germany should have dramatically increased their economic cooperation plus the message from russian prime minister vladimir putin to some of germany's top industrialists business forum in birdland that you're going to spin off is following the discussions russia's prime minister of idea put in is currently meeting with germany's business elite and the discussion has gone a little bit beyond just business. was asked what are the biggest problems in the world that he currently sees right now if you said that this is terrorism this is a racial and religious hatred and economic inefficiency and before that pushing me to. teach at the former focusing on the cooperation between russia and the european union calling for more cooperation and more ties in fact he said that if russia and the european union want to stay competitive in the world in the international economy than it is vital for both to work together he also called

european partners not to hamper cooperation between european companies and russian companies once again he talked about creating a free economic zone a free trade zone between russia and the european union from. voyage of our stock and. the international community was specifically the business elite here in germany and the european union to put their efforts together in order to sort of the remaining problems many of which are still quite visible here in europe and in russia as well let's listen to what's going to have to say. i see it pretty much russian businessmen are ready to invest in european industry but for unknown reasons this can be difficult so when russian money attempts to flow into european businesses european companies look to other emerging markets to keep their costs down. there are many examples of russians facing political and economic obstacles

but if you're tempted to enter european markets still to. be the russian prime minister was also asked a question whether or not he was going to run for president during the next presidential poll in russia well but you said that both he and the president of russia dmitry medvedev are used to these questions and he said that both of them answer these questions in the same way that when the time comes they're going to both study the situation together and determine what's better for the country at the time off the upcoming fall and of course he says their decision will be based on what's best for the russian nation while currently the skies over the u.p.a. the economy in general are continuing to darken there are serious problems in greece portugal ireland we're getting reports that spain and belgium may be next and in this scenario in this context germany is actually currently

a great example of how to overcome financial difficulties it's showing some really impressive economic growth just previously to the german government announced that the number of unemployed people in the country has reduced from five to three million people they're actually saying that this number can drop altogether in the near future and that is only really the situation in some parts of the country this is a huge forum taking place since some of the most influential and successful companies are taking leaders are taking part. reporting that will mean time. economist and a host of a report believes that germany is poised to emerge as the world's new superpower. you can't really make an economy based on real estate speculation ireland and spain greece they tried to make an economy based on this idea that you could flip palaces and you could create a ponzi scheme with loans and mortgages and it collapsed as

a result of the global credit collapse germany on the other hand nobody in germany is taking out mortgages like this nobody is flipping houses in germany germany are savers germany are sound business people and as a result they are a much better position now as a result going forward from this crisis 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 u.s. 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 leaders leadership speaks german the german leadership leadership speaks russian so there's a lot of a lot of talk there and we're talking about a complete reconfiguration of the global. money system. he's an economist on a host of oxys it cuts a report while you are here with all it's here live from moscow and on the way digging up the part why some poles living in lithuania think local authority is all post accusing them by were strict thing then they did language. after five months huddling around the world in orbit a russian cosmonaut and to nasa astronauts have their feet firmly back on the ground after returning from the international space station and although the landing in kazakhstan was dubbed ideal the crew had to bite their lips before the trip to terra firma entirely in the wake of the house more from star city the heart of russia's space program. veteran cosmonaut through the years in has now safely

returned to the government's center for training his colleagues from nasa shannon walker and douglas wheelock to move back to the united states or three members of the team will be undergoing after flight procedures for rehabilitation flights back to earth from the international space took about three hours t.m.a. nineteen spacecraft landed safely the mission is now complete and the crew feels good and is satisfied with the way it went landing was smooth and. i congratulate everyone who contributed to the success of this project for you the chief in 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 to 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 jim they musta been him 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 to say you spacecraft that delayed their return back to earth by twenty four hours nonetheless the previous team 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 fly 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 . reporting well joseph stalin was responsible for the mass killing of polish prisoners in western russia in one nine hundred forty russia's parliament

accepted the soviet leader ordered the cuts in mexico but solid relations between moscow and also for decades let's get more on this now live from oz used to put in a lot of others waiting for us and hello to you so this event hung like a dog cloud over russia for decades so i knew the importance of today's announcement can't really be underestimated now can it. can indeed worry this very significant and then in relations between moscow and warsaw because for decades for nearly seventy years. russia denied any participation any involvement in the so-called cutting massacre that was in the 1940's plan and nearly twenty thousand polish officers were detained and executed all over the soviet union it became known as the cutting massacre because i think it was one of the burial grounds where nearly four thousand officers were executed shot in the back of the head and buried in mass graves and for decades the soviet leadership insisted that this was

the work of nazi forces that were on soviet territory at the time only fifty two years after the tragedy did the russians finally admit its participation in this horrible crime and of course it was a very significant event for a right of relations between moscow and warsaw because the polish side was just as frustrated at not knowing what happened to nearly twenty thousand of its citizens as they were with the lies that were being fed by the soviet leadership and this has been the admittance of guilt in this this is that the incident has been already called a turning point in relations between moscow and warsaw russian lawmakers do believe that this was one of the most significant steps that could be taken to improve relations between russia and poland. that screaming the left was commuted by. study and his comrades and. unfortunately

this was against a lot of people. know he did you clearly tional with the parliament of my country we share with polish people a boat that. of course the sorrow is not just purely on the polish side as well as twenty thousand polish officers murdered there in the early one nine hundred forty s. thousands and thousands of russian citizens were also executed there in the 1930's as part of stalinist for oppression so it is a very tragic part of soviet and russian history and the fact that it is being commemorated and all the facts have been released all the archives declassified and made available not only to the polish side but also to the public they were posted online just earlier this year this is a very significant step now early days yet but i can you tell me how is the news being greeted both in russia and in poland. of course the polish side tails any

kind of similar steps it already hailed the mentions of the guild they arrived in sponsibility of the russian side and when the archives were declassified and handed over to the polish side that was yet another step of course towards reconciliation between russia and poland and today we've already heard from some polish officials who have said that this latest step this acceptance by the russian state duma of joseph stalin as the man behind the executions of those polish officers that shows that not only is russia and poland are both russia and poland aiming towards reconciliation but they use the same words and have those words have the same meaning and therefore elizabeth allegation of. trust between the two countries that will allow them to build a much more open and honest relationship of course for the polish side is not just

a historical tragedy it is also a recent one earlier this year the polish president lech kaczynski was on his way to the team to pay his respects after for the first time in history both the russian and the polish sides official delegations were there to pay their respects to all the victims varied and got the. plane crashed just outside. killing everybody on board most of poland's political elite nearly one hundred people so for poland this is a very wrong subject and steps like these hopefully will bring to choose sides closer to reconciling their differences and putting the past behind them arrive at the reality of their reporting for us live thank you. for you all with. the afghan officials are blaming nato for setting up peace talks with a man posing as a senior taliban commander president hamid karzai even held negotiations with the imposter before the ruse was revealed the scam began almost 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 with a man claiming to be a high ranking militant is thought to be a shopkeeper from pakistan the real identity of the fake us still remains a mystery the scandal has left the u.s. led coalition a red faced after large sums of cash were handed over to the fraudster military contributor says nato should have done 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 better result in the total embarrassment for the central intelligence agency they let him

in to afghanistan across the border from pakistan and them they safely scored him back thus completely every waiting any opportunity to resolve this mystery 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. it's now a quarter past the hour here in the russian capital you all with bear in mind there's always more on all of that on the dot com and here's what you can find right now on our website with extreme care the russian post office shocked to discover a submachine gun and winding its way to a woman a woman in moscow. and americans were facing a thanksgiving down all full body scans at apple but many altered to go cold turkey on one of the busiest travel weekends of the all the details waiting for you at dot

com. polls living in lithuania claim that being discriminated against by local authorities they are prevented from using their native language to spell polish street names and even names as aussies alexi you've got to shift the reports the roots of the conflict may lie deep in the past. shop owner decided to make life easier for the poles living in rural lithuania should put signs in both when ian and polish 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 with twenty 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 after nicole's 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 poles use both languages but that they use word for word translation which in rageous the authorities. 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 your relations have a heart lost but it must have been left behind when the two countries became members of the e.u. . let the radio was so keen on becoming part of the e.u. that they signed several documents on the session one of those was the european

charter on national minorities it says that we can easily use our native language but now for some reason the lithuanian 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 every right to persecute the use of polish. 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 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 science or some polls living in just twenty a suggest that this is the illnesses 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 and

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 vilnius in lithuania time now to check out some other news making headlines around. the world this hour south korea has reported the sound of artillery fire and sighted near one of its eye lids in the yellow sea officials suspect it is a north korean training exercise the news comes as north korea warned the u.s. south korean naval drills planned for this weekend pushing the peninsula to the brink of war and a show of solidarity a top u.s. military commander visited the island which was the site of a previous artillery exchange between both koreas earlier this week. mumbai you said to mark two year since terror attacks around the indian city killed one hundred and sixty six people. the men targeted luxury hotels the main railway

station and a jewish cultural center in a siege lasting two and a half days and terrorist police will be among those deployed to bolster security meantime india has criticized pakistan in the lead up to the anniversary for not pressing ahead with charges against the alleged mastermind. police in a rio de janeiro's say they have regained control of a shanty town of it being taken over by violent drug gangs five days of clashes for at least thirty people killed. backed by special forces and military hardware try to restore order police say the violence began in a protest against a crackdown on gang members in the slum brazil is trying to reduce violent crime in the lead up to hosting the football world cup in two thousand and fourteen as. well three teenagers who spent fifty days adrift in the south pacific are safely back on land after being rescued the boys from the new zealand territory all took allow had

been given up for dead after going missing in october a passing a fishing vessel that found them suffering from dehydration and sunburn pulled them from the water the teenager survived by collecting rainwater and eating devouring their seed they managed. which. or the appearance of an armored vehicle on the streets of london last stock in russia's far east had some fearing a world war three was in the offing however it turns out it's own it was just popping to the shops victoria punk off the vehicle three months ago for his personal transport he's made one or two little adjustments it's now got a leather seat soundproofing. tested when he goes fishing or hunting but he sure it will conquer whatever was thrown at it from both the trials to city palms. nice set of wheels now technology update is on its way but first it's all the

business news with korea. welcome to our business program this hour good to have you with us a free trade zone that stretches from lisbon to vladivostok like a person has set out and vision of how he hopes i says relations with europe well developed in a speech to business leaders lynch sports and also raise the issue of european plans to liberalize the oil and gas pipeline networks which means any supply i should be able to access the pipeline regardless of ownership within one this could remove incentives to invest in infrastructure. in the us the conditions that should investors have of course triggered so that they will receive priority rights to use this infrastructure to pump their own gas it is their gas and investment in the pipeline i think that the mechanical application of these provisions in the third energy package will put plans for modernizing these networks and infrastructure development. from the book that early i spoke to ben arris editor in chief of

business new europe about putin spirit in speech i asked how the rhetorical change since two thousand and seven when the then president gave the world a wake up call and you nick. it stands as a contrast to two thousand and seven where poussin basically read the riot act to europe and said you know come on guys you've got to cooperate with us and be friendly and instead to europe was continuously bashing of russia and this time it's friendship but on both sides as well i think that's very interesting it's not just the russians now reaching out to europe but the europeans are reaching back to to the germans and the french who are throwing themselves at russia as a prospective market why is he doing it now at this particular moment well the crisis has changed everything on both sides of the fence and obviously russia was hit hardest of all the big emerging markets by the crisis and suffered a massive contraction and with the deficit and lower oil prices that they need

money they need investment particularly and not just the cash but they also need to know how they've woken up to that fact but on the other side of the fence countries like germany wage they companies they're facing a very very last few flaws to creasing market and if they're looking for growth they're going to have to come east and there's been several examples of really successful german investments here already and so now the government's behind that whole initiative to push their own companies who have been questioned and pulled into russia. russia warns ukraine risks gas cuts off to starting afresh while the prices keep claims existing deals with gazprom don't we think and i do charter which is signed e.u. says the charter also makes parts of south stream illegal as other gas companies use the pipeline for gas problems expertise alexander made the if says he will convince brussels to back the project. so as to be really really funny would have been a project because it's short parted ways depending on some friendships on shore part

was gabriel's caribbeans from gary and so was koreans. and where i was assured that in the interest of you would i be in communion to. exclusion closes. because if all the capacity of north stream so i was thirty and because vacation there was not a good supply given to solve the so it was in countries like ukraine and ball gary have ripped up existing transit contracts with gas from you can't be happy about that also. support of such or such a view because we are in the long term business and if anybody will put in danger of a long term committed ones then the question causes major investors which will put in place us. well do you hope to achieve one of the top chinese guest delegation flies to moscow this week we should sign contracts in the middle of the next year and just. two days ago i met mr one london seen.

as president of c m d c and had a very constructive discussions on technical side the commercial side the next round will take place in china middle of january. all on track from second quarter profit fell twelve percent year on year will we see an improvement in quarter three let's wait but the way it was assures that situation will be very good posts in two thousand and eleven. and i look at the markets now european stocks are low as markets took in fresh reports of class hurting and suffering debt issues continued went away on investors' money as a weak a helping drag the footsie down point six percent chance of being a ten ton losing three to half a saturn shares of the gusta. percent and here russian forces are in the red after advancing on thursday to its highest level in more than two weeks most of the blue

chips are falling now bucking the trend is gas bomb that is trading half a percent higher and the biggest losers as a bank down two percent and north that is losing one and a half percent. is going to become easier for skilled foreigners to come to work in russia presidential aide says the government will implement a number of new measures to liberalize visa and migration regulations height qualified for. beautiful first will simplify visa regulations not only for the specialists themselves but also for their families so 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 totalling two million rubles which is sixty three thousand dollars and those securities will graduate in russia will get the right for work because it's on them as well for the moment back in less than one hour

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you always see your headlines now closer economic ties between russia and the e.u. plus of the business undevelopment the message for prime minister vladimir putin some of germany's top industrialists. in. a russian cosmonaut. have made a successful landing back on earth they spent five months doing tests of all sorts on the international space station. joseph stalin was responsible for the caps in which twenty two thousand people were killed the tragedy souder relations between moscow and warsaw. well up next we take a look at some of the latest and greatest from the world of high tech and.