i. a fairy well welcome to you this is our life from moscow russia and germany should it dramatically increase their economic cooperation that is the message from russian prime minister vladimir putin to some of germany's top industrialists at a business forum in berlin you got of us going off has been following the discussions but you know pushing me to. a speech at the forum 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 of an 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 to avoid us talk and. the international community was specifically 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 but let's listen to what was going to have to say it was a good shot it the euro is likely fluctuating but as a whole it's a good stable world currency that should take its rightful position as the world's reserve currency i think over the last ten years there has been one wrong aspect that we should definitely eliminate it's the excessive monopoly of the dollar as the sole world reserve currency this is certainly something negative. the russian prime minister was also asked the question whether or not he was going to run for president during the next presidential poll in russia well by which and 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 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 and of course he says their decision will be based on what's best for the russian nation while colonel leave the skies over the european economy in general are continuing to dark and there are serious problems in greece portugal oil and 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 for their leaders are taking part r.t. if you're going to spin off their reporting from berlin meantime kaiser economist and a host of ozzy's kaiser report believes that germany is ready 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 in 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 that was attempted to be outlawed but germany is back and of course germany has excellent relations with russia the russian leaders it leadership speaks german the german leadership leadership speaks russian so there's a lot of a lot of talk there and so we're talking about

a complete reconfiguration of the global. money system. he's an economist and host of our to use kaiser report well on the way here on r.t.e. digging up the past why some poles living through a new local of forty exam persecuting back by restricting native language. well after five months totaling around the world in orbit are russian cosmonaut and two nasa astronauts finally have their feet 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 their trip to terra firma nataly another call for has more from star city the heart of russia's space program. veteran cosmonaut through the years in has now safely returned to the government center for training his colleagues from nasa shannon walker and douglas we look

back to the united states all three members of the team will be undergoing after flight procedures for rehabilitation their flight back to earth from the international space took about three hours may nineteenth spacecraft learned that safely 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 for you the chief and 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 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 so you spacecraft that delayed their return back to earth by twenty four hours nonetheless the previous team also one that 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 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 . porting there 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 massacre that soured relations between moscow and warsaw for decades artie's catherine as out of her has more. for

decades the soviet union denied any responsibility in this atrocious crime for fifty two years the soviet union attempted to blame nazi forces for the killing of polish officers in the so-called cutting massacre that was in the 1940's when in 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 russia finally admit its participation in this horrible crime and of course it was a very significant event for a revelation as 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 law as they were being fed by the soviet leadership and this has been the admittance of guilt in this was a fake and sit it has been already called a turning point in relations between moscow and warsaw that screaming the left was commuted but. study and his comrades and. unfortunately this was against a lot of people. know in. the parliament or my country we. lost sort of with polish people a boat that the of course the sorrow is not just a purely on the polish side thousands and thousands of russian citizens were also executed there in the 1930's as part of stalinist for oppressions and all the facts have been released all the archives declassified and made available not only to the polish side but all. so to the public they were posted online just earlier this

year 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 it was a foundation of trust between the two countries that will allow them to build a much more open and honest relationship of course cut the need 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 very done got think the plane crashed just outside the ups my lands killing everybody on board most of poland's political elite nearly one hundred people so for poland this is a very wrong subject and stuff like these hopefully will bring it to sides closer

to reconciling their differences and putting the past behind them. reporting right well afghan officials are blaming nato for setting up peace talks with them posing as a senior taliban come on the president hamid karzai even held negotiations with the pasta before the ruse was revealed the scam began almost six months ago when afghan officials were approached by is supposed to talk about an agency offering peace talks british intelligence reportedly arrange the meetings while the cia oversaw the entire refer to the man claiming to be a high ranking militant is thought to be a shopkeeper from pakistan the real identity of the fake still remains a mystery the scandal that 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 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 scored him back the us completely every waiting 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. approach in the quarter minute mark of the hour here in moscow you all with all it's he and bear in mind that all of our stories on a much more awake you at home and here's what else you can find on our website

right now with extreme care the russian post office shocked to discover a submachine gun winding its way to a woman in moscow. and the americans were facing a thanksgiving down all full body scan it at points but many opted to go cold turkey on one of the busiest travel weekends of the year all the details that dot com. polls living in lithuania claim that being discriminated against by local authorities they are prevented from using the native language to spelled polish street names and even surnames. going 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 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 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 their fishel 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 word for word translation which in rageous 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 wayne in relations have a heart past 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 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 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. 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

a country prevails over the chargers clauses and according to the law in lithuania we have every right to find them for using their language on signs. some poles living in lithuania suggest that this is the illnesses 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. alexy rush of ski on sea reporting from vilnius in lithuania two years coming to you live from moscow let's check out some other news now making headlines around the world and the south korea has reported the sound of artillery fire sighted smoke near one of its islands in the yellow sea officials suspect it is a north korean training exercise the news comes as north korea warns that u.s.

south korean naval drills planned for this weekend pushing the peninsula to the brink of war in 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. by two years since terror attacks around the indian city killed one hundred and sixty six. men targeted luxury hotels the main railway station and a jewish cultural center in a siege that lasted two and a half days terrorist police will be among those deployed to bolster security now india has criticized pakistan meantime 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 that had been taken over by violent drug gangs five days of clashes at least thirty people killed back by special forces and military hardware try to

restore order police say the violence began in protest against a crackdown on gang members in the slums brazil is trying to reduce violent crime in the lead up to hosting the football world cup in two thousand and fourteen. 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 of took allow had been given up for dead after going missing in october a passing a fishing boat that found them suffering from dehydration and sunburn to pull them from the water a teenager survived by collecting rainwater and eating coconuts devouring a seabird they managed to catch. well break out your chopsticks ours in a few moments we're going to give you a tour of moscow's a very own chinatown. the

subject as well as the smaller greats we've got a minute. fortunately i've used the. wonderful chinese food in the russian capital for certain words disappointing. and you can join our moscow team in about ten minutes time right here on r.t. but before that in just a moment karim is here with the business now. for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers.

and which brightened if you knew the song from feinstein christian. t.v. don't come. it's twenty one past six pm here in moscow welcome to business the switching long brand new power station has given russia's that atrocity network much needed shot in the

arm constructed by germany as part of a two point four billion euro investment program the project has not arrived without problems ten a bushel has more. german energy giant deal has just launched one of the world's biggest and most efficient power stations on the outskirts of the capital but it's come with some global difficulty international power companies pledged to last all thirty billion dollars to overhaul was just crumbling electricity generators when they were privatized in two thousand and eight that was on the promise that they will be able to charge more keep prices to industries and consumers in the world's biggest coldest country the washing government dragged its feet on legislation like the capacity market a wholesale system for industries which it promised to bring in so generators could make a profit the thirty billion dollars pledge also came just before the global financial crisis which just slashed firms disposable incomes the old financial director for

exhibits here in russia says his company was luckier the royals still had to freeze some projects it was of course for every generator and for every entity operating in this economy like and other economies suffering under the economic crisis not so difficult to proceed with a huge like in our case with the huge investment program the investment for program for each on. in the electricity sector accounts for more totals roughly two point four billion euros that's a big amount of money and naturally we were worried about losing some value in that through the developments in the exchange rate. and also we had this in him going to uncertainty about the banking system very like in other countries this project that we have in front of us in our combined cycle gas turbine. it's been shifted only for a few months compared to the very original plan into the in the early plan two thousand in two thousand and seven the other projects that have been shifted is mainly the

coal project in siberia that one has been shifted to the year two thousand and fourteen it's been widely reported that yield is selling its. to billion dollars stake in. energy company chief executive. says the stake is no mr t.j. told me he thinks the old core competency is imposed patients like this. gas production interest group transmission. shares a heavily on devalued of the moment and you can make a lot of money blood boiling now with a report to the house. in germany old friday and we think that a deal between. now us took a look at how the markets are doing u.s. stocks fell sharply after the holiday break and meddling going on such instance running as you have stepped troubles tensions between north and south korea are also weighing on the stocks dow jones is down forty eight percent on the nasdaq fell six percent trading among us banking stocks. one percent.

and european stocks also down on friday with the spanish market suffering particularly steep losses investors are worried that solving debt contagion in the eurozone continues to escalate mining and banking shares are dragging the footsie down shares of the downturn are leading the decline off four and a half percent and beach could pull it off three point three percent. russian boars as close in the red after advancing on thursday to its highest level in more than two weeks most of the blue chips fell of bucking the trend was gas palm that ended one point two percent higher the biggest losers was down two percent and noise. one . of his biggest retailer has been expectations with its third quarter results net profit at five group rose nine percent during the period to just under eighteen million dollars the improvement was driven by new store openings a strong contribution from discount stores and

a successful integration on the part of the supermarkets. the largest ever british trade mission to visit russia is in moscow to sign contracts and drum up new business representatives from blue chips such as b.p. and shell and diego and as and asters anneka joins a delegation led by business secretary founds cable. there's a lot of interest in britain and british business in doing business in russia. trade which is already growing quite rapidly i think thirty six percent this year which exports all the jobs associated with that six hundred british companies already operating in russia i think we see a big potential it's not necessarily an easy place to do business but it's not unique to russia but a lot of potential in the feedback i'm getting on the russian side is that they want to do more with us has the british government changed its risk assessment of doing business in russia don't think so no it's not us is not unique in this

respect that there's a whole group of countries china india brazil russia which until quite recently were. fairly close to economists not open to trade they're reluctant to look at foreign investment which are now opening up also growing very rapidly and with big potential and certainly in britain you know we see this is the big growth area and we you know that's where we need to be you've said you see the scope of innovation hobb as offering opportunities for british business what's the attraction of it it's very clear that russia has ambitions to exploit its traditional very high academic standards in science and technology and mathematics and to turn this into commercial innovation i think in the u.k. we have quite a lot of expats expertise atlanta area and some of our companies are interested in participating in skolkovo is i think not it's

a concept it may turn out to be of an interest in practical proposition a kind of silicon valley idea and we certainly have companies that are interested in exploring it and working with. and that's all the updates mean less than one hour from walking are not.

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