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oh toto keep this. historical. culture in the city. as a good. east room for this to become the hutto. hailing a leap from the cold war to real partnership. problems security. on afghanistan dominates a space been made cheap and the russian. president

obama facing a tougher challenge to his agenda as the democrats lose their hold over congress in the midterm vote but many americans fear corporate money may now be running the country. and it could be back to square one in iraq with u.s. forces stepping down we'll take a look at how local militias are falling back to insurgency. it's ten pm in moscow good to have you with us 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 there reassurance came after a meeting in moscow between the russian leadership and the nato chief. has been following the high level talks. 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 moscow boast that 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 ross wilson is a moscow today for talks all the two main issues the first one is anti me so to france in europe recently made so invited russia to participate in that system but the kremlin keeps asking hard questions on what role would be given will it be just a mere observer of the new technology or will it dissipate in the new system as a hands on mom but will it to dissipate in the entire process starting from construction to at savation up this system will sergei lavrov today says that of

course the. new system will be discussed in detail curing 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 they take part in the system as equal partners look the condition of solution or nato 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 in full leaders of our state take decisions well russia is currently providing nato with crucial support in afghanistan it provides military supply routes for the afghan war and just recently russia took part for the first. dima in many years in an unprecedented joint open ration against several drug producing

would bore a trace trucks were hundreds of millions of dollars were destroyed for russia hope raising with nato on hand to drop all this in afghanistan is one of the top priorities because after almost about can produce tyrant 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's been there is sun city or tornadoes moving east woodside it's nice to see it as one of the top grad students 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 wilson said 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 security concerns show my approach would be the pragmatic true to go for a true strategic partnership plato's blueprint for change also says further cooperation with russia top priority but most go is pushing for more than just words from nato. turning to the us now president obama's democratic party has a narrowly held on to the senate majority in the midterm elections but the house of representatives is now in the hands of the republicans with congress now divided between the two parties it will be harder for obama to move forward with his legislative agenda but many voters have other concerns they're worried about the corporate bankrolling of candidates after vast amounts of campaign cash was poured

into these elections and while we go now to ways benedict executive director of the libertarian party joining us live from washington d.c. good to have you with us so with the rise of the tea party in the u.s. and several tea party candidates winning seats in congress doesn't this show that it's time now for americans to have more than just two parties to choose from one right one left well we certainly think so and agree here in the united states it's harder for third parties to win elections but even in cases where we don't win we get we help to get a message out there and that's what the libertarian party has done significantly in the last few years we are the largest third party in the united states do you think a third party candidate in the u.s. would have the same chance to get the same kind of funding as a traditional g.o.p. or democratic candidate could get. well the thing with republicans and democrats if they win they they have a chance of winning and so

a lot of special interests get behind them whether it's corporate money or unions or other special interests right now if you run for office as a third party candidate you're mainly doing so because you care about certain issues and people do it for different reasons where they're not going to benefit personally so right now there's not a lot of money that flows into third party campaigns and candidates seize but look things not change in mice you know libertarians are for smaller government we want less taxes lower spending but we're also against these foreign wars and you've had republicans support war in afghanistan and iraq and you also have the democrats with obama doing surges in afghanistan and so it may be that it's up to a third party in the future to grow to cut back on all of these excesses so what do you think it will take for other parties to gain access into the capitol kill the capitol hill club so to speak. it will take enough americans becoming

fed up with republicans democrats they they demonize each other and talk as if well if the other side wins or stays in power that's going to be terrible for so vote for us instead but neither party puts forth real proposals for scaling back the size and scope of government and that's what libertarians are for and i and i think it will take a third party to make a change like that but again even if we don't win the elections even if we don't get into the congress by running for office and putting our issues out there we force that to bigger parties to take a look at them. and finally do you think that if a third party was to get a viable candidate to get a viable presence united states and the corporate money and the private money were to start going its way do you think it would become mainstream do you think it would just eventually become very much like the two established parties now do. there's certainly a risk of that there are people out there who say we need

a moderate party candidates who would run on a moderate platform that to me that's what republicans and democrats actually deliver they talk about these extreme viewpoints but once they get elected they moderate and we just kind of plod forward with government growing a little bit by bit by bit so i don't think we need a more moderate average party and a lot of folks. who call for another party deaths what they're calling for that's why it's important for people like the libertarians to stand up and stick stay committed to our principles you know ron paul who recently ran for president as a republican is one example of someone who had very strong commitments to smaller government principles but he does remain in the republican party but if someone like him came about and ran again maybe they would break through and make a big difference all right whereas benedict executive director of the libertarian

party 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 has recalled an earlier recommendation to ratify it the committee's head says the decision follows the outcome of america's mid-term elections he says of the start treaty isn't ratified by the current senators the chances are they'll be rubber stamped by the new republican dominated congress are slim the leaders of russia and the us sign of a new agreement in prague in april but how about a gala from the russian foreign affairs committee of the federation council believes however that 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 russian position or. views of that star three room and

book 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 a full full interview with mike love coming your way this thursday on spotlight coming up here on r t for millions of brazilians and hunger is a sad fact of life now some people unable to stomach waiting for the government to help are planting their feet firmly on the ground. plus as a wave of violence breaks out in iraq we'll look at whether the u.s. withdrawal is forcing some to support the enemy that's coming your way in twenty minutes. first though russia is mourning the death of a veteran of post soviet politics viktor chernomyrdin in the late one nine hundred ninety s.

china mirrored and was russia's prime minister during the difficult transition from communism in ninety three russia and the us created a joint commission on economic and technological cooperation with the so-called core china murad and commission that also dealt with the use of plutonium extracted from nuclear weapons also served as presidential representative all the on the balkans during the yugoslav war in the last few years he was russia's ambassador to ukraine whether a strained relations between kiev and moscow. a famous russian anti-drug enforcer with already has wanted jailed for up to twelve years has been sentenced to two and a half years probation go to a bitch call of tackled the drug problem in the year olds by forcing addicts into rehab but his controversial methods were slammed is inhumane despite winning huge public support or t. sarah for has more. this comes today then looking for you but of course he has been found guilty kidnap and legal at attention of these a must it's the bitch book and the action flick that is the tough. part of that

take me to help pick up forcing people to quit and fight that addiction this case really showing nationwide at tention even president but they did come and sing out it was saying that the case needed that closer attention and many supporters have been saying that i fall for a big honest bitch coach i actually have been commended for his actions seen a lot of a lot of the public reaction has been a very positive towards this i did pull simply fighting drug addiction i noticed that with fish of operating efficiently to help the main foundation city without a new question but that the people who actually lived that have seen the positive effects of this actions have we had to leave it to you question but just over a month the guy had the people who is addicted to the cheap ten years ago they would know you guys and so the drug addiction was so you but you know people who

are afraid to get their rights let their children live and they serious and now is going to feel. very very positive impact and even more interesting that some of the drug addicts at least like to come through the treatments that themselves the these methods are incredibly harsh but actually they were. eagle carried out over two hundred operations against drug dealers as a result the mortality rate was hosed the gypsies were afraid to sell drugs and consequently didn't bribe you for it is clearly good surratt is that i didn't like them took addiction. official statistics that are out thirty thousand people a good. unofficial statistics say that the most hard drug addict in russia. a drug addict is an issue that needs to be tackled. our website is also keeping you up to date twenty four hours a day here are some of what you'll find online right now at r t dot com. hope we're

running low for women in afghanistan a shocking number of falling victim to domestic abuse and violence with the suicide rate on the rise despite international efforts. and moscow's a landmark metro unveils a new attraction as it turns one of its stations into a museum for more put on over to our t. dot com. brazil's new president dilma rousseff has vowed to intensify government efforts in fighting rampant poverty in the country but despite advances made by her predecessors hunger and unemployment are still the reality for millions of brazilians now the downtrodden are sidestepping the government and leading their own fight for change from the ground up as artie's laura lister reports from sao paolo. just a simple life let it tending your own garden. growing your own food it's 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 but i. missed the 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 turn 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 the 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 landowners the bank owners and the multinational corporations small land workers like these lost their jobs to technology or lost their land going into debt try. 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

collective socialist solution a model of their dream for brazil i. think that 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 lyster r.t. so paulo brazil. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe the government in greece has suspended international mail delivery for forty eight hours after a series of letter bombs were found 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 in and out of searching for five others suspected of being involved and extremely left wing group is thought to be behind the attempted attacks. iran denies 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 international outcry but authorities said

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

exposé continues to divide the us a fox news contributor has even called for the people behind the line whistle blowing site to be treated as enemy combatants coming up later peter lavelle in his cross talk guess discuss if there were limits to what the public has a right to know. not defending freedom when. they did the handover people to be be tortured and murdered by the by a brutal regime that's not defending freedom that i think those that refused to release for fees to release these documents should be prosecuted for obstruction of justice those who who make them make them public you're saying that america despite having some some warts and some problems is not any better than the taliban or as maybe worse than the taliban because dad i just can't count i don't say i didn't say that i didn't with a no like a rationale of what you're saying that they're the american soldiers who are setting for three and out of course they are ok joe what you just said they were

not out there defending the way their leader wrecking yard was listening don't get me is the united states supports dictatorships in saudi arabia which were dictatorships and egypt was the more dictatorships around the world don't tell me that's about freedom. you can catch crosstalk coming your way in a little more than an hour here on our t.v. you know your book about joins us next with all the latest business news stay with us. oh and a very warm welcome that's right time to get the latest from the world of business russia is taking another step to attract foreign investors to the school could it innovation project the country's migration service will open a special department to result possible visa problems coping and peca founder and c.e.o. of spin for us told r.t. about his confidence in the project. 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 business sense and building projects so it might happen it's not going to replace all of our great cities telling them that at least one of the false sun peter spoke has some great potential and many of us it is and i think for what russia is doing well in skolkovo is set at tracking the largest foreign investors in it than that and i think this is this might be the fact that it's going to make it successful for your voice and your plans to invest in russia we advise in our clients to work in russia until now is definitely because we see a very certain because what you need for western pomponius 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 a.b.c. but russians and us time but need for foreign partners for modernizing its industry

and belittling the signal base what you would see was the startups investing of rule it's a simple reason is that kind of that is how the global ice economy works if you want to abstract capital you also beat me able to invest capital abroad and also not all companies but for us needs voice modernization and in the basin are able to locate russia in the very beginning and it's not even necessary but this will be give the country out treats 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 that nanotechnology school will the same transformation for matter. russia has banned the sale of do frozen poultry just months after a ban on chlorine treated birds to imports from the u.s.

regulators say frozen chicken has less mature value but then takes effect on the first of january for both importers and local producers like previous health measures the bent will mostly affect u.s. farmers who until this year of war the largest poultry suppliers to russia the world trade organization which russia may soon join says the ban has no scientific justification and breaks w.t.r. rules. russia's services are growing up the fastest pace since june that softer the hit way this summer costs to contract the drought killed up to forty percent of crops in some areas pushed up prices and lowered the business index activity index bust last month the index rose from fifty one point five to over fifty five indicating a strong recovery in the set service sector this data is in line with the recent world bank report which claimed rising incomes soon a rise a short term increase in which in levels. we expect

a four point two growth rate this year and a slight improvement for next year to run four point five as domestic demand and credit recovers. so it was second messages and this growth in russia in particular is driven mainly now by domestic demand which is good news it's locally driven right so you're less vulnerable perhaps there are very pretentious deceleration in the outside market. time to have a look at the numbers u.s. stocks have slipped into red despite an improving jobs picture on the republican party's takeover of the house of representatives investors are waiting for that expected stimulus announcement from the fed. over in europe starts with down at the close on wednesday as investors were cautious ahead of today's u.s. federal reserve announcement among the biggest movers were shares of so see if there's any at all in which rose three percent in paris after the bank topped earnings expectations. and in moscow the bourses closed mixed investors were not

making any big moves so far this resistance tactic coming nose to russia prepares for two days of national holidays. russia's fifth largest oil company gas from left has reported a sixteen percent increase in net profit for the third quarter the company has benefited from rising production and sales especially on the domestic market. for sacro was. the mind of beach but by the turn to run for its money with a rival bit for canada sport tosh corporation that a mr says foresaw girl wants to put together a coalition of canadian and russian banks to support his bid for tough corporation is valid at forty three billion dollars that's higher than b.h.p. billiton slade just awful thirty eight billion dollars the deal is yet to be approved by the canadian government with the ruling to be announced today. or spokesman said the company will comment late on wednesday let's hope we have time for now but you can always log on to our website to get more news thoughts are two

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