all. well see british scientists it's time to. go. to the. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy cars report on or to. judge missile defense shield and developing strong that partnership dominates discussions as they don't cheat because it's small scale how to be aligned says upcoming summit with russia. in other news broke obama's democrats just

managed to keep the senate while republican secure the house after a fierce battle in the u.s. midterm election by their voters skepticism depth of them over whether the political changes will bring about any bill the economy. plus shifting allegiances iraq you fear those who were trained by the u.s. to stop insurgency are now helping to create it as armed groups go back to terrorism. it's three pm in moscow thanks for being with us this is our team with me and use the now way first stop combating international terror beefing up global security and deciding the future of missile defense here are the key issues nato is looking for russia's support on during

a visit of the alliance the secretary general here in moscow anders fogh rasmussen has a ready. had a brief meeting with the russian foreign minister and the whole talks with president mr ijaz shortly are days accompanying the gretsch over how the latest now and joins us live it's not so long ago you can't bring about a meeting like this would have been unthinkable but they're becoming increasingly frequent what has changed here. the nato is an organization that now faces major challenges it is at a crossroads it has an identity crisis analysts are saying that nato simply has bitten off more than it can chew and in afghanistan in particular and it now desperately needs russia's assistance and counsel and nato whole so wants to read itself from made so cold war identity one sided identity and to become a mordant point to the century security organization and police it needs russia's support rossum samisen most go to. to seek mid videos on

several key issues one of them is a very sensitive issue european missile defense now we know that u.s. plans to deploy elements of missile defense so flew close to russia's borders had serious new world relations with russia in the cost of the system was planned to be deployed to protect the continent against the threats from the so-called rogue states now the new dog training nato's blueprint which is expected to be discussed during the upcoming russian made zero summit later this month says that russia will be included in the new system but the crown it wants to know included as an observer included as a hands on the to supplant all this is very important the most could opt of rock obama scraps the whole plan of the previous u.s. administration several countries like germany have been saying that most states must be a part of the new show today under spoke brusqueness sun during

a press conference in moscow sat that nato would start co-creating with russia on this new european missile defense any time. exercise shoes testing our respective capabilities. and dish. see if the missile defense which aims at protecting our deployed troops. can be expanded through a territorial missile defense system to protect the whole of our population and that's what we're going to decide at the nato summit in lisbon and we would very much like to cooperate with russia. when it comes to territorial message different. another major issue on the tram don't today's rasmussen's visit to moscow is of ghana still remarkably he comes to the russian capital just

a week after an unprecedented joint open gratian russian intelligence officers helped nato carry out a major antidrug rate on the border between afghanistan and pakistan they destroyed four drug producing laborde trees despite russia's saying that under no circumstances would stand so just afghanistan mosco he's willing to cooperate with nato on its and to drop all this is in afghanistan because after all russia's the country which softest most from drug trafficking most have been produced her way hands up in russia to put that. anti drug operation that you were talking about is of course a great example of how washington nato are currently working together on many issues but like you really saying king differences remain here what analysts saying about the future between russia and nato how's it looking. now analysts are saying

that both mosco and may tell its knowledge that fundamental differences still divides them but the difference being is that now they are ready to address these sensitive issues to address the open debate. the reason for mr rasmussen the most go. to prepare there is a meeting to share opinions about the spiritual for the world for the relationship between russia and nato they have been partners in certain situations but we have never had a strategic partnership between us and they believe the both russia and nato need the stable strategic relationship in order to be more efficient in our common here for the still to come but the common threats and challenges. on nato and russian ties have been slowly recovering scenes township georgia's military

invasion insall the sect two years ago and now the primary source of townshend's said between nato and russia have been plans to deploy elements of missile defense system in eastern europe close to russia's buddhist russia had strongly oppose those plans all giving that one smile and one man's shield as it is another man's suit. and these are just as several of the main disagreements between nato and mosco poles nato's east enlargement eastwood's is also seen by prominent as one of the main threats to its national security but it seems that made so and moscow are now seeking to push the reset button similar to that which washington and moscow pushed a while ago and this is why rasmussen is in moscow and he's also saying that nato is blueprint cscope gratian partnership with russia as a new strategy but most go is pushing for more than just words from nato while all

of those issues will certainly be on the table when ralph newton sits down with president medvedev that's going to happen shortly from now because the new groucho following nato secretary general's visit to moscow thank you. well the head of the carnegie moscow center dmitri trenin told our tape that. joint russia nato missile defense project could be a breakthrough for both sides. the secretary general is a champion of joint missile defense on russia's russia's a corporation with nato on missile defense and he made that statement during his first speech on russia please first major speech on any issue that you made in september of last year under the auspices of the carnegie endowment basically you need to realize that no amount of the strategic arms reductions and limitations can transform the russian nato russia western russia us relationship one needs to have

a strategic collaborative project and that looks like missile defense is the one thing the silver bullet the project that can and has the potential at least to transform the entire russian western relationship it's a game changer or if with fail to seize a fall that it could be a game breaker. to me three crying in there the head of the carnegie moscow center well to the us now. where president obama's party has lost control over congress in the midterm elections democrats have managed to retain a majority in the senate but the house of representatives is now in the hands of the republicans what with congress divided between the two parties that would make it much harder for obama to go forward with his legislative agenda but many voters have other concerns they're wary about the corporate bankrolling of candidates after vast amounts of campaign cash poured into these elections as well as one for the u.s. green party says the runaway spending is detrimental to the country's political

system. 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 benefits 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 where 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 a 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 and 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 a media 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 these elections smoke is cleared here in the nation's capitol. thomas andrews their former congressman talking to us from washington well still ahead for you here on our t.v. a curious case of a radical anti drug activist. causing drug addict it's a treat but my god why now was sprayed more details on the case of a gold star coming up. but first 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 mainly shia neighborhoods in baghdad but multiple blast came

just two days after al-qaeda militants took a christian congregation hostage leaving fifty eight dead with a total u.s. pullout scheduled for the end of next year many iraqis say they feel abandoned and they have escalating violence and it's forcing someone to join the enemy once we are raised by the u.s. for its help and providing security is now forming back into the hands of local more and more war and al-qaeda parties polls clear report. 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 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. and security forces sometimes just turn a blind eye to what's going on there's lots of human rights violations and there aren't enough human rights organizations to defend and protect people from. but all these paramilitary groups upholding the rule of law all some of their activities. exchangeable 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 has a positive and a negative some leaders use their position for certain trouble scores stockpiling weapons making money and killing innocent civilians but the majority brought stability of the women. but that majority also feels abandoned by an america which

armed trained and paid them and despite big promises less than half of the ninety 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 wanted to talk after the americans were finished with his groups after iraq or security they no longer supported us especially when the iraqi government charged early theirs with crimes a lot of the leaders have lost trust and american and iraqi government and are free that's why working for them for being might face charges and or assassination that . iraqi security officials say hundreds of sons of iraq members have returned to al qaeda and that many of the thousands now on the iraqi government payroll secretly aid the insurgency for observers like honeyed for deal 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 of how that the training given by the u.s. was not complete and it never will be because america wants iraqis to keep winning then 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 although. in army bases like those iraqi federal police are trained in intelligence the tactical side exploitation and medical anything like that they do patrols connor i think is that for many iraqis what the americans left behind was destruction and devastation it will take a lot for them to rebuild the wounds of their minds. armed and dangerous these paramilitary groups struggle to find a place for themselves meeting 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 policy r.t.e. baghdad. a celebrated russian and two drugs activist convicted of forcing addicts

into rehabilitation centers has successfully appealed the decision to jail him a court in the urals region replaced you gord which calls three and a half year sentence with a thirty month term of probation but previously he's been held as a pioneer in tackling the country's drug problems or to use our first house more. things dave itzkoff having that original three and a half year jail sentence eva time on the high court handing down the lesser sentence of the two in a huff get suspended sentence that is closed today then looking for you but of course he has been found guilty of kidnapping and a legal detention of these a must that's the bitch book and the action flicks that you use as part of that technique that's helping us forcing people to quit and fight that addiction he was found guilty with to police and we see this case really showing nationwide

attention even president but they did commenting about it as saying that the case needed that closer attention and many supporters have been saying that i fall for a big honest bitch culture that actually has been commended for his actions with fish cooperating additionally to kill the main foundation city without a new question but that the people who actually live that have seen the positive effects that these actions have had we actually did it to you question but just say for a moment the guy had the people there with the things he said to the chief ten years ago that would know you guys and so the drug addiction was so you but you know people were afraid to go there right to let their children live in those areas and now there's been a. lot of very very positive impacts and even more interesting that some of the drug addicts at least like to come through the treatment that themselves little to these methods are incredibly harsh but i. they were how we can

end up in the fountain if anyways but he has that the same approach that despite the criticism the most important thing here is actually to test the fact that these methods are having a positive impact for this chap eagle carried out over two hundred operations against drug dealers which was a result the mortality rate has hugged the gypsies are afraid to sell drugs and consequently don't bribe you for it is clearly the authorities that didn't like that number into the assault to combat the methods that it's called in this case to get to you captain back with the foundation's been upright take much longer for a good ten years and they've now got a situation where they're actually working with all thirty i'm not working very well but that's a that's all been legal power within the law certainly the city that that sunday chavez cut himself has said that there was something that they did that to fill a catapult that wasn't big or just up in the first place took a day. this is just takes that around thirty thousand people a good. unofficial statistics say that but.

it must. be tackled. artie's are firth reporting there on a maverick russian anti drug activist who's been spared jail but let's take a look now at some world news in brief for you this hour greece has suspended all mail deliveries abroad for forty eight hours after a series of parcel bombs were sent to foreign embassies in athens three of them were addressed to germany's chancellor angela merkel italian prime minister silvio berlusconi 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 and say the finger of blame is pointing towards greek far left extremist. a five point three magnitude earthquake has struck central serbia killing two and injuring dozens more local t.v. reports say the hardest hit area was around the town of cry of the quake caused

damage to buildings and left parts of the town without electricity and water but tremors were felt across the country including the capital belgrade. dutch authorities have recalled number of plates which they can only carry deduction probably the word nazi over one hundred car owners received license plates with the letters and as be on them they were issued to drivers after a computer error letter combinations in the netherlands include abbreviations for political parties and swear words. eleven people are missing after a barge capsized in rough seas off north or off china's northeast coast this is c.c.t.v. footage of the rescue efforts a helicopter was sent to the scene and found three survivors who scrambled on to the hall love an overturned ship but the search teams are continuing to look for the missing sailors. now russia cars 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 u.

turns by restoring the country's auto making image they rescued battered old beggars and turned them into souped up soviet super cars. r.t. if if on the racetrack. when you think of russian cars what do you think. looks a tribute to this side of the. car. but don't be too hasty the team of russian car engine has managed to convert two old russian what courses in tracy. martin. 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 i the first is this old larger rescued by andre good head to moscow's bolton mechanics institute there it stripped out given a monstrous engine full of frankenstein treatment needed to create its new.

limits to cars in this case like could do whatever i want to. pretty much it's made for drag racing so there are no limits to its technical characteristics much and i don't everything i possibly could to this car the second is this god save you. 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. the function of the engineers behind these russian muscle cars haven't worked in vain

that part of moscow's elite motor engineering university which created futuristic concept cars placed its designers throughout the world's top car companies but the dreams of these engineers to race problems so far cost the stock to note that they want to hurry back creations away give them would like to invite people to come here to show them everything we've been doing and tell them all about it was awesome and i'm driving continue to bring their groups out this test trying to flex their muscles on whether they'll be pushing the boundaries of technical possibility or pushing the limits competitive the need for speed to drive more. boxy thank. you but you're up to date now from the news that sure there will be here with the very latest business next. hello welcome to the program hey along with michelle i was following russia's

services are growing at the foster's pace since june the heat wave someone calls a sex it's a contract the drought code up to forty percent of crops in some areas pushed up prices and lowered the business activity index but last month dangerous rise from fifty one point five to over fifty five indicating a strong recovery in the service sector this data is in along with our recent wallbank well course this kind wasn't in coles a certain race a short time increase in call the two levels. 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 and credit recovers. so the second message is that this growth in russia in particular is driven mainly now by the best. which is produced it's locally driven right so you're less perhaps there on any potential deceleration in outside markets.

it's become russia's second most popular promotion to television analysts say this could happen as soon as the end of this year online advertising is winning for shop in craze in shopping on the web as soon as they cross your reports. when the entire world is it 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 what is it to be examined what people are searching for it turns out the use of the phrase body online has increased threefold since two thousand and eight partners the requests are coming from moscow and st petersburg which accounts to over seventy percent of only search 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 the u.k. is seven times higher but it's not something of the same market of internet purchases in two thousand and ten is around twenty billion dollars the closer to zero is to michel's in two years because it grows up to twenty nine view on the world but last year despite the crisis it showed substantial growth and for some companies on why should you go with a cost so let's and profitability is greater it's a pickle 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 timothy cross to business archie moscow. time now salah lockett's of the for many. games their vessels not making any big as resistance but to coming as a lock us away economic announcements for us and as russia has

a holiday. and europe starts also trading and tight range ahead of today's us federal reserve announcement among the biggest names. jan which provided three percent of the paris after the bank topped expectation. bellerose will become the first country outside russia to sell bonds denominated in roubles the move will save better us as much as two point five percent annual interest compared with boring in dollars even though the dollar loans are cheaper than it was would have to pay to convert the money into rubles which it uses to trade with russia the ruble bond issue also supports russia's efforts to promote the ruble as the reserve currency. fos our growth was giving the mining b.h.p. billiton a run for its money with a rival bed for counters but tosh corp that almost he says boss i'll grow rolls to put together a coalition of canadian and russian products to support.