azzi is coming to you live from moscow welcome to the program russia and germany should dramatically increase their economic cooperation that's the message from russian prime minister vladimir putin to some of germany's top industrialists at a business forum in but when you've got a piece going off has been following the talks. but you know putting 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 the free trade zone between russia and the european union from

long to avoid us talk and hold the international community was specifically business elites 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 putin had to say you know to shut it off so the euro is slightly fluctuating but as a whole it's a good stable world currency that should take its rightful position as the world reserve currency i think that over the last ten years there's been one aspect that we should definitely eliminate is the excessive monopolism of the dollar is the sole gold reserve currency this is certainly something that 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 paul and of course he says their decision will be based on what's best for the russian nation well currently. the skies over the european economy in general are continuing to dark and there are serious problems in greece portugal and 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 analysis 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 already the situation in some saturn parts of the country

this is a huge forum taking place since some of the most influential and successful companies are taking part their leaders are taking part. going to spin off reporting that well of lot of putin also managed to lighten the mood of the forum with his usual biting sense of humor the prime minister hinted that germany needs russia's energy resources. so the german community doesn't like nuclear power i don't want to make any comments. but i don't understand what you're going to use to he see you don't develop your nuclear power what are you going to use firewood. but i suppose you'd have to get it from siberia to. well for more views on where the european economy is headed we can now talk to

marcus kerber who's a professor of political economics at a berlin university let's cross five years and so the economies of greece and ireland are struggling to survive and now spain and portugal could be next being forced in line to take a bailout at the same time though spending is on the rise in germany as employment talk to us how is germany able to do this what is its a recipe for success here. well let us first of all stress that germany from a fiscal point of view faces as well the problem of debt not comparable to the problems we have in greece where we have no longer barrel that's the debt has been a problem in germany it's remains a problem but the problem is not tackled it's attacked by a very. determined government remind you of the fact that the deficit the current deficit is still forty two billion euros as to your remark on the apparent success of the germ economy it is obvious that the clue to this explanation is that we have

a very competitive industry and exporting industry there's a long tradition in russia knows this is all for exporters murder only to the immediate surrounding neighbors but all of the world and these this. this this enormous vigor of export is driven not only by very big corporations but by sound healthy businessmen medium sized companies family owned family managed which are the stronghold of our economy and which contribute to a large part to the success of let this be on record german growth this year is almost four percent and with that the german economy grows more significantly than most of the other industrial sized countries in the world so as you say germany's got a good grip on its debt it's also doing very well economically speaking with its exports germany is europe's largest economy and when it comes to the failing it could have

to bear the brunt of bailing out the e.u. members that are having a struggle when it comes to comes to their economies surely germany germany this is necessary to save the union but also by extension germany will also benefit from bailing out the struggling members. well the two aspects in germany despite its relative strength is no they were to bailout everybody within the eurozone this is quite impossible and those who say the contrary they are just kidding around apart from that the german taxpayer is no longer willing to lease is very very becoming very reluctant to bail out countries like greece where there is an example of very bad governance everything which are we seen to greece all the problems they have are homemade and we are no longer willing is neither to bail out ireland to fuel an ailing banking sector so you say which is the next kind of maybe portugal i think this is a general incentive this umbrella which the. heads of government have created in

under the menace of the president of the european central bank this is so large that everybody wants to be protected and the more it's raining cats and dogs the more they want to be protected and the portuguese. prime minister and the finance minister pushed ireland to put themselves under the umbrella to be under the umbrella themselves as quickly as possible this is an inflation of claims to be bailout which will ruin the eurozone sooner or later germany is economically not able to bear such a bailout neither is france and the german taxpayer who has a word to say in all that is no longer of willing to do saying what i think let me jump in here if i just made for a moment ok so germany doesn't want to bear the brunt of bailing out struggling economies in the u. but that's in the e.u. rather let's talk about what happened in berlin today with the economic and financial summit taking place where you are the russian prime minister vladimir

putin suggesting that europe needs to break down its economic barriers so russia can step in and assist what is a financial crisis across the e.u. could russia help and is this an example of russia offering a helping hand and got and kind of ride to the rescue of europe here do you think. i think having in mind russia's being in the rescue of europe is a little bit farfetched but i despite being very critical of the russian government's attitude as far as the rule of law is concerned i think russia historically in the future is a natural ally to germany and it's a natural ally to europe we cannot think of europe without thinking as well of russia russia is effect a matter of fact a political matter of fact and i've always advocated the strongest the closest possible ties not only between germany and russia but between russia and the european union i think it's a good idea to to use this opportunity of crisis because crisis from time to very

creative and president putin no prime minister putin has is totally right in saying can we open a new chapter in trade relationship in trade relations between the european community and russia i think we have to make this very concrete we have to make precise decisions propose concrete measures and the dialogue has to be enhanced as quickly as possible all right markets cover a professor of political economics at a university thank you thank you well on the way here on arts he digging up the past why some poles living in lithuania think the local authorities are persecuting them by restricting their native tongue. after months of hard lying around the world in orbit a russian cosmonaut and nasa astronauts have their feet firmly back on the ground all of this coming 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. has more from star city the heart of russia's space program. russian 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 of may nineteenth spacecraft land 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 has all together spent a year in space and his colleagues from nasa sean 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 an element of extra stress before their departure because they witnessed their predecessors failing to undock from the international space station due to a technical difficulty with an automatic lock that connects the international space station and the sacred space craft 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 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 . r.t.s. natalia not recover while this is r.t.

live from moscow and josef 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 catton massacre that soured relations between moscow and warsaw for years catherine us out of a 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 it 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 russia in the early one nine hundred ninety s. finally admitted responsibility for those murders and of course it was a very significant event for the revelations between moscow and warsaw because the polish side was just as frustrated at not knowing what happened to nearly twenty thousand of the citizens as they were with the laws that were being fed by the soviet leadership in the admittance of guilt in this was if the incident has been already called a turning point in relations between moscow and warsaw that crimean the left was commuted by. study and his comrades and. unfortunately this was against a lot of people. no he did declare a national parliament to my country we. lost sort of with polish people a boat that is 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 repressions 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 and today we've already. i've 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 to be kind of 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 being a 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 to keep plane crashed just outside of some 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 to choose sides closer to reconciling their differences and putting the past behind them. reporting well there's more on all of our stories at dot com and here's what i was going to find online are right now with extreme care the russian post office a shock to discover machine gun winding its way to a woman here in moscow. and americans were facing a thanksgiving down all full body scans at airports but many opted to go cold turkey on one of the busiest travel weekends of the year all the details that dot com. our time now to check out some other headlines making news around the world

this hour south korea has reported the sound of. uncited 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. the south korean naval drills planned for the weekend pushing the peninsula to the brink of war in a show over. solidarity meantime a top u.s. military commander of visited the island which was the site of a previous artillery exchange between both careers earlier this week. is set to mark two years since terror attacks around the indian city killed one hundred sixty six people. to men targeted at luxury hotels the main a railway station and a jewish cultural center in a siege that lasted two and a half days and terrorist police were among those deployed to bolster security india meantime has criticized pakistan in the lead up to the anniversary but not pressing ahead with charges against the alleged mastermind. police in 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 restore at least thirty people killed as officers backed by special forces and military hardware trying to restore order police say the violence began in protest against a crackdown on gang members in the slums and the silver currently is trying to reduce violent crime in the lead up to hosting the football world cup in two thousand and fourteen. well poles living in lithuania claim they're being discriminated against by local authorities they are prevented from using their native language to spell polish street names and even surnames and as. 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 leith when

ian and polish languages in her store but that 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 and 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 polls use both languages but that they use 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 adverts of each 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. . little granier were so keen on becoming part of the e.u. that they signed several documents on the session one of those was the european chances are all national minorities he 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 answers 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 a little any of 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 of ski r.t. reporting from vilnius in lithuania. you are with r.t. and we are coming to live in our just turning twenty two minutes past the hour and shortly we're discussing if there's hope for haiti with the upcoming presidential elections following a year the nation would rather forget that's coming up in cross talk but first

after a short break corrina say with the business. for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. in some petersburg she's available in hotels a story and. ambassador renascence politico tell the truth palace hotel the true sports hotel to go. and see if. you visit. welcome to business. have you with us the switching on

a brand new power station has given russia's electricity network a much needed shot in the arm. for part of a two point four billion euro investment program the project has not without problems. german energy is just 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 it's a national poll companies pledged thirty billion dollars to overhaul most just 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 i'm consumers in the world's biggest coldest country and 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 financial director frank the but . here in russia says his company was lucky as the royals was 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 a huge investment program the investment program for each on in russia 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 is not going to uncertainty about the banking system like in other countries this project that we have in front of us in our combined cycle gas turbine. field 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 multibillion dollar stake in gas from russia still wouldn't energy company field chief executive johan testin says the stake is no strategic told me he thinks the old core competency is in power stations like this and gas production interest group transmission gazprom on the other hand thinks its shares are heavily on devalued at the moment and you can make a lot of money boy boy now with a reputed has met charles local in germany on friday we think that a deal between a guest from could be a dell suit. and look at the markets now your stocks fall sharply on friday after a holiday break and a shortened session on handling going on session to surroundings good step problems tension between north and south korea also weighing on the stocks dow jones is down

point eight percent of the gas tax is. down point three percent this hour european stocks down on friday as well with the spanish market suffering particularly steep losses investors are worried that sovereign debt contagion in the eurozone continues to escalate both the foot sea and the dax are shedding over half a percent and even trading lighting in banking stocks are dragging the footsie she has a downtown are leading the decline or four and a half percent and b.h.p. billiton down three point three percent. here in russia voices coals in the red as well after advancing on thursday to to their highest level in more than two weeks the r.t.s. finished down nearly a percent and the markets close over a quarter of a percent lower most of the blue chips finished in the red bucking the trend that ended one point two percent high all my six of the biggest losers was bear bank that lost over a percent and noise that fell one point two percent. so we could have been volatile

for the russian markets with investors worried by problems in europe. face thought it's with decent growth in international markets but. tuesday we saw a sharp decline in all markets and actually that was driven by korean problems and second the weakness of europe on concerns that ireland is experiencing serious problems and europe will have to help them with with the situation but then we saw the growth the own wednesday just before thanksgiving day in just russian market full days in general situation is changing that's for sure we saw some one to money entering russian markets and we saw the buy is probably first time in many many months i would say industrial which is very very important because from looks very interesting i think the board decided to cut complex next year by ten percent which was taken by the market very positively and the market also expects that bloke of about three point five percent will be bought out by the colombine and that's also

very positive for the market because problems were very well beat this week and that gives me kind of hope that said december will be stronger and i think the markets will be expecting the budget expenditures growing in december and that will cause the markets move further up at least it will give them a good very good support. that's the latest business we have for you join me in less than one hour from all here at r.t. thanks for watching.

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a participant of the world festival of russian language and when an exciting trip to st petersburg in russia. for more information visit the festival website. it's now half past the hour here i must. with the headlines now close economic ties between russia and the e.u. plus a free pass for business development. prime minister vladimir putin some of germany's top industrialists out of business forum in burma. a russian cosmonaut and two nasa astronauts have made a successful landing back on earth he spent five months on the international space station. and russia as lawmakers say.