did after years of waiting the russian build share reactor is expected to soon be supplying the country with electricity or he's an intel you know who 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 iranian homes they're expecting it to happen within the next one to two months. hopefully we will witness a large store breach and room for breach when the bush or plant is connected to the country's forward grid pool even though iran didn't announce the exact date it came as no surprise russian companies or saddam that helped to build this nuclear power plant has loading a fuel into make nuclear powerplants began on the twenty sixth of october now the next step it will the fuel that has been loaded will be heating the water that will be generating steam that will be turning that european and then generating unit i like three sixty and distil it's 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 done 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 however bushehr is not the part of new iran's nuclear program that is of a big concern to the west that is a peaceful nuclear power plants and as international experts are saying that there's very little chance of proliferation also the russian companies will start them that helps operates and helps operate and help to build the nuclear power plants says that both 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 eased in any other way either a other than the peaceful purposes. lot of here or law from the center for policy studies says it's russia's role to ensure the plant safe. we why do

well know all of that of there will be a russian engineers present at the facility of that the facility is quite well controlled by russia iran will get both electricity and experience from the safer to and security viewpoint russia provides some may think there may be a proliferation concern there is none quite the opposite it opens a new avenues for in good mental for iran in talks about peaceful uses of nuclear energy and iranian transparency on that borders and switzerland are set to head to the polls on 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 it's a proposal that's too severe artie's tests are so your reports from geneva two years ago twenty two year old life was brutally cut short we are going to come to

my son's 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 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 to 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 they're out of paper should no longer be in switzerland because they don't deserve to be in switzerland

to some people but i mean they get so much money and they are an idiot acting ice cream it is i mean because no nomadic september. you can't keep them all out we need immigrants period. over sure 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 the suisse prisons are foreigners it's a very high average you see our attitude in east these foreigners we have a lot of foreigners into it and who behave 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 you make a difference between drug dealer who was from nigeria or 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 brown 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 or 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. r t. stay with us here on our t.v. coming up later in the program moscow's standstill muscovite something a city paralyzed with traffic find out if there's a solution to the capital's daily gridlock. but first with thirty percent of the population living below the poverty line and external debt becoming a growing concern many feared georgia could soon become a bankrupt country critics of the saakashvili government say too much money is wasted on useless projects for a thousand 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. to 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. 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 the need bridge for starters which kashdan at an estimated six million dollars and. then there's the presidential palaces last day in which guesses put up between twenty one. 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 transparent government now seen as grimly ironic.

expensive. to spend this money beautification projects this is really say this is a really strong. government 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 we need to take into account during the same period such the money has been. held to expenditure so. expenditures have. been really. 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 but for taxpayers that it seems carries

a multi-million pound price tag that bell be paying off for a long time to come so fast. there's always more stories on our website r.t. dot com here's a taste of what else is online right now. feeling the need for adventure you might consider signing up for the russian army recruiting foreigners. plus russia is leading the way with some help from a hollywood star in the fight to save tigers from extinction more on this and all the stories we cover right on line. a cargo plane has crashed into a densely populated area in karachi killing at least eight people the russian

embassy in islamabad is checking the nationality of the crew after reports suggested that they were all russian the crash in pakistan's largest city sparked a huge blaze casualties on the ground appear likely as reports say accommodation for naval officers there is on fire the country's aviation authority says it was a russian made cargo plane heading to sit down to deliver relief aid will keep you updated on the story as it develops. take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe a joint military exercises in the u.s. and south korea has started in the yellow sea the maneuvers are going ahead despite tension escalating between north and south korea after the north shelled an island earlier this week two marines in two residents were killed in the bombardment yang has issued new warnings against the war games calling them an unpardonable provocation meanwhile former south korean military personnel clashed with police during a rally in the capital seoul over the government's handling of the shelling. thousands of marchers have gone to the streets of dublin to protest ireland's harsh austerity

measures that include slashing jobs and increasing taxes it's the first major rally since ireland open negotiations for an e.u. i.m.f. survival package last week but trade unions say it's just the first of many around ninety billion euros are expected to be pumped into dublin's crippled economy financial troubles are spreading around the euro zone with fears portugal and spain may be next in line for a bella. brazilian police backed by helicopters and armored vehicles are continuing to crack down on violence in the slums of rio de janeiro at least thirty five people mostly suspected traffickers have been killed after a week of clashes drug gangs have burned several houses and attacked police stations and the district authorities launched the operation to make this city safe for the football world cup in two thousand and fourteen and the two thousand and sixteen olympics. moscow's traffic is infamous with millions of drivers spending hours in a daily gridlock a rapidly growing capital where nearly everybody owns

a car is compounding the situation but the city's new mayor has a raft of plans aimed to tackle the problem leaving muscovites hopeful for a solution before the city grinds to a complete halt as artie's daria pushed over reports. the time when most the streets will be empty is long gone nowadays the city's traffic jams on the tory is this city has become soup congested the problems being given top priority at the top level the minister of the ms plan has some good points if at least half of them realise they have found to be fewer traffic jams. that could save a cabbie like up to three i was pretty good we know when the time he would no longer spend breathing in exhaust fumes with the group of course you won't get a heart attack from one traffic jam co-edit it several times a day for many and i was add that to other factors 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 the enough for a bit over the past fifty years but the amount of road building was far from fast enough can you believe that we have three times fewer rage than in paris or lack of coffee 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 man 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 energy 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 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. i don't time should be for sleeping not working. people have rested night so should we. honestly the time saving could end up costing people among retail companies in moscow claim it would be impossible to deliver goods at night while replace large cargo trucks with many smaller vans

would trigger a surge in prices other. guys don't drive through 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 won't. but most traffic experts agree the proposals reasonable as long as it's not just a publicity stunt and the money is the problem for making scenes like this one history. r t moscow. stay with us here on r.t. i'll be back with the headlines in about twelve minutes first though nato leaders have mapped out the withdrawal of the alliance's combat troops from afghanistan in four years meanwhile there are doubts that kabul will be able to manage security on its own but in an. interview here afghan foreign minister dr zalmai rassoul 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 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. afghanistan wanted to be free independent and sovereign country to be friendly with his neighbors good region. and have his own destiny in their own hand 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 thirty years since nine eleven clubs and one when international community came to afghanistan to liberate afghanistan from the who left 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 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 nature should prepare for another thirty forty years to stay in afghanistan which makes a mockery of their plans transition in two thousand and fourteen why do you think major change its strategy and do you think that 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 are being killed every day. the date of two thousand and fourteen afghan proposed by president karzai as a first degree speech in the second term said that afghanistan should take this 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 during this had that summit in lisbon that's a real things that afghanistan should be in the hands of afghans and the security of afghanistan. is 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 part of the world is 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 of our foreign policy to fight against terrorism and extremism and stability of afghanistan in the region is regional 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 un 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 will take time before you can put. in place but the fight that 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 then you are not taking the benefit off 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 in a good conduct 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 deduce and eliminate poppy cultivation afghanistan but also do 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 a common afford of reducing the cultivation giving too far out of afghanistan they are tentative which they will accept to two groups something that poppy elections have also been a lot and needs 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 with different kind of government. system democratic process is taking root but you know you cannot make democracy in one country especially in a country that you know war for fifty years so i think that there are probably going to be problems and i think the problem on election is not only in this specific one afghanistan lots of countries even more developed countries have a problem in their direction but the process is going on and people. believe 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. and the election to be men not the place it's good news with afghanistan but afghanistan cannot be switzerland. in nine years as a foreign minister thank you very much for this interview and i wish you and your

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