this is a region is economically and socially one of russia's better developed provinces the region has a significant scientific and industrial capacity that will realize its full potential after the construction of the. park until yasi is completed the i-t. park will house r. and d. projects in the spheres of automotive construction aerospace and oil chemistry high tech data center ferber's with cutting edge servers and communication equipment will be constructed at the core of the park the project has been personally approved by prime minister vladimir putin the federal government is planning to allocate sizable funding for the parks construction investors will be given benefits such as property tax exemption low land rental prices and other preferences but it is this a motor region government is open to mutually beneficial cooperation we invite investors to participate in existing projects and we are ready to give

a hand of fulfilling your projects good and growing your business in the samoa region. president obama facing a tough challenge to ratify the nuclear arms control treaty as a shift of seeds leaves him a lame duck senate. russia's chief diplomat says the economic sign is rising in the east during trilateral talks with china and india. and e.u. prosecutors investigating organized organ trafficking in the balkans after seven people charged in kosovo. it's six am in moscow good to be with you here on our team our top story the race

is on to get a key nuclear arms reduction treaty with russia through the u.s. senate the final session has started before president obama sees the democrat majority cut in january when it will get much tougher for him to get his policies through artie's guy an agency qian has more from washington. obviously this is going to be a last minute push to get this landmark deal passed through the senate before you newly elected officials step into office in january there is a very tense partisan game going on here in washington and the a lot of observers say that for many on capitol hill the fight is not about the content of the treaty but rather about scoring political points and the point scoring because it is expected to intensify after republicans gain a considerably bigger influence in the senate in january compared to what they have now the republican senate minority leader has already said their priority will be to have obama voted out of office in two thousand and twelve so basically to make sure that the president fails on his major initiatives so the obama administration

is very eager to get the treaty passed on this so-called lame duck session in order to avoid a bumpy ride after january when obama's arguably major foreign policy achievement could well be on the line of the u.s. it proves that. hillary clinton and defense secretary robert gates have just published an urge for the senate to hurry up with a ratification saying the u.s. national security depends on the prospects of the treaty to be ratified by by this look promising the treaty was earlier approved by the senate foreign relations committee there had been a long buildup to wait over many months of hearings america's key military officials had been unanimously testifying in support for the treaty leading security experts in the country were saying it's only common sense to have a new arms reduction deal in place actually among those who testified in support for the treaty there were more republicans than democrats so it's wrong to think republicans are all against it some very influential republican senators like richard little guard have strongly advocated for the treaty to be passed they've

been they've been calling for their party members to put partisan games aside to to put their overwhelming desire to undermine obama and do what they believe is right for their country and for maybe on many cut capitol hill observers the whole thing . bate it really comes down to this question will some republican senators sacrifice a landmark historic deal just for the sake of denying obama this feather in his foreign policy cap and but what's at stake. trading will cut nuclear arsenals of both russia and the u.s. by a third it's meant to increase the level of trust between the two nuclear superpowers it's meant to show an example of nonproliferation to other countries and is expected to pave the way for us watch for cooperation in other areas as well and many believe what's on the line now is the well advertised reset and not ratify the treaty could well put the leaders other cooperation plans on. global peace

expert ivan eland says the benefits of ratifying the start treaty go beyond just cutting the number of weapons well there's always been the hardliners and if you look at the history of arms control and normally what happens is they work a deal and i think the republicans that are in there now are fairly reasonable and i think i would predict it will probably pass very narrowly by the end of the year because it is a priority of because i think it's very valuable not only for the overall relationship but i think you know for a deficit helps with that somewhat and also of course helps with reducing the danger of new nuclear war between the two countries basically this treaty only cuts thirty percent of the warheads anyway which is which is good but it opens the door to future reductions but the most important thing it does is the verification put the verification back and that's tremendously important people pay attention the warhead totals but if both sides know what's going on you know in one thousand nine hundred five we almost had a nuclear war accidentally and i think it's very important for the two sides to

know what's going on in this verification. thing and this monitoring is very important and that's the main reason to get this treaty through i think. and if you minutes we look at the stealthy sweetener that the u.s. is offering israel warplanes in exchange for a new halt in west bank construction but critics say incentives won't solve the issues that decades of talks have so far failed to deal with. first though the center of economics and power is shifting quickly towards the asia pacific region that's the view of russia's foreign minister who's been in china for a three way meeting of nations widely seen as shaking up the old order of global politics russia china and india are part of the increasingly influential bric group alongside brazil the growing dominance of those a bloc is seen by analysts is changing the world centers of power those of today's meeting china has already overtaken japan to become the world's second largest

economy and is fast catching up with the u.s. artie's tests are so your reports on the awakening of an asian giant. from a pile of ruins right after the second world war to an economic powerhouse all of the span of a single lifetime major pad economic miracle oh. really but nowadays the land of the rising sun is becoming the land of rising discontent. the unemployment rate itself is has been steady it's around five percent but what's problematic is the quality of the job and a. lot of the being they haven't. even when companies pay and you people they tend to own the condition of without social security through the social benefits economic growth is on a stand still and export hers the engine of its economy are hurt by a sore yen pushing them to take their business elsewhere and i need to sort through

who do these really be increasing the illnesses prevention we will be receiving the equal entrepreneur the one sees the. overseas he's referring to china also known as the factory of the world with a major chunk of every manufactured item today either fully or partly made in china i'm here in the heart of the largest chinatown. there have been four generations of chinese that moved to japan and they've been greatly from the rise of this country economically but ironically irrational country they have left has now overtaken their adopted homeland and become the second largest economy in the world which means japan is now chasing the pack rather than leading it japan you're quite right still seem to be stuck in the mud struggling to generate. growth beyond us to the sluggish. level. and i'm not sure

that either of those things are in their favor the many would say we're witnessing the beginning of china's era its economic clout is undeniable at the recently concluded g. twenty and apec summit barack obama repeatedly demanded that china lets the you want appreciate seeing below chinese currency is hurting us exports chinese president hu jintao a new china gets the last word that's the new reality in asia if not the whole world. tests are cilia r.t. yokohama japan. remember you can find more on this and all the stories we cover twenty four hours a day or click away at our team dot com also on our website right now we have the details of a high speed revolution rocking the railways for paris deprived its trains to travel at least one hundred fifty kilometers an hour most of its network. when the pressure's on some u.s. college kids are turning to popping these pills the war in iraq was the rise of

undergraduates using artificial stimulants to rapidly maybe come out of. israel is mulling over another temporary halt on building jewish settlements on palestinian territory in return for being given three billion dollars worth of fighter jets it's washington's latest effort to get it stalled peace talks moving again the deal to hand over a new f. thirty five would give the israeli air force striking capabilities in the region u.s. is also offering to fight any international resolutions against the jewish state at the united nations and will not ask for another freeze when the deadline is up palestinians are angry not least because the proposal will not apply to east jerusalem earlier the middle east policy expert phyllis bennis told r.t.

that the u.s. is offering nothing new but what could be the final straw for palestinians. the three billion dollars we still don't know if that will be included within the existing thirty billion dollars that the u.s. has agreed to give to israel in military aid over these ten years this was negotiated by george bush and it's being implemented now by president obama whether it will be within that or whether this is an additional three billion dollars of new fighter planes they're also getting something that the u.s. has given all the time to israel anyway which is complete protection in the united nations that means vetoing any effort by the palestinians to get the security council to recognize a new palestinian state it means protecting israel from being held accountable for war crimes that may have been committed in the gaza war including preventing the goldstone report from being brought forward and with israeli accountability sent to the international criminal court it means continuing what the u.s. has done in the past of making sure that in the international atomic energy agency

that israel is never even requested to join the nonproliferation treaty and make public its well known but officially secret. nuclear arsenal all of these things are things that the u.s. has provided to israel anyway so what they're adding to it now is saying that after this three month part. will slow down of settlement construction because it will not apply in east jerusalem which is crucial that's where there is a big settlement expansion campaign already underway that they will never again ask for a settlement freeze so it's giving the israelis an awful lot in return for really not very much investigators say they can prove a russian accountant who died in prison was part of a massive and bezel men scheme sergei magnitsky exact role at hermitage capital became a massive scandal after he died of a heart attack behind bars or teaser catarina groucho but has the details. investigators say they have found that sergei magnitsky died in custody was not

a lawyer at sea claims but was an accountant worked at hermitage capital and named particular and he was in charge of working out techs of asian schemes investigators say that magnes he was a major mover in the organization of one puzzling almost five and a half billion rubles an equivalent of almost two hundred million dollars all the details of that were revealed at a press conference in moscow tuesday he's a years since sergei magnitsky died in a prison hospital of heart attack was a game and misty was arrested in two thousand eight hundred charges of taxation and embezzlement and he died up for eleven months after he was arrested in custody but he's lawyers claim that client died after being repeatedly refused access to medical treatment reports suggest that he suffered a cold blooded disease and needed special treatment circumstances all his stuff that sparked a huge scandal it quickly became

a high profile case president dmitry medvedev and into it he ordered a criminal investigation and sacked a number of high ranking officials also optimized means to space russian president ordered that turn a major overhaul of russia's law enforcement should be carried down to the lawyers solve sergei magnitsky lawyers work in a time a ditch capital demand that apart from an investigation into their former employees case an internal probe should be carried out the case has been also taken up abroad how much capital. has called on the european parliament and legislators in britain the united states and poland to impose their views of balance some sixty russian officials to the pond believes are connected to what needs a state now investigation into magnitsky case continues while investigation. sokol the hermitage capital case is officially over and evidence that has been handed

over to the prosecution. artie's catherine mcgrath over reporting from moscow. now the seven suspects in kosovo have been charged with persuading people to sell their organs with false hopes of cash one of the queues had previously faced allegations of trafficking body parts of serbian prisoners during the kosovo war as our first discovered that conflict in kosovo was later declaration of independence have invited organized crime. they grease him allegations claims the snow going to his crime grave including doctors and a high level health official were involved in organ trafficking and as the investigation continues there are now growing concerns with political instability and a weak justice system because of a could be becoming a breeding ground for criminal activity we don't have very real space and real estate is not functioning actually and we don't have double that's why the forty's

very high unemployment is increasing. the allegations focus on the medicaid private clinic and first surfaced years ago forcing the center to close shockingly r.t. have discovered that to those named in the indictment have continued to work ever since as another health and secure america and just next door to where the alleged crimes took place the indictments have shed a harsh spotlight on organized crime in cost both its government and western countries are accused of turning a blind eye to the lawlessness has been growing ever since it declared independence from serbia really three years ago there are also many who accuse the ruling authorities of miscarriages of justice that date back to the war being drawn between medicare's and the yellow house case the alleged murder and harvesting of organs of serbian war prisoners by members of the cause of a liberation army but there was insufficient evidence to bring that case to. my

husband was taken just after the war and despite civilians haven't been promised security regardless of ethnicity he never came back the families of kidnapped and killed people in cos of a have been fighting the right tape in the un mission in kosovo and you go through a long time but so far without any results i think the biggest problem is that those who are killing on kidnapping people and consummate have changed their soldiers uniforms for the peace and begin to power over night. international institutions these are the faces of some of the people that are still missing from the war and the focus today is really on whether kosovo is up to fighting organized crime when there are still so many he said creating pieces of the surface. close to the. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe and for know that tore through a high rise apartment building in shanghai is claimed the lives of forty two people with more than one hundred others injured the twenty eight story tower was under

renovation when a fire broke out on a scaffolding quickly spreading to the building itself people jumped out of windows in desperation to escape the flames. while in new delhi a five story building collapsed killing at least forty two people and injuring more than sixty others emergency crews believe dozens of people remain trapped under the rubble local residents were seen digging for survivors with their bare hands fire engines are having difficulty navigating through neighborhoods crowded streets hampering the rescue operation it's thought monsoon rains may have weakened the buildings foundations. the woes of australian airline quantas continue a boeing seven forty seven flying from sydney to argentina had to turn back because of a problem with its electrical system smoke started filling the cockpit so the pilots dump fuel and headed back to sydney landing safely with all two hundred twenty aboard it's the fourth incident this month following a fiery engine blowout on november fourth that crowded it's entire a three d.

fleet from singapore. a respected doctor blogger and humanitarian by day at night she sifts through rubbish rows abandoned buildings and socializes with convicts she's affectionately known as dr lee's and she's dedicated herself to making the lies of the homeless the poor and the destitute more bearable but left facing a constant lack of food clothes and medicine she wants a greater understanding of the plight of russia's homeless. as winter approaches in hundreds of homeless people standing in line waiting for just a small bit of food just in these people and says will people come here to eat you see this food here eat some food and take the risk to my kids i've got kids you know. cigarette a kind of the of these just one of thousands of hoodlums who simply trying to get burned. i live under a railway platform that are like forty of us there are two openings so twenty people fit in one of them and twenty feet in the other lot so i've been living

there for one year recognizing a needle is a veteran drink and regularly sets up a makeshift clinic and distribution center near the populous k.-a train station in central moscow she has also started a blog to let people know the problems moscow's homeless face those who come to her for help simply call her doctor leaves that. we help some people to return home the priority here is people who are seriously sick with cancer and tb those who are beaten up if we can we find their relatives i also try to help those who have come out of prison or all at once a week the homeless and the needy from all over moscow come here so that they can get supplies of food and even medical treatment if needed but as is the case with many operations of this kind the supply just does not meet the demand. in summer we'll act shirts in the winter we don't have enough food because they need to stay warm in the winter which is impossible without food we need more room it

would be good to have a place where they could stay at least when it's really cold though she faces a daunting task with limited resources those who know her say their lives are better because of dr lisa's influence. on the thought that when i met elizabeth in two thousand and six here help anywhere i can we met when we were in difficult places in our lives her mother was sick and my daughter was also at the same hospital one of my daughters died in a car accident the other one barely made it she noticed me and asked what was wrong that's how we met everything i have now is thanks to her and love those who come here for help understanding the stakes. i don't know what we would do with it this house were not for these charity organizations we will be done for them. dr lisa's fear is that politicians with the power to make real changes just don't understand the problems. problem i don't know why this issue is being ignored because these

are active people who could be returned to normal life we need hospitals that could solve many problems related to prolong to deaths a chronic disease it's not just the patient himself who is handicapped but the people around him who are the caregivers also become emotionally handicapped they have nowhere to go for help but dilemma that gives dr a leisurely inspiration to continue to help one person at a time sean thomas r t moscow. international interest in the middle east doesn't just rest with securing peace countries like lebanon are also eager to get their economies in better shape that's why the country's prime minister came to russia to continue signing a raft of multi-million dollar deals are caught up with saad hariri ahead of his visit.

i had then well met have welcome to the archery interview with great pleasure and i would like to welcome the finance prime minister shakes out i had even i know hello prime minister hello i had thought that that and that in theaters and do you think that is illusion of the political crisis in iraq will have a positive impact on the unknown and could lead to resolution of the political crisis there as well. i think the main problem here is that the key issue is ignored i mean about a fair peace for everybody in ninety ninety one there was

a peace conference in madrid then there was also the arab summit conference in beirut where the participants came up with the arab peace initiative but now the peace process is being destroyed by different amendments which will lead us nowhere what the principles behind the resolutions which were supported by everyone demand that israel should follow the resolutions that would have been no need now to talk about rome's and other problems have this peace process not been buried in the one nine hundred ninety s. we face many difficulties today because israel denies palestinians their legal rights refuses to return the golan heights to syria the ship of farms. and geisha to lebanon but the arab peace initiative was adopted why is israel doing that the international community has an obligation here it needs to know that we can only solve problems in the region through a fair peace for all this in that israel is extensible to the deadlock in the peace process which not only is it responsible israel is the main reason why the process

failed with netanyahu is government is not able nor is it willing to continue with the peace process what role could fresh play in promoting the peace process in the middle east and russia participated in the madrid conference and is part of this process it is also part of the quartet mediating in the israeli palestinian talks therefore i think russia could play a very important role it has many friends in the arab world. i need to use our relations with russia in order to communicate the arab stance on things to the international community because it's very unnerving to see the injustice done by israel to palestinians as well as to lebanon and syria we can no longer ignore this israel's trying to impose its own agenda and keep seizing land a daily unfortunately the world is not doing anything about it this is unacceptable in all aspects international human religious because against the geneva convention and any other regulations israel is breaking international conventions thank you.

when everybody knows that he had relationship with the russian leaders is very good what key issues really discuss this is at. the head the he as men and women too often politically relations with russia very important to us we would like these relations to be economically beneficial as well we would also like to find out how russia could assist lebanon and equipping on me and security forces in this respect we're going to propose some ideas for russian friends we've been promised certain assistance in lebanon is ready to work out a plan for purchasing russian weapons lebanon has purchased arms from russia in the past and now we are trying to figure out if we could get some discount on weapons for lebanon's army and security forces and us to have and what about jets. we will study the issue during our visit our pilots are going through training and hopefully this visit will be successful and to what our president has started. many

of you know what areas can expect agreements to be signed in russia we're considering signing an agreement on culture and between our countries ministries of justice we hope that agreements in other areas will be studied properly especially those concerning armaments for the lebanese army. and i know of at who's seen is russia maintains its position regarding the un international tribunal on the killing a former prime minister has really and fully supports it what is your standpoint on this position here but it's a natural position since russia is driven by the idea of justice and has never abandoned it and that's why we are grateful to russia for the position which we consider to be natural because russia supports lebanon not only in the matters related to the international tribunal but also in everything lebanon had to go through over the past decades with all the wars both in two thousand and six and earlier russia has always been on lebanon's side when you met why aren't you

willing to satisfy the opposition's requirement. to step back from the special tribunal in order to keep the peace in the country and the winter. here. we have created the government which initially was a national unity government and with no such concept as pro-government or opposition forces we must be united it would be a political mistake for anyone to consider themselves to be part of the opposition while being part of the government that's number one number two is that there are indeed concerns about the special tribunal but i think that it would be wrong to talk about this under current circumstances there require sobriety and dialogue people need to calm down and act sensibly fighting leads us nowhere and at the end of the day will have to live together in our country and keep our dialogue if god forbid we develop different views than the country will have a problem with that we must get back to the negotiating table the country requires peace and that's the most important yes we indeed still have some disagreements but

is it really the way out there must be peace otherwise there is no way to achieve positive results in dialogue how can an emotional person be in dialogue with other people i keep saying it all the time that we need to calm down the lebanese people need an opportunity to live a peaceful life because people are tired of all the discord we must do everything to achieve it and know who the father was something that if pressure on you on the part of the physician builds up you'll have to resign is that possible how has the lead and then. i haven't felt much pressure on me and i think the pressure is being put on other people rather than on me as for resignation i was elected by the lebanese people majority expressed their trust in me so that we could form a government i became prime minister thanks to the support of the majority and i'm set to continue working together with everybody i love.