six am in moscow i'm matt trezise good to be with you here on r.t. our top story your russia is stepping up efforts to help nato struggling campaign in afghanistan a lot when the alliance is armored vehicles through its territory in the war torn country the deals a major breakthrough for nato after increasing attacks on its supply convoys through pakistan confirmation came from the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov during talks with his afghan counterpart in moscow also pledged to boost the battle against the drug from the country as artie's alexei 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 minister

said that the cooperation is going well and it will expand in the future according to mr law process that we just learned in the cooperation between russia afghanistan and the united states in combat and drug trafficking will continue and the creation of relevant international laws is of crucial importance because 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 vegas and president karzai during their last meeting at the summit of made 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. 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 easier conditions for transit across the border will be extended to armored vehicles 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 levin and this visit of the foreign minister in moscow is preparing that

president's visit and the upcoming january interview with afghan foreign minister dr zalmai rassoul says fighting drug production and trafficking is a common aim but the west should increase its efforts to and thereby reduce demand for the poppy production in afghanistan have to result of thirty years of war and lawlessness and despair of the afghan people who do new tomorrow he's going to be alive for not you know security for their future this cannot be done by afghanistan alone we need support of international community by to pick which are not produced in afghanistan is outside afghanistan and came inside afghanistan we will do our things our job to deduce and eliminate poppy cultivation afghanistan but also day was in the region should do did it float to reduce the demand because because because the demand the production of poppies there so it's a common if word of reducing the cultivation giving too far but of afghanistan the alternative which they would accept to grow something poppy but also working give

everybody to reduce the consumption and the demand who worked for the trucks. you can watch a full interview with afghanistan's foreign minister coming your way this sunday here on our team meanwhile the latest pentagon report shows that violence in afghanistan has reached its highest point in the nine years since the u.s. led invasion the american military officials admit that progress in afghanistan has been limited with only modest gains made against the taliban whose leadership is now based in pakistan for his policy or looks at the relocation of u.s. forces from iraq to afghanistan the latest attempt to break the deadlock. i will try but just 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 their own wants to go home that's for sure no one knows whether once they hear the genesis 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 rap. mine resistant vehicles our humvees are those types of equipment a lot of our rolling vehicles rolling stock of vehicles 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. we're not going people see those forces inside the country it brings in tag an ism 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 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 going to hold on things will take control. in a year or two it doesn't matter real quick 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 i would definitely say that afghanistan is a lot more difficult when so the terrain is a lot more heavier and the mountainous region is the we have to do a lot more walking there and whether the beefed up presence in afghanistan will help troops meet mixtures didn't mean to pull out or make it more difficult is still one of the guys didn't just come back from the patrol everything went to the next one point. about six thousand people protested in front of the georgian parliament against president saakashvili is regime there ali was organized by the opposition that says it's just the start of a drive to get him out of power and that a national civil disobedience campaign will soon be started r.t.

sara for has more from the parliamentary protest. heretick gathering today outside the parliament building until a day and is a movement has been organized by greek known as the people's gathering now this is a great first headed by public figures and though they've been joined by a number of opposition parties are they're saying that the main aims are calling for democratic elections and eventually the resignation of president saakashvili and his government's main goal of this. joint g. and international community. or the government really democracy. which will. join. all these rallies today really anguishing the extreme dissatisfaction base amongst the opposition parties and amongst the children public with turkish billy's regime you know they said his government damaging the country and they've actually said

today they called it the verdict of distrust he has monopolized power creating an authoritarian and corrupt regime that he's put huge at the edge of economic and social collapse and that he got george 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 will remember november two thousand and seven when a peaceful protest there. really is resignation violently dispersed now in that situation. this is the scenes to the brother the bullets and the 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 such as philly and his parliament and government the rights of the people of. the no longer representing the population

of georgia and their food today they're calling for his resignation. recovery and europe is preoccupying business leaders are now he will form in germany that started on thursday it comes as governments try to stop a domino effect of economic collapse among the states using the european single currency protesters in debt play greece took to the streets again over tough government cuts while the three hour strike led to disruptions this week ireland was hoarse to high for a ninety billion euro loan package from the i.m.f. and the e.u. but it's yet to pass through parliament and there is nothing public concern it may simply deep in the national debt disaster with a huge rally forecast for saturday in dublin portugal thought to be next on the disaster last saw a one day general strike spain in belgium are teetering on the brink to what here is the spanish that may be too big to bail out all over adam from the e.u. referendum campaign believes works is that of the sand there are a. lot of economists those not school and which is today the 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 ready is easy to bail out to somewhere like our island opel which will you know this is a huge country in the structure slightly different that so we could seriously be seeing a collapse of the euro and a lot of people would say that not before time but if you look at dot com in the e.u. referendum campaign we've got thousands and thousands of people now signed up pledge said he you referendum campaign dot com signed up pledge demond in the government give us an in out referendum on our membership of the e.u. and that is growing and selling things like that you know anyone can go into a home and sign up in their own facebook group sample is things like that that people start and say actually we're not happy with what's going on we want change and we want to have a say we're not going to listen to the government anymore with this sort of we know

better than you attitude. for an insider's look on where the e.u. is heading catch our interview with a british conservative and member of the european parliament coming your way in a few minutes was plenty more stories to be discovered on our web site that's a click away at our tea dot com here's a taste of what's online right now. it could be the u.s. may see her comeback and sarah pailin may have lost out in her bid to be vice president but she'd be setting her sights for the top job in twenty twelve. and the rumbling the road hogs trying to overcome moscow's shocking gridlock this city comes up with a plan to get motorists to send text messages proport the rule breaking drivers driving them around the bend. tackling terrorism and extremism are the main issues on the plate for the members of the shanghai cooperation organization they have come together in the capital do shine bay for the new will summit the group unites russia china and four central asian countries representing more than one and

a half billion people iran india pakistan among goli are associate members russia's prime minister vladimir putin came to do to discuss ways to smooth economic relations and keep the vast borders of its members secure the summit also focused on developing agricultural trade and humanitarian cooperation as well as fighting the consequences of the global financial crisis he s c o is not a military alliance but its top priority is the regional security of member states . take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe south korea's defense minister has resigned following the north korean artillery attack on a populated island in the south that killed four on tuesday resignation comes a south korean lawmakers a lashed out saying their military response was too slow china and russia called for calm on both sides the u.s. condemning the actions sending an aircraft carrier to the region tensions on the peninsula are still high as seoul increases its troops on the border yang threatens to retaliate if it feels provoked. violence in rio de janeiro has claimed at least

twenty six lives and forced military intervention thousands of troops backed by tanks and helicopters have been dispatched after five days of clashes between drug gang members and the police heavily armed gangsters attacked police stations stop cars in buses robbing passengers and setting fire to vehicles drug traffickers are fighting back against police operations aimed at cleaning up the city slums the authorities are trying to improve security in the lead up to the twenty fourteen soccer world cup and the twenty sixteen olympics which the country will host. turning to cambodia where the country's prime minister is broken down in grief during a day of national mourning on the on thursday to the victims of the stampede disaster more than three hundred fifty victims were killed by catastrophe the tragedy happened on monday as crowds gathered to celebrate the end of the annual water festival mass panic broke out when the bridge began to sway many people were

crushed or suffocated. and iraqi president jalal talabani has asked as prime minister to form a new government and to determine who will lead the country over the next four years when u.s. troops are expected to finally withdraw iraq has faced an eight month deadlock after inconclusive march a left march in the left a power vacuum leading to more sectarian violence. prime minister nuri al maliki is expected to form a cabinet that includes all of iraq's rival factions he's got thirty days to do it to avoid more political deadlock. finally in this news block five months in space comes to an end in about an hour's time when the latest crew to leave the international space station touches down in their soyuz space capsule cops all in kazakhstan a russian cosmonaut and two american nasa astronauts are inside they might not be as hungry as usual after the long trip having enjoyed a hearty thanksgiving day meal with their three colleagues up they left behind in the i access for not washing up after the meal the crew was busy instead loading the refrigerator into the soyuz spacecraft for the voyage home but it was nothing

to do with food inside or the results of one hundred twenty scientific biotech and physics and chemistry experiments that they conducted in orbit to get me back to bring you an update in about ten minutes first we take a closer look at the current state of affairs in crisis hit europe laura emmett met when m.e.p. who says it's time for the eurozone quote to go back to the drawing board to our american viewers of a very happy thanksgiving day when. i'm

talking to. a member of the european parliament he thinks that the entire construct . broken. thank you very much for talking now first of all how do you characterize the relationship with the. well. it may not be really obvious to many people but we in the you know initiate about seventy five percent of the vegetation that a person in the u.k. lives under or even in hungary oit's tobacco or. the story all of gravel in the you so it's a very powerful legislative relationship which extraordinarily the people of europe to get people of britain are totally unaware of i want to create a much more valorous and accountability between e.u. legislation which overrides national legislation and the people whom we legislate

for but unfortunately that 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 where they go to the house of commons but politics is not entertainment duties considered business of how to govern various interests and it is very sad really that this relationship between the govern and the governors is so orpik in europe i think it's possible at this stage to then take that power and give it back to the individual countries but i think that'll happen 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 how one voice these days is william hague not to utter a word as a british foreign minister stumps of course not william hague has set out his own stall its own policies and his own agenda and so will the polish quality restore the let me and all of the studio nor the little minion. and i'm gary and salt so what are they to do are they going to be caught and let cathy ashton the i representative speak on that we are. they would not have use and there'd be a cacophony of be a tower of babel and the outside world would take all hey what are these guys doing or would we speak so what's the point of it is it just is there of course the on

top of bureaucracy the point of a piece of that 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 turn at work tomorrow. 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 building 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 bell out the greeks and save the euro zone west europe in all of these 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 beginning to dawn on their leads to run all this but 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 than our parents 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 be 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 angela merkel it would be a sucker seat would be david cameron it to 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 are involved with international development funds how efficient is the distribution of what must be a sizeable amount of money we are focusing all the time on poverty alleviation 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

handouts if you think about wealth creation reaction. creating a self-sustaining because china. has taken three hundred million people out by creating wealth out of politics rather india is going along nicely too but there are pockets of this happening in africa. well that he's. 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 poverty creating with. out in the air because the u.k. lots of money to belong to the european union including fines that are pays for things like not displaying the new flag on projects which have received funding where does that money go the european union budget is about a 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 and i don't think i mean we have a subsidy which. allows greek tobacco farmers to grow tobacco and we have another unit that collected ten bones it. yes. what's the solution then to that that seems to be 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 know where i'd 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 every year the member states give another tranche of money to the commission because we don't receive taxes member states arrest taxes and collect the money and give it to the coalition and every i mean sort of loose about five percent of the budget somewhere. and there are quite of what you just said these crowds are great for parliament says we are not signing these up. the whole taking is the best. if you ask me what works well. even the cigar market macand 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 the single market which are just

a comparative advantage and therefore you don't see that in the united states or you don't see that in india that. 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 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 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 supplied. to work as a good neighbor in the. area joining us. ukraine will go through since all. we need that for a much will flexible construct which will enable each of the member states to have. the freedom to maximise their opportunities with emerging markets in china india and russia because of that. thank you very much thank.

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six thirty am in moscow good to have you with us here on our teeth easier headline pledge of support for up against ability as it steps up its efforts to help nato struggling campaign the russian foreign minister has also pledged to keep up the battle against drugs during talks with. thousands gather on the streets of georgia's capital tbilisi calling for political change the opposition's also joined the rally calling for the resignation of president saakashvili. and economic recovery in europe the top and business forum in germany that opened on thursday belgium and spain it's a hollow debt ridden ireland into crisis and greece where people have once again taken to the streets over to. talk about the upcoming presidential elections in haiti.