u.s. embassies are locked into damage control after the details of thousands of frank and damning diplomatic cables are published critical of even america's closest allies. residents of mumbai slums refused to leave their city center real estate to make way for an airport expansion unless the government makes it worth their while . and water world of russian in that of paddle powered submarine opens up the wonders of the ocean depths to everyone with or without

a diving spirit. and in business russia is the fifth largest gold producer in the world but despite rocketing prices for gold growth is slowing more in twenty minutes. this is r.t. live from moscow i'm marina josh and welcome to the program but you know workings of u.s. diplomacy is being put on display for the world to see thanks to whistleblower web site wiki leaks thousands of communiques review often damning opinions and host countries including close allies among them seemingly illegal plans to spy on top u.n. seekers and the suggestion the state department knew georgia was planning an attack on south the city of before it happened or do x. here chefs he has the details some of the things revealed by the controversial week makes which side are so cynical in their nature that it's really hard to imagine

what steps they were going diplomats now have to take to clear their reputation though first of all it is also a great threat to their work in the middle east and muslim countries across the world so. of the some of the conversations we do the american diplomats have strong and make statements and of course this puts their work in serious danger in the middle east region and the muslim countries across the world now also we know according to the weaken leaks that basically the converse in the conversations between american diplomats they actually in some way betray their close allies for instance that we can least reveals that the american diplomats supported the kurdish party in turkey despite openly saying that it wasn't so and despite that unties being one of the closest allies in this region for washington another interesting part of the week at least revealing says that. the the secret service is in the united states were ordered to spy on several very key u.n.

figures for instance they were trying to acquire the credit card numbers where their fingerprints and things like that and some of the things revealed by that we have a very sorry about that us diplomats were sending out letters to western diplomats to european diplomats concerning the u.n. general assembly so when that when the iranian president had to speak they received instructions on how and when they should have left at the u.n. general assembly hall as member of the swedish delegation according to the we can expect side received a letter from the u.s. diplomats saying that he had to leave the whole went with mark who didn't want to just want to mention the holocaust issue so the iranian president didn't actually mention this issue so the swedish diplomat was perplexed as to what to do next so he didn't know whether he had to leave the room or stay inside all this incident basically shows how the united states how washington is trying to influence the politics of other countries is trying to control the situation urging other

countries to follow oh it's directives the weak links website is providing information to several magazines and newspapers across the world the bottom. russian reporter magazine is no exception to that we know that the website has supplied the magazine with very interesting information concerning the south the second war of two thousand and eight reported that the american ambassador to georgia at the time john theft who is now an ambassador if you guessed the united states in ukraine knew some twenty four hours before georgia started falling on south the say that the georgian missile complex s. were moving towards the south border and later on some several days after that he can sack to washington on how to start the information war and information complains to clear secretary was named as if anybody doubted that saakashvili was to was involved in that attack and. we also know that the weekly

supported that several countries including the baltic states and poland who openly supported georgia in that war also knew that it was saakashvili who started this attack and saw the said but obviously tried to neglect that fact also that we could be reporting that several. u.s. diplomats were talking about different world leaders in europe and in russia discussing on the how and who is running the country in particular they discussed the power tandem in russia the. collaboration talking about who is actually in charge of all things here in this country and saying that it was probably putin who despite that he's prime minister that he is running russia in moscow well these speculations are not something completely new basically one could read about it in western newspapers or magazines and besides these these talks these conversations were taking place in the george w.

bush era in two thousand and eight and earlier than the us now as long as we have this reset of relations between moscow and washington maybe the opinions among the u.s. diplomats are now different but maybe. experts agree that the new findings by the weekly leaks website is not something completely new and this is something many of already knew about and talked about we know pretty much more of what the united states thinks the leaders of the ability vans and prostheses variously thing would be simply to see it in print on official documents but indeed this is we have to see what the reaction of the u.s. diplomats on those revealing is by the weekly it will be. or do i see as has been reporting from central moscow sandy struck on political columnist at russia's commerce a newspaper says although this leak exposes mass in the state department its real target could be president obama of course this is an unprecedented situation definitely and. i think this is just

a serious incident which has to be analyzed because. if such situations happens like this custom or shadow of the work of the state department so definitely they have to improve their technique because they put by such leaks they put even awkward positions in the partners all over the world as i understand above my administration is supposed to pay the bills or of the last administration because of the some documents have made dated back to the year two thousand and four two thousand and five so i personally have a friend in the know this is ongoing an attack on president obama which started not today and which aims not to allow him to be reelected this is the theme i think. sergei strickland political columnist newspaper there. reports suggest china's top foreign affairs diplomat could be sent to north korea as early as monday as part of attempts to ease tensions on the peninsula beijing wants an emergency

meeting of the six nations involved in north korea disarmament talks south korea says it's not interested in formally resuming talks on the subject at this time tensions have been stowed by the u.s. and south korea holding forty joint military exercises in the yellow sea near the disputed maritime border has reportedly put its surface to surface missiles on alert comes just days after the north claiming it was provoked fired artillery on an island belonging to the south killing for well for more we're joined live by polish akad director of the international center on korea studies. so paul how have south korean leader. policies and attitude towards the north led to a critical state of play sheens between the two. i think that president. has been hostage to his own policies actually it should be he wasn't open to the previous two presidency and he had to offer some alternative to carrot and on that tentative

was stick and actually i guess whew that was a good chance for him because of the poor health voted for the. can join the. leader of the north. and the heritage problems and economic problems so he wanted to make. economic. or maybe. a good chance for unification because that because i mean in the north he's weak and different position compared in the cells and unfortunately i think that this is not the right way to deal with north korea yes they have problems in economies they have problems in power changes but still the only possible way to deal with that type of states is just to deal with. let's take a closer look at the situation in the region at the moment i mean. north korea is

usually seen as the aggressor but massive drills military drills that are going on there at the moment held by south and u.s. near the disputed border. and that involves thousands of troops nuclear powered super carriers well now in these circumstances just being young have the right to be worried. surely they have. that's not the only exercise in this year i think that's the numerous. repeat in each maybe several months and we just had skewed shipment of forces i don't think that could be a defensive action that kind of show even not to north korea but to china as well that's why china's action was so. now what's. likely to happen next to me in your view what are we going to see how will the situation develop there do you think is that we may see further escalation of a problem which may change the political landscape in the region. i think that

discussion is impossible because the major players in this conflict certainly. couldn't afford this so what is the likely outcome. will be calm in the situation because december the cells will be celebrating christmas and not absorb it and nineteen percent of us are. becoming their commander in chief so what is a likely solution to this problem like the solution is negotiations and i think that reasonable that it would be six party talks or bilateral negotiation between us or some kind of out of. frame of negotiations. director of the international center on korean studies thanks very much for sharing your views with us here in america marty. watching ardea live from moscow still ahead on the program. this is a unique thing we have had to be as accurate as possible to. dive dive dive

a paddle powered promises to take private olson explorers to new depths. and it's the biggest aviation have been india and the whole of south asia plans for the much needed expansion of mumbai's main airport are being hampered by the surrounding slums the government wants to relocate the thousands of families living there although as currency reports the proposals have yet to take off. this is the first glimpse most people get of mumbai india's financial capital it's not a pretty sight with around one hundred thousand families sharing their wallets with the international airport this is not just an i saw it's a huge security hazard also on. as far as the runway lengths are concerned as far as development of hangars is concerned you know these are activities which the airport requires expansion of the terminal building today we are chock a block at the airport where you have almost a one hour of circling time for every aircraft the government hopes to clear that

three hundred acres of airport land the slum is a good stop on but attempts to relocate the slum dwellers have met with stiff opposition like many others here a couple of fears her livelihood will be disrupted if she moves on but i'm not concerned with the airport has expanded or not but where we are staying now a replacement houses should be in the same area and largely here so here children work at the airport and women and money between utensils right here if you really came to us what do we and we are not moving from this area. two years ago all the state government gave the contract to living developer each d. i l. do we have a late date the slum residence by building them homes up to seven kilometers away but with the state agencies acquiring land to accommodate only one in every four families many prefer to stay poor with every change there is going to be resistance

but having said that people are aware the slum habitation in mumbai works. at the same time because now they are being shifted from lands which they currently occupying some of them will not qualify the slum residents occupy prime land in the center of mumbai and they know it and important source of votes when all the government has to be forced them out as a result their demands have become even more ambitious. you know let them believe each family should receive at least one hundred eighty thousand dollars as compensation actually. it will cost that much this is expensive but at least the family can live frugally the government can either give us the money or provide a placement and in this area you know this has become an important for the government with mumbai airport already congested it desperately needs the land that the slum has encroached upon this capacity a second airport has been sanctioned on the outskirts of mumbai but this will not

be ready to let out in fifteen so it remains to be seen if the government will win the battle against the residents of this move by slab about and seeing r.t. india. and the us a few failure to tackle growing poverty and unemployment has strengthened accusations of favoring the rich when taking a crisis measures later today across peter lavelle and his guest discuss what steps should be taken so that the us system doesn't turn into socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor here's a taster. but all real economy remains terrible because there because most of that most of the capital flowing towards the public sector i mean if they have the government to allow first of all our real economic contraction to take place and we can get down and we can wring out some of this bad debt and only then will i have bought a house or apartment you want twenty percent unemployment is what we need twenty percent unemployment this austerity scheme does not work we want to you're going to create want to hear it all you are going to be followed by mr hinde words go in the right jim go ahead go ahead and singapore and i mean we're in the midst and we're

in the in the united states in the past twenty or thirty years as you were pointing out we've had some unbelievable dislocations we have we have done things which no country in the world should do we have run up debts which we can never pay off no matter how hard we try what the politicians are and you say we don't have to have a recovery from that i mean when you have a long hangover you've got to recover when you have a long illness you have to really whenever you make mistakes mr. and would somebody has got to pay for those mistakes and it should be the ridge and we shouldn't be there waiting to be sure. now is take a look at some other stories from around the world a prominent radio nuclear site has been killed and another one that after coming under attack in the capital tehran local t.v. reports say they were targeted in two different locations by mad on motorcycles bombs to their cars to other nuclear professors have been killed in recent years in the country which i rather suspect that was part of an attempt to undermine its

nuclear program. was voters have narrowly passed a controversial new law that will see foreigners if they are convicted of serious crimes the vote has caused outrage among human rights movements while the country's justice minister called it an expression of insecurity far ride and immigration sentiment has been growing rapidly in switzerland a year ago swiss voters passed another controversial law banning the construction of minarets over mosques. the brazilian government is claiming victory in a year long fight against a group of drug traffickers that's hapless forces on the gang stronghold in water of rio de janeiro's most dangerous slums the fighting left forty five dead and caused hundreds to flee or barricade themselves indoors the country's trying to bring rampant crime under control before the twenty fourteen football world cup and the twenty sixteen olympics. patients wrapped up the elections on sunday and it breaks the violence in claims of fraud almost all of the presidential candidates

denounced the vote accusing going president of a fix the quake devastated country still battling a growing cholera epidemic which has so far claimed more than thirteen hundred lives much of the eleven billion dollars in aid promised by the international community has yet to right. now if you live discovering lives out of water but find the diving is a little too much. like hard work than this before a russian engineers invented what's been described as an underwater bicycle and says it's safer and more comfortable than any alternatives are to check it out. billions of people in the world are missing out on these beauties admiring them requires special skills and special equipment and only fee well trained divers have the privilege one russian engineer has invented a special vehicle to open this breathtaking world to the world meet the blue space

the first of a pedal powered submarines but. usually there are heavy engines and propellers and huge batteries for underwater vehicles and that requires a lot of energy to be driven or just to people's efforts because they can't even children can do it at the. pace can dive to thirty metres for up to four hours struggling at six kilometers per hour ideal for leisure underwater prominent it's cairo of cup it gives its passengers amazing views but tourism is far from its only use maritime archaeology and inspections of pipes and roll made easily possible some speculate it could have been spying as it's invisible to. the inventors and seized there is nothing sinister about it designed to travel at the bottom of the sea the true space has never plunged into the depths yet while a small more copy can see it over there a yellow thing underwater has already spent more than five years in the shallower waters of these testing. with about years maybe longer but this is

a unique thing in the world we have had to be as accurate as possible. projects trenched both physics and mechanics to the limits of safety has always been the forefront to push them there are of course oxygen cylinders inside lifejackets underwater communication moreover you can see a ballast over there. there's a dip since the submarine goes too deep for instance people inside fall asleep it activates when the vehicle surfaces the loose piece of marine is being promoted as a glamorous hobby and excite your teen and flying and that's around ninety thousand dollars a pop it might just cover digne corner of the market so we show you the room many people in the world eager to get their hands and more importantly their feet on one so that they may not be too far off when diving a bicycle will be just as common as riding a bicycle refinish not t.

st petersburg. of raises up to date here on r.t. for more of a member there is always our website r.t. dot com right now it's time to take a look at what's happening in the world of business with your don't go away. hello and a very warm welcome to the business program will start with an r.t.a. exclusive the biggest shareholder in gas problem has revealed why it's selling up in the first public comments on falling talks electricity giant says it regards as gas protests as non-strategic the world's largest utility is expected ten miles to deal with michigan non-bank for the three billion here a three and a half percent stake here on russia's finest chief was speaking at the opening of a vast new show tour a power plant what you see in front of you is very strategic number one what you see in front of you is the combined cycle gas turbine unit it's the most efficient

operating in this country what is non-strategic is more something that we don't feel we have the right competency for this is our competency what you see in front of us we are an excellent builder or constructor and organizer of cesar t. projects and we try to meet the expectations of the russian government. well russia is the third largest gold producer in the world but despite rocketing prices for gold growth is slowing artist a telephone call explores why russia could be left behind in the gold rush. there is the world. wide berth. here. when we got on the ground we saw just one man drilling before the ninety's said that in their mind in the urals used to employ three

thousand workers producing five tonnes of gold a year now it produces as little as five hundred kilograms of the precious metal and even though gold now come on sky high prices the miners here still left behind in the gold rush it's hard and expensive to work in mining metal producers hike prices all the time transport and electricity monopolies raise tariffs constantly miners say there is enough gold and silver down here to last for another century but experts argue mining such old deposits is profitable the industry is still leading all of the results of soviet geological exploration and isn't desperate need off new projects there is growth in certain companies that are either extending and expanding existing mines or bringing online. mining projects that were already known about frankly thirty years ago there's very little you know new

things that are being developed are going to be factors of growth going forward so if the current situation doesn't change now in ten years you can forget about growth it's not going to happen because there's just there's nothing else there's nothing to mind. one of the main drags on gold exploration is the law on strategic resources. if a company with foreign capital finds a mind of more than fifty tons of gold it risks losing its license as such deposits become strategic the government is now considering easing restrictions and opening deposits of up to two hundred fifty tonnes to foreign investors the gold in russia it's going to be here it's not going anywhere it's in the ground we have borders russia has a large bureaucracy has a large tax forces a large security force has controls. the go get a go what difference does it make who mines it up you might end up you pay your taxes the central bank can basically buy the gold if they want to so you know that

from that point of view you're secure analysts say before the law on strategic resources came into force in two thousand and six almost all the major gold mining projects in russia were built with foreign capital that helped industrialize the sector making their contrie the world's fifth largest gold producer if the industry is reopened for foreigners the growth prospects of russian gold mining could become the best in the world as you know but it will be a business are to the urals. harland one approval for an eighty five billion euro emergency aid package as european finance ministers battles to contain the debt crisis the country will receive over six to seven billion here us from the european union and the international monetary fund and pull out another seventeen and a half billion euros promised own pension arland becomes the second country to seek a rescue after great curses budget deficit widened destabilized earlier this year

forcing the e.u. to set up a seven hundred fifty billion euro rescue package to bail out the trouble to calm me. down and have a quick look at the markets asian stocks are also by the european union finance ministers agreement on irish bailout. tical tensions in the region pressure on the indices the job market is also supported by exporters starts growing on begins weakness against the dollar and robust sales reports in the us and or oil prices nearing eighty five dollars a barrel as investors looked to this week's jobs report for evidence the u.s. economy is improving. european stock markets a high of banks saw among the leading gain a soft european union finance ministers approved a bailout for ivan worth and to five billion euros let's say is up zero point seven percent led by a three point two percent gain for world bank of scotland and

a nearly three percent gain full lloyds banking group. is gaining point six percent with torture bank up one percent. and in russia the r.t.s. on the my six oz rising have gained about point seven percent so far most of the chips bucking the trend as it shares continue to drop off to damage to rail link the company uses to ship potage from its main russian line. and that's all we have time for knowledge but if you want to get more stories you can always log onto our web site r t dot com slash business.

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would be soon which brightened if you knew about someone from finest impressions. for instance on t.v. dot com. wealthy british style such. as not on the. card. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the kinds of reports on our culture is that so much of the taxpayers' money coming to you and i says yes and it will make you a little too big to fail expression if you're wealthy governments around the world bailed out the rich and powerful for them the worst of the recession is probably all.