to help nato struggling campaign in afghanistan it's agreed to allow the alliance's armored vehicles through its territory to afghanistan reducing the reliance on volatile pakistan confirmation came from the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov during talks with his afghan counterpart here in moscow also pledged to keep up the battle against the drugs flow alexi reports. the two foreign ministers meeting today in moscow or c. seem to be pretty happy about the way the corporation is going this cooperation in the fight against drug trafficking has been very strong of late we know that russia has donated twenty thousand kalashnikov rifles to afghanistan to the interior troops in afghanistan to fight the spread of drugs as well as the recent joint u. s. russian operation in afghanistan after which almost one ton of herion was destroyed and several drug labs were shut down in the country so obviously the two ministers sad that the cooperation is going well and it will expand in the future according

to mr lavrov so that was just one thing that the cooperation between russia and the united states in combat and drug trafficking will continue and the creation of relevant international laws is of crucial importance as the u.n. security council resolution adopted this october has already qualified drugs coming in from afghanistan as a threat to international safety and stability the war against narcotics remains one of the biggest problems in the ties between the two countries that's why that was something underlined by president video and president karzai during their last meeting at the summit of nate in lisbon where president have said that as long as the drugs are being transported through the russian territory from afghanistan into europe this problem has to be dealt with and has to be dealt with now well we heard from mr lavrov that there's been a certain problem coming from the nato side on the transportation of russian helicopters the ones which russia is donating to afghanistan and this problem has to be dealt with and obviously it will be dealt with in the nearest future other

than that we know that this cooperation will also expand we know that russia is allowing nato to transport its war toys so its territory into afghanistan russia will supply the nato troops stationed in afghanistan with electricity and also spoke about further steps in that direction the nation russia and nato agreed continued cooperation towards a. afghan settlement program to train pilots and other security forces will be expanded with the aim of boosting security in the country and finding the drug flow the easier conditions for transit across the border will be extended to armored vehicles but clearly all that issues will be discussed between the russian president dmitry medvedev and he's afghan counterpart mr karzai when he comes to moscow in january twentieth levon and this visit of the afghan foreign minister in moscow is preparing that president's visit in the upcoming january. and head of the foreign affairs committee in russia's lower house of parliament constantine says it's in moscow's own interests to expand cooperation with nato in afghanistan

as a russian political defer to support this idea of providing the russian territory for that transit for the simple reason he is equally interested in having this as a success story this is not the case here because these are pure asia he in our view is meant to solve two problems one is to combat terrorism coming from the territorial from going to start and second one is combat production of drugs coming from the start in both cases we see that the problem does not. become lower it continues to grow in both cases but to create additional problems for nato in this sense would mean that we should just promote more problems of the same kind which is not in the interest of russia and this is why we have supported these are

. this is why i believe we should further on support any other forms of this cooperation the military transit including the backwards transit coming from up going to stand back to the counters which are participating in this should also include. meanwhile the violence in afghanistan has reached an all time high during the nine year u.s. led war that's according to the latest pentagon report american military chiefs admit the progress across the country is uneven with just modest gains against the taliban what is policy looks now at the last relocation of american forces the latest attempt to break the deadlock. i will try what she's trying to do is coming to an end he's part of the american forces who stayed behind to train assist and he quit the iraqi security forces definitely sure there was a bomb that's for sure no one knows where they want to stay here until it's not just movement of troops and equipment since world war two the u.s. army is moving its supplies from iraq to afghanistan certain equipment such as are

in route. mine resistant vehicles our humvees are those types of equipment a lot of our rolling vehicles rolling stock of course and some generation that equipment yes will be dedicated towards. the mission in afghanistan but critics warn that moving troops won't help much that. when i've gone people see us forces inside their country it brings in paganism and makes them turn to terrorism and al qaeda so is more american troops come here from iraq it will just make things worse i don't believe the americans will leave for another fifty years that they have two of them main military bases here and then building the americans leaving iraq also sends the wrong message to insurgents the

afghans seeing the americans withdrawing from iraq and they think themselves ok they're going to withdraw in a year or two we got a hold on things we'll take control in a year or two it doesn't matter i will quote she's already been told he'll be going from iraq back to afghanistan it'll be his second time there. and he's not looking forward to it. is a lot more difficult though the terrain is a lot more heavy. we have to do a lot more walking and whether the beefed up presence in afghanistan will help troops meet mixtures did nothing to put out or make it more difficult. the guys didn't just come back from the patrol everything went to cover next one. which is remind you this plenty more to be discovered on our website as well as what you see on on screen here. that's the website here's a taste of what you can find online right now if you log on to us be about to see how come back sarah palin may have lost

a bid to be vice president but she now setting aside the top job in twenty twelve. and telling tales in a bid to improve moscow shopping gridlock officials want drivers to text them for a reward when the bad habits about the car use is driving them around the bend. thousands of people are gathered in front of the georgian parliament demanding outs with the old and in with the new the opposition's also joined the rally calling for the resignation of president saakashvili. reports. we're here at a gathering today outside the parliament building until a and it's a movement has been organized by greek known as the people's gathering now this is a great this headed by public figures and though they've been joined by a number of opposition parties are best saying that the main aims of calling for democratic elections and eventually the resignation of president saakashvili and his government the main goal of this. joint and international community.

the government really democracy. which will. join. all these rallies today really anguish a mixed dream dissatisfaction based amongst the opposition parties and amongst the children public with turkish billy's regime now they said that his government damaging the country and they've actually said today they called it the verdict of distrust he has monopolized how are creating an authoritarian and corrupt regime that he's put georgia to the edge of economic and social collapse and that he got georgia involved in the war with russia by his irresponsible and unwise actions causing humanitarian disaster november is traditionally a month that these types of rallies and some people who remember november two

thousand and seven when a peaceful protest they're calling for saakashvili is resignation violently dispersed now in that situation protesters at the scenes to the brother and bullets and water cannons it was a very very violent reaction to their protest and say today they're standing their ground saying these concerns need to be heard billy and his parliament and government the rights of the people of georgia they're no longer representing the population of georgia and therefore today they're calling for his resignation. economic recovery in europe is the topic for an annual business forum in germany which opened on thursday efforts to save the single currency a vital in the eurozone as nation succumbed to the crisis one by one people in debt ridden greece have taken to the streets once again to protest against tough austerity measures workers organize a three hour strike which disrupted public transport and some state sector services it comes hot on the heels of ireland's monumental aid package and a mass strike in portugal where the country is reeling spain and belgium could also

join the ranks of countries on the edge of economic collapse with fears spain's economy is too big to effectively bail out all of radom from the era for in them campaign believes it's all signaling an end to the euro a lot of economists there's an article in reuters today that sound that top school is almost certainly going to meet bailing out and the big problem of course is spain because it's a huge country and it's not really as easy to bail out to somewhere like ireland or portugal you know it's a huge country to structure a slightly different there so we could seriously be seen a collapse of the of the euro and a lot of people would say that not before time but if you look at it our camp in the e.u. referendum campaign we've got thousands and thousands of people now signed up pledge e.u. referendum campaign dot com signed up pledge demanding that the government give us an in out referendum on our membership of the e.u.

and that is growing and so it's things like that you know anyone can go in a home and sign up with their own facebook crew example it's things like that let's start and say actually we're not happy with what's going on we want change and we want to have our say we're not going to listen to the government anymore with this sort of we know better than you attitude well for an insider's look at where the e.u. is heading watch our interview with a british conservative m.e.p. that second way in just a few minutes from now here on r.t. . tackling terrorism and extremism of the main issues on the plate for the members of the shanghai cooperation organization they've come together in the capital for the annual summit the group unites russia china and four central asian nations representing over one and a half billion people iran india pakistan among the associate members russia's prime minister vladimir putin came to to share to discuss ways to smooth economic relations and keep the message boards of its members secure the participants in the

summit also focus on developing agricultural trade and humanitarian corporation as well as fighting the consequences of the global financial crisis their c.e.o. is not a military alliance and its top priority is the regional security of its member states. well time now for some other news making headlines around the world at this stage of the day and world update south korea's defense minister resigned in the aftermath of a firefight with north korea on tuesday to south koreans killed during the exchange of fire of being returned to the mainland china has publicly called for calm from both sides while the u.s. condemned the actions sending an aircraft carrier to the region tensions are still high on the peninsula with seoul beefing up its defenses and pyongyang threatening to retaliate against any provocation. at least twenty three people have been killed in five days of clashes between gang members and brazilian police in rio de janeiro thousands of officers backed by military tanks and helicopters are being

dispatched to deal with gunmen who have been robbing motorists and burning cars since sunday officials say drug traffickers are fighting back against police operations aimed at tackling violence in city slums authorities in the country trying to improve security in the lead up to the twenty fourteen world cup. to cambodia now that the country has held a national day of mourning on thursday for the more than three hundred and fifty victims killed in a stampede in the capital government officials were among those who lined up to offer flowers and instant sticks in memory of the day the tragedy happened on monday as crowds gathered on a bridge to celebrate the end of the annual water festival a mass panic broke out when the bridge began to sway and many were crushed by suffocating. iraqi president jalal talabani has given the country's prime minister the green light to form a new government official request will pave the way to end an eight month deadlock following inconclusive march elections which led to a power vacuum and an upsurge in sectarian violence prime minister nouri al maliki

now has the task of forming a cabinet within the next thirty days that's expected to include all iraq's rival factions. the crew on board the soyuz spaceship are undergoing last minute preparations ahead of their trip back on earth after spending more than five months in the international space station on thursday evening they had a thanksgiving farewell meal with their colleagues who will continue the experiment . after the meal the crew began to load the results of biomedical experiments stored in the refrigerator on to the soyuz spacecraft for home all in all the crew of one russian cosmonauts and two american astronauts worked on more than one hundred twenty different technology critics and chemistry experiments and we're bringing live pictures at the moment the space ships landing a shuttle for friday morning obviously live pictures as the preparations are underway for that and that is shuttle friday morning in kazakstan. i'll be back to bring you up to date in ten minutes from now but first we take

a closer look at the current state of affairs in crisis ridden europe nor emmett's met one who says it's time for the eurozone to go back to the drawing board just moments away.

i'm talking to. a member of the european parliament he thinks that the entire constructs of. thank you very much for talking now first of all how do you characterize the relationship with the u.k. and i meant well it may not be really obvious to many people but in the you know in the shade about seventy five percent of the vegetation that a person in the u.k. lives in hungary or. grab. the you so it's a very powerful. relationship which extraordinarily the people of europe and people of britain are taught i want to create a much more balance and accountability between you and education. which overrides national legislation and the people whom we legislate for but unfortunately the in

britain the british media is totally. oblivious to what goes on in brussels i mean i asked my friends in the british media why don't you cover what's going on in brussels it says it's like watching paint dry so if they want excitement gods and circuses well they go to the house of commons but politics is not entertainment it is considered business of how to govern the various interests and it is very sad that this relationship between the govern and the governors is so a pick in europe i think it's possible at this stage to then take that power and give it back to the individual country but i think that's happened in time because the construct which has been created the european union is getting increasingly are

unmanageable. take for example we have created a foreign minister for the whole of europe who speaks with one voice for the whole of europe but there's also going to be a foreign minister for twenty seven member states so how can you have one voice the state is really in hague not to utter a word as the british foreign minister stumps of course not william hague has set out its own stall is on policies and is on agenda and so will the polish quality minister or the latvian or the estonian or the little indian. and the hungary and saud so what are they to do are they going to be caught let's cathy ashton i representative speak on that we are. they would not have views and their cacophony of their tower of babel. and the outside world we think will hey what are these guys doing or would respond to so what's the point of it is it just is bureaucracy

on top of their ocracy the point of a piece of their tried to create a country where the people who create in the country for have no more particular desire to have a country called europe created so the elites want a country called europe created and they're steaming on ahead with it but the people are not carrying the people and one day there could be such a train wreck over this whole issue and when you say train wreck what do you mean. it will stop functioning and then there will be a slow or realisation that it stopped working and then really start working and the crisis comes like we have recently the financial crisis we saw there was no european response it was the germans bailing out the greeks or somebody else coming in to bail out somebody else but it was not an e.u.

thing and now we are told it's the chinese coming to bail out the greeks and save the euro zone west europe in all of this so there you are we are supposed to have created of this economic block a trading block. a very powerful block when there is a crisis it is individual member states who have to pick up the pieces and slowly now beginning to dawn on their leads to run all this that this is not working is what we're saying now the beginning of the end of the year is saying i don't know. it will be damaging either way because if the eurozone collapses it will damage our economy too because we trade with europe. our currency is not that strong. but if the european union's construct come apart. then we need to be ready to pick up the pieces and run as we can in

a more flexible fashion the regulation or burgling of our economy through legislation believed to find out what is what we should keep and what we should it could it could be possible because. the russell center is incapable of dealing with these problems so to go back to the vision said to be an angler merkel it would be a sucker see it would be david cameron it would be the spanish prime minister etc etc who will have to deal with the current crisis certainly not somebody in the commission in brussels or in the hopes that you're involved with the e.u. international development fund how efficient is the distribution of what must be a sizeable amount of money we are focusing all the time on public television that is wrought what we have to do is to do wealth creation it's a focusing on something called quality alleviation which means nothing to getting

and out if we think about wealth creation in reaction to creating a self-sustaining because china for example has taken three hundred million people out by creating wealth out of poverty trap india is going along nicely too but there are pockets of this happening in africa where there is. a bigger all for a good price free enterprise and so on and that's what we should be focusing on how to create wealth not how to really be a party creating with them. out in there because the u.k. lots of money to belong to the european union including fines that are pays for things like not displaying the e.u. flag on projects which have received funding where does that money go the european union budget is about. hundred and six hundred seven billion a lot of the money that the member states contribution goes to keeping

a very inefficient agricultural sector going in europe about forty percent of it goes to that cultural budget to subsidize. the unmentionable of them think about i mean we have a subsidy rich. allows greek tobacco problem to grow tobacco and we have another unit that collects a ten bones it. yes. what's the solution then to that that seems to me an efficient distribution of money. accountability i mean the parliament has for the last i think eleven years refused to sign off the. commission's accounts because every year about four billion get lost. we don't know it made oh really you don't always read and for a company that's absolutely unacceptable if you did a company would have the entire board resigning so we say we are not signing these

accounts off and every year the member states give another tranche of money to the commission because we don't receive taxes member states respect us and collect the money and give it to the commission and every year they sort of loose about five percent of the budget somewhere and there are quite of what you just said these cards are great for parliament says we are not signing these on. the whole taking is our best. if you ask me what works well. even the single market we can't isms are not working very well. because if there was a single market why are different parts of europe in different. rates of growth wise germany booming and. in great difficulty it is a single market. which are just a comparative advantage and therefore you don't see that in the united states all

you don't see that in india that. size is decaying and dying and in bad crop and growing you don't say oh california is doing very well but probably days down the drain. but in europe you say that so even the single market doesn't work well. that trying to construct is incapable of meeting the challenges of the twenty first century it was a construct constructed after the war churchill's empires of the mind in a single european space. it was constructed to prevent ever again a major war in the continental europe by locking in germany and france and all the other countries into a single space but to seeing with a set of values which democratic pluralistic diverse but

a culture to values that structure served well to see the end of soviet communism and the destruction of. soviet marxism now it needs a new construct to be able to work in cooperation with russia one of our primary energy producers suppliers to work as a good neighbor in the areas adjoining our boundaries in ukraine model builder roofs and so on. and we need that for a much longer flexible construct. which are enabled each of the member states to have. the freedom to maximize their opportunities with the emerging markets in china india russia. that steve thank you very much like.

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