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pledge to work together to create a fan system to neutralize common threats. obama called it lacking critics say it was just the good old being something cash no votes i'm sure the republicans to victory in this week's u.s. midterm elections. archipelago outraged tokyo's angered by president medvedev so visit to russia's core alliance which japan claims as its own moscow says it will keep investing in its rebuild region. and the international space station is celebrating twenty years of human life in orbit the longest stretch ever spent outside the earth's atmosphere our team the space citizens.

you're watching aren't you coming to live from moscow i'm marina josh and welcome to the program this week has seen a new scandal flaring up between russia and georgia asked police he said thirteen people were caught spying for moscow russia claim the whole story is a political farce and deliberate provocation by the georgian authorities have a nato summit and artie's a renegotiation 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. they said some three thousand time three hundred pages of data which my husband supposedly sound to russia because that's a blatant lie we have presented evidence numerous times that all information with witchcraft and worked hard was just his analysis if you look at his case you'll see

that it's easy to say that anyone's fine georgia is trumping it. the lynas husband was george's envoy to nato he was named in the documentary just shown on one of george's main channels to as one of the russian spies who didn't get away in fact the 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 of work by the georgian counter-intelligence service amol invited in to 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 very say it won't do georgia any good mosco reacted

almost immediately the saakashvili regime suffers from some chronic spine mania fueled by under russian sentiments in recent years the georgian leadership has resorted to fabricating similar scandals more than once cynically hoping to political dissidents inside the country and abroad some analysts believe the whole affair was an attempt to put pressure. georgism positions the regime of circus really does not feel safe and they use any possible to again even 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 for and with a healthy dose of irony. this whole affair seemed to be fashioned on the american

spy scandal only it lacked on the chapel for the six symbols apparently it tastes just the same time it's an attempt to lead the situation between russia and georgia to have those conditions. the child to be leasing mosco exchange verbal blows one woman continues to wait for justice for her and well you know i'm not a free but i know that if need be the georgian authorities can accuse not only me but any georgian citizen and spying for a new country they don't need to trade now but when they will they will accuse me of a pretty good. to be lisi georgia. russia receive nato proposal for european missile the fans' joint program one of the alliance the secretary general anders fogh rasmussen visited moscow this week to the nato chief stressed that the alliance sees russia as a friend and partner as be essential to regional stability and 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 kongs ahead of a nato summit in lisbon on the amber of the twentieth an expert in conflict resolution dimitri trannies told r.t. that a joint russian nato missile defense project could be a breakthrough for both sides. the secretary general is a champion of joint missile that they are sold. russia is a corporation with nato on missile defense and he made that statement during his first speech on russia first major speech on any issue. in september last year under the auspices of the carnegie endowment basically you need to realize that no amount of the strategic arms reduction good limitations can transform the russian they told russia western russia us relationship one needs to have a strategic collaborative project and it looks like missile defense is the one thing

the silver bullet the project that kim has the potential at least to transform the entire russian western relationship it's a game changer or if with fail to seize appalled that it could be a game breaker. scandalous and hysterical is how russia is viewing their recall of the japanese ambassador from moscow the reaction came the day after president medvedev said visit to the russian coral islands which tokyo claims for itself moscow says more visits are planned to promote business development in the region or he's a convoy has been following the diplomatic route. it's a leftover from the second world war old soviet tanks rusting on the shore but their barrels pointed toward japan they're about to be scrapped format 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 it took the soviet union less than a month to expel the japanese army from the islands in all this stuff nineteen forty five that prevented the two countries from signing a peace treaty living a 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 cross appeared here if you years ago when the russian orthodox church opened its parish on the island of she katon after decades of seeing its population window they are and is now in the midst of a baby boom. we have the husband straight in the entire region there are many kids here and parents bring them to be baptized and livingston's it's acquired decent nowadays just a few hundred metres from the church at ikeja motor is teaching japanese at a local school and here class seven greater city alongside their parents many of

them getting a job and to fan is their best shot at lifting their families out of poverty our classes are very popular and people keep coming here year after year i'm hit sometimes it seems like and 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 tried to paint a pretty quick trip to roads and crumbling infrastructure betrayed the island's chronic financial problems so it's an important possible learned we will definitely invest money into the region. and the midst of reach dishing grounds on and. a prime spot to buy seafood an opportunity that mitchell inventive didn't miss the point is it. can only get some. while fish and seafood are affordable here everything else cost almost twice as much as on the mainland the locals complained of unreliable supply but as the president noticed one item

was always talk. about you don't have any problems with the suppliers i'll call here to get the president's visit was a mistake on the japanese side caucus foreign minister said the trip heard japanese public sentiment and temporarily recalled its ambassador from moscow. it is extremely regrettable that president medvedev 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 an. idiot simple as that only japan's reaction is an acceptable it's our land and russian president was visiting russian territory with a ready explained this to were just a nice porkers should lead to once again in a big risky retreat this position however we're not going to take any steps that would change relations while the russian officials consider last week's rout over the greenland unfortunate they stressed that their first priority is to make sure

that the people actually leave on the island 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 korea lorenzo over to japan but the overwhelming majority of the respondents have never visited this territory and are very unlikely 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. still to come for you this hour here in r.t.e. a crime of desperation. here we have johnny walker black label is your job. over here and we even have over forty two kinds of. rampant poverty in iraq bush's mannie locals to make a living illegally risking death panels to smuggle prohibited alcohol to neighboring iran. and new technology that can revolutionize nuclear power

scientists a story of yes the future leader with potentially more energy than the world's oil coal and uranium combined. a top level police investigation has been launched into a vicious attack on a russian journalist 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 a public response with maggie 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. former editor in chief of commerce and daily says cautions rioting may have been linked to the brutal assault. of course the reason for this attack is

conscience professional activity you and he was a popular blogger and he was more open and outspoken on lines than in the paper with common sense has a certain style but this beating is very similar to the attack on the journalist and the count think it's all of which took place a couple of years ago this mention of his fingers for example so that the person who could not write any would there is a horror show element here. and the midterm elections in the us were a big blow to obama's administration 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 but critics say money the side of the outcome not the american voter. this was a special election year in the us 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 by big business is 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 walls 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 inaction 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 baner 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 and pledge to fight against tougher rules for the financial market and it seems there is no way around

it the election system in the u.s. 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 out of core option is the privatization of public party 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 this party fear mongering and constant attacks on obama where arguably the corporations are 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 handling these prostration. but many americans now fear their interest of being left down because of someone's special interests on the outside this democracy as usual with people coming to a polling station putting a quasi before the name of a candidate they lie but in these elections with the influence of corporations on neat it seems that really has a vote in american mail is money going to check out all t. washington d.c. . you want to know if you live from moscow coming up next hour here or judging in retrospect. i think you'll be like harry truman it may take twenty years twenty years later i think you'll be looked upon as maybe

a decent president. after two years out of the limelight george w. bush publishes his memoirs and the resident checks out of people have any fond memories of. the liver to the hospital was no arms and massive blood loss a woman dies after several days in a coma who should take the blame when a dog's bite as worse than his bark. november the seventh is a significant day in russian history as the anniversary of a unique military parade sixty nine a years ago it took place on red square from where soviet soldiers went straight to the front line to the fan the capital against advancing nazi troops. what if we can now take a look at a lot of pictures there that you have from the heart of the capital where it's the new mayor of moscow. there we also see the. military school students the events involved the president going to the moscow military

district wearing sort of military dressed in other historical military costumes also all of the phases of world war two thirty four to take part in the security parade now they have some background back in nineteen forty wanted or eight pretty new to the decisive victory over nazis in the battle of moscow to happen six years ago so this is a very significant event in russia's history because you can see a lot of victory there from the heart of moscow right square. to other stories now that we're following for you here on our war has left many iraqis destitute with some estimates suggesting that a quarter of the population lives but lives below the poverty line that forces some locals to resort to illegal means of survival smuggling alcohol into iran who are drinking is officially banned parties sebastián mayor follows the booze trail. in

northern iraq kurdish smugglers load their horses with hundreds of boxes of booze they're taking into a brain. although alcohol is forbidden in the public much of tehran's boars wasn't can't resist a drink and these smugglers provide them with an extraordinary selection we hear in a smuggler storm in a mountainous area of northern iraq that borders around we have absolute. teachers here mr chavez whiskey black and white whiskey back here we have johnny walker black label we have johnny walker red label over here and we even have over four different kinds of smear not block this box of what it will cost a smuggler one hundred five dollars in iraq he will sell it in tehran for over four hundred one of the profits appear amends to men who actually take the dangerous journey are paid a mere fifty dollars a night this is not work for those looking to make a fortune he does work for the poor uneducated in desperate. i do this because i'm

a literate. so this is the only job i can do out of the rain is brutal in its approach to keep alcohol out a smuggler recently arrested and was sentenced to life by others who have been wounded in police ambushes have been fined up to half a million dollars and then charged the price of the bullets that were shot with a mind they stepped on. we crossed the border and there are explosions shootings i rests or fights terrible much nothing we can do because we have who are overweight but only as the job dangerous but the living conditions are bleak on the iraqi side of the small river that makes the border it's a series of shanty towns full of tattered shacks to serve a small shelters for the smugglers as well as for the horses the place is filthy and stinks of course down there in a minute it isn't a lie and there's no food or drink during the cold and wet now and we leave you down. on the other side said hundreds of a rainy. border police some in concrete towers others in canvas tents put all in

their pursuit to keep the smugglers out of their country a few days before we arrived they mounted an ambush on one of the smugglers. came from the other side and took three of my muse back across the border and show everyone with you if the iranians left the corpses rotting on the riverbank as a warning to the smugglers nine a phone call comes in saying that the route is clear the smugglers quickly finish packing their horses and then take off towards the border what awaits them on the iranian side is uncertain what is certain is tomorrow the same dangerous job away to those who are desperate enough to do it sebastian my own party on the iran iraq border. russia has become a weaponry supplier to afghanistan as the first of sixteen planes deliver its cargo to the capital kabul on tuesday the weapons were given to afghanistan free of charge following an agreement between the two countries the five militants and drug

trafficking russia's the fans minister on the telly surgical said it's possible that russian military experts will help to train afghan security forces however moscow has stated its troops are not returning to afghanistan despite earlier speculation because elaine director of the conventional arms program at a russian think tank says moscow's efforts in the region will help slash drug problems. denniston is a big threat. to all neighboring countries and to russia as a regional superpower i think that. russia should the real engage as far as needed the only limit is a non engagement of russian troops russia preys much attention to drug problem it was very remarkable news which came recently of all the successful joint operation we all expect out of this cooperation real continue in the future because the russian people are more form of their everyday life. broads.

a huge threat to all of us all our generations. the idea of eco friendly nuclear energy may have once seemed impossible but now scientists believe they have found a few of the future soria is more abundant down uranium and can create much more power archy discovers wide still has to gain a foothold in the market. we all use energy but at what cost. energy security why many more wars are fought the oil's running out and there doesn't seem to be a viable alternative insights but unbeknown to most there's an energy source that says clean green and abundant all over the globe story i'm zain nuclear fuel and its supporters believe it will change the world conflicts that we see today based

around energy could go away and that these energy sources that i'm talking about which don't emit carbon dioxide or or greenhouse gases and don't produce dangerous ways could. unable to have cleaner water cleaner air and less intrusion on our environment from energy production a ton of the silvery metal produces as much energy as two hundred tons of uranium three and a hoffa million tons of coal. the amount of thorin that it would take her vital all the power to run your entire life. is about the size of a marble that big a group working on story in the u.k. says it hasn't managed to get the british government on board so far so it's looking to cooperate with countries like russia for several years now a russian physicist has been proposing to build saurian power stations but are going to clean his ideas haven't been taken up a lot of focus on renewables at the moment so maybe that's where they feel that

there's more public support rather than. research on thore and was largely halted in the middle of the last century after a year rainy unpowered reactor was designed. many believe also fell out of the spotlight because making a bomb out of it is thought to be almost impossible but today not all scientists are thore i'm cold but for him reactors don't really work for every challenge and it's a whole new technology which has very insurmountable problems in my opinion. since two thousand and seven cities from london to sydney have held our turning the lights off to save energy proponents say the worry of power became a reality we could turn the lights back on with confidence. through.

the rooms a divisive thing some say it's a technology that's being tried tested and found lacking others say that because the light water reactor got there first the room was never given a proper chance but while it's cheap abundant and even a possibility the scientists here at the annual story and conference say give it a go it might even change the world. and coming up an essential material for producing electronic devices poses a threat to human lives r.t. finds out what it takes to make your gadget blink watch our special report next hour here in r.t. . cellphones would be useless without this mineral. tiny piece is needed to make. but use of culture and is extracted at a cost to light. a

lot of the most ambitious projects in the history of the international space station as marking a decade of manned operations as the longest period of continuous human habitation outside the earth and our teams learned what it takes to become a space. november second two thousand the first permanent crew reaches the international space station as the world watches its all googly 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 well for a shock but of up to before the i.s.o.'s is a breakthrough corporation of before there was over it's basically agencies and now they work together with a few it's

a little more work 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 shall 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 for you there were no exercise machines with the first crews job was to fully activate the station much of it had been assembled so quickly in russia and the united states and the first time these parts came together wasn't space of the militia would be the first two weeks on there were extremely stressful but if we failed we'd have to return to earth and abandon the station it would never have been constructed as planned which included 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 complete it.