u.s. embassies are locked into damage control after the details of thousands of frank diplomatic cables are published critical of america's closest ally. to senior nuclear scientists attack in iran leaving one dead and the other injured there are suggestions could be parts of attempts to undermine tehran's atomic ambitions. and the residents. refuse to leave their prime city's center real estate to make way for an airport expansion unless the government makes it worth their while.

news from the heart of moscow this is r.t. the inner workings of u.s. diplomacy are being put on display for the world to see thanks to whistleblower web site wiki leaks thousands of communiques reveal often damning opinions on the host countries among them suggestions the state department knew georgia was playing planning an attack on south ossetia and the use of a mocking nicknames for the russian leadership the kremlin says it is paying no attention to the leaks and hopes damage relations with the u.s. as. the reports most of the revelations were actually some of the worst kept secrets in global diplomacy. we understand that this is only a first part of almost a quarter of a million documents to be published by the controversial website weiqi leaks and it may seem sensational to some of the facts which are listed in these documents and may be jeopardizing the reputation of american diplomacy as

a whole but to many experts the new revealed revelations by the website is not something completely new and is not something completely unexpected in fact many experts say that these facts are something many journalists and politicians have always known about and they just needed an official truth which was found in the form of these publications by the website we know pretty much more of. the seas. there is a thing would be theory to see it in print on documents all just summarize what the weekly leaks website had to say this time is many different issues many different facts about the way the american diplomacy has been behaving in the last several years in particular the plans to spy on u.n. top officials during the u.n. general assembly to wiretap their phones in a choir their fingerprints and credit card numbers also a discreet support of the kurdish party in turkey despite it had been never openly

admitted that the support was there and that in fact the washington has been turkey's very strong ally so this is somehow somehow a betrayal of its very close ally to the website and also very interesting fact instructions revealed by the we can leaks instructions to the west in the european . diplomats on how and when to leave the u.n. general assembly hall during the reagan presidency speech so all these collections are pretty seem to be pretty interesting but the one question which is really interesting to many experts right now as is the timing of all of these publications obviously all these facts listed by the website relates to the george. to two thousand and eight and earlier than that and many experts are trying to find out as to why it was published now with obama administration in office and maybe see a clear connection here believing that this is an attempt to bin the sins and wrongdoings of the bush era and to the current administration as i understand by my

administration. to pay the bills or the last administration because. they did back. then for two thousand and five and so i personally have a friend in the ongoing attack on president obama which started not today and which aims. to allow him to be reelected some of the information by the website was distributed exclusively to the russian fortune magazine and that is it really interesting information in that sense that it is related to the two thousand and eight south the set in conflict the website reported that the us ambassador at the time john thout who is now at the us ambassador to ukraine knew some twenty four hours before georgian bombs started falling on the south and capital that the georgian military complexes were heading towards the south. and several days later he discreetly contacted washington asking to initiate an information campaign.

to protest soccer president saakashvili his name as if the whole world wasn't expecting that second city started this war and also we know according to this information from other website that several countries including the baltic states and poland they knew about the fact that saakashvili was the one who started this attack and so the said but they still went on to protect georgia and officially support the country in that war also another interesting information. published by the website is that the american diplomats some american diplomats have been using rather abuse if. descriptions of world leaders including the russian president and russian prime minister they were deliberating as to who is actually running the running things in russia suggesting that it was like even put in who is still in charge despite that he is the prime minister not by the president well these

speculations are not something completely new basically one could read about it in any western newspaper or magazine and besides these these talks these conversations were taking place in the george w. bush era in two thousand and eight and earlier than that snow as long as we have this reset of relations between moscow and washington maybe the opinions of all of the u.s. diplomats are now different but indeed this is we have to see what the reaction of the u.s. diplomats on those revealing why do we do next will be. parties alexy going to ask your reporting what their chief editor of russian reporter magazine says that wiki leaks could never of happened without people inside the government wanting the information exposed. these leaks would never have happened if not for the number of insiders who are ready to lead this information it looks like it's linked to the wars in iraq and afghanistan when officers and astute that they're working for a not exactly fair business and this moral decay inside the pentagon caused these

leaks the main thing this leak has done is break delusion that the state department has everything under control they have been exposed mechanisms not secret but quite simple and cynical partners of the u.s. will be more careful now it's a knowledge signed of the u.s. is no longer dominating the world. that's batali laban the chief editor of russian reporter magazine. well a prominent iranian nuclear scientist has been killed and another wounded in a pair of bomb attacks in teheran report suggests they were targeted in two different locations both by men on motorcycles who were touched bombs to the cars journalist and broadcaster kiana mokhtari whose entire run believes it's an attempt to hamper iran's nuclear program from abroad if you live in iran it's a very peaceful place and nothing much ever happens here when these kind of actions are carried out it is generally from abroad and it's carried out with their

coordination with their planning and their agents who might have been able to get in the country which in this case they have and countries that are interested and are using iran's nuclear program to broadcast adverse publicity are known to the world and they're also known for their terrorist activities and the proxy terrorist organizations in the middle east so i can't expand any more on that there are interested parties and i think the world already knows who they are iran's nuclear program is very extensive but it is entirely peaceful now why would they want to hamper country's efforts to get on i have no idea they're reactors they used to make medicine they used to generate electricity they light water reactors there can't be any deviations keeping iran under their thumb is one of the main main objectives of such actions. that's keyon locked out of the journalist and broadcaster in tehran well in just a few minutes time here on r t staying put in the slums. if you really want

to we are we are not moving from this area of poverty stricken residents and the indian government come to a deadlock keeping plans for airport expansion ground. zero report suggests that 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 once 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 stoked by the u.s. and south korea holding four day joint military exercises in the yellow sea near the disputed maritime border john yang has reportedly put its surface to surface missiles on alert and it comes just days after the north claiming it was provoked fired artillery on an island belonging to the south and that killed four people for

more insight on this now we can talk to donald kirk a longtime journalist in asia who is now a correspondent for the christian science monitor based in seoul. mr kirk so amid high tensions on the peninsula washington then sends one of its biggest warships to the region tell me what is america trying to achieve surely it can't be calming the situation by making such an aggressive gesture. well you might call it a show of force certainly the americans say that they're on. defensive maneuvers. to bring about interoperability that's the word they use. with the south korean vessel it was you're also participating in this operation a lot of planes are flying off the decks of the carrier george washington and they're firing at dummy targets and so forth. and it's quite a it's a major operation now whether or not it stokes tensions is another matter i'm not sure that it does one might say that it's really two to prevent future occurrences

such as this thinking of the. navy corvette this south korean navy crew about the cho not in march which killed forty six people and also to discourage north korea from future attacks on on south korea and on the land or on islands in the yellow sea so you know. president how you want to interpret it but but i wouldn't i wouldn't say it increases tensions and one might say that it simply might discourage or dissuade north korea from future operations when you say it may it may not increase tensions but suddenly the north korean leadership has already voiced a sudden amount of dismay at america making such a big military presence that let's dive into the regional politics that the korean leader young backs policies and attitudes toward north healthy lead to the current state of relations between the two do you think. well president lee

is quite a conservative president and one of the first things he did after his inauguration in two thousand and eight was to stop south korean aid to north korea south korea had been for the previous ten years had been sending about five hundred thousand tons of rice and fertilizer to north korea he stopped that he said he wanted to see north korea acting on getting rid of its nuclear weapons program six party talks were were held over a number of years there were agreements reached in two thousand and seven under which north korea was supposed to have gone well into the process of getting rid of its nuclear weapons in fact it's done nothing of the sort it's increased its nuclear capability is building another reactor at yongbyon nuclear complex a highly enriched uranium reactor so north korea's. definitely gone the opposite way at the same time that president lee is the what some might call hard line policy against north korea now as we're seeing an escalation here in tensions between north korea and south korea tell me about the end game talk to me about the

future how is this situation likely to develop could it lead to a full scale military conflict with other countries involved do you think. well we certainly hope not there are all kinds of scenarios china is doing its best to tamp down the sense of tension as noted earlier in the broadcast china is sending a high level official a very high level official to pyongyang and they've also invited and are bringing. hosting a high level north korean official in beijing next week so that all kinds of comings and goings like that at the same time trying is calling for emergency talks emergency six party talks among the envoys who were engaged in the nuclear negotiations so i would say that you know there's every possibility that this situation may be stabilized without further incidents but on the other hand as you point out there's also the danger of a wider conflict or at least the danger of more incidents and more tension and all

of that is possible for that matter one scenario not to be overlooked is the possible collapse of the north korean regime which exists on chinese life support you know they have a leadership question going on there kim jong il the leader is ailing he's got his youngest son still in his late twenty's to ready to take over except the youngest son is not really ready some people say that these episodes of late were really spurred on by him in order to show his power and show is this is nerve for the benefit of a bunch of aging generals now if i may just jump in here for a moment i'm running low on time here but the former u.s. presidential candidate john mccain says that it's time to discuss regime change in north korea now considering the huge north korean army and it is vost and the recent debacle in iraq and afghanistan is not even remotely realistic. well it's i would say it's remotely realistic but it's not probable nobody is

predicting more not many people are predicting a regime change in north korea who's going to bring about regime change and if the regime were to change would it be a change for the better you have to ask all these questions and for the more you have to ask what effect with the collapse of the regime have on the whole stability of the region with thousands and thousands of refugees going to china thousands more maybe hundreds of thousands going into south korea you know you just can't imagine what would happen so i would say that it's a regime change is certainly interesting to discuss but it's not something that that anybody is realistically thinking is going to happen or necessarily once that happens all right a correspondent for the christian science monitor live for us in seoul thank you. well don't forget there are always many more stories on our website dot com and it's a look at what else you'll find they're waiting for you right now if you don't mind a bit of a french you might consider signing up for the russian army just now recruiting

foreigners. and get a fresh perspective on global politics with our satirical cartoons they are light hearted but always hot. in the picture. it is the biggest aviation hub in india and the whole of south asia but 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 that although i was seeing 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 walls with

the international airport this is not just an eyesore 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 one hour of circling time for every aircraft the government hopes to clear that three hundred acres of airport land the slum as a group stop on but attempts to relocate the slum dwellers have met with stiff opposition like many others here fears her livelihood will be disrupted if she moves. 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 to here and children work at the airport and women and money by cleaning 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 leading developer h b i l do we have a late date the slum residents 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 we have british n n y 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 did not meet an important source of votes they know the government will force them out as a result their demands have become even more ambitious. you know where they mean each family should receive at least one hundred eighty thousand dollars as compensation if you all want to buy a flip me

a buy it will cost that much this is expensive but at least the family can live frugally the government can even give us this conversation money provided placements late in this area. this has become an important piece of the government with mumbai airport already congested it desperately needs the land at the slum has encroached upon the increase this capacity a second airport has been sanctioned on the outskirts of mumbai but this will not be ready to let least two thousand and fifteen so it remains to be seen if the government will win the battle against the residents of this by slum lot and seeing r.t. india. and in the us the failure to tackle growing poverty and unemployment has strengthened accusations that the rich are the ones favored by the anti crisis measures in about ten minutes from now in cross talk people of l. it is guess discuss what steps should be taken so that the us system doesn't turn into socialism for the rich and the capitalism for the poor is a preview. for your reason economy remains terrible because because most of it most

of the capital flowing towards the public sector i mean if the government will 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 well anyway we like the bottom of the house or employment you want twenty percent unemployment is what we need twenty percent unemployment this austerity scheme does not work we have a twenty year plan that are going to create want to hear that are going to be followed by mr hinde word go in the right jam 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 built 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. long hangover you've got to recover when you have along the onus you have to read whenever you make mistakes mr hand would somebody has got to pay for those mistakes and it should be the richie we should

have my own ok rachel. now twenty one minutes past the hour here on the russian capital this is r.t. and time now for some other headlines from around the world and the swiss voters have now really passed a controversial new law that will see foreigners deported if they 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 right and the immigration sentiment has been growing rapidly in switzerland as of late a year ago swiss voters passed another controversial law banning the construction of minarets mosques. the brazilian government is claiming victory in a year long fight against a group of drug traffickers that's after security forces swooped in on the guy and stronghold in one of rio de janeiro's most dangerous slums the fighting left forty

five dead and caused hundreds to flee your barricade themselves indoors the country is trying to bring rampant crime under control before the two thousand and fourteen football world cup and the two thousand and sixteen olympics. patients are wrapped up their elections on sunday amid outbreaks of violence and claims of fraud almost all of the presidential candidates denounce the vote accusing the outgoing president of ethics the quake devastated country is still battling a growing cholera epidemic which was so far claimed more than thirteen hundred lives much of the eleven billion dollars in aid promised by the international community has yet to arrive. and after a short break is the business news with. for the full stop we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news maker. hello

welcome to the business news i'm sure. the biggest foreign investor in gas palm has revealed why it's selling up electricity giant says it's three point five percent stake is not strategic as a shift its focus from europe to asia but analysts say eon never achieved the inflows it wanted with gas the two companies are currently negotiating about gas prices following a slump in european demand russia finance chief talked to r.t. at the launch of a new gas fired power plant near moscow 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

you know it's the most efficient operating in this country what is non-strategic it's more something that we don't feel we have the right competency for this is our competency what you see in front of this we are an excellent builder or constructor and organizer of c.c.t. projects and we try to meet the expectations of the russian government. and russia is the fifth largest gold producer in the world but despite rocketing prices for gold is slowing our teams touch on a public call that explores why russia could be left behind in the gold rush. of the world. then why we're. here. when we got on to ground we saw just one man drilling

before the ninety's said that a man line 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 which it's hard and expensive to work in mining metal producers high 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 leaving all of the results of soviet geological exploration and is in desperate need of 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 mine 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 goals 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 poured controls where is the goal going to go what

difference does it make who mines it you mine it 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 loan strategic resources came into force until two thousand and six almost all the major gold mining projects in russia were built with foreign capital that helped industrialize the sector making that 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 that you know but if you have a business are to the urals. and the euro stand steady against the dollar after ireland won approval for an eighty five billion euro emergency aid package to bail out its troubled economy thirty five billion euros will go to support irish banks and another fifty billion to cut the country's deficit the bonds of ireland spain and greece remain largely unchanged on monday the shares of companies benefiting

from the bailout also gained allied irish banks grew by over seven percent and bank of ireland by over eighteen percent. and now its look at the markets european stock markets are mixed banks are among the leading gainers after european union finance ministers approved a bailout farland worth eighty five billion euros well the footsie in the dax are down losing almost a quarter and a half percent respectively. meanwhile in russia as we in this news have slipped into the red after starting today on a positive note most of the blue chips are down the biggest loser it is russia's potassium fertiliser company you're also down more than one and a half percent there also you share continues to drop after damage to a railing the company uses the ship to test from its main russian mine. and that's all the business news we have for you right now but you can always check out for more stories on our web site at our two dot com slash business stay with us.

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