the official. from the. video. and. now with the palm of your. sparks fly as tokyo voices claims to russia's far eastern islands. japan has recalled its ambassador to russia amid a diplomatic dispute following president medvedev visit to the far eastern russian

territory of the korea lie woods. the democratic process is supposed to be a track on corporate power and instead what we're seeing is corporations hijacking that system in order to funnel money so the u.s. votes in midterm elections with signs pointing to a republican victory but many americans fear the corporate agenda is eclipsing democracy. and the celebrating human ambition of the international space station marks a decade of mad operations while critics pushed for breakthroughs to justify its billions in costs. you're watching r t coming to you live from the russian capital welcome to the program now first scandalous that's the way russia's viewing the recall of the japanese ambassador from moscow over an escalating territorial dispute tokyo was

protesting against president medvedev the visit to russia southern karylle islands which japan claims as its own party'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 reading the cold hope early on today a very strongly worded statement from the foreign minister certainly pulling no punches yes it was japan's ambassador in moscow receives directions about his actions directly from tokyo so this is their internal affair but generally the ongoing staring of emotions on japan's part over president medvedev visit to the korean island is causing concern with us i stated repeatedly to such actions and protests from tokyo are unacceptable and we reaffirm this position mr lavrov also said that president medvedev may visit more of the korean islands in the future as four islands have based in me just off the northwest coast of japan they came under

control of moscow of the one nine hundred forty five and japan currently believes that they should be returned to them at the moment this all comes on the a 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 in bassett or 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 at the end of the second world war when moscow took over control of them and they became part of the soviet union now of course part of the russian federation 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 and the head of the state duma's foreign affairs committee constantine says talks over the correll 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 russia as a result of the second world war it is not discussable and in case japan has

a certain opinion on there will be aerated to discover that certain opinions 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 these behavior of japanese authorities which 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. well americans are voting in midterm elections to decide the future of the house of representatives and one third of the senate now opinion polls predict barack 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 candidates. reports. the typical attack ads from this election season. except the opponent to approve the ad is herself an expert in months throwing washington post and the organization that back surgeries funded by the un nurse. this election cycle has been notorious 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 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 will cut in 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 us 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. an enormous you know quality in influencing. policy making. process influencing their regulatory process because we. are behind all of these contributions not oregon citizens of the united states but basically the most power for a breach affecting people to watch these. as in action take a republican leader in the house of representatives john boehner wall street invested millions of dollars in his campaign he's also a darling among large health insurance or firms and drug manufacturers been or is

campaigning in 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 markets 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. private to think 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 and should be more democratic. next monday and some fear their interest may be left out because of someone's special interest on the outside is democracy is move on 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 me it seems all really has the vote in american mail is money and it's. down on t. washington d.c. . scopic laura d. a national spokesman for the u.s. green party says the runaway spending is detrimental to the country's political system and that america's desperate for the multi-party approach of the important

thing to point out is that that money comes from corporations and corporate money has poisoned our democracy but the real problem is an election system that is rigged against us in several ways there are state laws regarding ballot access that democrats and republicans have passed together to privilege themselves to privilege their own candidates while hindering the ability of all the parties and independents to participate in the democratic process we need to get those laws overturned and we need to make the us a multi-party democracy the only real democracy is a multi-party democracy and i have for you in the program over a barrel a jail or oil type victim of stealing the billions could see your sentence extended as a case that's fueling debate find out more as our team bring see the latest from the court and beyond and all so. much when we started training for the station

itself did not exist we were no menus there were no exercise machines today marks ten years since the pioneering crew boarded the international space station and find out first hand how the facility has changed and what the future holds for bad gateway to the final frontier. now russia has started delivering a free guns and ammunition to arm the afghan police the first aircraft has already landed in kabul and sixteen more shipments are expected to take place as part of a bilateral agreement reached in august military analysts say russia will engage further in countering threats emanating from afghanistan. all neighboring countries and to russia as a regional superpower i think that. russia should feel engaged is

needed the only limited. amount of russian troops russia pays much attention to drug problem it was very remarkable new speech came recently about the successful joint operation we all expect that. operation real continue in the future because russian people. from every day life. drugs. a huge threat to all our. nations. former oil tycoon. who was jailed for a tax evasion in two thousand and three is back in court no charges brought against him could see a storm extended until twenty seventeen now he's been giving his concluding speech at a court hearing and. has been following the case. blues strong words today for mikhail khodorkovsky as he gave the final speech of the most they call it ahead of the

verdict this child like had a close get along with his school of business partner plots on lead to standing trial accused of fools and investment now he's we had him say today call on the judge to have coverage saying that the fate of all russians rests on the verdict that will be delivered a little bit 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 the kind of cause davis shown to the government and now with one year to his release we've seen these need charges pulled but there are others that has said that actually had a close case has ruled this country of billions of dollars and that now he may be trying to elevate his response ability for that certainly for the prosecutor in

this case of 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 and play up to the political element in this trial with a new charges both against how to close down his business partner left with. no fraud and embezzlement now that they stand the keys of 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 found him guilty they could face time behind bars taking them up to twenty seventeen so the verdict will these new charges is expected to be delivered on the fifteenth of december. well more top news stories on our web site r t v dot com including a new five year old woman who was salvageable. bull attack in her own backyard russia south dies after several days in

a coma. and being targeted as a criminal before even committing a crime find out about preemptive prosecution in the united states that are to be. turning to some world news in brief for you now at least seventy six people have been killed and nearly two hundred wounded after a series of ten explosions across the iraqi capital baghdad it all happened while hundreds of people gathered to burry the victims of sunday's catholic church siege fifty eight people were killed when iraqi troops stormed the building after a car the militants had taken the congregation hostage during mass now the gunmen were reportedly demanding the release of all imprisoned the qaida members it would rock and egypt. 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 suspicious packages were also found at the bulgarian and chilean embassies greek authorities have already charged two men with terror acts. britain and france have signed it. letting up a joint force sharing equipment 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 and nuclear testing center will be set up in france and technology is expected to be developed in britain. in germany an unexpected a sinkhole that appeared in the middle of the street has forced dozens of people to flee their homes the hole which is about twenty meters deep and forty meters wide swallowed an entire car now officials say it's still on clear why the sinkhole

appeared but it is thought that underground rock had broken up creating a cavity beneath the surface. now one of the most ambitious projects in history b. international space station is lacking 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 investment advice of two hundred people art is eager to god have takes us back to the station's early days. they set off for one of the most important expeditions in the history of space exploration on the van but the second two thousand expedition one was to dock with the international space station and become its first permanent crew that didn't know what to expect to come over to them when we started training for the isis the station itself did not exist there were no manuals there were no exercise machines. the docking was a success but now the crew had to activate the station assembled separately in

russia and the u.s. the first time that i said components fitted together was in space it's beautiful the first two weeks on there were extremely stressful if we failed would have had to return to earth and abandon the station but it would never have been constructed as planned if they could give them a lot of the equipment did not work as planned in contact with us we had to try and fix it on the spot. but there was no way to live the two russian cosmonauts had already completed long missions on the mir the old irrational with all station. on the it was old analog technology switches and stuff the i assess was clean and shiny but it was very hard living there all the space was taken up by equipment that would have to be installed we could barely squeeze past each other and slept on the floor but we knew it was our job and also how often do you get to go into space. and the years after expedition one the station expanded rapidly new modules

were added that received two hundred visitors i asked the current cree what has changed since expedition one. these days the station is so huge like an apartment block we don't get to see each other for long periods of time. it's ok but it's getting a bit worn down now i wish they would renovate some of the sport has been achieved in a decade but overall usefulness of the service is still being debated this station has cost the taxpayer one hundred billion dollars and that's just absurd it's too much but it's there all the expedition one members have now retired from space travel but still believe what they did was worthwhile. we laid the foundation for the international space station and for the future of space research. and with its lifespan already extended to twenty twenty the fruits of expedition one still being born whatever its limitations and budget over and though i assess is important that

the tar work no longer seemed like everything was possible in space and there were no longer the cold war budgets to fund it all still proves that space research can be right at the edge of human endeavor either on or. moscow. a former calls one off from russia's near space station believes it was that program which lay the foundations for the i assess mir was the first constantly inhabited station in orbit and carried out thousands of experiments it was decommissioned in two thousand and one and sent to a fiery grave burning up in the earth's atmosphere. but to deal with the modules that are now used on the united service of the seams once it was done for years of course they were more technologically advanced the better equipment is used including digital but it all started with mir and you can use that's where we'll begin to be aware there were long term cosmic flights with representatives from other countries including europe and the us he was our program we were dependent on

anyone else it might be more interesting to be on the international space station and there's always an exchange of experience but when we were and we are we could use the equipment as we please most of them was not sure a group of hedge fund owners are planning one of the biggest charity events ever and hopes to raise up to ten million dollars later financial analysts max kaiser and stacy herbert discuss if the money will really go to the needy or disappear down to thirty throats of the global party organizers. talk about five or ten million dollars in charity versus bankrupting the economy putting millions out of work people starving to death these are the charlatans that are destroying the economy they're not doing anything good in the wall street journal of course is the poster child is the rag it's murdoch's rag that he puts out there with these editorials that are concocted by a diseased mind of another oligarch it's all about murdoch and all of our telling is hedge fund all the cards supporters that it's ok to starve kids around the world

to have your swell little champagne parties you know this is pathetic you know this is why marie antoinette ultimately ended up in a state not dissimilar to what we see right here with who is a schmuck oh this is frickin ben bernanke you ok notice he's missing is body. oh all this and much more in just over an hour here on r t and in a moment you'll hear joins us from the business desk don't go away. hungry for the full story we've got it for us the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on.

line. would be so much brighter if you move the sound from phones to the pressure. he's stumped on t.v. dot com. hello time to get the latest from the world of business armed police have raided a bank owned by russian tycoon an exxon than a bit if national reserve corp is one of the key assets of the london evening standard and independent newspaper it's all correspondents it was at the scene. in the afternoon a group of mosques to 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 the national reserve bank belong still very well known russian businessman alex on the libby defense the owner of several than vest and companies in russia as well as owning several media including the british newspapers the evening standard and 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 but he's. the world bank has lowered its outlook for russia's growth but it says domestic consumer will likely come to me helping to offset a global slowdown we expect a four point two growth rate this year and

a slight improvement for next year at around four point five as domestic demand in credit recovers. so the second message is that this growth in russia in particular is driven mainly now by domestic demand which is produced it's locally driven right so you're less vulnerable perhaps there aren't any pretention deceleration in outside markets. well samas heatwave has left one point four million russians blow the poor to line the drought killed up to forty percent of crops in some areas and pushed prices to their highest for years that hit the pockets of the retired and those living off alone says the world bank says they must change so the population is now in coverage it says rising incomes trigger sure but the point spike is temporary. a look at the markets now u.s. stocks are up as investors await the results of meet term elections and traders are also waiting for the federal reserve to wrap up

a meeting wednesday where it is expected to announce plans to stimulate the economy . time to check the numbers now in europe stocks made gains in london this puts a crime more than one percent of the text was up point eight percent b.p. shares jumped about one point seven percent even though the quarter profits fell by six to seven percent the company set aside more money to pay for the gulf of mexico oil spill. and in moscow the ports is closed up on tuesday of most of the major blue chips finished up bucking the trend era ford down about one percent this comes on the news of searches conducted by the police at a bank or one of air force owners alexander lebedev owns one thousand nine hundred five percent of the russian flagship f. kerry and what could have helped chester game is the company's profit air force says its net profits soared one hundred thirty percent according to russian accounting standards. and the russian stock exchange r.t.s.

has decided to hold i.p.o. as soon as next year it will place at least twenty percent of shares worth around six hundred thirty million dollars r.t.s. representatives say the i.p.o. has nothing to do with any merged with my six. year old we are an open joint stock company so everyone may buy shares but i think these processes are not connected at all or my six to buy the shares of r g r there's no connection with this the primary goal of the i.p.o. is to encourage the strategic development of our jails. despite a recent war wars between russia and turkmenistan talks about gas supplies are warming up as the china political reports during his visit to turkmenistan russia's first deputy prime minister viktor to call said that russia is interested in all turkmenistan gas pipeline project he also didn't exclude the possibility that russia could raise the gasoline price from turkmenistan in case the demand in

europe grows zuckoff smiting is particularly important now after the tensions between the two contras over the gas trade escalated last week just to remind you we can go one of russia's top officials eager search and doubted the visibility also won the pro-communist pounds gas pipeline project and he also said that there are them in istanbul be able to supply gas to the west without crossing the russian territory. and it's trying accused russia in interfering in its efforts to build energy ties with europe now don't tell me she could save money for the energy industry by finding a useful waste chemicals gas prominent roles nonis or i will jointly apply the technology in council holds the product from us we have worked on a plan of action for. the use of so.