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the international association of russian language and literature teachers will hold the world festival of russian language. are you interested in a better understanding of russian language and culture can you sing russian songs won't. become a participant of the world festival of russian language and really exciting trip to st petersburg in russia. for more information visit the festival website. a longstanding territorial dispute has sparks fly between moscow and tokyo. japan has recalled its ambassador to russia amid a diplomatic dispute following president medvedev visit to the far eastern russian territory of the korea islands. 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 sell the u.s. votes in midterm elections with opinion polls putting republicans and 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. scandalous that's the way russia is doing the recall of the japanese ambassador from moscow over an escalating territorial dispute tokyo was protesting against president medvedev visit to the southern creole islands which are internationally

recognized as russian territory but also claimed by japan r.t.s. peter all over is following the diplomatic route. well the latest that we have is from foreign minister said again after all he says that the russia will not recall . from japan in response to ambassador being sent home greeting the cold hope the earlier on today a very strongly worded statement from the foreign minister certainly pulling no punches yes it was japan's ambassador receives directions about his actions directly from tokyo so this is their internal affair but generally the ongoing stary of emotions on japan's part over president medvedev visit to the caribbean islands is causing concern with us i stated repeatedly that such actions and protests from unacceptable and we reaffirm this position mr lavrov also said that president medvedev may visit more of the korean islands in the future as for islands a base in the just off the north west coast of japan they came under control of moscow after nine hundred forty five and japan currently believes that they should

be returned to them at the moment this all comes on the on the eve just about next week we see the apec summit taking place in japan and yokohama now we're hearing from the kremlin that president medvedev will still be attending the apec summit and the japanese side is saying that bilateral talks between president medvedev and the japanese prime minister will go ahead as planned and we can hear now from the japanese foreign minister about the recalling of his ambassador. it is extremely regrettable the 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 not ambassador kono should return home temporarily so he can brief us on the background of the visit. well this diplomatic dispute is caused many politicians here in russia the term it is scandalous and it's something that will be ongoing for a little while yet but the islands have been pretty much disputed since they were first discovered by explorers in the seventeenth century now the dispute that we're

seeing at the moment stems from one nine hundred forty five and the end of the second world war when moscow took over control of them and they became part of the soviet union now because part of the russian federation now japan says that these islands should be returned to them as they belong to japan before the second world war now one of the main reasons that these islands are so hotly disputed is because they have vast wealth of minerals oil and gas reserves so key economic places and that's why both sides want them so badly by the head of state as foreign affairs committee konstantin kasich says talks over the grill islands won't start unless japan recognizes them as russian territory the russian behavior depends completely on our interpretation of the situation and this interpretation is that the. belong to. the result of the second world war it is not discussable and in

case japan has a certain opinion on their well we are ready to discuss that certain opinion on the basis that the belong to russia and that any change of this situation may be just a result of for good will and nothing else and they believe that the behavior of japanese authorities now try to present. to overthrow 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. for these discussions. here with our t.v. live from moscow ahead for you in the program a mother's love will bring you the story of an afghan woman forced to decide between her children and her safety also coming up. of a much more training for the station that's so good not just with. no exercise

machines. today marks ten years as the first group boarded the international space station to find out if the station has justified its stratospheric cost what the future holds for mankind's gateway to the final frontier. but first the u.s. where americans are voting in midterm elections to decide the future of the house of representatives and one third of the senate opinion polls predict brock 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 aren't you going to check out reports. the typical attack ads from this election season. for. example the opponent truth the ad is her son over semantics throwing washington post and the organization that back surgeries funded by. this election cycle has

been torrijos in the amount of dirt candidates were pouring onto each other they are 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've gone into political campaigns and they're definitely not missing out on the chance to apply influence on capitol hill what they're hoping to do is bend laws and regulations or prevent new laws and regulations from being approved that would cut their bottom lines 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. possible to run for office without strong financial backing but the bigger the backing the more candidates vote to their benefactor it's to increase enormously you know equality in influencing policy

makers policy made can be increasing their legal process in influencing their regulatory process because we. are behind all of these contributions if not all of the citizens of the united states but basically they most power for a breach affect mentor people 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 for firms and drug manufacturers in aris campaigning a gas all kinds of government regulations for as well as a tax increase because 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 a guest on for rules for the financial markets the list of corporate favorites on

capitol hill is long and not only republicans are on it in 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 i have of corruption is the privatization 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. actually good at getting their message across and it's here that pushes people to the streets i really like money to. be more democratic. and some fear their interest may be left down because of someone's special

interests on the outside is democracy as usual it's people coming to a polling station putting a quad speak with the name of a candidate they like but in these elections with the influence of corporations on first it's really has a vote in american mail is money. down washington d.c. . former oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky who was jailed for embezzlement and tax evasion in two thousand and three is back in court new charges brought against him could see his term extended until twenty seventeen he's been giving his concluding speech at a court hearing sarah firth is following the case. lou strong words today from mikhail cut a close as he gave the final speech to the most state court ahead of the verdict this child like how to close it along with his school the business partner plots on lead the standing trial accused of rows and bezel of the now he said we had

him say today call on the judge to have coverage saying that the fate of all russians rest on the verdicts that will be delivered on little day he doesn't want to die in prison and that if it required it he wouldn't hesitate and we've heard strong critics of the case saying that both the previous charges and these new charges that have been full force be a punishment for the opposition that kind of puts davis to the government and now with one year to his release we've seen these new charges pulled but there are others that have said that actually had a close case as wrote this country of billions of dollars and that now he may be trying to evade his responsibility for that setting for the prosecutor in this case valerie elected saying that cut across these the fed is completely built on the line and that he's trying to create a political elements in play out to the political element in this trial to the new

charges against her to close down his business partner left with. no food and embezzlement now that they stand a key. stealing over two hundred eighteen billion tons of oil from the former oil company you close now that's twenty seven billion dollars worth of oil if they're found guilty they could face time behind bars taking them up to twenty seventeen so the verdict for these new charges is expected to be delivered on the fifteenth of december. sara for porting there we've got more top news on our website our two dot com including in eighty five year old woman was savaged in a pit bull attack in her own backyard in russia's south she died after several days in a coma. and being targeted as a criminal before even committing a crime and find out about preemptive prosecution in the united states at r.t. dot com. that's right 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 of 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 improving polls leader 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 will only take beth if she abandons the children she had with him. i'm feeling so alone my husband had some new art and seek my don't. my other two children are with him. her family was against the marriage from the beginning the man was from another tribe i already married and taking drugs but at the age of fourteen

desperate to be with him the goal ran away and married him. the same 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 all of you is 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 some of the cases and that's only in the book it says the justice system is falling far short of helping these women that are on the sagnac problem and about our promise 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 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 a lot of women feel helpless and even in the rare situations where they cases get to court if you know 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 but i had the ability 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 pope. they're complaining of bad salaries and even worse security. for. all the help implement

law that on the border security are better. but unfortunately the villages are not ready to correct these goings on. and often there's 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 their. needs of the life provide them police in a specially need or look at area in the district area. 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. is just gone sixty minutes past the hour of us take a look at some other world news for you a parcel 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 all gary and chilean embassies. britain and france have signed military treaties which include setting up a joint for sharing of quitman and testing nuclear warheads the u.k. prime minister and french president are discussing their plans in london officials say the deal will save millions and boost the fighting power of both countries a nuclear testing center will be set up in france and technology is expected to be developed in britain. hundreds of people gathered in baghdad to bury the victims of sunday's catholic church siege at least fifty eight people were killed when he wacky. troops stormed the building after al qaeda militants had taken the congregation hostage during mass the gunmen were reportedly demanding the release of all in prison al qaeda members in iraq and egypt an iraqi police

commander is being questioned in connection with the attack. severe flooding has hit southern parts of thailand and left thousands of people stranded the downpours have already claimed more than one hundred lives in the country since they began tobar well services have been suspended in the region and cities are. one of the most ambitious projects in history the international space station is marking a decade of manned operations the idea says has been an epic milestone for space exploration as it served as the longest home away from home and has been visited by some two hundred people are to use it or grown up takes us back to the station's early days. of ambergris 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 thirty years since the sense was 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 there for shock but up to before the i.s.o.'s is a breakthrough of corp before there were separate space agencies now they work together it's a leap forward in 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 she says crew members his own training was more chaotic than we're going to give them an edge when we started training for the station itself did not exist there were no manuals for you 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 these parts came together wasn't space

a celestial it's be the first two weeks on there were extremely stressful but 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 in it scientific discoveries its lifespan has already been extended to twenty twenty and possibly beyond that even when 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 worth no longer seemed like everything was possible 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. all to see moscow. former cars were not from russia's mir space station believes it was that program which laid the foundations for the i access here was the first constantly inhabited station in orbit and carried out thousands of experiments decommissioned in two thousand and one and sent to a fiery grave burning up in the earth's atmosphere. modules that are now used on the surface of the seams. of course they were more technologically advanced as used including the digital little stored it would mean you could your sense will be

there were long term cosmic flights with representatives from other countries in europe and. it was our program we were independent and anyone we were interesting to be on the international space station there's always an exchange of experience when we were and we are we could use the equipment as we please when it's not you. will surely hear in our tea will be talking to the four time presidential candidate ralph nader who believes american two party system has run its course run its course first though let's catch up with your idea she has the latest business next . hungry for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. hello

and a very warm welcome to the business news police have surrounded a bank owned five russian tycoon neighbors if not for results corporation is one of the key assets of the owner of the london evening standard and independent. health correspondent is at the bank's office in the central moscow. in the afternoon a group of mosques the armed policemen walked into the building of the national reserve bank searching for some documents there's been no clarification from the authorities as to what these documents were and what this search was all about the only comment we managed to receive from a spokesperson of the interior ministry in moscow was that this search was conducted in accordance with a criminal investigation which was launched earlier but he did not clarify any

details about what this investigation was about and what the search was for now by this moment as we know of the men in the mosque the armed policemen have already left the building but the prosecutors the investigators are still inside looking for the documents and there's still been no comments as to what these documents are i'd like to remind you of you was the national reserve bank belong still very well known russian businessman i think sound a little bit if it was the owner of several investment go. but he's in russia as well as owning several media including the british newspapers the evening standard and the independent so far there's been nothing illegitimate about his business and this is the first time that such searches being conducted in one of the liberty of scone bodies and we are of course waiting for any comments from the law enforcers as to what the criminal investigation is it about and what the businessman could be

charged with. but me just remind you that alexander liberty if it is number thirty four in forbes list of one hundred richest business russian businessman his national reserve corp is a financial industrial holding which includes more than one hundred companies now but it is also the president of national reserve bank which is a part of the corp. it's time to check the numbers now european stock markets are making gains in london the footsies climbing more than one percent and the texas up point eight percent b.p. shares jumped about one percent even though third quarter profits fell by six to seven percent the company set aside more money to pay for the gulf of mexico oil spill. in moscow the forces are in evening trade most of the major blue chips are bucking the trend as ever four dollars more than one percent this comes on the news of searches conducted by the police at the bank while there are forts owners that's under one thousand point five percent of the russian flexion air carrier that would have helped chest again what could have helped chose to gave us the company's

profit report says its net profits soared one hundred thirty percent according to russian accounting standards. and you at stocks are climbing in the opening moments of trading as investors await the results of meet term elections traders are also waiting for the federal reserve to wrap up the meeting on wednesday where it is expected to announce plans to stimulate the economy. russia's placed fourth and the world in terms of investment in the no technology but some investors have doubts about the government's attempt to create a local silicon valley heinz couldn't at present off the same way europe spoke to our correspondent daniel bushell. i haven't fully understood the project and i must say so i cannot tell you exactly what is in their mind. but what i can tell you i've been working with russian technology for for thirty years and i have seen the history of russia in technology is excellent so there's a lot of stuff here

a lot of parts a lot of brilliant people the problem is to translate that into products and applications to build up an industry that's the bottleneck under sink the russian government has understood they want to build up a strong industry so it's not technology it's not signs forget about that in russia it's building as an industry you have a wonderful cluster in russia. so many. effects of silicon like this technology. s.m.u. so small and medium enterprises pass an excellent university to me it has a lot of insecure woods so this is the class that actually for semiconductor manufacturing is a model they takes very long time rushes everything but no time to take capture the public imagination you cannot see that and that's the problem it's very difficult to explain to the consumer when to buy a product what is now know is it good isn't bad it's just not it's part of our

daily life and all the gadgets and all the up occasions in the car in the telephone wherever you go it's part of our life will sort of man oh products can people see in the shops this coming more and more it's also energy saving reducing the amount of materials you use it's improving your performance so that. there's a variety of applications and products. russia's oil output has reached a historic high for the second month running with daily extraction reaching the ten million barrels of crude crude two percent over the same period last year to more than four hundred twenty million barrels in ten months that's despite forecasts of a decline russia has been squeezing more oil out of existing fields but has also launched new fields in the pacific. ok that's all we have time for now join me next dollar for more and get more stories from a website r.t. dot com slash business.