top stories of the week here in our t.v. spies lies and videotape many georgians fear of police as a russian paranoia could find them accused of espionage next.

year has are better than one russian made a pledge to work together to great a fan system to neutralize common threads. obama called a chill lacking critics say was just a good old beating up on something cash an elbow to usher in the republicans to victory in this week's u.s. midterm elections. archipelago outraged tokyo's angered by president medvedev said is a to russia's coral islands which didn't pay out claims of its own moscow says it will keep investing in its remote region. and the international space station is celebrating ten years of human life in orbit the longest stretch ever spent outside the earth's atmosphere marty meets space citizens. who want to argue live from moscow nine am here marina joshua welcome to the

program and this week has seen a new scandal flare ya between russia and georgia asked police he said thirteen. people were caught spying for moscow russia claimed the whole story as a political farce and deliberate provocation by the georgian authorities head of a nato summit as are reports from tbilisi the opposition is considering the swoop to be another attack on the government's opponents. for alina this spy scandal was a horrible deja vu her own husband. was thrown into prison for allegedly spying for russia during the two thousand and eight conflict between georgia and south the city are very unfair and they said some three thousand three hundred pages of data which my husband supposedly sound to russia that's a blatant lie we have presented evidence numerous times that on information with which fact and worked was just his analysis if you look at his case you'll see that it's easy to say that anyone's a spy in georgia something. as has been was george's envoy to nato he was

named in a documentary just shown on one of georgia's main channels too as one of the russian spies who didn't get away in fact this film was just part of what seemed to be a spy novel unraveling in a small caucasus country over the past week first the news of the arrests that came suddenly and not from the authorities but through western news source then a week of silence after which the georgian interior ministry made the announcement with much pomp and circumstance aspiring for years a work by the georgian counter-intelligence service amol invited into russia's chief intelligence directorate so what is this latest spy scandal all about a political farce a desperate plea for attention or simply much ado about nothing moscow says it's a combination of all three and many say it won't do georgia any good mosco reacted

almost immediately the saakashvili regime suffers from some chronic spine area fueled by only russian sentiments in recent years the georgian leadership has resorted to fabricating simular scandals more than once cynically hoping to turn political dissidents inside the country and abroad some analysts believe the whole affair was an attempt to put pressure on georgia's opposition. the regime of circus really does not feel safe and they use any possible to again in their struggle against a position which still is not consolidated but is getting in power more and more. and in georgia the spy story was met with distrust. everything that concerns any information coming from the georgian authorities is highly don't fall and with a healthy dose of irony. this whole affair seemed to be fashioned on the american

spy scandal only it lacked the chaplain the sex symbol but apparently the tastes differ but the same time it's an attempt to lead the situation between russia and georgia to have those collation. the police in mosco exchanged verbal blows one woman continues to wait for justice for her has been and well you know i'm not afraid but i know that if need be georgian authorities can accuse not only me but any georgian citizen and spying for any country they donated to right now but when they will they will accuse me of a movie. to be lisi georgia. russia receive neda's proposal for a european missile defense joint program where the alliance the secretary general anders fogh rasmussen visited moscow this week the nato chief stressed that the alliance is russia's brand as a partner as being essential to regional stability the russian side has stated that

the plan should be based on principles of equal development of a system that would neutralize common threats the meeting comes ahead of a nato summit in lisbon of amber of the twentieth expert in conflict resolution which told r.t. that joint russian naval missile defense project will be a breakthrough for both sides. the secretary general is a champion of joint. russia's rationals. corporation with nato on missile defense he. made that statement during his first speech on russia at least first major speech on any issue. in september last year of the auspices of the carnegie endowment basically the need to realize that no amount of strategic arms reduction and good limitations can transform the russian plato russia western russia us relationship one nice to have a strategic collaborative project the other clocks like

a missile that the us is the one thing the silverball that the project that kim has the potential at least to transform the entire russian western relationship it's a game changer or it was failed to seize a part that it could be a broker. scandalous and hysterical is how russia is viewing the recall of the japanese ambassador from moscow their reaction came the day after president get of visit to the russian coral islands which tokyo claims for itself moscow says more visits are planned to promote business development in the region are jesus on a boy who has been following the diplomatic route. it's a leftover from the second world war old soviet tanks rusting on the shore barrels pointed toward japan they're about to be scrapped from nacho when the visit by the russian president put them at the center of another fiery exchange between russia and japan discovered in the seventeenth century the audience changed hands several

times during the soviet union less than a month to expel the japanese army from the islands in all the stuff nineteen forty five that prevented the two countries from signing a peace treaty leaving your door open for japan to claim the arlen sovereignty. sixty five years after their handover the tussle to define the islands national identity still goes on this crossed a period here a few years ago when the right. church opened its parish on the island of secret on after decades of seeing its population when they are and is now in the midst of a baby boom. we have the highest birth rate in the entire celing region there are many kids here and parents bring them to be baptized and living standards are quite decent nowadays just a few hundred metres from the church at ikeja my motor is teaching japanese it a local school and here class seven great or sit alongside their parents and many of them getting a job in japan is their best shot at lifting their families out of poverty are

classes are very popular and people keep coming here year after year and hippias sometimes it seems like i am with my family again. this is precisely why the president came here to tell the locals that russia has not forgotten about them and while the regional officials try to paint a pretty picture of who runs and crumbling infrastructure betrayed the island's chronic financial problems. it's an important part of our land we will definitely invest money into the region. and the midst of reach fishing grounds the our lands are a prime spot to buy seafood and opportunity that mitchell made that of didn't miss the point is it smelt. can i get some. while fish and seafood are affordable here everything else costs almost twice as much as on the mainland the locals complained of unreliable supply but as the president noticed one item was always in stock. apparently you don't have any

problems with the supply of i'll call here. the president's visit wasn't missed on the japanese side took his foreign minister said the trip heard japanese public sentiment and temporarily recalled its ambassador from moscow. it is extremely regrettable that president made very do visited the cruel islands even though japan had earlier notified russia that there could be a negative impact on bilateral relations his russian counterpart was unmoved. because literally japan's reaction isn't acceptable it's our land and russian president was visiting russian territory was already explained this to our japanese porkers should plan to once again an ambiguous new retreat this position however we're not going to take any steps that would hinder relations while the russian officials consider last week's row over the unfortunate they stressed that their first priority is to make sure that the people who actually believe on the islands

aren't left feeling more wrong according to a two thousand and nine nationwide poll about ninety percent of russians would strongly object to handing the grill audience over to japan but the overwhelming majority of the respondents have never visited this territory and are very likely to do so in the future the audience may be an integral part of russia on the map but they cannot make clear and logistically they're still very much a foreign land it's not a boycott r.c. in russia's far east and coming up a little later in the program however catch a bit of the creators of a german show say they're helping protect children critics say they are just after high ratings also. big will be like harry truman it may take twenty years to. the point is maybe a decent president after two years out of the line like george w. bush probably since his memoirs the resident checks out of people have any fond memories of him. for that

a top level police investigation has been launched into a vicious attack on a russian journalist of a caution a correspondent for the newspaper commerce and was brutally beaten near his home and is now in an induced coma with severe injuries police are searching for a suspect as a c.c.t.v. footage was obtained showing two people attacking the journalist the assault has drawn out of wide public response with many rallies in support of caution taking place in moscow russian president has personally commented on the case saying those responsible must be found with the help of the country's best investigators andreeva celia of the former editor in chief of commerce sense as cautions rioting may have been linked to the brutal assault. of course the reason for this attack is conscience professional activity he was a popular blog and he was more open and outspoken online than in the paper common sense has a certain more reserved style this beating is very similar to the attack on the

journalists think itself which took place a couple of years ago this mention of his fingers for example so that the person could not write any more there is a horror show element. the mid-term elections in the us were a big blow to obama's administration the republicans wrote a wave of public frustration to take the house of representatives unlike in previous elections there was no limit to how much big business could bankroll parties a critic say money decided the outcome not the american voter this was a special election year in the wise for the first time corporations were allowed to funnel as much money as they wanted into political campaigns and they definitely did not miss out on the chance to buy influence on capitol hill we've come to take our government and. big businesses pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into the pockets of the republican party that's now in charge of the house of representatives so what was at stake what they're hoping to do is bend the laws and regulations or prevent new laws and regulations from being approved they'll cut in

their bottom lines the problem is that a lot of these rules and regulations exist for a purpose they're supposed to protect the public interest to watch corporate influence in action take republican john boehner now a majority leader in the house of representatives wall street invested millions of dollars in his campaign is also a darling among large health insurers oil firms and drug manufacturers boehner is campaigning against all kinds of government regulations and against a tax increase for the rich and other republican congressman spencer baucus is going to be the chair of the house committee on financial services he has reportedly taken over four million dollars from wall street. implats to fight against tougher rules for the financial market and it seems there is no way around it the election system in the us is such that it's virtually impossible to run for office without strong financial backing but the bigger the backing the more candidates over to their benefactors many argue the latest supreme court decision

which made it possible for corporations to invest unlimited amounts of money in politics and be able to be credited as anonymous donors has basically legalized corruption one definition of. privatization of public porters two years ago corporations supported obama knowing he was going to bail them out but now that he imposed tougher rules on the financial market and wants to increase taxes for the rich they're betting against his party fear mongering and constant attacks on obama where arguably the corporation's main tools for making things work their way and it wasn't hard with most americans on happy with the way economy works and with the unemployment rate at its worst in almost thirty years people are frustrated they're deeply frustrated with the pace of our economic recovery some corporate darling channels like fox news were especially good at

channeling people's frustration. but many americans now fear their interest have been left down because of someone's special interests on the outside this democracy is new voice people coming to a polling station as putting a cost before the name of a candidate they lie but in these elections with the influence of corporations on me first it seems all really has the vote in american mail is money and it's shut down on t. washington d.c. . russia will reconsider its decision to ratify the new strategic arms reduction treaty with the u.s. and that's in order to look into the twenty six amendments to the original version made by the american senate among them. clauses stipulating that the treaty doesn't cover deployment of a u.s. missile defense system or ballistic missiles with conventional warheads the deal signed by president obama advantage in april would see both country's nuclear arsenal slashed by a third by the midterm elections have trimmed the democrats' majority in the senate

meaning the tree could face stiffer opposition from the republicans anti-war activist and radio host scott thorson thinks democrats have made a farce of nuclear weapon cuts. in order to get the republicans to sign on to the start treaty they basically had to add so many amendments and riders to the thing that it basically allows for the creation of brand new generations of hydrogen bombs dozens and dozens uncounted new facilities for manufacturing hydrogen bombs more submarines more air power and they've changed the accounting methods for the nuclear warheads in such a way that actually united states doesn't really have to reduce their stockpile of nuclear weapons hardly at all so they've turned what ought to be the most important issue in the world the. mutual. reduction of american russia's nuclear weapons stockpiles towards zero and turned it into a farce turned it into a way for republican congressmen to get bankrolled so that they can run again next

time and keep the companies that manufacture nuclear weapons and make the parts for the manufacture nuclear weapons in business at the expense of the rest of us and at the risk of our entire species in fact. the us president hopes the south will approve the historic nuclear arms reduction deal with moscow by the end of the year . we have negotiated with the russians significant reductions in our nuclear arms this is something that traditionally has received strong bipartisan support this is not a traditionally democratic or republican issue but rather. an issue of american national security and i am hopeful that we can get that done and said a strong signal to russia that we are serious about reducing nuclear arsenals and you can always find more news videos on blogs on our website which is our dot com let's take a look at some of our online stories. on our main line some truth in the stereotype

of the arizona roaming russian streets find out why these wild encounters in the city center may become a more common site. and that college education is not an option for american students anymore find out why young people are being strangled by use of debt as our team. one of the most ambitious projects in history the international space station is marking a decade of man operations and this is the longest period of continuous human habitation outside earth artie's learn what it takes to become a space settler. november second two thousand the first permanent crew reaches the international space station of the world watches it's really humanity's most them

vicious engineering project to date a mixture of science technology and political cooperation between formal sworn enemies. in the ten years since the i said has expanded to the size of a football field and received two hundred visitors at the before the i s s is a breakthrough of corporation before there were separate space agencies now they work together whether it's a leap forward in this station has cost the taxpayer one hundred billion dollars and that's just absurd it's too much but it's their money now admit they're not sure what to expect from the station and that includes the expedition one cosmonauts themselves you to get them get out trains but then i says crew members his own training was more chaotic than we're going to give them an edge when we started training for the station itself did not exist there were no manuals there were no exercise machines with the first crews job was to fully activate the station much of it had been assembled separately in russia in the united states and

the first time these parts came together wasn't space the militia with being the first two weeks on there were extremely stressful if we failed we'd have to return to earth and abandon the station it would never have been constructed as planned expedition one was a success despite problems with construction following the columbia shuttle disaster three years later most of the modules were eventually successfully docked the completed space station provides a unique platform for experiments and weightlessness that could develop new materials and medicines starting really now and next year we're going to find out if you have researchers tinkering in space we can have breakthroughs if not the whole thing was a waste but others believe that the value of the i assess is not that scientific discoveries its lifespan has already been extended to twenty twenty and possibly beyond we're looking at projects of using that i assess as a docking port for missions to the moon and even mars. and if mankind does mention

further afield i search will serve both as a blueprint and an instruction manual of space should do bones whatever its limitations and budget over and. assess is important at the door worth no longer seemed like everything was possible in space and there were no longer the cold war budgets to fund that all the still proves that space research can be right to the edge of human endeavor. moscow and almost two years after the end of his controversial presidency george w. bush is releasing his memoirs and it's also known as the resident tries to see what he is most remembered for and if the time out of the limelight has restored his image. decision points george w. bush's memoir is hitting bookstores everywhere how do you remember him this week let's talk about that i remember him as will ferrell being dropped to the

stage gently on the cable from a helicopter and landing in times square fictionally being dumped and saying when he arrived that was weird on obama's inaugural day that's how i remember so you don't have necessarily fond memories of even two years later well i would say that's a fun memory i got a problem with them is called my book though do you think that people in general feel better about him now two years later than they did when he was in office. i would say they know but. but i don't think obama's really proven anything you know above and beyond what he did so makes him look a little better i guess and one might not be able to get a job after that as well iraq war a lot of things i remember about george bush to do do you think that his staying

out of the limelight for a couple years has helped is the image of dollars that kind of just i don't think it changed you know the first six seven years were good less year we had the financial difficulties and the difficulty we do the war i think will be like harry truman it may take twenty years twenty years later i think will be looked upon as maybe a decent president if you think that's fair for a lot of presidents it takes some mattress back i think so i think the only thing we could look barely upon initially was nixon with the watergate he never really seemed to recapture new glory the bottom line is it's always easier to judge in hindsight so it'll be interesting to see what people think about bama two years after his presidency ends whether that's in two thousand and fourteen or twenty eighteen we'll have to wait and. and debate is raging in germany over a t.v. show that secretly records meetings between death decoys and it are now paedophiles the show's producers say they are uncovering online dangerous to children because

it exclaimed the program's main interest is the pursuit of better ratings. it's every parent's nightmare their child is being lured by someone they met on the internet this girl is pretending to be thirteen years old the man at the table is in his sixty's they've been conversing online for weeks my little girl friend it is you isn't it yes if i'm a little kid and your. went just a kiss. you tell me i'm shy. the back of your neck may be ok but perhaps that might turn you on but later is actually an undercover journalist and it turns out the man works for a children's charity he's completely unaware that the meeting is being secretly filmed as part of the german t.v. show a cool tattled internet and it's exposing the dangers is a sexual predator is online in the very beginning we expected it expected.

to have a very specific. person to be maj and you know what you usually magine as a sexual predator you know the guy with the glasses and you know the guy but we've met people from all kinds of society those who praise the show format say that the authorities should have been informed straight away especially as in this case the man worked with children and that the shades designed for big ratings is the primary motivation the people who took the video clip took the clip in may and broadcast it in october now and in between there was no information for any. investigative. officials or police not for the employer or employer as well but the producers argued that the reason for having to keep the identity of the men

they film secrets is due to a major leak hole in the law. chatting on the internet with a child even about cirqus is almost never considered a crime but it is left very unclear what exactly constitutes a criminal action. shockingly under current law unless there is an actual physical assault there's not much that can be done and it's an international problem with many experts openly acknowledging that guidelines are in desperate need of clarification instead of grooming is not in the third nominee and as a number of children going online so there's a danger and the scariest part is that right now there's not much that the police can do to protect the team showed us how often within minutes of going into an online chat room praising as a young girl sexual advances were made the people we were conversing with were completely unconcerned when we told them that we were under the legal age of consent which it full teen in germany is already extremely young despite the

criticisms those behind the show adamant that raising public awareness of internet dreaming can make a difference if we can succeed with the goal of really changing the law making the approach of mine online. and. can avoid those people being of troops and. surface r.t. . and there are more stories for you including and new technology that can revolutionize nuclear power work scientists say it's orient future of the year with potentially why you argue that the world's a well hole and you rain combined what's this and more next hour. and another look at the week's top stories in just a few moments coming your way.