well nations from the country's government on the erast and claimed the ballot didn't fully meet international standards russia's president made of to scribe the election as an internal matter for bella ruse he added that the country will always be a close ally and he said he hoped it will continue on the path of democracy argues country nazarov always in the heart of moments when the rallies broke out she keeps us up to date. it's all quiet right now in the belorussian capital of course a very stark contrast to what was taking place last night when thousands of opposition supporters took to the streets of the capital they were here first where we are right now in october sky square thousands of people with flags and banners chanting slogans calling the election all flawed and one has asked for attacks on the incumbent president and victor in this election to step down and give the people a democratic choice they then blocked off one of minsk central highways and move towards the parliament building some of the protesters tried to storm the building

breaking down doors smashing the windows riot police of course tried to resist had pushed everybody out of the way got really differentiating between the civilians journalists anybody and everybody who was close to them got hit including our very own cameramen who were hit on the face with a police baton police dispersed the riots brutally put very efficiently very quickly it was in a matter of minutes that the square which was filled with thousands of people was emptied by a riot police in full riot gear one of the opposition leaders and one of the presidential candidates mr nuclei of was attacked our on his way to the protest he left his office with a few of his supporters they were attacked by a number of men in black without any official law enforcement insignia the presidential candidate was beaten and hospitalized with a serious concussion we know according to his wife a later security official. and took him out of the hospital she doesn't know where

he is opposition leaders of course calling for more people to come out on the streets and protest election they believe to have been fraudulent the election in which incumbent president aleksander has secured his fourth consecutive victory with a landslide win. results he received over seventy percent of the vote securing himself another stay in office continuing his sixteen year stretch of uninterrupted power opposition leaders those that haven't been detained or are seriously injured are planning to take more people out into the streets of the capital and i will of course be keeping you updated with more information when we get it well the editor of russia in global affairs magazine told me that sunday's protest in men took place because many think alexander lukashenko has been in power too long but i think that people who went to the streets the they dealt the local show he can

we but he can't win so much so massively so it's so i think it's it's a big. indication of nervousness of the regime that the results are so high and the protests will be. first it seems like people started to be time to look. for it's a long long time second position is very unskillful and bad politically because they. were seven or eight persons for very limited electorates so it's not serious but at the same time elections to be organized in the way we cheer so to see makes a victory for missile question could pretty secure. fielder of their editor of russia in global affairs magazine well coming up in the program for you

a call to break toews find out why even m.p.'s want to know brought an end to diplomatic relations with britain. plus a lottery and president is visiting moscow for the first time since the soviet union collapsed we've got the latest. but first north korea says it will not retaliate against the south's war games close to a disputed maritime zone calling them a reckless military provocation russia has called on seoul to cancel the exercise warning it could further destabilize the already volatile korean peninsula artists are for has more. those career has not responded to these military drills so the carried out this morning by south korea despite previous threats that they said that they would respond with taken they've now said that the not going to retaliate the reason that they cited this was the south korea actually changed its

firing say and say the shells that came from the military. actually landed further away from north korean territory i know from previous military chose having carried out unconfirmed reports. this whole north korean territory i must possibly what provoked the attack we saw the last time this military drill was carried out this also comes after a sow's of talks last night at a un security council meeting this is held russia's request and we had the russian ambassador to the u.n. saying the russian draft statement is really cool for both north and south korea to avoid doing anything that would escalate this conflict there may be going to vision of tension. serious conflict for that matter so in the big chamber when they have this private meeting which was also of course asked for by the russian federation. we reiterated the cool or strained. part is no uncertain terms we

asked for. the republic of korea to refrain from conducting this exercise at this at this point in time but there are certain political circumstances would try to deal with this situation unfortunately so far the security council has not been entirely successful the previous military drills carried out by south korea on the same island. on a fender the twenty third in that instance north korea reacted by shelling the island and that resulted in two civilian team rain but it was the worst attack on south korean territory since the korean war ended. and nineteen fifty three south we're saying that these astounded military tools that they carried out of north korea's come back and said that they view it as a woman even though you see maybe north korea certainly the partnership between south korea and the u.s. in japan in these military drills i read today is that perhaps south korea with the

new government coming under some pressure from public opinion certainly in the wake of the previous attacks and they've to take this tough. on north korea at the north korea for its part has that that it's not going to welcome i.a.e.a. inspectors to come and examine its nuclear facilities at the moment russia and china certainly made it clear that there are pacing any actions that can be seen to inflame the tensions there are existing at the event. well some more reaction to this your guitar ryan from the russian academy of sciences says the probability of war between the two koreas is now at its highest point for decades first time i've been watching north korea close of this for the last thirty five years i would say that the danger war is now is now real and it can start unpredictably you know have been saying it's ready for talks for several months

already. it has been said to the chinese it has been said publicly. so parrot is ready for dialogue for dialogue both on the issues of nuclear nuclear program and the broader issues of security in the korean peninsula fortunately the u.s. and south korea while not waiting for the dialogue. gives us another suspicion that the real goal of more exercise is. a refusal to do stuff that used to really break should know if there were even the concessions that was cured utah araya there from the russian cademy sciences. russia's foreign minister has warned that the new strategic arms reduction treaty with washington cannot be amended or renegotiated sergey lavrov voiced his hope that the u.s. senate will ratify the treaty soon and said russian lawmakers are ready to do the same on sunday rock obama's democrats fought back another public an attempt to

amend the deal a senate vote turned down calls to alter and effectively kill all the start treaty held as one of the u.s. administration's main foreign policy achievements start with slash the two country's nuclear arsenals by a third signed by dmitry medvedev and barack obama in april it needs to be ratified by both the american senate and the russian duma it's now a race against time the democrats whose majority in the senate will be reduced in january they need over a dozen republican votes to pass the treaty. and with laci a grip by the economic recession the baltic state wants a partnership with russia. the visit is the first by a lot feeling leader to moscow since it gained independence in one thousand nine hundred ninety one party's diary of course covert reports. the two presidents discussed by alleged role trade and economic cooperation and signed a number of treaties now just to remind you that there is currently going through

a deep economic crisis and this is particularly important for last year as it is seeking economic partners and investment however many analysts say that this miti could be the first sign of the improvement of the relations of law here in russia the two of the former soviet republics indeed there is a number of thorny issues which has been really making a very real a show of the three countries difficult in the past two decades and the main problem is the law the rights of more than a half million of ethnic russians living in now in latvia out of the more than three hundred thousand. roughly fifteen percent of latino population have the status of nonresidents those who have the status of and deprived of their basic political rights such as for example they can't vote in any latvian elections as well as a social and economic rights russia's president meeting with it is said that the

problem has been discussed it is indeed a very sensitive issue as the lives of many people are impacted and he also said that the problem primarily needs to be dealt with by the local authorities now of course the other problem between russia and large here is the different reading of history at large he has always maintained that was occupied by the soviet troops russia has always disagreed with that sounds and nationalist moves and research will be are quite strong in latvia now the two presidents agreed that a special commission will be created to deal with these differences in the reading of the history allowing academics and our scientists to discuss this issue in detail however most analysts agree that this first visit by latvian president could be the first step towards normalization of the relations between the two countries . here with our team live from moscow on the way in just

a few minutes wiki leaks worries find out what do you think's about and could have in store for the troubled arab nation. a group of influential in reining in m.p.'s have voted for tehran to break all diplomatic ties with the u.k. after its ambassador criticized the contras human rights record the move comes on the back of iran's claim that britain's intelligence service was involved in the assassination of a top nuclear scientist or she was killed during a bomb attack in the iranian capital punishment drawn based political commentator kyung mokhtari says the threat to break off diplomatic ties is a warning that iran do not sound for britain's men think. iran doesn't seem to have a problem with britain and the u.s. for as long as it's. a mix and scientists are not the sas united in broad daylight in tehran very little happens when things like this happen when bombs go off it is

almost always from overseas. do you still be you know. personally. type of. feels that you didn't speak out against the domestic affairs of other nations or will whereas the iranian lawmaker is quite clearly disagree but this is to send a strong warning well those strong warning this is to send the warning to to britain . iran is prepared to go as far as that if such actions by proxy terrorist organizations are not stopped. now amid the flurry of wiki leaks to have shed more light on u.s. foreign policy more revelations about washington's involvement in counterterrorism operations in yemen the website has provided more details of how fears are growing fifty arab nation is becoming a terror hotspot is going to can has been finding out some are concerned about it

turning into a new war. america's secret aims in yemen are secret no more as confirmed by recent weekend weeks this patch of classified diplomatic cables u.s. special operations forces are carrying out strikes against suspected terrorists in yemen and the yemeni government is taking the credit in exchange for yemen's cooperation the u.s. heavily finances the country's fragile government but u.s. plans in yemen go further than strikes the military are discussing long term basis and asking for more than a billion dollars to fight all carted there some of them lawton had a dream for him in a nightmare for us it was to involve us in in inconclusive wars in distant lands that would cost us a fortune there's a kind of other intelligence national security bureaucracy that's good in this country also here and americans are irrationally scared when the parcel bomb hysteria broke out in october the us twenty four hour news machine did not fall

short of feeding americans worst fears a second suspicious package from the air it was found at a federal facility the ideal country. years ago already believed out in the arabian peninsula is behind the shipment the packages from yemen gave rise to a lot of confusion as to whether they were really parcel bombs but one thing that was beyond doubt the fear trigger has been pulled yemen was in the news as a terrorist harbor in a matter of days the u.s. officially deployed predator drones in yemen and started talking about bases there they deliberately overblow all of these incidents because there is a huge constituency a huge business national security business which is paid for by the u.s. taxpayer it's a way of capturing the political support it's a way of doing a lot of different things but what it's not doing is defeating terrorism the most generous estimates suggest there are perhaps several hundred al qaida members in

the poverty stricken strive torn. hazards of yemen u.s. special forces have been chasing them for years causing dozens of civilian deaths that what the u.s. is doing in yemen is really inflating the prominence of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula this is a group that probably would have very little street value in the arab street or the muslim street if the united states wasn't propping up on while a lockie of the sort of second coming of osama bin laden i think it's goes to show how little we've learned from the boogie man days of bush and cheney and how our own policies in dangerous more in many cases that his policies on the surface american leaders are motivated by the fear of one day receiving a parcel bomb but some say the disaster has other layers of motivation you're not going to make the technology of a letter bomb go away by attacking what you think is al qaeda in yemen you're just going to make it move to another place the u.s. government is basically very much into a marketing campaign to make these things look like the government is being

effective in light of modern u.s. wars and their coverage in the media we've learned that the objective pros and cons of waging a military campaign can be muted whenever fear comes into the picture and fear can justify almost anything going to shut down our t. washington d.c. . now to some other world news this hour a series of bombings that have killed one certain injured over a dozen iraqi officials say the first blast which exploded in the center was off by a roadside bomb targeting a passing police patrol two other devices went off in eastern baghdad in a mainly shia neighborhood. twelve people have been arrested in three cities across the u.k. as part of a major anti terror operation and then aged between seventeen and twenty eight are suspected of preparing to carry out terror attacks it comes after intelligence agencies in pakistan europe and the u.s. intercepted plots to strike european cities police are sort. in the suspects homes

for further evidence. freezing weather and severe snow is continuing to cause massive disruption to travel across europe the world's busiest international airport one hundred before it was been reopened after having been closed for most of the weekend but is operating on a limit its casual flights were also canceled or delayed due to icy conditions in paris frankfurt and amsterdam the arctic temperatures are predicted to last well beyond christmas. in taiwan four children were injured when a man lamp his car the gates of a primary school with pupils were of wiring the driver who was a sixty seven year old then looked containers of petrol inside the vehicle in apparent suicide attempt teachers and parents who witnessed the incident were able to put out the fire saving his life taiwanese media have reported that the band was having problems with his family. there are many people struggling to

make ends meet in the republics of central asia russia is seen as a land of opportunity despite a recent law banning foreigners from working in russia without authorization millions still flock here every year in search of a better life most are forced to work illegally a life live i should say in fear of persecution as a. sports. here for the federal migration service comes knocking on the door at four o'clock in the morning officers say they arrive at this early hour before the immigrants leave for work which usually happens around six am due to the produce so srijit conducted in order to find illegal immigrants usually we have about seven or eight such trades a month. this time around the federal migration series found just a few people without permission to work in the country one of them is a vietnamese twenty two year old one week i don't have documents. i don't know

russia i've been in russia for about a year and i don't understand the rules and customs of the country who is one of a dozen immigrants who were apprehended during the raid but officials say there are millions more undetected in russia. does russia need foreigners yes it does but only as many as are required for the economy there are about eight people living in that tiny little room right there we're going to go down the corridor into a kitchen and you can see for yourself that the conditions here are far from sanitary or convenient this is like a kitchen space something between a bathroom and basically a place where people cook and wash themselves as well. so why do the chinese and many from other asian countries continue to flock to russia. although they get paid a lot less than native workers would be paid for the same job is still

a lot more than they would have earned back home migrant workers are a very valuable resource countries with developed economies they do all the hard low paid jobs that no one in the country wants to do. russia has the second largest number of immigrants in the world after the united states and there's plenty of jobs in industries such as construction and retail the flow of migrant workers doesn't show any signs of drying up even if the hours are long and the living conditions are cramped it in a college party. and don't forget our web site has a lot more to offer you whenever you want to hear some of what's online right now at our dot com if you're tired of digging your car out of all that snow every morning well no you don't have to find out about this service in st petersburg offering to do it for you and you time and a. better russians father frost is kicking off the holidays at the kremlin by delivering a century old christmas tree to the very center of moscow accounts argy dot com and

get into the festive spirit from. well later this hour we explore a beautiful nature preserve in the heart of siberia but first let's check that we return she joins us now and she shares in mail dot are you have slumped fourteen percent since its london i.p.o. last month. well that's right but some analysts say it should fall even further than who find out why in just a moment but first ali tell us dropped russia playmakers sukhoi for a possible five hundred million dollar regional jet order italy's flagship carious site still livery delays saying it can't afford to wait for the super did one hundred planes despite naming them as first choice instead of the time is that it's

all going to be going to the brazil's embraer. window called shareholders may block a merger with middle east john weaver to create the world's fifth largest mobile network the bee line operators bosses meet next week to approve a deal with the owner of italy's wind and egypt. but a financial times quote sources saying the board may not get enough votes to pass the grievance fears a six and a half billion dollar price tag is too high. and there's an end in a striving french fine as groups as it is in iraq which is denied its buying b t v stake in rolls on thursday both sundry costs and claim that reach a deal on their nineteen point three percent share in russia's eight largest lender so yes spokesman said there are no plans to increase the stake in its subsidiary and they remain open to tax. now as look at the markets stocks in europe are up with mine is driving them higher b.h.p. billiton and rio tinto both off point six percent on the port city of british

airways and said over one percent of snow in northern europe stops flights here in moscow biagi has continued the way it ended last week slightly in the red but both main indices are barely moving in the afternoon as many investors leave early for the holidays now we see energy stocks mixed up too weak performance on monday morning that has light sweet stays on the eighty nine dollars a barrel world copies coming under pressure after it revealed the details of its merger with rival personalize the company subi needs it says will be paying one point four billion dollars to quire a poor the twenty percent stake. the firm and now believe it has reversed their again early against the steel company posted stronger than expected third quarter profits at five hundred sixteen million warned of a price in the coming months. now shares in the mail may or you have slumped fourteen percent since london i.p.o. last month but even more worry to invest should be the view. that should fall even

further. investment banks which are related to the will have published research reports where they highlight the upside potential of the stalk from where from seventeen to forty three percent but at the same time several independent investment banks not related to the initial public offering have also published their research which. we have highlighted the downside potential of the company of the company's stock and we believe in the penny research we believe that from current levels the company has to lose half of its value to reach a fair valuation. so is pharmaceutical holding the largest class invest half a billion dollars in russia over the next five years the walls number three pharma company will build a drug production plant and st petersburg the plant will produce one and a half billion generic and patriot fans says

a year and mark has also plans to double investment in the research in the russian research and development program that's all i have for you this hour by hour back with more in about thirty minutes from now thanks for watching. and discovery.

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here with our t.v. live from moscow our top stories about the rooms is dealing with the aftermath of violent protests by the opposition to alexander lukashenko is when the presidential elections hundreds of people were arrested including a number of presidential candidates who claimed the vote was rigged meanwhile o s c e monitors are demanding answers on the around us and ballot irregularities. north korea calls artillery drilled by the south of iraq once military provocation but vows to refrain from retaliation to spite previous droughts moscow has warned saul

to cancel the war games to avoid further tension. russia is battling with an overflow of illegal immigrants on the trend shows no sign of slowing down even though they come from poor central asian states they are not doing that much better in this country stand up and poor living conditions and with a low paid job. more news in thirty minutes but now stay with us for our special report on this a stunning nature reserve in the heart of siberia. siberia's largest city and a major industrial center. a unique nature reserve called. the pillars can be found only four kilometers away from the city here thousands of rocky cliffs lie scattered in the siberian tiger people in central siberia centuries ago.