ten am in the russian capital you're watching r t a marina josh 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 but the report mapped out his vision for one massive market for doing business stretching from lisbon to vladivostok russia's prime minister was riding a had a meeting with germany's chancellor and many of its top industrialists europe is going off now reports. 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 the german chancellor angela merkel has already commented on this idea actually supporting it saying that russia first has to answer the wall trade organization talking about the european union's economy 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 the end up also in the west facing an exceptionally serious situation is concerned i don't want to paint a dramatic picture but i just want to say this 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 this country alone but europe as a whole. reporting there and maximize their economist and help us diversities 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 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 excellent 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 and that was mass kaiser economist and host of artes kaiser report there well so i had for you this hour an hour teano were to run now we're too high. it's

a bomb cover where would you be when the atomic bombs. find out how nuclear shelters of the past can help today's americans should be at least right. now the latest crew to return to earth from the international space station have landed safe and sound after five months in orbit the soyuz capsule delivered a russian cosmonaut until americans astronauts to cast a stone are he isn't telling all because he has more from the city of karbala off the heart of russia's space program. at the international space station cosmonauts live by sea so russian cosmonaut. who is traveling back to moscow to the government's center for training of cosmonauts will experience a minor jet lag of three hours whereas of course he's calling shannon walker and we'll look we'll have to deal with the greater time difference as they're traveling back to the united states all three members of the team will be undergoing after flight procedures for

a rehabilitation flight back to earth from the international space took about three hours. from a nineteen spacecraft land safely during their mission this three cosmonauts performed a number of space walks and experiments and tests and even brought a container a small refrigerator with the results of one hundred and twenty scientific experiments that they conducted during their mission for this particular team there must have been the men and the elements of extra stress before their departure because they witnessed their predecessors failing to undock from the international space station due to a technical difficulty with an automatic lock that connects the international space station and the same base graph that delayed their return back to earth by twenty four hours nonetheless the previous team has also won that safely but this team seemed to be rather optimistic about their return the even had a special thanksgiving dinner before they started getting ready to flying back to

earth right now three more cosmonauts remain at the international space station and they're welcome. to welcome three more in the middle of december but i don't know if you're reporting there now polls on the twentieth say they're being persecuted for using their native language to spell polish street names and even surnames but authorities say their actions fall well within the country's laws or chefs he reports. shop owner decided to make life easier for the poles living in rural lithuania she put signs in both lithuanian and polish languages in her store but then authorities said she would be fined two hundred euro for violating the state line which law according to it all signs in the country must be strictly and lithuanian and i didn't feel as if i was doing anything wrong this was something the local polish community needed besides i had definitional 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 your relations have a heart cost but it must have been left behind when the two countries became members of the e.u. . lithuania was so keen on becoming part of the e.u.

that they signed several documents on the session one of those was the european chancellor on national minorities it says that we can easily use our native language but now for some reason lithuania authorities are rolling back on the obligations to brussels. 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 and. indeed the charge of our national minorities gives the poles a little weightier the rights to use their language but at the same time the document says the law of the 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 refute 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. alexi russia. reporting from the lithuania for more on that story in plenty of others on our website where you can also have your say on anything we're covering but here's a quick taste of what's waiting at home right now. a new computer program developed in russia aims to protect children from the hidden dangers lurking and social networks we put the home alone software to the test. and russia's industry giants propose extending the work week to sixty hours but doctors warn this will kill employees literally all the details on our website r.t. dot com.

the cold war may be over a but the u.s. still fears the threat of a nuclear attack the idea that terrorists could get hold of an atomic weapon presents a nightmare scenario for the cities most likely to be targeted but as our reports if the worst did happen today's generation of americans would know where to turn. it was the first and foremost fear of a generation. let's face it of hydrogen bomb the greatest danger our nation has the american way of life was under attack and everyone had to have a plan of action the key to survival is that it would show that's why the federal government has the nation right. 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 you 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 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 as a memory of the area there are an area 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 siren and think it was an air raid siren sounds that hammered home the nation's greatest fear i think everybody in our young impressionable age had great concerns about this is 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 this. 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 to we're releasing radiation that could cause sickness or death in the area where they will follow 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 and 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 fold from bolton what was the nation's greatest fear and the protection against it have become a distant memory only to be poked fun at in video games and movies if washington was bombed with a nuclear bomb what do you know what to do no. no not at all just go as low as. so do you know what that sign means behind you i would assume that it's an actual true then 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 data probably or are you worried that there could be a nuclear war tomorrow. why not just it's just not in the cone it's just going to have and if it happened would you know what to do. probably like everybody else now

you get a knees and pray who will go ahead 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. recognized. by. but while people might still face a nuclear threat with no specific enemy many believe it's pointless to prepare for preassure either r. t. 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 helped negotiations with the imposter before his true identity was revealed the scam began over six months ago when afghan officials were approached by supposed taliban agents offering peace talks british intelligence reportedly arrange their meetings while the cia oversaw

the entire affair while the man claiming to be a high ranking militant turned out to be a shopkeeper from pakistan a scowl has left the u.s. led coalition red faced after a large sums of cash were handed over to the fraudster party's military contributor says needs to learn to do its own work. 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 a total embarrassment for the central intelligence agency then led him in to afghanistan across the border from pakistan and then they safely escorted him back thus 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. that was a military contributor colonel again of their opposition movements in the republic of georgia are gearing up for a second day of anti-government demonstrations people are pouring into the capital tbilisi from across the country to take part the opposition's demanding president mikhail saakashvili step down over five thousand georgians took part in a rally outside parliament on thursday and organizers are promising to keep the demonstration going to turn the heat up on saakashvili his popularity in the country has been waiting after a you ordered the invasion of south the city two years ago. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world and south korea says the sound of artillery fire has been heard near one of its islands in the yellow sea but it's not clear where it's coming from the reports come as north korea warned that u.s.

south the reason naval drills planned for this weekend are pushing the peninsula to the brink of war and a show of solidarity a u.s. military commander paid a visit to the island to the side of a previous artillery attack from the north in which four people were killed earlier this week. police in rio de janeiro say they have regained control of a shanty town to have been taken over by violent drug gangs five days of clashes saw at least thirty people killed most of them tell these were suspected drug dealers although a fourteen year old girl and a sixty two year old woman also died drug traffickers have been grouped in vehicle after being expelled from other shanty towns in the city. presidential elections in haiti are going ahead despite the country's color epidemic the disease is spreading fast leaving thousands of people desperate for treatment that's made it four and a half million people are registered for the elections on sunday but less than

forty percent are expected to turn out elections are seen as a crucial step toward stability in the country fall with january's earthquake that killed over two hundred thousand people. by is 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 main railway station and a jewish cultural center security will be stepped up for the day with anti-terrorist police among those deployed india has criticised pakistan for not pressing ahead with charges against the alleged mastermind. well next if you are hungry for china and can't leave the snowy russian capital moscow will show you the best places for labor. this interior design so-called started style opens five years ago from tempe

restaurants to various shops and excited oh it's that's what we'll be exploring on the streets of mexico our program chinese culture the russian. so watch moscow out about ten minutes time here in our tea before that though we'll take a look at the latest from the world of business with the eula don't go away. that's right time to have a look at what's happening in the world of business russian oil and gas projects being developed and production sharing agreements may bring russia almost three hundred twenty billion dollars in the next forty years so one project led by exxon mobil is most profitable the states and its production may reach one hundred and

eighty six billion dollars including taxes settlement to let gas probably maybe bring about one hundred twenty eight billion dollars to the budget revenues from total scott jagow project may tenth twelve billion dollars russia's budget received about one home and dollars we will check last year. under one of russia's leading travel companies interest and europe's second largest thomas cook have announced a joint venture our chief correspondent in the course of a has the details of the deal. thomas cook told us today that they paid forty five million dollars for thirty point one shares but i do hope and the news future of maximum till twenty thirty to acquire the rest of this year as we were told today of by of 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 before going to as you do through to borrow the whole organization one hundred percent of the company in the meantime in those intervening three years going for shareholders more to continue to grow the business to grow to grow to grow in the us in terms of time however as the future of form to companies still hasn't hasn't got its 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 a 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 the 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 problems to worry investors. russia's r.t.s. opened friday is trading session in the black up to advancing to its highest level in more than two weeks myself still close the figures that you see on the screen of yesterday's closing. europe's markets may have gained on thursday but the fear is still dominating sentiment now looks so. to receive a bailout package charter it announced the harshest or steward to budget in this history the big concern is this will not be the end of it that portugal and spain will need help and as campbell head of sales at london capital group says there are reasons to believe that contagion will spread and spread and western that stores 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. 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 attractive 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 investors russia not so much interesting me but there's a lot of talk now 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 poor so this should shift the focus but of course there are already has been a great deal of focus on the emerging markets already. says is gearing up to become a founder member of russia's tight budget which is signs that it creates next week to create a vast technology help in the urals around the world's top titanic supply of simple obvious money the british engines giant is hammering out a deal with top officials for the new special economic zone which will enjoy tax breaks and customs free freight. tanian valley initiative skolkovo yes they had meetings with the ministry of economic development and they're setting up special zones if the numbers look right and we like as we're able to work closely together there's absolutely no reason why we shouldn't be very very involved if.

research and development operation is successful. 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 the 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 aware because they operate all over the world they're aware how russia compares with with other industrial centers. so we have time for now but you can get more story a small website r t dot com slash business.

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what might you live from moscow these are the top stories free trade between russia and the e.u. from atlantic to pacific russia's prime minister outlines his vision ahead of a high powered business trip to berlin germany supports the idea of a questions the country's trilateral customs union with bell rules found castle stamp. a journey in space comes to an end for russian cosmonaut and his nasa colleagues as they come back down to earth safe and sound three people remain in orbit and new exhibition will be approved in russia starseed later today. polls of twentieth say they're being victimized and fined for using signs in their own language and some plain it's the authorities way of getting revenge for centuries of polish occupation. up next as moscow out and this friday martin anders explores the oriental song.