from some stupid. stunts on t.v. don't come. telling a leap from the cold war to a real partnership. cum security structure in europe and cope with raids on afghanistan dominated tell space been made as cheap and the russian leaders in both

states. president obama faces a tougher challenge to his agenda as the democrats lose their hold over congress in the midterm vote but many of erica americans fear corporate cash may now be running the country. and back to square one with u.s. forces stepping down we look at how local militias may be falling back to insurgency. it's eleven pm here in moscow i'm mad 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 there reassurance came after a meeting in moscow between the russian leadership and nato as chief artie's a catarina groucho but has been following the high level talks from 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. boost the partnership nato is an organization that is currently facing serious challenges it has an identity crisis analysts say that north atlantic alliance has bitten off more than it can chew and it 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 in the two main issues the first one is anti missile defense and you were 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 or will it put to support a say in the new system as a hands on mom 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 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 that solution 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 a military supply routes for the afghan war and just recently russia took part for

the first time a. in many years an unprecedented joint open ration against. several drug producing with more interest trucks worth hundreds of millions of dollars were destroyed well russia so brazen with nato on hand to drop all this in afghanistan is one of the top priorities because after almost about complete use tyrant and sub 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 grad students national security but it seems that chances are high that the two sides could push a reset button similar to that the the united states and russia pushed a while ago the process assert 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 security concerns show my approach would be the pragmatic true to go for a true strategic partnership made his blueprint for change also says further cooperation with russia top priority but most go is pushing for more than just words from nato. dmitri source from the russian council on foreign and defense policy says russia is ready to expand its cooperation with nato in afghanistan on certain conditions. brussels seems to seems like linking expansion of the poorest of nato operations in afghanistan to nato support though for us is that

your job is first and foremost signing a legally binding agreements with me to limit the expense of the u.s. military infrastructure i mean troops at the terrorists in central europe nato is why it's reluctance about supporting the russian initiative but still i think the sides could agree on first expensive of russia's support over reconstructing the old soviet era economic infrastructure the terrorists or afghanistan secondly russia signed agreements with me to transit so real to troops to afghanistan through the us and to him for advice given the expense of its supports both training of gamble lease. anti-drug sports i think these are the possible areas of the group. turning to u.s. politics now president obama's democratic party has narrowly managed to retain

a majority in the u.s. 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'll be much harder for the president 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 for more let's go live to the national democratic strategist and former white house staffer robert winner joining us from washington good to talk with you again so this midterm election looks like a stinging setback for president obama he said in a press conference that i understand that you just came from he said that it that he understands that he got a shellacking this time around how much of a personal blow is this to his agenda to his policies. well you know it wasn't as bad as it could have been a month ago we were going to lose everything the senate the house now senator reid the majority leader one beat the tea party extremist senator biden seat i mean vice

president biden seat was won by senator elect coons and that's because there was a tea party extremists so there's an unstated message here also that extremism and lost in this election the tea party tried to run a lot of candidates to take over the senate and it cost the republican party probably the senate americans a centrist nation and what senate what president obama said in the news conference was that no one party will dictate that's the lesson of the election so do you think those tea party candidates who actually did manage to get elected in several of them did do you think that they will side with the republican majority or will they be a thorn in their side what role do you think they'll play in the new government they'll be like the blue dogs to the democrats they'll be the extreme of the republican party but senator mcconnell who president obama spoke with the senate leader senate republican leader and also. congressman boehner the

new house speaker they both will want to work together because i asked david axelrod in the meeting two days ago the day before the election why should they compromise now when they haven't compromised at all with with president obama having had meeting after meeting after me and brought them over and went to their caucuses and gave them one hundred sixty amendments in the health bill and the difference now is they have coal responsibility for governing they will get blamed if nothing happens. with republicans having taken the house of representatives there will be harder for obama to carry on with his message of change do you think both sides will manage to find a common ground and move forward in cooperation. well ironically the message of change was one of the messages of the election the problem is that change didn't come fast enough the american people didn't want just getting out of the ditch and getting on to the shoulder of the road they wanted to be driving full steam down the highway and because of the fact that we had seven hundred thousand jobs

a month i'm losing as president obama took office he had to take some very extreme steps and as he said in his news conference today he worked fast and furious so the government became almost a caricature of itself but what the american people didn't want was big government with no gig solution that happened and so we still have more change to come so if that change does not come in the next two years the democrats will be taking over the house again and president obama if he succeeds in getting unemployment down from nine point six to seven or six percent will have a much easier time of reelection in two thousand and twelve do you think that the president should make a more stark contrast between his administration and the legacy he had he inherited from the bush administration do you think he should talk more about the differences or the problems he's had to deal with coming from that previous administration. well i think he made

a very clear case that wall street the financial crisis happened not because of the overregulation that the for example the tea party and most republicans subscribe to that theory but because they weren't being watched closely enough and the fact of health care he made a point that they the republicans wanted it want to kill the bill that the american people don't want to kill now that we have it coverage for preexisting conditions and senior citizens getting drugs covered and lifetime protection without insurance companies being able to drop you we now have entered the rest of europe and the rest of the world on health care and the american people aren't going to want to lose that the republicans are trying to repeal it so he was very clear on the difference of a very stark difference between him and the between the democrats which still as you know if you combine it all we still have a majority between the president in the senate and half the house so the republicans have to deal with us and if they try as president obama said to block

everything if they're just the party of no the american people won't stand for that either or a democratic strategist and former white house staffer robert winner thanks for your perspective. remember our web sites 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 running in short supply for women in afghanistan a shocking number fall victim to domestic abuse and violence with the suicide rate on the rise despite international efforts. and the legendary moscow metro unveiling a new attraction as it turns one of its stations into a museum for more information click on over to hearty dot com. russia is mourning the death of a veteran of post soviet politics viktor chernomyrdin in the one nine hundred ninety s. was russia's prime minister during the tough transition from communism in ninety three russia in the u.s. created a joint commission on economic and technology. co-operation known as the so-called

gore turning your commission that also dealt with the use of plutonium extracted from nuclear weapons 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 a strained relations between kiev and moscow. a famous russian anti-drug enforcer who authorities wanted jailed for up to twelve years has been sentenced to two and a half years probation go to bitch cause of tackle the drug problem in the year old by forcing addicts into rehab but his controversial methods were slammed is inhumane despite winning huge public support for more. this comes today then looking for you but of course he has found guilty kidnap and legal at attention of these limits that's the bitch book and the action for that is that. as part of that take me to help pick up full sting people to quit and fight that addiction and this case really showing nationwide attention even president but they did come and sing

out it was saying that the case needed closer attention and many supporters have been saying that i fall for a big honest bitch culture that 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 and i was seeing that with fish of operating a little to help out at the main foundation city without a new question but. the people who actually lived that have seen the positive effects of action so we actually visited your castle but just over a month ago i had the people who is addicted to the chief ten years ago they would know you guys and so they took a picture with. you know people who are afraid to get their rights let their children live and they say that now is going to feel. very very positive and even more interesting that 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. eagle carried out over two hundred operations against drug dealers as a result the mortality rate has hugged the gypsies are afraid to show drugs and consequently don't bribe you for it is clearly good so it is they didn't like that took addiction spoke the official statistics that are out thirty thousand people a good. day could an unofficial statistic say that this was hard drug addict rush. a drug addict it is an issue that needs to be tackled. iraq has been shaken in the wake of its bloodiest week for months at least ninety one people have been killed and more than two hundred wounded in a series of attacks centered around baghdad shia neighborhoods a series of blasts came just two days after al qaeda militants took a christian congregation hostage the resulting gunfight left fifteen dead with

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 as artie's 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 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 he 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 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. 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 our leaders 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 the might face charges and or assassination the. 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 secretly aid the insurgency for observers like one made 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 of how that the training given by the u.s. was not complete and it never will be because america wants iraqis to keep leaving

them they don't want to iraq 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 the tactical side exploitation 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 wounds 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 policy r.t. baghdad. taking a long. 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 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 are searching for five other suspected of involvement and extreme left wing group is thought to be behind the 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. an indonesian volcano that first erupted last week has unleashed its biggest 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 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 russians began. and in the netherlands authorities have recalled number plates that carry the dutch equivalent of the word nazi more than one hundred owners of vehicles were given license plate with the letters n s n 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. the fallout from the wiki leaks iraq exposé continues to divide the us a fox news contributor even called for the people behind the online whistleblowing website to be treated as enemy combatants later host paedo a bell on the cross to gas to discuss if there are limits to what the public has a right to know. and not defending freedom when they they do 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 really for the 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 is maybe worse than the taliban because dad i just can't count i don't say i didn't say that i meant with a no i crash anality well you're saying that there are separate areas where israel and out of course they are ok joe what you just said they were not out there defending with the leader wrecking yard i was listening don't get me the united states supports dictatorships in saudi arabia which were dictatorships and egypt for dictatorships around the world don't tell me that's about freedom. cross talk debate coming your way in about ten minutes here on r t first though you'll bokova joins us with all the latest business news stay with us.

everyone welcome time to get the latest from the world of business russia has taken another step to attract foreign investors to the school innovation project the country's migration service will open a special department to result possible visa problems koeppen in pica founder and c.e.o. of spin for a sec told r.t. about his confidence in the project. i have heard both two arguments one says that you cannot found the silicone valley one of the other hand russia has a history of making big 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 poles son peter spoke has some great potential and many other cities and i think what russia is doing well in skolkovo is at tracting large sporting investors in it than that and i think this is might be the fact that it's going to make it successful or your voice in your plans to invest in russia we advise in our clients to work in russia

internet our it definitely because we see a very certain people but you need to 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 way we see that russians and this time but need for foreign partners for modernizing its industry and the bill of thing we see in the race what you want to 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 get beat me able to invest capital abroad and also not all companies but for us the need for its modernization and innovation are ready to locate russia in the very beginning and it's not even necessary but this will be give the country 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 that nanotechnology school will the same transformation for matter. russia has banned the sale of deep frozen poultry just months after a ban on chlorine treated birds to structured imports from the u.s. regulators say frozen chicken has lots more traditional value event takes effect on the first of january for both importers and local producers like preventive health measures the ban will mostly affect u.s. farmers who until this year were the largest poultry suppliers to russia the world trade organization of which russia may soon join the band has no scientific justification and breaks w. rules. russia's services are growing up the fastest pace since june that softer the heat wave this summer of course the sector to contract the drought killed up to

forty percent of crops in some areas pushed up prices and lowered the business activity and it's but last month the index rose from fifty one point five to over fifty five indicating a strong recovery in the service september this data is in line with the recent world bank report which claimed rising incomes soon it raises short term increase in poverty levels. expect a four point two growth rate this year with a slight improvement for next year occur around four point five that's the best the credit recovers. so it was sort of messages 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 aren't any pretention deceleration in outside markets. let's have a look at the markets u.s. stocks and of the day with modest gains that have the dow jones at its highest finish since september two thousand and eight just before the height of the

financial crisis wednesday's gains which culminated a session spent mostly lower paying off total federal reserve it said it would buy six hundred billion dollars in points to spark economic growth. over in europe stocks were down at the close on wednesday as investors of cautious ahead of today's u.s. federal reserve announcement among the biggest movers shares in solicitation iraq would throw three percent in paris after the bank topped turnings expectations. and in moscow the bourses closed mixed investors were not making any big moves so far this resistance factor coming as russia prepares for two days of national holidays . rushes to largest oil company gas from left has reported to sixteen percent increase the net profits. on the search for something the company has benefited from rising production and sales especially on the domestic market. thought saw grow was giving the mind a beach bid but it turned a run for its money with

a rival but for canada sport corporation that it was to search for soccer wants to put together a coalition of canadian and russian banks to support its bid for talks corp has followed that for three billion dollars that's higher than better terms latest offer of thirty eight billion dollars the deal is yet to be approved by the canadian government but they're willing to be announced today. ok and that's your update from now but you can get more stories from or web site r.t. dot com slash business.