a very warm welcome to see this is the line from moscow with me alice had bets eleven people arrested in europe on charges of terrorism are reported to have links to chechen militants investigators in belgium say they're part of an international terror network the was preparing a bloody christmas campaign in europe with a wall's they said to be hiring people and seeking funds to finance terrorists and russia's republic of chechnya. is following developments from brussels. or thought these owners preparations for a terrorist attack on an unspecified location in belgium the arrest in belgium took place in the port town of and to work and information was uncovered from the and saw al majid the internet forum that an attack was being planned suspects were belgian dutch and moroccan nationals and the moroccan national chain background to

the answer is a judge philip van leeuwen tell'd has just said they may have been recruiting and financing activities for the caucasian emirates this is an organization a radical islamist separatist group which is operating from russia's republic of chechnya and is being seen as one the first major international events which shows the toys between the chechen terrorist organization and the worldwide al qaeda network one of the first major events proving the link with russian terrorism towards the rest of the world of course it comes in the context of the united states issuing an arrest warrant for dog owner of one of the leaders of the chechen islamist rebel group he has been placed on the most wanted group list in the united states. really shows how the chechen terrorists are linked to the worldwide al qaeda network of course they've recently been possible for various outrages including the moscow metro bombings as well as attacks various numerous attacks in

the southern republics russia's southern republics of dagestan and chechnya well political analyst and the baggage from the rear novice news agency says it's high time for the west to realize it's in the same boat with russia as far as the terror threat is concerned. their ideology or for g.o.d.'s stereoscopes i think is the best name for them is actually directed against the west in general and against russia as a part of the west and the in that sense were in the same vault with the e.u. and with the united states whether they were the states or america wanted or not if you'll look at the media the french investigate gear five years ago all linked their modern war but their store. interests not to church interests but do not kick asian terrorists because the jihadist movement in north caucasus became very international it's no longer a church and nationalists this is

a jihadist movement directed against russia and they gauge the worst news about that have been coming all these years so there's a lot of information it was just the lack of political will in the west to acknowledge it and to work at the problem seriously it's time to get real and to look at reality instead of creating romantic images basically there is a very dirty game going on in the media and in the streets the terrorists are looking for and quick unity to strike at western civilization for them during the ninety's russia was the weak link in the western civilization because it was so corrupt it was so weak next day it may be you will be keeping a close eye on today's terror arrests in a europe and bring you all the latest developments as they come they do things with us here. now the impact of the wars the u.s. is fighting in iraq and afghanistan is being felt on home soil greater than ever

recent seth figures show a record high number of young veterans are committing suicide each month reality can investigate what pushes so many us soldiers to take their own lives once the present home from front line danger. each day eighteen american veterans commit suicide in the last few years more u.s. military personnel have taken their own lives than have been killed in either iraq or afghanistan the numbers raise a question where is the battle really happening in the field or at home. he was only home for eight months before. he was even took him over to my home is mentally. and year and a half and his wife was tortured. and

told him he was number twenty six and. these parents share a similar tragedy one of losing their children who had gone to war in iraq strong and healthy man and came back deeply traumatized and haunted by nightmares. thousands of american troops returned home with post-traumatic stress disorder but many refused to seek help from the government in fear it's going to show on their records and they won't be hired anywhere but even those who do seek help are often neglected i want to apply for a job. i applied for unemployment benefits. i went to the veterans administration for treatment a year after i was discharged because i was feeling suicidal and i was discharged i was refused treatment actually brian little would served in iraq came to this charity event for homeless veterans because he too was homeless he and dozens of

other young man and women here i wonder. how much of our security not only do many come back from war traumatized but are often left without a roof over their head according to the u.s. national coalition on homelessness forty percent of homeless man are veterans and the staggering number of those who see no other option but to kill themselves pushed the country's veterans affairs department to start a suicide prevention hotline they claim they've talked to more than ten thousand veterans out of killing themselves iraq and afghan veterans feel the epidemic and i share your yours. especially so often hear from callers they see no meaning behind the many killings they witnessed any war can be traumatizing for soldiers but the suits are great among vets in the u.s. is now the highest since the vietnam war there was no similar surge after world war two civilians questioning the motive of the war is now reflected among many young

american vance whose own down drives them even closer to the brink looking at the plight of veterans in the us one can't help asking what is the cost of war is it the one point eight trillion dollars the u.s. spent in iraq and afghanistan last here or is it the shattered lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers who come back home to find out their battle for survival has just begun to shake on all take clinton maryland. still ahead. on our. medal monsters like this fishing vessel said here abandoned waiting for the sea water to return to the deserts of kazakstan but international rehabilitation efforts taking a back in the air all three proves it may once again return i'm one of the friends to join me in central asia to explore what used to be one of the world's largest landlocked body of water. so korea has admitted it

fired artillery shells that triggered an early morning clash with north korea however it says it was part of a military drill and tonight it was directed at the north well earlier seoul blamed the north for what it called an unprovoked shelling of its file and claimed the south violated it smarts time border. so health and threaten its neighbor with what it calls enormous retaliation or russia's foreign minister said the clashes were on acceptable and called on both sides to show restraint. which the position of the solution with us won't happen deserves condemnation we insist that both sides must take measures to pacify the situation and prevent similar action in the future unfortunately this is already the third incident of the kind this year but this time there's a colossal danger of the situation descending into military conflict this must be avoided russia has repeatedly warned of the growing tension in the region and is

now counting on both sides to arrive at a suitable conclusion. for more on this we're now joined live by glyn ford a former m.e.p. and author of north korea on the brink a struggle for survival that's a full of many thanks for joining us now south korea has admitted its island came under attack all guns were firing during military drills near the disputed maritime border potentially highly provocative new but everybody blaming colin young for instigating the incident is it prejudice do you think. well i mean let's say these faults on both sides i mean the northern limit line which is the disputed border is only recognized by south korea it's not even recognized in full by the united states so clearly conducting military exercises in a disputed military military area where there have been incidents this year with the sinking of the. over the last decade is clearly not wise to put it mildly.

with the u.s. forces being stationed in the region and drills taking place near the north korean border in an area which as you say is still disputed who would you say is actually being aggressive party in all this. well i mean i think both sides can take some blame in this matter but certainly the general perception of this all the fault of the north koreans is not what i agree with but certainly i would not i would not condone. the shelling over of what is an undisputed south korean territory in terms of the island and if we look back now with free will that have taken place in the peninsula the sunken a south korean ship the cheering and all north korean experts were not allowed to investigate the sinking of fashion and they're all agreements simply weren't heard is there a minute do you think insulting intentionally demonized internationally well i mean their main we had to progressive president soon in seoul we've now been

replaced by a conservative and so clearly the new administration not so new no the new administration in in seoul is taking a very different and more belligerent approach to the north which is very much the only occasion by pyongyang and of course the fear in all this is where it might lead if we do you see a further escalation of this conflict is there any potential that we could see the sparking of something like world war three here. i think us very unlikely but i do think there's a possibility over a period of time in this turning into gulf war three in the sense that certainly in the past back in the ninety's the the us was preparing preemptive attacks against the north nuclear facilities we've clearly would we're would be provoking as i said something closer to goal for three than world war three nevertheless even that would cause a meant damage to the global economy and to global security. all eyes on the

troubled korean peninsula once again glenn ford former n.e.p. and author of north korea on the brink struggle for survival many thanks for joining us here on r.t. . journalism rights in the united states are in question after an r.t. news team spent around thirty two hours in jail for trying to film a rally the peaceful protest against the military academy dubbed the school of the fat had finished when officers handcuffed the crew covering the event and marched them to the police fam. thank you you may think there's. a correspondent who will describe to handling by police as brutal she was later released on bail i'm going to toss her account of the arrest. while we were filming we were asked to step aside we were asked to step onto the sidewalk which we did this is documented

in the footage that we shot we turned our backs and all of a sudden we were being arrested we were not told what we were being charged with we were taken to the county jail it took about four hours for us to be told what we were being charged with and we were processed through the system and we actually spent thirty two hours in the county jail there in georgia even though we were clearly credentialed press were accredited with the united states congress we presented our press credentials and they still arrested as we were charged just as all the either activists were all of us were found guilty of every single charge brought against us there was no distinction made between the press and between the you know the activists that were there and the bystanders the innocent bystanders really we felt as journalists that we didn't have protection of freedom of the press we didn't have the first amendment rights it's interesting that this happened outside of the school of the americas where there are training soldiers and police to do these kind of actions against populations of latin america and much of the same repression received on the streets of the united states the case isn't over

again we did it appear before a judge in many ways it was the most undemocratic i would say process as you know sort of miscarriage of justice i mean a lot of us weren't even permitted to speak we weren't even for timidity here what the police officers were saying against as or permitted to respond it was sort of the judge chose to not only you know press charges against us and decide even though it was an arraignment but also sentences and were also facing states. as for unlawful assembly which as journalists we you know obviously are not part of an unlawful assembly where they're covering it and under our first amendment rights. which. for a variety of opinions almost all the stories that we're covering is just some all what else we've got london for you at the moment don't call him breaking habits nor make is in the fine but making settings. in and home

alone how to make the internet a safe place for your children all that and much more what you don't call. to central asia now where the owls say once the world's fourth largest lake always dissipated home for a century ago due to soviet cultural mismanagement the receiving waters are all but the region of its economic lifeline but didn't deprive people of the hope that one day the same would return. in the false reports are all signs one of the walls that was manmade environmental disasters might be with us. there are people living at this harbor who have never seen the water which once lapped at its walls the former port city of a raskin kazakstan was once

a bustling hub of business and human activity but beginning in the one nine hundred sixty s. rivers feeding massive cotton fields for the soviet union diverted water away from the rivers that fed the erroll sea. when i came in to see was close to the city my husband and i have a tz and we would swim to the islands for picnics on the weekend we swam and lay in the sun later the sea started moving away the waters became shallow and then just joined up my children so it only in the pictures until the waters were so aggressively diverted the air all sea was the size of ireland. disappearing sea took with it fishing jobs commerce and an entire way of life just a few decades ago where i'm standing now as far as the eye could see was bright blue water ships just like this bobbing up and down bringing in the days capped now when you drive across the former seabed all you see is abandoned villages abandoned

ships and camels now people here call it errol coom or errol desert it was a cargo of whom or the soviet planned economy is largely to blame for the dying of the aral sea all decisions were made in moscow which took no account of the ecological balance of that region the consequences of that could be felt as early as in the one nine hundred sixty s. the r.t.c. region defines the terms pre-crisis crisis and disaster. it was after the collapse of the soviet union that people were faced with the seriousness of the disaster the sea have split into in two thousand and five experts harnessed what little water still flowed into the lesser erroll see from this year darya river by building the cocoa. and eighty seven million dollars project funded in part by the world bank the smaller body of water had become the great hope of the future. we had over two hundred people here from russia kazakhstan and his back to stand the work was

very hard and many of us lived here on site for two or three years but now we're happy to say the time has come to pack up the structure is working perfectly. welcomed news after years of failed damn projects and wasted water in just a few short years these small downs have turned parts because like desert back into a seascape dotting it would be. the hope is that as the project progresses the dams will be built even higher heaping more water is extending the boundaries and the bounty is a barrel see back to the city. when the sea left us my husband did not want to leave this place he used to say children would grow to see with their own eyes even before he died he believed that the sea would come back. now as the excess water flows through the sluices it disappears out into the nearly and greater peril see no grand scheme for saving that exists yet for the one million

people living in kazakstan poorest region measurable improvement will only come when these shores once again fill with boats lindsey france r.t. kazakstan. well that was the late is that also a result of reports on one of the world's worst ecological disasters do stay with us for more from the errol c region tomorrow ok now as of all the stories making headlines around the world this hour i got a boat he has declared a national day of mourning following the deaths of three hundred seventy eight people in a stampede out a lot of festival almost eight hundred were also injured in the panic the tragedy struck when a thousand surge trickles in our river bridge when i learned that these devices were marking the end of the rainy season most of the victims of crushed one of those drowned falling from the bridge. rescuers

hoping to locate twenty nine men trapped in a new zealand coal mine are preparing to send down a second robot to locate them the first machine is damaged by water on its way into the mine talking think gases and underground fires continued to prevent a rescue team from entering the mine while a camera lowered down a newly drilled ventilation hole showed only destruction were four days since the blast hopes of finding the men alive fading fast. thank you that is the way the news is the. more of course on the web site r.t. dot com although it is business on the way now we shall. hello and welcome to business program here on r.t. with me scholem's folly the next outflow of capital from russia in the first ten months of this year total twenty one billion dollars that's according to the chairman of russia's central bank capital al flow picked up steam in september and october amounting to eight billion dollars for those two months alone the central

bank attributes this surge to an increase in foreign assets among nonfinancial organizations and the capital outflow forecast for two thousand and ten hasn't been changed yet they expected to top fifteen billion dollars if the price of oil is sixty dollars per barrel. trade and business relations are topping discussions between the russian and chinese prime ministers at a meeting in st petersburg bloody may putin says russia's largest banks to a bank and the export import bank of china have signed an agreement to open a two billion dollars credit line money will finance major joint economic projects and also address the issue of using the national currencies of both countries in trade in the future. or national but should we have decided to expand their abilities of using no national currencies for mutual economic and trade contracts according job previous agreements we were paying each other with the us dollars the chinese stock market has started trading rubles to trade you know the yuan will

start in moscow in the beginning of december this is a serious step in great in better conditions for direct trading without any losses but. let's see how the markets are forming their hand russia the markets have closed in the red on tuesday with the r.t.s. down more than one point five percent all the main players suffered losses of energy stocks the main drag on lower oil prices gas prompted more than one point five percent on the r.t.s. but spare bank was the biggest loser there down one point eight percent moving to the car. has decided to buy ten percent of aft of us as according to a japanese newspaper after the purchase there were no alliance will own thirty five percent of the russian carmaker earlier reports that the two hundred and ninety million dollars deal exploded to be reached next spring the nikkei newspaper also run only plans to start a joint production of small size cars with after vast in two thousand and twelve.

folks are going group is considering building a second russian powered in the clinton graph region local authorities say company representatives plan to visit the region to inspect the area next year folks market opened its first russian factory two years ago in the kaluga region today produces skoda and volkswagen cars. russia's gas group plans to produce mercedes-benz in russia with diamond the joint project with more than one hundred sixty million dollars of investment the plan is reduced sixty thousand vehicles a year starting from late two thousand and twelve. the average return of russian stocks over the last year has been five point six dollars the highest level in the last seven years and thirty percent above analyst for costs but despite the good returns the my sex index has the lowest value of fifty nine world stock indices when measured on price earnings multiples nick poole finds out why. russia has the

cheapest stocks among major developing countries taking the market as a whole it trades anything up to a sixty percent discount compared to some other emerging developing markets however investors really possible bargain for long so what's holding them back investors are that stupid and this is the reason why the russian market has not gone up thirty forty fifty percent this year and the reason for that is people understand that behind one number one the relatively low p. there is a much more complicated picture that complication is the lack of diversity the oil and gas industry accounts for more than half of the market and it's here that valuations are at that low it's there are a number of reasons why women got stocks are cheap first is the heavy tax burden imposed on the industry by the government but there's also a lack of clear growth prospects and in some cases poor corporate governance but if the oil and gas industry is stripped out the picture changes dramatically if you

look at the rest of the market a lot of stocks are very fairly valued and in fact some of them are actually expensive a lot of the consumer stocks traded to very high multiples a lot of the electric utilities traded very high multiples russian steelmakers trade more or less in line with their peers so where does that leave the potential investor not surprisingly analysts suggest that research in good judgment is required russian companies have just enjoyed a record reporting season and that growth promises to continue next year with thinking that a difference like this off the market will show substantially different times over the next year. this whole we prefer a psycho so that they exported to the mystical like banking like catacombs like concealment while mining sectors. or oil.

well apparently making what much quicker times than the rest of them or the weakness of the russian market its exposure to natural resources can also be seen as a strength in an environment where inflation expectations are rising and the u.s. central bank is printing more money demand for resources is predicted to remain strong and prices high as more dollars chase the same amount of oil gas metal nick pull business or tea. and that's your update for this album can always find most stories on our website. business.

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now ahead this is a scene eleven suspects of planting a christmas campaign of terror in europe are pushing to be linked to militants in the north caucuses investigators say they're all members of an international terror network that was financing gangs in chechnya. suicide rates among young u.s. remove the water record levels with eighteen people taking their lives daily cording to the latest figures on employment homelessness and neglect. believed to be among the reasons for the alarming increase. south korea can feel that it had to refire before north korea shelled its island but insists it was part of a military drill directed at west a not normal of many countries and roster.