a very warm welcome to you this is a lie from moscow russia and the e.u. should get rid of all barriers to san build a massive common market stretching from lisbon to of light of all stock that's the gist of a newspaper article written by russia's prime minister in a german newspaper vladimir putin outlined his vision ahead of a meeting with germany's chancellor and many of the country's top industrialists that you go to school for ports. 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 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 for economic forum here in berlin giving me an idea of all these alliances and joint ventures to build a unified economics aside from one to avoid you are stuck and another key point off the article is the abolishment of the visa regime in russia and the european union which 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 costumes 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 part 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 next and 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 in this country but europe as a whole in general. i think you're going to it's going to reporting well max keiser economist and host of ati's kaiser report believes that germany is ready to have

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's punching itself in the face all the time. that was my economist and host of our tease kaiser report well still ahead for you this hour nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. it's a good cover where would you be when the atomic. power nuclear shelters of the past can help today's americans should be the enemy. well after five months in orbit the latest crew to return to earth from the international space station have now landed safe and sound the soyuz capsule of the only means of transport to and from the i assess delivered a russian cosmonaut and two american astronauts to kazakhstan. or has more from the city of 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 the team of three cosmonauts is feeling wealth and safety 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 in number of space walks and scientific 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 there must have been him an element 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 it safely but this team seems 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 there were waiting to welcome three more in the middle of december . polls in lithuania being persecuted for using their native language to spell polish street names even so names but authorities are saying their actions for well within the country's laws. reports. shop owner decided to make life easier for the poles living in rural lithuania should put signs in both leith when ian and languages in her store but then authorities said

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 war so 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 poles 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 or national minorities it says that we can easily use our native language but now for some reason the lithuanian authorities are rolling back all 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. or indeed the charge of our national minorities give 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 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 ski r.t. reporting from vilnius in lithuania. well there's plenty more on that story. 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 for you right now at r t v dot com a new computer program developed in russia aims to protect children from the hidden dangers lurking in social networks we put the quote home alone software to the test

. in the rushers industry giants propose extending the work week to sixty hours a doctor's warned this will employ literally all the details waiting for you on our website. 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 archaic hideouts could play a vital role and as r.t. as a previous 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 bomb warfare is 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 factories office apartment house. provides 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 here 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 and i think everybody in our young impressionable age had great concerns about this it 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 were released to radiation that could cause sickness or death in the area where they 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 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 baltic 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 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 an easier prey if you will your hand 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. nothing to stop them using to. recognize the. threat. 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. . r.t. is coming to you live from moscow where it's now just after quarter past the hour here and afghan officials and are blaming nato for setting up make believe peace talks with a man posing as a top taliban leader president hamid karzai even held negotiations with the imposter before his true identity was revealed that began over six months ago when afghan officials were approached by a supposed taliban agency offering 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 a scandal has left us that coalition red faced after large sums of cash were handed over to the fraudster he's a military contributor so the 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 u.s. 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 devoid ing 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. well it was all to his military contributor. that now

let's get to some other international hitting the headlines this hour 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 warning that u.s. south korean naval drills planned for this weekend and pushing the peninsula to the brink of war well in a show of solidarity a u.s. military commander paid a visit to young people in ireland that's the site 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 fatalities were suspected drug dealers so although a fourteen year old girl and a sixty two year old woman also died drug traffickers had to regroup. after being expelled from other shanty towns in the city there is

a continuing crackdown on violent drug dealers in the city. mumbai is said to mark two years since a series of attacks around the indian city that killed one hundred sixty six people sixty hour siege by two men targeted at luxury hotels the 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 criticized pakistan for not pressing ahead with charges against the alleged mastermind. of the presidential election in haiti is going ahead despite the country's cholera epidemic the disease is spreading fast leaving thousands of people desperate for treatment an estimated four and a half a million people are eligible for this election on sunday but less than forty percent are expected to turn out a poll that is seen as a crucial step toward stability. in the country following january's earthquake that

killed two hundred thousand people. spend fifty days adrift in the south pacific safely back on land after being rescued the boys from new zealand. had been given up for dead after going missing and. luckily they were spotted by a fishing vessel which stopped to pick them up the teenagers survived by collecting a rainwater eating coconuts and devouring and they managed to catch. the next if you're hungry for chinese snowy russian capital moscow out will show you the best places for flavor. this interior design. five years ago and from restaurants to various shops. that's what we'll be exploring on the streets the out program chinese culture.

and you can watch moscow out in about ten minutes time right here on our t.v. but for the meantime he comes up with the latest business news. hello and a very warm welcome to the business program will start with an exclusive to our t.v. russia worries ukraine risks gas cuts off to starting afresh rao as a crisis of claims existing tales of gas problem tell me they use energy charges which it signed the e.u. says the charter also makes parts of south rim illegal as all accounts companies can choose the pipeline but gas pumps export chief alexander mitzvot says he will

convince brussels to back the project. so as to be really really planned he would have been project because it's part of to ease the pain in some friendships on shore prod was. here to build some gate in force. and whereas assures it in the interest of european community to. exclusion closer. because if all the basic deal streams so i was studying i could think patient there was not a good supply given to solve the thirty percent of the way into countries like ukraine and ripped up existing transit contracts with gazprom you can't be happy about that also. support of such or such a view because we are in the long term because if anybody will put in danger of a long total commitment then the question was this major investor so we could replace us. would you hope to achieve one of the top chinese gas delegation flies

to moscow this week or should sign contracts in the middle of the next year and just. two days ago i made the wrong one doing. the as president of c. and b. c. a very constructive discussions on technical side will come out of the next round will take place in the last general. wailed. yes from second quarter profit fell twelve percent year on year we see an improvement in quotes of three let's wait but the way we're out of the show is that submission will be very good. ten and eleven. three free russian oil and gas projects being developed under a production sharing agreements may bring russia almost three hundred twenty eight billion dollars in the next forty years there is a hole in one project led by exxon mobil is the most profitable the state's share

and its production may reach one hundred eighty six billion dollars including texas one in two led by gazprom may bring about one hundred twenty billion dollars to the budget revenues from totals herad the project may total twenty twelve billion dollars russia's project received about one of the hope in dollars from the three projects last year. a look at how the markets are faring that saw european stocks a low as markets took and fresh reports of blasts heard in korea and sovereign debt issues continued weigh on investors mining shares are weaker helping drag the foot sit down point two percent shares on route to intel losing two point eight percent shares of out of the gusto three point two percent. russia's also saw in the red after advancing on thursday to its highest level in more than two weeks most of the blue chips are down and bucking the trend as porto's gold well it's down about a percent on lower gold prices. of the debt crisis is dominating sentiment on the

european markets arland now looks set to receive a bailout package after it announced the hardest harshest austerity budget in its history the big concern is this will not be the end of it and that portugal and spain will need help because kumble head of sales at london capital group says there are reasons to believe that 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 yields rose above five percent in the cost has been a sort of point of no return with 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 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 so this should shift the focus but of course there are already has been a great deal of focus on the emerging markets already. and it's going to become easier for skilled foreigners to come to work and russian presidential aides are crowded but of course each says the government will implement a number of new measures to liberalize and migration regulations for highly qualified foreigners. field of them first will simplify visa regulations not only

for the specialists themselves but also for their families the second issue is a radical reduction of demands for those constantly travelling inside and outside russia as well as across the country the rules are also going to be eased for specialists with annual incomes totaling two million rubles which is sixty three thousand dollars and those foreigners who graduated in russia will get priority right for work because it's on them once all the up that's all their business but we healthy not for the moment join me and announce time and get more new small website r.t. dot com slash business. for

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it's now past the hour here in moscow you all with your headlines now free trade between russia and the e.u. from the atlantic to the pacific russia's prime minister his vision of a high powered business meeting in. germany supports the idea but question is the country's trial after old customs union with. johnny in space comes to an end for a russian cosmonaut and his colleagues as they come back down to earth safe and sound three people do remain in a new expedition will be approved in russia as a star city later today. polls in lithuania say they're being victimized and fined for using signs in their own language some claim it's the all stories way of get.