around the clock around the world this is r.t. in moscow good to have you with us there is a possibility that a currency union between russia and the european union will be created that's the message from russian prime minister vladimir putin and german chancellor angela merkel who have pledged to strengthen economic ties between their countries even to more now from the german capital judging by what we've heard today in berlin on friday russia and germany are continuing to move closer together any increasing and increasing cooperation which means russia and the european union are moving towards each other as well russia's prime minister vladimir putin and the german chancellor angela merkel have been discussing joint ventures and projects in many spears like energy and car making and other sectors joint projects joint investments both in business and science but even talked about the possibility of a spiritual currency union also of course and that is something which is really far

away at the moment hard to imagine right now but both of them knowledge that this is something inevitable which would happen if they continue moving towards other let's listen to what was what a person had to say philip. yes from the currency union we all realize that it's a derivative of putting the economies together and it depends on the level of the economy's development it has to become mature but on the whole i don't rule out such forms of cooperation between us. happens in turn america has named the russia germany's important partner and it's no wonder why since the total trade turnover between russia in germany this year has reached its peak around thirty six billion euros worth around dealings billion euros on each side so the cooperation is quite intense would you not prime minister putin suggested to have

a free zone in the future between europe and russia and i agree with that and i think russia and europe are strategic partners that of course have to broaden its potential and so that they must develop that. now you just heard i'm going to talking about the idea of building this free trade zone from was born to avoid the us talk that was also discussed however the german chancellor also mentioned some of the remaining problems in the relations between russia and germany russia and the european union for example the european union's concerns over russia's hand kazakhstan's and bellows customs union. that has been discussed as well going to put in has ensured that this will not hurt the relations between the european union and russia and russia succession into the organization which was also talked about

it was only just about business and. topics and numbers and charts in fact you have talked about the russian bid to host the two thousand and eighteen and two thousand and twenty two football world cups and i actually said that he hopes germany will support russia's bids and will help russia get these busy just as the two will help each other overcome with the consequences of the global economic crisis speaking at the business forum just previously in. a we also heard some of that allegedly humorous from what one person let's listen to what he had to say when talking about quite a serious subject energy security and europe. has that sort of german community doesn't like nuclear power and i don't want to make any comment. 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 go. through. so that i just if you don't have fun i would either. of course some humor there from what you know poison but the topic is quite serious and judging by the current economic situation in europe some serious problems in greece portugal possibly spain and other states only by combining their efforts and working together again the european union specifically germany in this case and russia only by working together can they overcome the consequences of the economic survey once. in crisis hit europe germany is the safest place next kaiser economist and host of artes kaiser report believes the country is ready to emerge as the twenty first century 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 or is it 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 we're talking about a complete reconfiguration of the global. money system and that was mexico's an economist and has to. report. optimum surfing around the world in orbit to russian cosmonauts 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 their trip to terra firma in a town in africa has more now from still a city the haunt to russia's space program. veteran cosmonaut through the year in

has now safely returned to the government center for training his colleagues from nasa and douglas wheelock back to the united states three members of the team will be undergoing after flight procedures for rehabilitation flights back to earth from the international space station 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 and has all together spent a year in space and his colleagues from nasa sean walker and douglas willer 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 jim there must have been him 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 so 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 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 are waiting to welcome three more in the middle of december. well still to come this hour here on r.t. digging up the past why poles living when you think local authorities persecuting

them by restricting their native language. that story still to come but first joseph stalin was responsible for the mass killing of polish prisoners in western russia in one hundred forty russia's parliament has accepted the soviet leader ordered the catton massacre that's solid relations between moscow and warsaw for years. as a river has the details. 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 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 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 its citizens as they were with the law as they were being fed by the soviet leadership and the admittance of guilt in this was if that incident has been already called a turning point in relations between moscow and warsaw that criminal act was commuted by the study and his comrades and. unfortunately this was against a lot of people. no he did you clearly tional 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 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. heard from some polish officials who have said that this latest step this acceptance by the russian state duma of the 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 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 the russian and the polish sides official delegations were there to pay their respects to all the

victims very dense ducting the plane crashed just outside of smile 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 the choose sides closer to reconciling their differences and putting the past behind them katrina czar of russia is concerned that the u.s. state department is not responding to an appeal over the recent attention but one or two news team the russian foreign ministry says the lack of reaction from washington is in stark contrast to its claims to be a leader of free speech in the world the r.t. crew was arrested while covering a peaceful protest outside a military academy in the state of georgia the school assassins the two crew members friends around thirty two hours in jail before they were released. called on the american authorities to condemn the incident and its major security watchdog the o.s.c. has also asked the u.s.

equities state hillary clinton i call an independent investigation. or more and all of our stories in our to dot com here's what else you can find online right now on our website. handle with extreme care the russian post office shocked to discover a submachine gun winding its way to a woman in moscow. and americans were facing a thanksgiving down all full body scan of their ports but many opted to go cold turkey one of the busiest travel weekends of the year all the details in those stories and plenty of other features of r.t. dot com. we're told not to have a quick look at some other news making headlines around the world south korea has reported a second round of artillery fire near one of its islands in the yellow sea this follows early reports of smoke and gun fire officials suspect was a north korean training exercise the news comes as pyongyang warned that u.s. south korean naval drills planned for the weekend pushing the peninsula to the

brink of war in a show of solidarity a top u.s. military commander visit to be on which is the site of a previous artillery exchange between the countries earlier this week. mumbai is said to mark two years since terror attacks around the indian city killed one hundred sixty six ten on main targeted luxury hotels the main railway station and a jewish cultural center in a siege lasting two and a half days and terms police will be among those deployed to bolster security india has criticized pakistan in the lead up to the anniversary for not pressing ahead with charges against the alleged mastermind. police in rio de janeiro say they've regained control of a shanty town that had been taken over by violent drug gangs five days of clashes for at least thirty people killed those officers backed by special forces and military hardware trying to restore order and he said the violence began in protest against a crackdown on gang members in the slums because it was trying to reduce crime in the lead up to her student football. twenty four team. three teenagers who spent

fifty days adrift in the south pacific a safely back on land after being rescued the boys from the new zealand territory of took a little stolen boats and attempted to reach a nearby on and it's really been reported that the motive of the trip was a girl who caught the eye of one of the youths the boat drifted off course for more than a thousand kilometers before being found a teenager survived by connecting rainwater coconuts and also a sea but in the mystic a strange way. poles living in the thing when you 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. 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 lithuanian and polish languages in her store but then all for

a decent she would be fined two hundred euro for violating the state language law according to it all signs in the country must be strictly and lithuanian. i didn't feel as if i was doing anything wrong this was something the local polish community needed besides i had definitional state language on these signs as well this is a violation of human rights i was told i could have signs in english german or french but not in polish almost a quarter of a million ethnic pools 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 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 in relations have a hard 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 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 right to use their language but at the same time the document says the law of the country prevails over the chargers clauses and

according to the law in lithuania we have every right to find them for using their language on signs. some poles living in lithuania suggest that this is vilnius is revenge for centuries of polish occupation authorities on the other hand refuse such claims and say that a decision on the use of polish is being discussed within the country sparling meant but nobody can tell what will prevail the attitude to the events of the past or the wish to be part of the united european legislation alexi russia ski r.t. reporting from vilnius in lithuania. one hour break out chopstick says in a few moments we're giving you a. very own chinatown. the subject was what i looked and smelled great so we got a ministry of six air force that they have used that.

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which brightened. the ballots from feinstein pression. t.v. don't come. hello welcome to this has got to happen with us this watching a brand new power station has given russia's electricity network a much needed shot in the arm constructed by germany in all as part of a two point four billion euro investment program the project has not arrived

without problems to help bush has more. german energy giant deal and 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 just a little 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 i'm consumers in the world's biggest coldest country wasn't 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 yield financial director for exhibits here in russia says his company was luckier than 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 called program for each on in washington 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 volatile the banking system very like in other countries this is a project that we have in. none of us on 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 plant you know and in two thousand and seven the other projects that have been shifted to the coal project siberia that one has been shifted to the year two thousand and fourteen is being widely reported that is selling its multibillion dollar stake in

gazprom russia's energy company 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 on the other hand thinks its shares are heavily on devalued at the moment and you can make a lot of money blood boiling now with a reputed has met charles and merkel in germany on friday and we think that a deal between. could be a. look at the markets u.s. stocks trade shopping lower on black friday as news from europe world's global markets a drop puts the dow off about point eight percent for the week the financial services sector lost more than one percent among big banks morgan chase morgan stanley and citi group had more than one of the half percent stocks in europe and lower on friday with the spanish market suffering particularly steep losses both the footsie

on the dax said over half a percent and even trading mining in banking shares were dragging on the footsie shares of the downtown are leading the declines off four and a half percent each with billiton lost three point three percent and russia's bourses close in the red on friday as well after advancing on thursday to its highest level in more than two weeks the r.t.s. one is down nearly a percent in the my six closed over a quarter of a percent lower most of the blue chips finished in the red bucking the trend with gazprom and with one point two percent higher. now the week has been volatile for the russian markets with investors worried by problems in europe. it's thought it's with decent growth in international markets but on the 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 island is experiencing serious problems and europe will have to help them with with the situation but then we saw

the growth on the wednesday just before thanksgiving day in just a russian market full of bits in general situation is changing that's for sure we saw some one to money entering russian markets and we saw the bias 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 markets 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's will cause the markets move further up at least it will give them a good very good support and that's the latest well for you but you can always find

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