wealthy british. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy. bolstering global security and cope racing on to get a stand of all dominate discussions as nato chief arrives in moscow in a bid to boost nato partnership with russia. barack obama's democrats get the

senate but republican secured the house after a fierce battle in the u.s. midterm elections but there's a vote of skepticism over whether the political changes will bring about any boost to the. legion says iraq those who were trained by the way. to. go back to terrorism. and coming out from the russians services are growing at the false pace since june find out more in about twenty minutes time. it's twelve noon here in moscow your tune to our table straight to our top story now combating international terror beefing up global security and deciding the

future of missile defense the key issues russia and nato are working on during a visit secretary-general to moscow on this for rasmussen will meet the russian president later on wednesday. today still sorry to shoot was all but gracious for the upcoming russian nato summit which is due to take place in lease on at the end of the bond while the president wants to move nato's position on missile defense systems in europe and it also wants the new blueprint nato's blueprint for a new strategy of the twenty first century to reflect russia's own security interests and concerns now as far as missile defenses shoot in europe is still somewhat washable stern though is not is it going to be integrated into the new system as a mere observer or a hands on the disband. that system in the whole procedure is wrong is still stuck

shown to its activation now another important issue on today's agenda is again a stunt nato desperately needs russia's help in the war in afghanistan was mrs visit console you saw that there was successful ration care adult with the help of russia's intelligence agencies for drugs to see were trees were destroyed was it between afghanistan and pakistan and drugs played some two hundred media. rushes that she suffers most to throw my thoughts giustina get as most still get just her with ends up involved and move russian foreign minister said on monday in the rush on the lives circumstances go to sunday just to get a sense that since the state was willing to take part of the oh gracious like one or the last week of course analysts are saying that both will scale and nato acknowledged that fundamental disagreements still divide for example russia's

current mood for job training lease nato expansion east wars as one of the main routes to its national security but analysts are also saying that the difference being is now that the size. the most sensitive issues open debate on the stage on facebook late last night and music rival to moscow andras photographs the same great time has come for breasts in made so russian relations that the message to the russian people is that made does not see russia as an enemy but as a state teaching. while still today will be pushing for more than just words from nato. now to the us where president obama's party has lost control of the congress and midterm elections democrats have managed to retain a majority in the senate the house of representatives is now in the hands of republicans in congress divided between the two parties it would make it much

harder president obama to go forward with his legislative agenda but many voters have other concerns they're worried about the corporate bankrolling of candidates vast amounts of campaign cash was poured into these elections a spokesman for the u.s. green party says the runaway spending is detrimental to the country's political system. well 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 but with political difficulties in sight for getting legislation through former congressman thomas andrews says it will make it even harder for washington to solve its pressing economic problems. there are a lot of things that need to be done in this country that are not being done unfortunately the script in this election is is number one we haven't seen the change in the economic prospects of this country change enough with a nine point six percent unemployment rate nationally and in some of these very competitive districts double digit unemployment rates and of course the deficit has continued to increase as the economy has continued to slide so what you have is people who are taking advantage of that very dire situation and saying it's the politicians in washington who are spending like drunken sailors and causing this economic collapse we need to change fundamentally the decision makers in washington d.c. the problem that we're going to face is that these candidates who are now being elected

who have been running on the basis of this very very high octane rhetoric and all these negative ads are not going to be in a position or feel that they're going to be comfortable compromising and engaging in the kind of give and take that you need in order to make a government work people are anxious they're nervous they want to see immediate change what they don't want to see is gridlock and i'm afraid that one of the consequences of this election will be gridlock in washington and i think that will translate into a pox on everyone both parties houses if washington can't step up and get some things get some things done once the election smoke is cleared here in the nation's capital. tell us and is there a former congressman talking to us from washington d.c. . well still ahead fighting for survival how the brits are being forced to fend for themselves it means the world that's in a few minutes. now this week has been the bloodiest in iraq for

months at least seventy six people have been killed and two hundred wounded in a series of attacks in many neighborhoods in baghdad the multiple blasts came just two days after the militants to christian congregation hostage fifty. the eight dead with a total u.s. pullout shit deal for the end of next year in iraq you say they feel abandoned escalating violence that's forcing some to join the enemy one sunni armed group praised by the u.s. for its whole security is now back in the hands of the warlords and al-qaeda what his policy reports. there is still a force to be reckoned with tens of thousands of sunni muslims angry at the shiite iraqi government known as the sons of iraq four years ago they were won over by american dollars to fight al qaeda one of the strains they live in the neighborhoods in which they keep watch. we did a great service to iraq some were members were working with the terrorists before they joined us and they give us information about the armed groups but despite

attempts by the iraqi government to disarm them in communities like this they continue to patrol the streets because they insist iraqi soldiers just can't keep the peace. security forces sometimes just turn a blind eye to what's going on there's lots of he rights violations and there aren't enough human rights organizations defend and protect people. but all these paramilitary groups upholding the rule of law or some of their activities questionable as suggested in the four hundred thousand iraq documents released by wiki leaks in one account has sons of iraq leader is said to be responsible for the murder of innocent civilians conducting insurgent activities under the guise of a sons of iraq leader extortion and rape. they are everything as a positive and a negative some leaders use their position for settling trouble scores stockpiling weapons making money and killing innocent civilians but the majority brought

stability. but that majority also feels abandoned by an america which armed trained and paid them and despite big promises less than half of the nine. thousand strong force has been given work or absorbed into iraqi security forces but this man is one of the few who has but he's afraid to reveal his identity. to talk after the americans were finished with his groups after iraq was secure they no longer supported us especially when the iraqi government charged are leaders with crimes a lot of the leaders have lost trust in the american and iraqi government and are afraid that by working for them they might face charges and or assassination. iraqi security officials say hundreds of sons of iraq members have returned to al qaeda and that many of the thousands now in the iraqi government payroll secretly aid the insurgency for observers like ideal iraqi security forces are running

a losing race to keep up to speed to either integrate the groups or to be able to secure iraq without them and i think that how that the training given by the u.s. was not complete and it never will be because america wants iraqis to keep leading them they don't want to rock to build a strong army and that way they can justify staying in the country and making sure iraq is never strong enough to control the region. in army bases like those iraqi federal police are trained in intelligence tactical side exploitation and medical anything like that they do patrols connor atheist but for many iraqis what the americans left behind was destruction and devastation it will take a lot for being to rebuild the ruins of the minds. armed and dangerous these paramilitary groups struggle to find a place for themselves needing some observers to warn that while they might have been used for short term military gains in the end they could be the roadblocks to

peace paullus here r.t. baghdad. scariest spokesperson for the iraqi ministry of defense told r.t. that the country's forces will be ready for the security situation when america. troops eventually withdraw. but it's worth talking about the readiness or not of the iraqi security forces because the number of american troops left in this country is forty nine thousand seven hundred and something as an iraqi i welcome the american withdrawal and i wish that we will be ready by the thirty first of december two thousand and eleven bullet to say good bye to the americans for good that they're very close we will be fully ready to take over. and they can watch that full interview with muhammad ali asghar in twenty minutes time. brazil's new president a dealer who set his promise to follow the path of her popular predecessor by making the fight against poverty and the one priority this white huge strides made in recent times many remain trapped by their circumstances people struggling to

find work in cities and now coming up with their own ways to survive and feed their families during this to has this report. a simple life. tending your own garden. growing your own food is a simple life worth fighting for even if you've built it illegally six times they've tried to kick us off and together with the church and with some politicians we've been able to appeal standing your ground because another life one you've worked to escape is always in sight not far from where you toil these are the favelas they are the slums in brazil it's the way the majority of the poor live in this country and where here are just a stone's throw away on a settlement this is where a group of people now live off the land in a commune as an answer to the poverty and joblessness in the slums brazil is the largest country in south america and almost half of the farmland is controlled by just one percent of the landowners and there's a lot of activism to

a huge social movement in fact behind changing that. misty struggles so brazil can do radical agrarian reform so that we can settle the land and get rid of property pushing to get all poor brazilians like the forty families living here back to the earth after they were pushed off by the world. when the green revolution led by powerful foundations and governments like the us turned farming in the developing world into an expensive and high tech agricultural industry with this revolution huge businesses occupy the land and this has been happening since the one nine hundred fifty s. and they've been kicking small farmers off the land they kick them off and they send them to the city saying that the cities need workers but the cities didn't need all those workers so while the land became a means to produce and export food for the world to consume benefiting the few people who controlled it. the large land owners the bank owners and the

multinational corporations small land workers like these lost their jobs to technology or lost their land going into debt. trying to compete and were left to starve or today it is very much an oppressor capitalism is becoming a monster because wherever the market or product is the principal focus everything or everyone else ends up excluded but everyone's included here in their own collectives socialist solution a model of their dream for brazil. we want wealth distribution for the poor and the workers we want land distribution the green revolution of their own. a simple life worth fighting for lauren mr r t so paulo brazil. and if he gets we have a much more few on our website. three videos blogs forums and much more stuff to tell what might catch your eye right now on a woman take on the life in the military former intelligence specialist in the us

army talks about sexual harassment. being an inside look at the struggle for female fighters. overseas millions of dollars to russia silicon valley help startups write that's what good although it's a more web site that's. former prime minister. has died at the age of seventy two he was the head of the country's government from ninety ninety two to ninety ninety eight some of the most turbulent years for the country following the collapse of the soviet union well after his work in the government he was appointed to russia's ambassador to neighboring ukraine a year ago he became a presidential aide his family said he was suffering from

a serious illness but gave no further details yet and was born in the north korea in the energy sector becoming the soviet minister in the gas industry right here her two sons and four grandchildren. now to some world news in brief this hour. greece has suspended all mail deliveries abroad for forty eight hours after a series of possible it was sent to n.b.c. americans three of them were addressed to germany's chancellor merkel talian prime ministers rice and french president nicolas sarkozy some parts of athens have been closed off and security has been tightened at all foreign missions police have already charged two men say the finger of blame is pointing towards a greek left extremist. a five point three magnitude earthquake has struck central serbia killing two injuring dozens more

local t.v. saying the hardest hit area was around the town of cry over the quake caused damage to buildings and left parts of the town without electricity and water the tremors were also felt across the country including the capitol dome great. arnold schwarzenegger successor as california's governor has been voted in as a form of movie star says backs of a two year term job will be taken by a democratic candidate jerry brown who defeated his republican opponent whitman during the midterm elections the so-called governator formerly step down general. now russian cause would be a long way down any list of the world's best but a group of engineers are trying to perform the mother of all the u. turns by restoring the country's all time making image of a rescue battered old bearing is turn them into souped up super cars ati's tom

bottom reports from the restaurant. when you think of russian cars what do you think of. their side of the. but don't be too hasty a team of russian car engine it has managed to convert two old russian what courses into race horses. and wagons that we bought this car for five thousand dollars back in two thousand and three now after all our work it's worth three hundred thousand dollars. the first is this old larder it was rescued by andre and brought here to moscow's auto mechanics institute there it was stripped out given a monstrous engine and all the frankenstein treatment needed to create its new look . might encourage says there are limits to cars in this case i could do whatever i wanted. with the much in you it's made for drag racing so there are no limits to

its technical characteristics i don't everything i possibly could to this car the second is this old vulgar soviet car built decades ago that now has a thousand horsepower but it wasn't always like that. it's a beautiful car named the best car of nine hundred fifty seven it's very high quality but i wanted to make it more powerful originally it only had seventy five horsepower. so we know the story of this car and what it used to be the main difference after all the modifications is this not your typical vulgar engine. so let's see what it can do. for you clearly the engineers behind these russian muscle cars haven't worked in vain that part of moscow's elite motor engineering university created futuristic concept cars a place to designers throughout the world's top car companies but the dreams of

these engineers to race problems so far cost the starting line not that they want to hurry the creations away but yet give them good i'd like to invite people to come here to show them everything we've been doing and tell them all about it was also me and i'm driving continue to bring their groups out this test trying to flex their muscles and whether they'll be pushing the boundaries of technical possibility or pushing the limit competitively the need for speed to drive. r.t. . hot rods into the well we can now cross to charlotte they can see this is me and reports that more russians are going online to do their shopping and what more can you tell us about that and i that's what i want is still not as popular as in great britain for example internet shopping is growing hey ours is only an advertising when i was in the program but first as our russian service has a growing at the fastest pace since june that's all of the heat wave this summer

cause the sector to contract that euro and killed up to forty percent of cops in some areas pushed up prices are lower as a business activity index but also among the index rose from fifty one point five to over fifty five indicating a strong recovery in the service sector this data is in line with the recent wallbank support which claimed rising incomes would soon raise a short term increase in poverty levels. we expect a four point two growth rate this year and a slight improvement for next year occur around four point five as domestic demand and credit recovers. so the second message is that there's growth in russia. in particular is driven mainly male by domestic demand which is produced it's locally driven right so you're less vulnerable haps there aren't any pretension to sort of racial you know outside markers. time around say how long before going in here in moscow and also the climbing sleigh with investors not making any big waves so far

this resistance function is coming in the way king economic announcements will us and is russia because the two days of a national holiday is over in europe stocks and holding off on any big moves its attention focuses on likely to further round of. among the biggest names in soc gen which rose two point two percent of all for the bank top expectations. dropped ten percent in london off the aerospace group in case of growth waving their hopes in two thousand and ten and i've been a follower of my gains and move straight. ahead of expenses one. day hong kong's hang seng has leapt to its highest in twenty eight months rising two percent by bank games and banks and accountants in japan along place back from national holiday. now being sent is set to become russia's second most popular promotion for television analysts say this could happen as soon as the end of this

year online advertising is winning for shopping craze and shopping on the web as timofei across europe reports. when the entire world is your fingertips whether it's buying high tech gadgets or just paying the bills virtually everything can be done through the internet and russians are getting hooked on you and your stories we examine what people are searching for it turns out the use of the phrase has increased threefold since two thousand and eight the requests are coming from petersburg which accounts to over seventy percent to eighty six requests by research by google and citibank shows russians most. often pay for things like telecom services twenty nine percent of operations railway tickets and music each account for more than ten percent news and data represents six percent along with air tickets however the volume of web purchases in russia amounts to no more than one percent of the g.d.p. in comparison the figure for england is seven times higher. the market of internet

purchases in two thousand and ten is around twenty billion dollars according to our estimates in two years because it grew up to twenty nine billion dollars last year despite the crisis showed substantial growth and for some companies online with the costs are less and profitability is greater it's a big old porch of an online buyer in russia as a young single male from moscow with higher education women it seems still prefer the classic shopping techniques timofey across the business archie moscow. now russia's oil output is reached a historic high for the second month running the day mix of a ten million barrels per quarter percent over the same period last year to over four hundred twenty million barrels and ten miles past aspire for cost of a decline russia has been squeezing for existing fields also has a lot of new fans in the pacific. russia is ranked fourth in the world in terms of

investment in nano technology business leaders have doubts about the government's attempt to create a local silicon valley company and pack a founder and c.e.o. spend the us says some of these concerns a groundless. i have heard both two arguments one says that you cannot found the silicon valley one of the other hand russia has a history of making big b.c.s. sense and building projects so it might happen it's not going to replace all of of a great yeah cities telegraph this one a false sun be the focus of great potential and many other cities and i think what russia is doing will you spoke of oil is attracting large sporting investors in it than that and i think this is might be the fact that it's going to make it successful for your voice and your plans to invest in russia we have advice in our clients to work in russia internet out it definitely because we see a lot of very certain people but unity for western companies very survived amount

of natural resources very very strong fundamental science in chemistry physics my various technologies and various abundant capital to strive for this development on the same b.b.c. but russians and us time but need for foreign partners for modernizing its industry and developing its innovation what you want to see was the startups investing up rule with certain simple reasoning is that kind of like this how the global iced economy works if you want to add tract capital you also beat me able to invest capital abroad and also not all companies but for us the need for its modernization many not based on are ready to locate russia in the very beginning and it's not even necessary but this could give the country an outreach to have a tap into the global innovation why would you leave nokia the world's top mobile phone manufacturer to work in nanotech i spent twenty years in the ip industry and there i saw what i t.

need for information and now what i see is for nanotechnology the school will the same transformation for matter. and i shopped. the stories on our website out into . the. in the.