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hailing a leap from the cold war to real partnership. common security structure in europe and on afghanistan dominates it told space they made us cheap and the russian leaders in most states. president obama faces a tougher challenge to his agenda as the democrats lose their hold over congress in the midterm vote many americans fear corporate dollars may now be running the country. and it could be back to square one in iraq with u.s. forces stepping down we'll look at how local militias are falling back to insurgency. it's nine pm in moscow i match reza good to be with you here on r t our top story russia has reaffirmed its readiness to create a joint anti-missile defense system in europe with nato but only on an equal basis

the reassurance came after a meeting in moscow between the russian leadership and the nato chief. has been following the high level talks in central moscow. both nato and moscow realize that a new global security strategy is needed for the twenty first century and it is time for change it is time that nato and. the partnership now nato is an organization that is currently facing serious challenges as an identity crisis analysts say that north atlantic alliance has bitten off more than it can chew and its and in afghanistan in particular nato so wants to read itself always so cold war one sided identity rasmussen is a moscow today for talks all in the two main issues the first one is anti missile defense in europe recently nato invited russia to participate in that system but the kremlin keeps asking hard questions on what role would be given would be just

a mere observer of the new technology overly put to supposed to be in the new system as a hands on man but will it to dissipate in the entire process starting from construction to activation of this system well sergei lavrov today says that of course the. new system will be discussed in detail cheering the upcoming russian nato summit in lisbon in two weeks' time but he said that russia sees. its agreement to accept the invitation is only possible if but they take part in the system as equal partners look at the condition of solution there is a serious organization everything that comes from the organization is taken very seriously by russian partners in nature have a clear understanding russia's participation in this project is possible and will be based on equal footing before we go into this project this work should be carried out if will leaders of our state take decisions we pull russia's currently

providing nato with crucial support in afghanistan it provides a military supply routes for the afghan war and just recently russia to part for the first time. in many years in an unprecedented joint open ration against several drug producing would board trade stocks were hundreds of millions of dollars were destroyed for russia hope raising with nato on hand to drop policies in afghanistan is one of the top priorities because after almost about can produce tyron hands up in russia russia and nato acknowledge of course that there are fundamental disagreements that still divide russia nato ties have been slowly recovering after russia repelled georgia's military invasion and saw the setting in august two thousand and eight russia has been there is sun city or tornadoes moving east woodside it's nice to see it as one of the top threat states national security but it seems that chances are high that the two sides could push the reset button

similar to that the the united states and russia pushed a while ago it was also so that the two sides should not treat each other as cold war anime's anymore but rather like modern day partners the right approach would be true develop a true strategic partnership between nato and russia and focus on the areas where we are faced with the same security challenges areas where we share good she could she country and show my approach would be the pragmatic true to go for a true strategic partnership made us blueprint for change also says further cooperation with russia a top priority but most go is pushing for more than just words from nato. today's other big stories in the us where president obama's democratic party has narrowly managed to hold onto a majority in the senate in midterm elections but the house of representatives is

now firmly in the hands of the republican opposition with congress now divided between the two parties it will be much tougher for obama to move forward with his legislative agenda but many voters have other concerns they're worried about a corporate bankrolling of candidates after a vast amounts of campaign cash was poured into these elections for more now we go with zack carter and i'm excited over alter net dot org who's talking to us live from washington good to have you with us so both parties use massive amounts of money to sway public opinion in this campaign is it fair to say that these days the private financier's are flat out buying influence. well there was a very important supreme court decision in the united states this year which allowed corporations to directly contribute to either advocate or condemn individual candidates in u.s. elections that's never been allowed before there's always been some corporate influence over american politics but this year was very strong we had nearly half a billion dollars in outside group expenditures on the elections this year and that's that's a lot of money particularly in a midterm election which isn't usually as costly as

a presidential election now that supreme court decision freed corporations to pretty much spend unlimited amounts of money and this spending can be almost completely anonymous i heard one analyst put it as saying that this ruling made it seem that corporations are people and money is speech is this really a good thing when people don't know who's trying to buy favor. you know it's a huge problem one of the reasons that the spending was so profit at the cycle was precisely because it was anonymous that so long as a corporation finds its money through a front group that front group never has to disclose who its donors are so you know a big bank for instance can lobby against financial reforms and not have to go out and then be held probably accountable for this this anonymous front group can do it for them i think it's an enormous problem for the democratic accountability it's not the way a democracy is supposed to work and the supreme court itself said that this sort of sort of expenditures ought to be regulated that the trick is that congress actually passing legislation to regulate it because republicans blocked it in the senate and

we sort of saw that rearing its head a little bit with some of these tea party candidates didn't we where they were getting large amounts of money you from almost anonymous donors and we didn't really know where any of that was coming from and when you follow the money trail it really turns out that a lot of them are coming from some very wealthy interests who are using these candidates in their fringe are used to really kind of push their agenda that's right there's a handful of groups americans for prosperity and freedom works are two of them that are just funneling money from millionaires and billionaires to these so-called grassroots populist organizations but we have this image of the tea party is these you angry ordinary folks that in fact it's an organization from by entrenched republican politicians and very very wealthy people so do you think that at a time when america's engine seems to be stalled by the economic crisis that there's better ways than just to spend four billion dollars then by pouring it into an electoral campaign. well of course i think one of the things that's interesting about the spending on this election though is the it's almost all done on attack ads campaign campaign ads those attacks only stick if voters are already unhappy

and the reason they're unhappy is because the economy is terrible so you know all these companies that you hear a lot of talk about how there's regulatory uncertainty and they don't know what they want to invest or they don't know how because of various complications they have plenty of money lying around they just there's no demand in the economy so they're spending it on other things like buying elections what steps do you think that people could take to help keep us democracy from falling into abusive corporate hands. well hopefully congress will try and take up campaign finance in the lame duck session deal once they get back from this electoral break there's a couple months before the new congress actually takes office so in that time they could do something to at least require companies to disclose who you know which elections they're trying to buy there are a lot of things that people are you know legally allowed to do in public that they won't do when people are watching them i think purchasing elections is one of those so if congress does something like that that be that would be very helpful but other than that the citizens united is a constitutional decision it wires

a constitutional amendment to be overturned that's a very long and arduous process but that's the decision was enormously unpopular about three fourths of americans oppose it so there are groups getting together trying to get the wheels moving on a constitutional amendment to overturn citizens united all right zach carter economics editor from alter net dot org joining us from washington thanks for your perspective. russia's state duma foreign affairs committee is reconsidering its support for the new nuclear arms reduction treaty between moscow and washington it were called in earlier recommendation to ratify the treaty the committee's head says the says the decision follows the outcome of u.s. midterm elections he says of the start treaty isn't ratified by the current crop of senators chances are that it'll be rubber stamped by the new we won't be rubber stamped by the new republican dominated congress the presidents of russia and the us signed a new agreement in prague in april. from the russian foreign affairs committee in the federation council believes whatever happens to start it won't affect the reset in relations. there's nothing wrong. with our relations with

the republican party. and all the criticism all the republicans against star three agreement for example was criticism of the against russian position or. views that started three agreement but against the position of democratic government during the negotiations and against against obama. primarily so i think that the reset is not in danger. and you can catch that full interview with my column out of a lot of this thursday on spotlight remember our website is also keeping you up to date twenty four hours a day here are some of what you'll find right now by clicking to. hope the running low for women in afghanistan a shocking number of falling victim to domestic abuse and violence but the suicide

rate on the rise despite international efforts. and the moscow landmark metro unveils a new attraction as it turns one of its stations into a museum for more head over to party dot com. russia is mourning the death of a veteran of post soviet politics viktor chernomyrdin in the one nine hundred ninety s. china mirrored and was russia's prime minister during the tough transition from communism in one thousand nine hundred thirty russia and the u.s. created a joint commission on economic and technological cooperation it was known as the so-called commission that also dealt with the use of plutonium extracted from nuclear weapons and also served as presidential representative on the balkans during the yugoslav war and in the last few years he was russia's ambassador to ukraine whether it strained relations between kiev. a famous russian anti-drug enforcer who is a who authorities wanted jailed for up to twelve years has had has been sentenced

to two and a half years probation yeah go to bitch call of tackled the drug problem in the year old by forcing addicts into rehab but his methods were slammed as inhumane despite winning huge public support for thousand more. this comes today then looking for you but of course he has been found guilty of kidnap and legal at attention of these limits that's the bitch called the action flicks that is the tough. part of that take me to help pick up full sting people to quit and fight that addiction 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 that big honest bitch cause i actually have been commended for his action scene a lot of a lot of the public reaction has been a very positive towards this idea of full simply fighting drug addiction and now we

see now with fish of operating efficiently to kill the main foundation city without a new castle in but that the people who actually live that have seen the positive effects of this action said we had to leave it to you cousin but just say for the guy at the people who is addicted to the chief ten years ago there were no gays and so the talk addiction was so bad you know people were afraid to go there for it to let their children live in those areas and now there's been a few. very very positive and even more interesting at least some of the drug addicts at least like to. see the treatment that themselves the thirty's methods are incredibly harsh that actually they were. carried out over two hundred operations against drug dealers as 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 took addiction. hope that this is just it's better out thirty thousand people a good time to get taken on official statistics say that there was a. tug addict in russia. a drug addict it is an issue that needs to be tackled. iraq has been in iraq in the wake of its bloodiest week for months at least the new one people have been killed and more than two hundred wounded in a series of attacks centered around baghdad's shia neighborhoods a series of blasts came just two days after al-qaeda militants took a christian congregation hostage resulting firefight left fifty eight dead with a total u.s. pullout scheduled for the end of next year despite escalating violence many iraqis say they feel abandoned and it's forcing some to join the enemy one sunni militia group praised by the u.s. for its help in providing security is now falling back into the hands of local warlords and al-qaeda parties policy reports. there are 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 and we did a great service to iraq some where 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 he rights violations and there aren't enough human rights organizations to defend and protect people. but all these paramilitary groups upholding the rule of law all some of their activities questionable as suggested in the four hundred thousand iraq documents released by wiki leaks in one account his 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. everything has 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 that women. but the 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 in the american and iraqi government and are

afraid that by working for them for the more it face charges and or assassinations of. 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 paid secretly aid the insurgency for observers like a 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 that how that the training given by the u.s. was not complete and it never will be because america wants iraqis to keep beating 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 and. 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 is that for many iraqis what the

americans left behind was destruction and devastation it will take a lot for them to rebuild the ruins of their minds. armed and dangerous these paramilitary groups struggle to find a place for themselves leading 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. baghdad. taking. a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe the government in greece has suspended international mail deliveries for forty eight hours after a series of letter bombs postponed in athens some were sent to foreign embassies while three were posted to germany's chancellor the italian prime minister and the french president police have already charged two men and are now searching for five other suspected of involvement and extreme left wing group is thought to be behind the attempted attacks. iran has denied reports that an execution is eminent for a woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery earlier this year the mother of

two sentence was suspended after the case sparked international outcry but the authorities said she could still be hanged for murder the iranian foreign minister has reportedly told his french counterpart that no decision in the case has yet been made. a volcano in indonesia that erupted that first erupted last week has unleashed its largest blast yet sending a huge ash cloud into the sky reports say this latest activity from mount merapi was three times as powerful as the first blast ten days ago about seventy five thousand people have already been evacuated from the area near the volcano and more are fleeing their homes at least thirty nine people were killed since the eruptions began. in the netherlands authorities have called number of plates that carried the dutch equivalent of the word nazi more than one hundred owners of vehicles were given license plates with the letters n s b they were issued to drivers of the new cars after a computer glitch banned letter combinations in the netherlands include abbreviations for political parties and swear words. coming up next all the latest business news

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line. would be soon which brightened if you knew about sun from funds to pressure. these funds down tontine don't. allow time to bring you the latest business update russia's taking another step to attract foreign investors to the innovation project the country's migration service will open a special department to result possible visit problems coping and founder and c.e.o. of spin forest told r.t. about his confidence in the project. i have heard both two arguments one says but you cannot found silicon valley unavailable and russia has a history of making big decisions and building projects so it might happen it's not

going to replace all of our great cities telegraph the spineless gulf sonthi the focus of great potential and many other cities and i think what russia is doing well in spoke of oil is set at tracting the largest foreign investors in it and that and i think this is this might be the fact that it's going to make it such as are you forcing your clients to invest in russia we are inviting our clients to work in russia in general definitely because we believe that there is a big opportunity for western funny very survival amount of natural resources where it's very strong fundamental science in chemistry physics various technologies and there is abundant capital to describe this development on the same way we see that reference and are stemmed the need for foreign partners for modernizing its industry and enveloping its innovation what you will see will she starts up

investing abroad it's a simple reason is that kind of that is how the global life economy works if you want to attract capital you also would be to me able to invest capital abroad and also not all companies but for us we need boys modernization and innovation are ready to locate russia in the very beginning and it's not even necessary but this will give the country outraged to have it tap into the global innovation why would you leave nokia the world's top mobile phone manufacturers to work in nanotech i spent twenty years in i p s three and there i saw what i thought he did for information and now what i see is fat man or technology used to do the same transformation for matter. russia has banned for sale of deep frozen poultry just months after a ban on chlorine treated birds disrupted imports from the u.s. regulators say frozen chicken has less nutritional value but then takes effect of the first of january for both importers and local producers like previous health

measures the brand will mostly affect u.s. farmers who until this year were the largest poultry suppliers to russia the world trade organization which russia may still joins the burn has no scientific justification and breaks w. rules. russia's service is growing up the fastest spaces june that softer the hit ways this summer course the sector to contract the child killed up to forty percent of crops in some areas pushed up prices and lowered the business activity index last month into fifty one point five to over fifty five indicating a strong recovery in the service sector this data is in line with the recent world bank report which claimed rising incomes would soon a raise a short term increase simple which levels. we expect a four point two growth rate this year and a slight improvement for next year at around four point five that's the basic demand and credit recovers. so the second message is that this growth in russia in

particular is driven mainly now by domestic demand which is good news because it's locally driven right so you're less vulnerable perhaps there on any pretense will be sort of rationed in outside markets. a look at the markets now u.s. stocks have slipped into red despite an improving jobs picture and they were public in ponchos takeover of the house of representatives investors are waiting for that expected stimulus announcement from the fed. and over in europe stocks with down at the close and stay as investors were pushes ahead of today's u.s. federal reserve among the biggest movers were shares in societe generale which rose three percent in paris to the bank topped earnings expectations. let's look at the numbers and the bulls this close mixed investors for not making any big moves so far this resistance tactic coming as russia proposed for two days of national

holidays. process third largest oil company from left has reported just sixteen percent increase a net profit for the third quarter the company has benefited from rising production and sales especially on the domestic market. for sacro is given the mind abate but it turned a run for its money with a rival bid for canada sports corp but it was just us wants to put together a coalition of canadian and russian banks to support his bid for tough corporation is valid at forty three dollars that's higher than beach but but it translate us off a thirty eight billion dollars the deal is yet to be approved by the canadian government with a warning to be announced today a full cyprus spokesman said the company will comment on wednesday. that's your business update and now join me next hour for more business news and of course get more stories small website r.t. dot com slash business.

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