and bill will share reactors are expected to soon be supplying the country with electricity artesian italian overcover has more overrun didn't announce the exact date when the nuclear power plant was launched and they say it is because there is still a lot of testing to be done and how before it starts pumping electricity into a rainy and homes they're expecting it to happen within the next one to two months . hopefully we will witness a large solar brief february when the bush or plant is connected to the country's power grid even though iran didn't announce the exact date it came as no surprise to russian companies or saddam that helped to build this nuclear power plant as loading a fuel into the can you clear power plants began on the twenty six ok so but now the next step which will be the fuel that has been loaded will be heating the water that will be generating steam that will be turning the tribune and then generating you know look she said she and distilled is too soon to say that's a pushchair is now working as full capacity as there are a lot of testing that has to be down to have iran is currently under un sanctions

against its nuclear program and the last round of sanctions was imposed to this summer with threats that indeed iran might be creating a nuclear weapons who are sure is not the part of a new iran's nuclear program that is a big concern to the west that is a peaceful nuclear power plant sound and international experts are saying that there's very little chance of proliferation also the russian companies will start them that helped operate to help celebrate and help to build the nuclear power plant says that more russian and iranian experts are working under the supervision of international atomic energy experts and what's also very important is that marshall will be supplying the nuclear power plant with its enriched uranium but also taking the nuclear waste out of the country in order to make sure that it's not used in any other way either other than the peaceful purposes. that vladimir orloff from the center for policy studies says it's russia's role to ensure the plant say frog. we why do well know all of that of there will be

a russian engineers present at the facility of that of the facility is quite well controlled by russia iran will get both electricity and experience from the safer to and security viewpoint russia provides belle's some may think there may be a proliferation concern there is none quite the opposite it opens new avenues for in good mental for iran in talks about peaceful uses of nuclear energy and iranian transparency on that. in switzerland people are set to vote in a referendum on whether foreigners who commit serious crimes should be automatically expelled but in a country with a high proportion of immigrants some think the proposal is too severe artie's tests are so your reports two years ago twenty two year old life was brutally cut short we know that my son was at the carnival with his friend he was just standing and

having a conversation with three young men came towards him and started beating him with their fists on the hit beat him until he fell and then started kicking him on the beat him to death for no reason no reason at all they did it just for fun. details then emerged the victim was swiss the attackers were from the balkans and immigration sentiment rose giving traction to a referendum proposal to make it mandatory for foreign criminals with heavy crimes such as murder and rape to be kicked out of the country just a year after voting in favor of a law banning the building of new minarets on mosques the swiss are set to return to the polls on sunday with another yes or no decision to make their oath of paper should no longer be in switzerland because they don't deserve to be answered so to some people i mean they get so much money and they are a needy acting i scream it is i mean because no nomadic september. you can't keep

them all out we need immigrants period. over a member of the swiss people's party which initiated this referendum is adamant that the answer should be yes eighty percent of the prisoners in this race prisons are foreigners it's a very high every age you see our attitude in these foreigners we have a lot of foreigners into it and who behave from within the law who respect the law who look for themselves they are welcome here in other words out with a black sheep a sensitive statement to make in a country with more than a fifth of its population made up of immigrants one of the largest in europe wary of a backlash from the e.u. and the world this response released a counterproposal with amendments to the list of crimes and provisions stating that deportations must fall within both swiss and international law still either version

is seen by some as another anti immigration move adding on to what's been dubbed as a rising wave and immigration sentiment sweeping across the country and the whole of europe can really make a difference between a drug dealer who was from nigeria from russia from india or is a swiss is a drug dealer a drug dealer a better one so i don't make a difference between someone who is doing something wrong the law should not look whether he's white black or whatever what language you speak for the father of them jani the debate is a personal one he prefers not to divulge his vote but does say this those who come to switzerland if they don't become delinquent are violent then there will be no problem other one had the very idea of a proposed law targeting immigrants has raised accusations of racism and intolerance but could also be a way of saying that even tolerance has its limits no matter the outcome of this referendum vote many european nations will continue to face such tough questions

the answers to which may keep boiling down to a yes or a no test or cilia r.t. zurich switzerland. stay with us here on r.t. coming up later in the program moscow's standstill muscovite located in the paralyzed but the traffic find out if there's a solution in the capital's daily gridlock. but first with thirty percent of the population living below the poverty line in external debt becoming a growing concern many fear georgia could soon become a bankrupt country critics of the saakashvili government say it's too much money being wasted on useless projects r.t. sarraf earth has more from tbilisi. anyone who's ever received a hefty credit card bill the pain of having to pay off. well judy could face an eight hundred million dollars in interest payments by twenty thirty. two spiralling foreign debts. the level of debt has doubled over three years there is an

international norm saying that if a country's external debt which is sixty percent of g.d.p. in the country is considered bankrupt we are currently at over the forty percent mark in georgia continues this it is entirely possible that we will find ourselves in that situation. external debt is now a major concern for the country and the government has come under heavy criticism for borrowing so extensively one of the main criticisms has been the government's heavy investment in construction projects such as the freedom bridge which many people said was completely unnecessary but it was built just a couple of hundred meters away from the bridge that withstood. with the foreign debt who are laying the country's economic potential needed to be growing to see. that with wine one of its only strong export products and a lack of investment in areas that will generate money government will have no way

of paying back what they. will we think it will be very difficult to cover such large payments from the state budget and the country may have to refinance the debt meaning it will have to take even more money from international organizations and partner countries. so just what have they been spending all that money on. well i need bridge for starters which kashdan at an estimated six million dollars and. then there's the presidential palace is snazzy new class dame which guesses put up between twenty one thirty two million dollars. and a number of other controversial projects including a glass monument and a raid which takes the two hundred nine million dollars. the glass buildings which were symbols dreamed up by president saakashvili to portray a new chance parents of government now see if grimly ironic. extensively. to spend this money beautification projects this is really say this is

really a fraud. to be held accountable for the. decision in carrying such large debts to the country has also done little to improve the conditions of the population. such. as being. held to expenditure so. economists say this foreign debt is now one of the most serious problems facing the country the georgian government say they've used the money to rebuild the country and forge a bright future that for taxpayers that it seems carries a multi-million pound price tag that they'll be paying off for

a long time to come so fast. a cargo plane has crashed into a densely populated area in karate killing at least eight people the russian embassy and checking the nationality of the crew a crash in pakistan's largest city sparked a huge weight casualties on the. if you're like us reports say accommodation buildings for naval officers are now on fire countries' aviation authority says it was a russian made cargo plane headed toward sudan to deliver relief aid will keep you updated on the story as it develops. we'll find more on that in every thing we cover twenty four hours a day on our team dot com here's a taste of what else is online right now. if you're feeling the need for adventure and maybe consider signing up for the russian army it's now recruiting forums. and russia is leading the way was some help from hollywood stars in the fight to save tigers from extinction by this and all the stories we cover at our t.v.

dot com. taking a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe john yang has a south korean using civilians as human shields after the north shelled an island earlier this week two marines and two residents were killed in the in the bombardment is comes as former south korean military personnel clashed with police during a rally in the capital protesting the government's handling of the incident tensions between the koreas is running high as the u.s. and the south prepare for a large scale military drills set to start sunday young young has issued new warnings against the war games calling them quote and on pardonable provocation. brazilian police backed by helicopters and armored vehicles continue to crack down on gang violence in the slums of rio at least thirty five people mostly suspected

traffickers have been killed after a week of clashes drug gangs have burned several houses and that's how police stations in the district authorities launch the operation to make the city safe for the football world cup in one fourteen and the olympics in twenty sixty. and thousands have marched through the streets of dublin protesting ireland's harsh austerity. azure's that includes slashing jobs and rising taxes it's the first major rally since ireland open negotiations for an you i am apps are viable package last week but trade unions say it's the first of many around ninety billion euros are expected to be pumped into double and triple the funny financial troubles are spreading all around the euro zone with fears portugal and spain may be next in line for a bailout. boss caus traffic is infamous with millions of drivers spending hours in daily gridlock and a rapidly growing capital where almost everyone owns a car is compounding the situation but the city's new mayor has a raft of plans to tackle the problem leaving muscovites hopeful for

a solution before the city grinds to a complete halt as artie's daria pushed hope it took. the time when most school streets was base empty is long gone nowadays the city's traffic jams on a tory it's the city has become soup congested the problems being given top priority at the top level the minister of the ms plan has sim good points if at least half of them realise they have found to be fewer traffic jams and what that could save a cabbie like yaroslav up to three hours per day going nowhere at the time he would no longer spend breathing in exhaust fumes or with a group of course you won't get a heart attack from one traffic jam co-edit if it several times a day for many air i was add that to other adverse effect is and your body will wear so much faster. the problem was born in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's when many of moscow's major roads were planned back then hardly anyone imagined a moscow family owning two or even three cars. despite all recent efforts the speed

of traffic has been dropping year on year experts blame it primarily on a severe shortage of space during the or not over the past fifty years but the amount of road building was far from fast enough can you believe that we have three times fuel rage than in paris. the lack of car parking forces drivers to ditch their cars on the sides of the already congested roads and this is the old way of tackling a problem the new med promises a different approach his draft plan suggests among others road widening tolls and removing most ground level pedestrian crossings public transport also faces a major overhaul slow a trolley buses will be chased out of the city center by foster alternatives russia's very own g.p.s. glow now satellite system will also be used to monitor jams while traffic cops will

be replaced by automatic. all these cameras and monitors only cover forty percent of the city far from enough to say the police the system needs updating and modernizing none of which can happen without a serious injection of cold hard cash the mayor is now looking for ways to raise the billions of rubles needed for the changes not everyone though is happy with the scheme a suggestion to ban trucks from the city during daylight has sparked protests from their drivers not about the hard work. night time should be for sleeping not working. people have rested night so should we. ironically the time saving move could end up costing people among retail companies in moscow claimed it would be impossible to deliver goods at night while replacing large cargo trucks with many smaller bands would trigger a surge in prices the other. guys don't drive to the city on their own will that

burn the nerves and petrol to provide for moscow's every day life we hope they don't think paying the trucks will mean heaven as follows cause it's wild. but most traffic experts agree the mayor's proposals reasonable as long as it's not just a publicity stunt and the money is found to solve the problem for making scenes like this one history. r t moscow. stay with us here on r.t. i'll be back in about ten minutes with the headlines first though nato leaders have mapped out the withdrawal of the alliance's combat troops from afghanistan in four years meanwhile there's doubts that kabul will be able to manage security on its own but in an interview with r.t. afghan foreign minister dr zalmay ross source says it's time for the country to stand on its own two feet stay with us.

afghan foreign minister thank you very much for being with us today our pleasure as a foreign minister when soviet forces withdrew from afghanistan you have been publishing a resistance journal for eighteen years what did you and your compatriots expect

for your country's future back then as usual afghanistan wanted to be free independent and sovereign country to be. only with his neighbors good region and have his own destinies their own hunt with something that you wanted and that's something that afghans always will how would you describe the state of your nation as of today afghan people have been at war for the last of thirty years since nine eleven two cards and one when international community came to afghanistan to liberate afghanistan from defeat of the taliban. afghanistan is facing tremendous challenges to rebuild itself because for thirty years for the country which solidly was a poor country has been completely destroyed so the challenge is. rebuilding the country giving the normal life toward people are our children go to school to have a health care target you cation. that is what you're trying to do

now with our friends british defense chief general sir david richards said that nato should prepare for another thirty forty years to stay in afghanistan which makes and mockery of their plans transition in two thousand and fourteen why do you see major change its strategy and do you think its strategy defeating the tribal opposition was right in the first place number one it's not a tribal position it is a fight against terrorism and extremism in the tribal chief in the tribal people of the first victim of the terrorism which had been killed after the. date of two thousand and fourteen it's afghan proposal president karzai is the first inaugural speech in the second term said afghanistan should take the responsibility of its own security starting by two thousand and eleven and if an issue by two thousand and fourteen that's been proposed and i thought that in london and kabul conference

by international community and that's been concretized and had that summit in lisbon that's a real things that afghanistan should be in the hundreds. afghans and the security afghanistan has the responsibility of the afghans so starting by two thousand and eleven and finishing by two thousand and fourteen the afghan national security forces will be in charge of security. and the remaining force of international community need to or not there will be supporting force not a fighting force how is the russian effort to help the russian effort to what to help the war effort perceived in kabul i think russia is a great country a great power in the world a great partner of afghanistan in the region and we seek the support and cooperation of russia for peace and security in afghanistan because the security in afghanistan the stability of afghanistan is not only for afghanistan it took effect disability and security of the region including russia so wonderful our product in

war foreign policy the fight against terrorism and extremism and stability of afghanistan in the region is a region of cooperation because the fight against terrorism and extremism is not only individual afghanistan it is a regional issue so if you cannot find a solution the additional solution for it will be in deep trouble because that will continue until the longest time sir you told the u.n. general assembly and i quote you to complement our efforts towards eliminating poppy production who wish to see greater action to counter smuggling of precursors into our country and to reduce demand and consumption of drugs in other countries as of today over two and a half million russians are addicted to afghan heroin this is where mr why has your administration and your allies failed to tackle the poppy production first of all the poppy production in afghanistan have to result of thirty years of war and lawlessness and despair of the afghan people who do new tomorrow he's going to be a life or not you know security for their future. secondly when you came to our

back to afghanistan in two thousand and eleven to two thousand and one two thousand and two don't have any institution to fight it no police no judicial system no army and in that to take time before you can put. in place but the fight there is not quite dick is also one of the priority of afghanistan because afghanistan will pay first for that suffer first before they are there will suffer from it and you are not taking the benefit of that because demand reduced by the traffickers will go outside afghanistan and not stay in afghanistan so definitely it is a it is a major fight that we are engaged in dutt this fight cannot be done by afghanistan alone we need support of international community we need the support of the regions by enforcement of law by us mentioned a precursor which are not produced in afghanistan has proved outside afghanistan and came inside afghanistan we will do our things our job to reduce and eliminate

poppy cultivation afghanistan but also a role in the region should do did it forced to reduce the demand because because because the demand the production of poppies there so it's a common effort money for reducing the cultivation giving too far out of afghanistan the alternative which they would accept to to grow something poppy elections have also been a lot in need lately to actions have taken place since the nato led invasion both sat fraudulent with the rigging with results published only two months after the poll what do you say to those who claim when you and your allies are planning an unsustainable political system afghanistan is a democratic system afghanistan after thirty years of war and lawlessness no government practically would different kind of government. now system democratic

process is taking root but you know you cannot make democracy in one day in your country especially in a country that had been at war for fifty years so i think that there are probably going to be problems and i think the problem on addiction is not only in the specific when afghanistan a lot of countries even more developed countries have the hype has had problem in their direction but the process is going on there people are. believing in democracy that's the reason people are complaining millions of people anybody difficult condition of security when to vote not the woman for the first time in afghanistan or we're not in the election to be man not the place it's good news with afghanistan but afghanistan cannot be switzerland or sweden in nine years mr foreign minister thank you very much for this interview and i wish you and your people every success in achieving peace and democracy in your country.

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three thirty am in moscow good to have you with us here on our t.v. easier headlines iran's first nuclear power plant to share reaches operational capacity before being linked up to the country's national grid moscow says this will he will supervise all nuclear activity at the russian built plant. swiss voters get ready to decide whether immigrants who commit serious crimes should be deported the referendum comes just a year after switzerland voted in favor of banning the building of new minarets on mosques. and what experts claiming georgian foreign debt is spiraling out of control many blame president saakashvili for lavish overspending meanwhile critics say the money is not going where it's most needed. up next album of interviews.