welcome to the program russia and the e.u. should get rid of all barriers to commerce and become a free trade zone worth trillions of dollars in an article written for a german newspaper mapped out his vision for a one massive market for doing business stretching from lisbon to vladivostok russia's prime minister was writing it had a meeting with germany's chancellor and many of its top industrialists is going off has more. well the skies over the european economy continuing to darken the hands of some of germany's more successful and influential companies are brainstorming in order to find a way to for move forward in the current economic situation in europe at the fourth economic forum in berlin russia's prime minister vladimir putin is also going to attend the forum and he didn't come empty handed just previously he published on article in the. newspaper the one which is actually organizing the forum calling for closer cooperation between the european union and russia and let's face it russia has the resources the e.u.

has the technologies to do so one of the key points off this article was also the construction of a free economic zone between russia and the e.u. and german chancellor angela merkel has already commented on this idea actually supporting it with saying that russia first has to answer to the world trade organization talking about the european union's economy quis has some severe problems portugal and ireland as well and we're getting reports that belgium and spain may be next and according to the german chancellor the current picture is much worse than anyone expected before in an hour. west facing an exceptionally serious situation is concerned i don't want to paint a dramatic picture but i just want to say that's a year again you can imagine the debate we had in the spring and imagines we have to take talking about germany this country is actually showing some really impressive economic growth the country's government has just announced that the

number of unemployed people has reduced from five to three million people and they're actually expecting this number to fall completely they're saying that this is the picture now in some southern parts of the country so obviously quite a lot of important issues are on the table here in berlin and i think it's safe to see that some of the conclusions which will we need at this forum will affect not only of this country alone but europe as a whole. my skies are economists and hell most of our teams kaiser report believes germany is ready to emerge as the world's new superpower the crisis is only adding to germany's ability to ultimately break away from the euro and to compete head to head with china for competition in terms of being the twenty first century global superpower it will be germany and china the us has gone the u.k. is long gone continental europe is outside of germany doesn't produce anything so

you've got a reconstituted germany with their own central bank again with their own currency and i predict the rise of germany again this is something that after world war two . was attempted to be outlawed but germany is back and of course germany has actually relations with russia the russian leadership speaks german the german leadership speaks russian so there's a lot of talk there and the tonic genie is being let out of the bottle i don't think america is prepared for a germany because being a was a superpower again and yet as a result of this crisis that america helped engineer there you have it america is punching itself in the face all the time as mats guys are economists and host of our teams kaiser reported there for you. i still have this hour here in our team under attack the nuclear shelters from another era. inside you'll find canned food and water to last you at least two weeks you'll also find a flashlight with batteries and medical equipment to assist your fellow citizens.

by the hour where washington residents should run for cover in the event of a big blast. the latest crew to return to earth from the international space station have landed safe and sound and after five months in orbit the soyuz capsule deliver the russian cosmonaut and two american astronauts to stand for more we can now cross live to monetise in the city of karloff the heart of russia's space program morning to tell you so how is the crew feeling are you feeling jetlag after their three hour journey. well at the international space station cosmonauts live by sea so russian cosmonaut. who is traveling back to more screwed to the government center for training of cosmonauts will experience a minor jet lag of three hours whereas of course he's calling from not need to. shannon walker and we'll look we'll have to deal with

a great time difference as they're traveling back to the united states right now all three will be undergoing special treats men survey able to post flights now the landing was rather smooth and the flight took about three hours that's how much it takes to travel all the way from the international space station back to earth and during the five months alone missions of three cosmonauts performed a number of scientific tests and did number of space walks and in fact they even brought a small refrigerator back with them with the results of one hundred and twenty saying to fix pyramids that they conducted during their mission. and what was the atmosphere like on the ice as prior to their departure. well of course for this particular eight team it was rather tense because they have witnessed their predecessors fail to undock from the international station due to a minor difficulty when a small. failed to unlock the small look that connects the use spacecraft and

international space station failed to open and that delayed their return back to earth by twenty four hours nonetheless the previous team has also returned safely but it was rather optimistic mood international space station prior to their departure and they even had a small thanksgiving dinner that they celebrated before they left the station three cosmonauts remain at the s.s. right now and three more will arrive to the station in the middle of december. right and i thanks very much indeed for bringing us the date on the return of the ice ask for. what you want to live from moscow and poles and that's why i say they are being persecuted for using their native language to spell polish street names and even surnames but authorities in vilnius say their actions fall well within the country's laws are. reports shop owner decided to make life

easier for the poles living in rural that's where and here she put signs in both lithuanian and polish languages in her store but they're all for reduced sir and she would be fined two hundred euro for violating the state language law according to it all signs in the country must be strictly in lithuanian. i didn't feel as if i was doing anything wrong this was something the local polish community needed besides i had the fischel state language on these signs as well this is a violation of human rights i was told i could have signs in english german or french but not in polish. almost a quarter of a million ethnic poles live in lithuania for centuries warsaw ruled this land so nowadays in some villages the polish amounts to over eighty percent of the population. another sticking point is the street names and villages where the polish community lives it is not the fact that pows use both languages but that they use the word for word translation which in rage is the authorities in of

illness secretary of the polish council in the twenty s. says that they cannot even spell their names right all id cards and passports of ethnic poles must be written in the state language advert to survey which says that the history of polish with when in relations have a hard past but it must have been left behind when the two countries became members of the e.u. . little granier were so keen on becoming part of the e.u. that they signed several documents on a session one of those was the european chancellor or national minorities it says that we can easily use our native language but now for some reason lithuania authorities are rolling back on their obligations to brussels. so we turn to the body which oversees the use of language for on says it says no obligation was violated and that in fact vilnius had every right to persecute the use of polish.

or indeed the charge of our national minorities gives the poles in lithuania the right to use their language but at the same time the document says the law of a country prevails over the chargers clauses and according to the law in lithuania we have every right to find them for using their language on signs. some poles living in lithuania suggest that this is vilnius is revenge for centuries of polish occupation authorities on the other hand refuse such claims and say that a decision on the use of polish is being discussed within the country sparling meant but nobody can tell what will prevail the attitude to the events of the past or the wish to be part of the united european legislation. alexy rush of ski all see reporting from vilnius lithuania and more on that story and plenty of others in our website where you can also have your say on anything recovery but here's a quick taste of what's waiting at our to comp right now. and new computer program developed in russia aims to protect children from the hidden dangers lurking in

social networks we put the home alone software to the test. and russia's industry giants propose extending the workweek to sixty hours the doctors warned this will kill employees literally all the details on our website r.t. dot com. now the cold war may be over but the u.s. still fears the threat of a nuclear attack the idea of the terrorists could get hold of an atomic weapon presents a nightmare scenario for the city's most likely to be targeted as artie's british later reports if the worst did happen today's generation of americans would know where to turn.

is the first and foremost fear of the generation. let's face it threat of hydrogen. is the greatest danger our nation has a. life was under attack and everyone had to have a plan of action the key to survival it would show that's why the federal government doesn't make them watch over progress. in the event of a nuclear strike the government had thousands of fallout shelters ready and stocked to protect the american people factory. apartment house. inside you'll find canned food and water to last. at least two weeks you'll also find a flashlight with batteries and medical equipment to assist your fellow citizens. in the nation's capital thousands of shelters existed but now only a few hundred of them are still noticeable there are about a thousand shelters originally but today all of the interior shelters are mostly

here adam irish is a history buff who has made it his mission to find the shelters today we're trying to preserve the signs and memories of the area there are you know an error that bill brown remembers very well i was a junior high school student here from fall of one nine hundred sixty two and told the spring of one nine hundred sixty five the cold war was well underway many children here i'm sure like myself in bed at night would hear like a fire and think it was an air raid siren sounds that hammered home the nation's greatest fear and i think everybody in our young impressionable age had great concerns about this you know it caused a lot of paranoia. but if washington was ever attacked a room full of beans and cots wasn't going to do much for the residents of the city it is important to know that these shelters are only meant to protect people against fallout not the blast itself fall is the term for radioactive particles

that fills the air in the aftermath of a nuclear explosion billions of them would fall from the sky. releasing radiation that could cause sickness or death in the area where they fall it wasn't a real threat because the city would have been first on the list but despite the pointless preparations people like brown felt it was better to do something than nothing we were just doing what we were told to do you know and the idea that you know the fly ash was the important thing in the shock wave would follow you wanted to be away from us where would you be when the atomic bombs fall. but today you can secure your family's future by reserving a spot in a state of the underground from baltic. what was the nation's greatest fear and the protection against that have become a distant memory only to be poked fun at in video games and movies if washington was bombs with a nuclear bomb what do you know what to do no. no not at all just go as low as.

you know what that sign means behind you i would assume that it's an actual child or the and that if there was some kind of nuclear attack you could hide there but i've never noticed it before so i would assume it's also dated and probably are a fan are you worried that there could be a nuclear war tomorrow no why not just just not in the cold just have and if it happened would you know what to do. probably like everybody else given these are bright you with your head but has the threat of a nuclear strike really disappeared back then it was mutually assured destruction so no one fired missiles at each other today you know it's just a terrorist group that has a missile it's nothing to stop the madness of a reasonable recognize the right way of life. but while people might still face a nuclear threat with no specific anime many believe it's pointless to prepare for

preassure either party washington d.c. . afghan officials are blaming nato for setting up make believe peace talks with a man posing as a top taliban leader president hamid karzai even held to go with the imposter before his true identity was revealed the scam began over six months ago when afghan officials were approached by a supposed taliban agents all for in peace talks british intelligence reportedly arranged the meetings while the cia oversaw the entire affair but the man claiming to be a high ranking militant turned out to be a shopkeeper from pakistan the scandal has left the u.s. led coalition red faced after large sums of cash were handed over to the fraudster archies military contributor says nato needs to learn to do its homework how come the artist managed to outfox and outsmart the whole western intelligence community it was a desperate political move that prompted the us military leadership in afghanistan

to get involved in such air adventure that resulted in the total embarrassment for the central intelligence agency then led him in to afghanistan across the border from pakistan and then they safely scored him back the us completely avoiding any opportunity to resolve this mystery who is he is working for whatever you try to swap professionals whether in military or intelligence for politically convenient personalities it will backfire sooner or later but it will as a military contributor currently getting of their. let's take a look at some other stories from around the world here in our team north korea says joins us south korean naval drills are pushing the put in seoul to the brink of war it comes to have a planned visit by u.s. military official to a small island targeted by artillery shelling from the north which killed for the

south was criticised for its slow response which forced the defense minister to resign china and russia have called for calm while the u.s. sent an aircraft carrier in response. police in rio de janeiro say they have regained control of a shanty town they have been taken over by violent drug gangs five days of clashes saw at least thirty people killed most of the fatalities were suspected drug dealers although a fourteen year old girl and a sixty two year old woman also died drug traffickers have regrouped in via after being expelled from other shanty towns in the city. presidential elections in haiti are going had despite the country's color epidemic that is easily spreading fast leaving thousands of people desperate for treatment and estimated four and a half million people are registered for the elections on sunday but less than forty percent and are expected to turn out the elections are seen as a crucial step toward stability in the country following january's earthquake that

killed over two hundred thousand people. run by said to mark two years since gunmen launched a series of attacks around the indian city killing one hundred sixty six people the sixty hour siege targeted luxury hotels the main railway station and a jewish cultural center screwed security will be stepped up for the day with terrorist police among those deployed india has criticized pakistan for not pressing ahead with charges against the alleged mastermind. well next if you're hungry for china and can't leave us now we russian capital moscow i will show you the best places for an oriental player. this interior design shop called start a style open five years ago from restaurants to various shops i'm excited oh it's that's what we'll be exploring on the streets of mexico our program chinese culture

the russian. watch must go out in an hour's time here on r t four that will take a look at what's happening in business with. hello and a very well welcome to the program what of russia's leading travel company's interest and europe's second largest tour operator thomas cook have announced a new joint venture r t correspondent of course never has the details of the do. thomas cook told us today that they paid forty five million dollars for thirty point one cherries but i do hope in the nearest future maximum till twenty fifty to acquire the rest of this year as we were told today of by the general director of

thomas cook at the been chasing for this deal for the last three years and it was a fantastic deal for this company to perform going to as you do through the whole of the associations one hundred percent of the problem. in those intervening few years going for shareholders more to continue to grow the business to grow. but to grow in the us in terms of time however as the future of form to companies still hasn't hasn't got his own name they might work under the brand of interest all mine in the future work out their own brand meanwhile of the role of interest here is to give some sort of a market knowledge and a brand recognition for thomas cook as interest has quite a strong brand recognition within the russian tourists amaury kits meanwhile the russian tourists market is growing quite tremendously and the some analysts see

a perspective for some significant growth in the nearest future however there are some challenges like a lack of proper infrastructure and services that many russian two operators are facing and trying to overcome. let's have a look at the markets asian stocks are flat to negative as european debt problems still worry investors. and here in russia both the r.t.s. and might six advanced on thursday to their highest level in more than two weeks as rising oil and metal prices boosted the outlook for producers from climbed to one and a half percent while the roast nickel gained one point six percent bucking the trend to be lost more than half of the cent on the my six despite upgrading its profit forecast. europe's markets may have gained on thursday but the fear of debt is still dominating sentiment arland now looks set to receive a bailout package chapter it announced the. budget in its history the big concern

is this will not be the end of it and that portugal and spain will need help and as campo head of sales at london capital group says there are reasons to believe the contagion will spread and western investors will pay more attention to emerging markets. we've seen just a few things that really have started to shift the balance now and the first was when the spanish ten year government bond yield rose five percent in the cost has been a sort of point of no return receipt for greece we saw it for ireland and it's happening to spain spain is one of the biggest economies in europe so that's a serious concern the merging markets have been a trying to for some time now and of course they are very much the driving force behind global growth but certainly western investors are looking more

to the bric countries is as they've been classified in brazil is certainly a very popular emerging market amongst western versus russia not so much interesting the but there's a lot of talk now that you know russia is getting a little bit of attention even seen a relatively undervalued market when you compare it to the likes of brazil which has been so popular and so this should shift the focus but of course there are already has been a great deal of focus on emerging markets already. rolls royce engines says it's gearing up to become a founding member of russia's titanium valley letterman which assigns the decree next week to create a vast technology help in the urals the world's top titanium supply via something you know obviously the british engines giant is hammering out a deal with top officials for the u.s. special economic zone which will enjoy text break some customs free trade. to tame valley initiative skolkovo yes they had meetings with the ministry of economic

development and they're setting up a special zone if the numbers look right and we like the partners and we're able to work closely together there's absolutely no reason why we shouldn't be very very involved if the research and development operation is successful rules rules shift production here as well what we haven't been doing in russia is is manufacturing engineering supply chain and research and development. and that's the area that i think we're interested in in exploring you know developing new technologies for gas turbines. new forms of engines i mean we haven't had. that many major technological shifts in the aerospace industry you know in the hundred or so years that we've been flying. the world is ready for some new new developments recently dmitri medvedev says fighting corruption is his number one

priority have you received in your surety is that you will be spared red tape if for example you enter staying in delhi we know there's a commitment to changing business practices in russia and we welcome that and we can already see some of the practical practical effects of that there are some very dynamic private sector entrepreneurs who are where because they operate all over the world they're aware how russia compares with with other industrial centers. but zero business for a day for that sol but you can always get more news small website r.t. dot com slash business.

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boosting industrial development. offers to make a journey into russia's history. and to enjoy mergers and vivid culture like. welcome to the paramour region in russia blows up on our cheap. oh thanks. so much. more news today violence is once again flared up from a these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of china dasha a child up for

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to watching r.t. live from moscow these are the top stories free trade between russia and the e.u. from atlantic to pacific russia's prime minister outlined his vision of how out of a high powered business trip to berlin germany supports the idea but questions of the country's trilateral customs union with bill rousseau and causing stand on. a journey in space come soon and for a russian cosmonaut and his nasa colleagues as they come back down to earth safe and sound through the the remaining orbit use of addition will be approved and russia's star city later today. and holds a live way of saying they are being victimized and fined for using signs in their own language some claim it's the authorities way of getting trained for centuries of polish occupation. of fallout shelters in the u.s. gathered dust with the most americans not even knowing there they're.