it's seven am in moscow i'm at très a good to be with you here on r t our top story russia stepping up efforts to help nato struggling campaign in afghanistan allowing the alliance's armored vehicles through its territory in the war torn to the war torn country the deal's a 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 lavrov also pledged to boost the battle against a drug against a drug deluge from the country 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 ministers said that now 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 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 veda and president karzai during their last meeting at the summit of made in lisbon where the president has 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 mr lavrov 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 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 levon and this visit of the afghan foreign minister in moscow is

preparing that president's visit in the upcoming january. there are experts who still believe the war in afghanistan can't be won despite all efforts my basic view is that the war is completely unwinnable russia may be making friendly noises towards nato now because of that as we know there's a rapprochement between the alliance and russia but in my view it's basically formal in other words these are gestures. meant well i don't think russia is playing a double game i'm not trying to say that i'm simply saying that the war cannot be won the soviet union learned that lesson in the one nine hundred eighty s. the british learned it in the nineteenth century and the americans are in the process of learning it although it seems that they haven't learned yet so i don't believe that a military solution could in other words the shipment of arms could pacify afghanistan no. the latest pentagon report shows that violence in afghanistan has

reach its highest point nine years since the u.s. led invasion 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 but his policy there lots of the relocation of u.s. forces from iraq to afghanistan the latest attempt to try breaking the deadlock. i will to purchase time in iraq is coming to an end he's part of the american forces who stayed behind to train assist and equip iraqi security forces definitely for sure there are want to go home that's for sure no one knows whether once they hear the generous 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 u.s. forces inside the country it brings in tegan 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 to have the 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 how real quick she's already been told he'll be going from iraq back to africa. it will be his second time there and he's not

looking forward to it i would definitely say that afghanistan is a lot more difficult to be though the terrain is a lot more heavier and the mound this region is the we have to do a lot more walking there and with a beefed up presence in afghanistan will help troops meet next jews did nothing to put out or make it more difficult is still one of the guys that just come back from the patrol everything went to the next one. around six thousand people have protested in front of the georgian parliament building against president saakashvili regime he was organized by the opposition that says it's just a start of a drive to get him out at a national civil disobedience campaign will kick off soon r.t. sorry for was at the parliamentary protest. heretick gathering today outside the parliament building until a day and its amazement has been organized by grief 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 there saying that their main aims are calling

for democratic elections and eventually the resignation of president saakashvili and his government's main goal of this. joint journey international community. or the government really democracy. which will. join. all these rallies today really anguish a mixed dream dissatisfaction base amongst the opposition parties and amongst the judean public with turkish billy's regime i know they said that 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 he's booted to the edge of economic and social collapse and 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 the protests this is the scenes to the suburban 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 such as philly and his parliament and government the rights of the people of georgia that the no longer representing the population of georgia and their food today they're calling for his resignation. recovery in europe is preoccupying business leaders at an annual forum in germany that kicked off on thursday as comes as governments try to stop a domino effect of economic collapse among states using the single european currency protesters in dead stricken greece took to the streets again over tough

government cuts three hour strike disruptions this week ireland was forced to apply for a ninety billion euro loan package from the i.m.f. and the e.u. is yet to pass the parliament and there's mounting public uncertain that it is simply deep in the national debt crisis with a huge rally forecast for saturday in dublin portugal thought to be next on the disaster list saw a one day general strike spain and belgium are teetering on the brink here with fear of the spanish debt maybe too big to bail out all over adam from the e.u. referendum campaign believes it could sink the euro. a lot of economists there's not a school in the works is today the same that top school is almost certainly going in the bailing out and the big problem of course is spending because it's a huge country and it's not really as easy to put it out to somewhere like our island opel which will you know it's 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 you signed up pledge demond into the government to listen 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 into a home and sign up in there on facebook for example is things like 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. may be heading watch our interview with a british conservative member of the european parliament coming your way in a few minutes there's plenty more stories to be discovered a click away on our website. because a taste of what's getting the most hits online. in the u.s.

be about to see her come back sarah pailin may have lost out in the bid in her bid to be vice president but now she's setting her sights would be for the top job and twelve. in the rumbling the road hogs trying to overcome moscow's shocking gridlock the city comes up with a plan to get motorists to send text messages to report 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 a taxi capital douche on bay for the c.e.o.'s i knew a summit the group brings together russia china and four central asian nations representing more than one and a half billion people iran india pakistan among goli are all associate members russia's prime minister vladimir putin came to do to discuss ways to smooth economic relations and keep the boarders of its members secure the summit also focused on developing agricultural trade and humanitarian cooperation as well as

battling the consequences of the global financial downturn yes c.e.o. is not a military alliance but its top priority is the regional security of its member states. take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe south korea's defense minister has resigned when a north korean artillery strike on a populated island in the south that killed four on tuesday resignation comes of south korea lawmakers locked out saying their military response was too slow china and russia have called for calm on both sides while the u.s. condemned the north's actions sending an aircraft carrier to the region tensions on the peninsula are still high as seoul increased its troops along the border and pyongyang 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 the troops backed by tanks and helicopters have been dispatched after five days of clashes between drug gang members and 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 teaming up the city slums authorities are trying to improve security in the lead up to the twenty fourteen soccer world cup and the two thousand and sixteen olympics at the country will host. in cambodia the country's prime minister broke down in grief during a day of national mourning on thursday to the victims of a stampede disaster more than three. three hundred fifty victims were killed in the catastrophe the tragedy happened on monday as crowd gathered to celebrate the end of the annual water festival mass panic broke out when the bridge began to sway and many were crushed or suffocated. an iraqi president joe all taliban and he has asked his 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 pull out iraq has faced an eight month deadlock after inconclusive march elections off 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. five months in space comes to an end around now when the latest crew to leave the international space station touches down in their soyuz space capsule at the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan one russian cosmonaut two american nasa astronauts are aboard they may not be as hungry as usual after the long trip though having enjoyed a hearty thanksgiving meal with their three colleagues that they left behind on the s.s. to get washing up after the meal with who was busy instead of loading a refrigerator onto the soyuz capsule for the trip home but it had nothing to do with food or leftovers inside with the results of one hundred twenty scientific biotech physics and chemistry experiments that they conducted in orbit. again.

very cool stuff i'll be back to bring you up to up to date in ten minutes time but first we take a closer look at the current state of affairs in crisis ridden europe laura emmet met one m.e.p. who says it's time for the eurozone to go back to the drawing board and to all our american viewers have a very happy thanksgiving stay with us. a little bit with.

i'm talking to. a member of the european parliament he thinks that the entire construct. 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 shed about seventy five percent of the vegetation that a person in the u.k. lives in hungary oit's. deal. in the u. 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 valid us an accountability between you did station. 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 and when 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 guts and circuses where they go to the house of commons but politics is not entertainment duties considered business of how to govern the 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 have one voice his day is william hague not to utter a word as a british foreign minister stumps it's of course not believe he set out his own stall his own policies and his own agenda and so will the polish quality restore the latvian all of the estonian or the little minion. and the one carrier in 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 that they will all have views and there be a cacophony of be a tower of babel. and the outside world we think 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 are creating 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 not caring the people and one day there could be such a train wreck. over this whole issue and when you start trying that what do you mean it will stop functioning and then there will be slow 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 billing out the greeks or somebody else coming in to bail out somebody else but it was not an e.u.

taking 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 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 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 than our parents it's 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 it will go back to the vision said to be an angler merkle 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. as international development fund 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 into giving

handouts if you think about wealth creation in reaction to 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 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 poverty creating we're then. 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 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 and i don't think but i mean we have a subsidy rich. allows greek tobacco farber 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 every year the member states give another tranche of one to the commission because we don't receive taxes member states arrest taxes 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. whole take is a mess. 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 twice 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. you know 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 it's a scene 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 will enable 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 thank.

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thirty am in the russian capital have you with us here on our team easier headline moscow gives more help to nato in war torn afghanistan and put to support for the country's stability russia's foreign minister says the alliance can transport military vehicles or prost the country calling for more to be done in battling the drug from the country in talks with his afghan counterpart in moscow. thousands of georgian protesters attend an anti-government rally outside the parliament calling for the resignation of president saakashvili and more democracy in the country says it's just the start promising that a national civil disobedience campaign will begin soon. and too big to bail out the eurozone crisis deepens with fears that portugal spain and now belgium are following greece and ireland over the concerns grow our.