this is r t come to live from moscow i'm marina joshie welcome to the program russia and the e.u. should get rid of all barriers to commerce and build a massive common market stretching from lisbon to vladivostok that's the gist of a newspaper article written by russia's prime minister in a german newspaper by the report an outline his vision it had a meeting with germany's chancellor and many of the country's top industrialists it were just going off reports. the mean idea of the sort of goal is to boost cooperation between russia and the european union prime minister we're doing is calling for more joint projects both in business and in in science for more alliances to be built in many years like energy cormier king ship building or pharmaceutics and more all of this was outlined in an article in the. newspaper the newspaper which is all actually organizing the fourth economic forum here in berlin

to give me an idea of all these alliances and joint ventures is to build a unified economic society from one to avoid of our stock and another key point of the audit trail is the abolishment of the visa regime between russia and the european union has called it one of the key steps and move towards entering this new level of cooperation between the e.u. and russia and also another idea is to build a free trade zone between russia and the e.u. we're already heard comments from the german chancellor angela merkel who actually supported the idea of this free trade zone between russia and the e.u. but it has actually also said that russia first has to answer the world trade organization she also said that the european union is in somewhat of a confusion after russia and kazakhstan formed because those union where's kazakhstan and belarus are actually still a very long way when it comes to w t o accession the heads of some of germany's

most successful and influential companies are taking poured brainstorming looking for ways to move forward in the current economic situation in europe there's a very difficult situation in greece of oil and portugal we're now getting we've towards belgium and spain maybe in their stand when it comes to germany it's actually showing some really impressive economic growth at the moment so the decisions here which the conclusions which will be made at this forum in berlin are a way to fact not only this but europe as a whole in general. the horses can offer according their how max kaiser economist and hells of artie's 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 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 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's punching itself in the face all the time. that was max kaiser economist and host of

artes kaiser report there will still have this hour here in our no word to run no were too high. to. cover where would you be when the atomic. find out how nuclear shelters of the past can help days americans should the enemy attack. before that after five months in orbit the latest crew to return to earth from the international space station have landed safe and sound so use capsule the only current means of transport to and from the ice says delivered a russian cosmonaut and two american astronauts to kazakstan. has more from the city of cordoned off the heart of russia's space program. so you see i mean nineteen safely landed in took the spacecraft about three hours to travel all the way from the international space station back to earth and now that team of three cosmonauts is feeling well and safe the mission is now complete and the crew feels

good and is satisfied with the way it went landing. i congratulate everyone who contributed to the success of this project russian veteran cosmonauts for you the chief has all together spent a year in space and his colleagues from nasa sean and walker and douglas will or have spent about six months there each in their mission included a number of space walks and say different experiments and they in fact brought a container a refrigerator with the result of one hundred twenty scientific experience they conducted during their mission including by technical physics and chemical chemistry tests for this particular team they must have been in and the elements of extra stress before their departure because they witnessed their previous testers 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 spacecraft that delayed their return back to earth by twenty

four hours nonetheless the previous team has also learned that safely but this team seemed to be rather optimistic about their return they 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 they're waiting to welcome three more in the middle of december. reporting their poles and list when e.s.a. they were being persecuted for using their native language to spell polish street names and even surnames but authorities of illness say their actions fall well with then the country's laws are 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 they're all thorough decent she would be fined two hundred euro for violating the state language law according to it all signs in the country must be strictly and lithuanian. 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 the slab and 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 word for word translation which in rages the authorities in of illness secretary of the polish council in the twentieth 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. . the radio was so keen on becoming part of the e.u. that they signed several documents on a 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 their 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. or indeed the charter on national minorities gives the poles in lithuania 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 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 alexi russia ski r.t. reporting from vilnius in lithuania. and more on that story and plenty of others on our website where you can also have your say on anything we're covering here's a quick taste of what's waiting at home right now and you 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 work week to sixty hours but doctors warn this will kill employees literally all the details on our web site r t dot com.

for many americans fallout shelters are no more than remnants of cold war history but some say if atomic weapons fall into the wrong hands these are hideouts could play a vital role as artie's appreciator reports people are unaware that hundreds are still scattered around the u.s. capitol ready to protect should the enemy strike. it was the first and foremost fear of a generation. let's face it of hydrogen. 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 a nationwide shelter program. in the event of a nuclear strike the government had thousands of fallout shelters ready and stocked to protect the american people factories. apartment house and. shelter 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 to. an era 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 siren 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 and 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. 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 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 charter then 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 no 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 not really you get a knees and pray who will go home 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 there's nothing to stop. yourself. recognize the way you. want to survive. 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 held the goshi asians with an

imposter before his true identity was revealed the scam began over six months ago when afghan officials were approached by a supposed taliban agents offering peace talks british intelligence reportedly arranged the meetings while the cia oversaw the entire affair of the man claiming to be a high ranking militant turn out to be a shopkeeper from pakistan a scandal has left the u.s. led coalition red faced after a large sums of cash were handed over to the fraudster artie's military contributor says nato needs to learn to do its homework. how come the con 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 they 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 military contributor colonel of getting there let's now 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 korean naval drills planned for this weekend are pushing the peninsula to the brink of war at a show of solidarity a u.s. military commander paid a visit to young island 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 that have been taken over by violent drug gangs five days of clashes saw at least thirty people killed most of the tell these were suspected drug dealers although a fourteen year old girl and a sixty two year old woman also died drug traffickers have regrouped in vehicles zero after being expelled from other shanty towns in the city. 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 the main railway station and a jewish cultural center security will be stepped off for the day with anti-terrorist police among those deployed india has criticised pakistan for not pressing ahead with charges against the alleged mastermind. three teenagers who spend fifty days adrift in the south pacific are safely back on land after being rescued the boys from the new zealand territory of tokelau have been given up for

dead after going missing luckily they were spotted by a passing fishing boat which stopped to pick them up the teenager survived by collecting rainwater eating coconuts at a seabird they managed to catch. the presidential elections in haiti are going to had to spy the country's cholera epidemic the disease is spreading fast leaving thousands of people desperate for treatment. an estimated four and a half million people are registered for the elections on sunday but less than forty percent 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. well next if you are hungry for china and can't leave the russian capital moscow i will show you the best places for an oriental flavor.

are the style open started years ago from restaurants to various shops i'm excited oh it's that's what we'll be exploring on the streets next to our program chinese culture in russia. and watch moscow out in about ten minutes time here on r t before that we'll take a look what's happening in business with yulia. time to delve into the world of commerce and finance three russian oil and gas projects being developed on to production sharing agreements may bring russia almost three hundred twenty billion dollars in the next forty years as a one in one project led by an ex and more bol is the most profitable states its production may reach one hundred eighty six billion dollars including taxes so one

in two by gas problem may bring about one hundred twenty billion dollars to the budget revenues from totals about the project may total twelve billion dollars russia's budget received about one of the whole billion dollars from the three projects last year. one of russia's leading travel companies interest and europe's second largest tour operator thomas cook have announced a new joint venture our chief correspondent but in a portion of it 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 the general director of thomas cook at they've 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 to borrow

the holder of the solutions 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 profitably but to grow it nonetheless in terms of time however 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. brand recognition of thomas cook as interest has quite a strong brand recognition within the russian tourists the more it gets meanwhile the russian tourists market is growing quite tremendously and the some analysts see a perspective for some significant growth in the near east future however there are some challenges like a like a lack of proper infrastructure and services that many russian two operators are

facing and trying to overcome. and a quick look at how the markets are fairing that sour european stocks are lower in early friday it's traders the markets took in fresh reports of blasts heard in career sovereign debt issues continued weigh on investors buy new shares a helping track that down zero point eight percent chance of losing two point four percent and shares of until forgets to. morning two and a half cents. russia's borders are mixed after advancing on thursday to its highest level in more than two weeks most of the chips are rising bucking the trend as holders of gold don't involve the central global gold prices. europe's markets may have gained on thursday but the fear bond debt is still dominating sentiment arleigh now looks set to receive a bailout package shafter it announced the harshest austerity budget in its history the big concern is that this will not be the end of it that portugal and spain will

need help cumple head of sales at london capital group so 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 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 the but there's a lot of talk now that 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 so this should shift the focus but of course there are already has been a great deal of focus on the emerging markets already. well that's why it's engines says it's gearing up to become a founding member of russia's titanium valley budget which in science the decree next week to create a fast technology help in the euro around the world's top titanium supply be some people obviously the british engines giant is hammering out a deal with top officials for the new special economic zone which will enjoy a tax breaks and customs free trade. 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 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. 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 where because they operate all over the world they're aware how russia compares with with other industrial centers. but perhaps up the business program and join me in less than an hour and get most of our smart upside our t. dot com slash business.

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of the magyar with the here's a look at the top stories free trade between russia and the e.u. from atlantic to pacific russia's prime minister outlined his vision of a high powered business meeting in berlin germany supports the idea but questions the country's trilateral customs union with belarus and kazakhstan. a journey in space comes to an end for a russian cosmonaut and his nasa colleagues as they come back down to earth safe and sound three people remain in orbit and buicks traditional been approved and russia's star sitting layer today. polls analyst when e.s.a. they're being victimized and fined for using signs in their own language some plain it's the authorities way of getting a vein for centuries of polish occupation. pastime for moscow this friday mark manners dives into.