future of the house of representatives and one third of the senate well opinion polls predict rock obama's democrats could lose control of the house back to republicans but with vast amounts of campaign cash going into these elections some voters are more concerned about the corporate backing behind the candidates are to can reports. a typical attack ad from this election season. actually was. trying to.

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to the streets i would like my vote to count as you'd be more democratic. less money and some fear their interest may be left down because of someone's special interest on the outside is democracy as usual with people coming to a polling station friends putting a cost before the name of a candidate they like but in these elections with the influence of corporations on meet first it seems that really has a vote in american mail is money going to check out our t. washington d.c. . former or the former oil cry to me they're called ski who was jailed for battlement in tax evasion in two thousand and three is back in court no charges brought against him quitting his term extended until twenty seventeen was when giving his concluding speech at a court hearing sarah ferguson following the court case now joins us live hi sarah what did her cautiously have to say. we had strong was today for mikhail

khodorkovsky giving his final speech to the most a cool head of the verdict that will be delivered for his case to close a standing trial alongside with business partner. on charges of cruel with an embezzlement now we heard him calling for the judge. courage saying that the fate of the entire nation rests on the verdict that will be delivered and that he's willing to die in prison as his faith is worth his life noncredit the strong language that the to close the schools currently serving an eight year prison term on charges of tax evasion and we've heard strong critics of this case saying that both the previous charges and these new charges that have been fought for as a punishment for the opposition that kind of course he has shown to the government and they said that that then the new verdict now will certainly be a multiplier but whether russia is able to have an independent judiciary and not.

be delivered on the stand the fifth day. now this of course is the second case against heart of course kate what are these new charges. these new charges bullfrogs an embezzler now him and his full of business partner let the keys distilling a two hundred and eighty million tons of oil around twenty seven billion dollars worth of oil and now if found guilty they'll be behind bars possibly until twenty seventy as he said had a course he currently serving and eight year prison term the previous charges of the tax evasion it's now defunct company you caused and so one year left to the census now of course he's facing these new charges and the verdict as we said to be delivered december. all right sara for reporting live far away in the latest court hearing against her of course and part on never to thank you sara. but

despite international efforts since the taliban's removal from power in two thousand and one women's rights continue to be violated in afghanistan many women face domestic violence and abuse with a growing number committing suicide because of a lack of trust in the justice system and with many courts in ruins and judges facing death threats the situation shows little sign of an. proving art is policy or has the story. it's a choice no mother should ever have to make her children or her family her husband's thrown her out and this woman's parents were only take her back if she abandons the children she had with him. this was i'm feeling so alone my husband hates me a lot i'm sick my daughter is sick 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 will cure all of you i'm 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 similar cases and that's only in the book it says the justice system is falling far short of helping these women that are on this problem and about it from us we have no women prosecutors and most provinces no women police or family courts whenever a woman is accused of something and there's no one to help her these judges are listening to a case of a young girl who wants to break up 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 they feel 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. 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 hooman the horsemen for law and order and security help implement law border security are better in urban areas but

unfortunately the villages are not ready to practice these kinds of law. 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 to do the can cope with the. needs of daily life provide the police in the specially in the district the. 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's no guarantee that even after they do she'll be any better off paula c r t. well more top news stories on our website that's our t.v. dot com column rather including eighty five year old woman with savages in a pit bull attack in her own backyard in warsaw south she died after several days

in coma. and being targeted as a criminal before even committing a crime find out about preemptive prosecution in the u.s. that's what our team dot com. let's take a look now at some world news in brief for you this hour britain and france have signed military treaties which include setting up a joint force sharing equipment and testing nuclear missiles the u.k.'s prime minister and french president are discussing their plans in london the agreement comes at a time of strained economic conditions in both countries. hundreds of people gathered in baghdad to bury the victims of sunday's catholic church siege at least fifty eight people were killed when iraqi troops stormed the building after al-qaeda militants had taken the congregation hostage during mass the gunmen were reportedly demanding the release of all imprisoned al qaeda members in iraq and egypt and iraqi police commanders being questioned in connection with the attack.

a powerful bomb has exploded at the swiss embassy in athens police say the device was thrown into the courtyard of the. building but there are no reports of injuries or deaths it comes amid heightened security in the greek capital after a mail bomb exploded at a delivery company on monday a suspicious package was also found at the bulgarian embassy. now one of the most ambitious projects in history the international space station is marking a decade of manned operations the i assess has been an epic milestone for space exploration as it served as the longest home away from home and been visited by some two hundred people are to figure out a road of takes us back to the station's early days. of the second two thousand the first permanent crew reaches the international space station as the world watches its arguably humanity's most them bushes engineering project to date a mixture of science technology and political cooperation between formal sworn

enemies in the ten years since the since has expanded to the size of a football field and received two hundred lives it is. now the station is nearly complete but the jury in what it has achieved is still out but about the before the i s 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're not sure what to expect from the station and that includes the expedition one cosmonauts themselves you to get them 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 there were no exercise machines but 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 beads parts came together wasn't space with a militia with because the first two weeks on there were extremely stressful 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 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 mention further afield i surfed will serve both as

a blueprint and an instruction manual of space should do bones whatever its limitations and budget over and then i assess as. important at the door worth no longer seemed like everything was possible in space and there were no longer the cold war budgets to fund it all the still proves that space research can be right to the edge of human endeavor either of nerve altie moscow their arms up our main news block here on our take up next we've got the latest business news after a short break. for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. and

a very welcome time to get the latest from the world of business russia has moved into a fourth place in attracting nanotech investors and it's adding to its record at the metaphor which is on the way in moscow correspondent daniel bushell who is that 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 for those high tech sector most high profile of the market that of technology anatoly choice of building another joint venture funds which will invest in question take the meeting rooms around the service event build them over with investors many from the original silicon valley california speaking to russian

invensys for him to come up with the next big thing and investors have been telling us that they see formal potential employer growth rates because the fixture is so far out tops unlike the more mature economies like the united states someone who knows the secret of success is cool kind of of the massachusetts institute of technology and she joins us now know this kind of hours 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 by the move in this direction many countries are recognizing that the future economic growth really has to come of age new ways of doing things both in business and in technology would show a piece 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. time to check the numbers now european stock markets making games in london the footsies climbing more than one percent on the decks is up point seven percent. jumped about one percent even though thought water office fell by six to seven percent the company set aside move money to pay for the gulf of mexico oil spill. founder most of the bosses off lightly and often try to investors around

the world away to the outcome of the u.s.'s federal reserve's two day meeting so holding off on any big moves. and some news and the world bank has lowered its outlook for russia's growth. g.d.p. through cost to four point two percent from four point five percent for this year and down to four point five percent from four point eight percent for the coming year it follows fears about the slowing pace of the global recovery. ok on news just in armed police have surrounded a bank owned by a russian tycoon. national reserve corporation is one of the key assets still for the london evening standard and independent newspapers and for more i'm joined live file correspondent. who is now at the bank's office in the central moscow how alexis so what's happening then. clarification on the reasons behind this. well

now as we know the masked armed men left the building with some documents with them there's been no clarification so far as to what they were doing inside the national reserve bank building the bank which is owned by a russian well known businessman the looks on the libya now we know that a group of several dozen masked man went into the building several hours ago in the afternoon looking for some documents we managed to get in touch with the spokesperson of the interior ministry in moscow and he said that this search inside the national reserve bank office was conducted in accordance with a criminal investigation launched earlier but there's been no clarification whatsoever as to what that criminal investigation was all about i'd like to remind viewers that it's on the labor defense of very well known russian businessman known or of a. british newspapers the evening standard and the independent also owner several banks and investment companies in russia and be nothing illegitimate about

he's business so far and we are waiting for some comments from the enforces as to what the businessman has done wrong and what this criminal investigation is all about but for now the building is cleared of the cordon and now we know that there are no mosque armed men inside the national reserve bank building. thank you very much please keep us updated. ok now another story the russian government would welcome the expansion of brady normie some ownership in after us that's according to prime minister vladimir putin's right normie some says it might to greece's stake in after us to fifty percent that something from twenty five percent plus one share of the major shareholder activist russian to colleges said it's because sell a four percent stake to some other reports say investment from troika dialog wants to exchange.