one of the organizations monitoring the. observers. they're not satisfied with the way. they said the results are not satisfactory. and. such as the one that took place here on sunday of president and president elect. has already. telling the. times. it's not for them to. promise billions of dollars in financial aid. of a free and democratic. election. likely

guaranteed. to all of the. thousands of protesters with. the result. of. the. protests they're. trying to break through. the only crew. last night but as far as we know no one's been hospitalized

no one's been badly injured russia has. position saying that the elections in belarus are its domestic business and it is not russia's business to comment on the way the elections were going the way the votes were counted and of course the outcome of that result the russian president had however expressed hope that belarus will follow a more democratic way of development in the future that ties between russia and belarus will continue to flourish as they have been partners and friends for a very long time but no strict comments about how russia views the election which many say is already a comment in itself. while he had a survey in global affairs magazine told altie the soundings protests in may took place because many think. has been empowered. by things

that people who went to the streets they they dealt. he can we but he can't win so much so most of the so it's so i think it's a big. indication of nervousness of the regime the results are so high and the protests were beaten so first it seems like people started to be time to look. for it's a long long time second opposition is very. skillful and bad politically because they. were so eight persons for very limited. so it's not serious but at the same time elections in billows used to be organized in the way we share so to say makes a victory for missile question could pretty secure. there editor of

russia and global affairs magazine coming up in the program still a call to break time find out why a rainy never formed an abrupt end to diplomatic relations with. north korea says it will not retaliate against the self the war games close to a disputed maritime zone calling them a reckless military provocation can yang says it's all until or a shell of a korean island last month was a response was thermal of an attractive five to civilians and. was considered one of the biggest flare ups between the two koreas to the war with the one nine hundred fifty s. russia has called on the council be exercised warning it could further destabilize the already volatile korean peninsula that. there may be a division of tension a 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 call for forty straight on both borders in the no one certain terms we asked for ask 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 the situation unfortunately so far the security council has not been entirely successful. sara flounders from the international action center in new york says that the u.s. is that in the situation on the peninsula as it continues to hold joint military drills with the sound. well it's an extremely serious and tense situation this is a fourth direct provocation of u.s. south korean military exercises in less than a month so you're talking about we're really talking about many many ships in the

area fifty to seventy ships hundreds of aircraft tens of thousands of troops operating just a few miles three to seven miles off of north korea's coast many miles north of the demilitarized zone that in itself is a provocation so here is south korea u.s. and backing support and u.s. participation and the united states moving nuclear powered a nuclear weapons aircraft carriers directly into the region off the coast and i think the u.n. security council meeting was an important effort to call on all sides but but nevertheless in the even in the face of that and the world calls that south korea and the u.s. went ahead with these military exercises so the very fact that the u.n. security council meeting took place it was an important step yet nevertheless the danger increases as long as all of these ships aircraft carriers troops are

in the region and continue these very dangerous military maneuvers. sara flounders from the international action center there all the russian's foreign minister has warned that the new strategic arms reduction treaty with washington cannot be amended or negotiated so again after all voiced his hope that the u.s. senate will ratify the treaty soon and said russia will make it all ready to do the same on sunday bombers democrats for back another republican attempt to amend the deal a senate vote turned down calls to alter and effectively killed off the start treaty hailed as one of the u.s. administration's main foreign policy achievements start would slash the two cantonese deployed nuclear arsenals by a third signed by president to be very bright a bomb in april it needs to be ratified by the american ferret and the russian duma it's a race against time for the democrats is majority in the senate will be reduced in

january they currently need at least nine republican votes to pass the treaty a bomb is now feigning senators personally. urging them to. be. as you know and to support start political analysts sense republicans out to undermine the president. indeed this treaty is one of the major foreign policy achievements of the obama administration and by killing this treaty they want first to kill the research and the start treaty is the major symbol of the research circles which is more important they want to show a bomber is a weak president as a president you know guarantee of the fulfillment of the commute the commitments that the. they want to obama's credibility worldwide not only russia killing start treaty will undermine obama's credulity among all the contras american allies both in europe and asia the us he will show as

a weak president and his chances for reelection will be reduced this is the real thinking behind the republican opposition. well that was political honest to me just does not often do counts for foreign and defense policy on the way immigration nation many don't know which will become more and more illegal migrants being so rough so without the time to get all the details coming out. russian investigators say they won't comment on the criticism of their draft report into the april plane crash that killed the polish president lech kaczynski and ninety five others the investigation said pilot error was to blame it's still not clear whether walsall was contesting this bass boat and has said the findings into the accident in southwest russia are unacceptable they are reported to have sent over one hundred fifty pages pointing out where they believe the investigation was

floored aviation expert chris yates says the russian investigation was far and that eventually both sides will come to some sort of agreements. i think the key is for the polish side is probably quite a significant amount of criticism of the polish air force. in particular the that the captain of the aircraft and his copilot looked this issue since the accident and examined the the cockpit voice recording transcript and so on and i can't fault any of the conclusions that have been leaked by the russian authorities so i can't fault the thoroughness of the investigation and i do believe that they have bent over backwards to accommodate the polish authorities in virtually all aspects of of this accident investigation it is telling to note

of course that the head of the polish accident investigation authorities has also that they. the poles themselves share the lion the lion share of blame for that crash on that i don't believe personally that if we bring an international investigating team into the equation that the findings will be any different to what they are obviously i think politics isn't of the equation here an awful lot of conspiracy theory has been thrown around. surrounding this accident since it since it happened the concept of bringing in international investigators will just fuel further conspiracy theory in my opinion but i think this is a minor dip in what has been evident in the very close working relationship between poland and russia in recent years it is

a minor blip so i think the the full. investigating report is produced. once certain issues are settled with doing that that i'm sure that those that relationship will build back to the strength to get help before that with aviation experts kristie talking to us on poland's rejection of moscow's report into the plane crash that killed the president lech kaczynski and ninety five up. russian president dmitry medvedev is visiting india on a two day trip aimed it strengthening trade and investment ties that you can trees are expected to sign a number of agreements the scariest thing half idiot health. a key agreement will be the joint development of a fifth generation fighter aircraft over thirty billion dollars this contract has been negotiated for a while now and will be finalized on tuesday between president medvedev and prime

minister singh also on the cards is the expansion of cooperation in the civil nuclear energy sector russia is expected to build another two additional nuclear reactors for india this agreement is also expected on tuesday and in fact india is looking at russia to provide the technology to feed its growing demand for energy the demand by its economy for energy and the russian side over the next twenty years is expected to build at least fifteen to twenty nuclear reactors for india also in the economic sector this is one sector that both sides would like to expand in a big way even though the potential is there the reality is that bilateral trade needs expansion and both sides would like to expand this to twenty billion dollars by two thousand and fifteen here in new delhi on monday there was a form of business leaders from both sides with a day where they were discussing trade and investment and clearly what we're going to see going forward is that earlier that the relationship between russia and india

was largely government to government but now we see business to business contacts here in india russia is seen as a strategic partner and as both sides complete a decade of strategic partnership president medvedev will be looking at taking this to the next level in new delhi. on the way in just a few minutes wiki leaks find out. stinks about. the troubled arab nation altogether. a group of industry went. around to break diplomatic ties with the u.k. after its ambassador criticized the country's human rights record the wave comes on the back of iran's claim that person's intel. ball in the assassination attempt nuclear scientists budgie to show you all was killed during a bomb attack in the reigning capital last month a london based journalist yvonne ridley says the british employees were mocked were

misguided. politicians in iran. and outraged at this very undiplomatic. blog which is being produced from the british embassy in iran and you know you wonder what's coming next when you take the high moral ground criticize one country's human rights you should be pretty blameless yourself and unfortunately britain's own human rights record leaves a lot to be desired if you go on to throw stones at someone else's house you should make sure that your own is in order first iran has its many supporters and it has its money to trucked. everybody lines up to their particular. amid the flurry of wiki leaks to have shed more light on us foreign policy were

revelations about washington's involvement in counterterrorism operations in yemen well the whistle blowing web site has provided more details of how fears are growing that the arab nation is becoming a terra hotspot and again as you can spin finding out so much concerned about 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 al qaeda there some of bin laden had a dream for him in a nightmare for us it was to involve us in in even conclusive wars in distant

lands that would cost us a fortune there's a kind of intelligence national security bureaucracy. in this country all fear and americans are irrationally scared when the parcel bomb hysteria broke out in october the u.s. twenty four hour news machine did not fall short of feeding americans worst fears a second suspicious package from yemen was found and that facility is an ideal country. o'conner 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 out yemen was in the news as a terrorist hub in a matter of days the u.s. officially deployed predator drones in yemen and started talking about bases there they deliberately over blow 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 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. deserts of yemen u.s. kushal forces have been chasing them for years causing dozens of civilian deaths 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 sas 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 us wars and their coverage in the media we've learned that the objective pros and cons of waging a military campaign can be mutate whenever fear comes into the picture and fear can justify almost anything going to check on our team washington d.c. . and there are some other world news this hour now a series of bombings in baghdad killed one police officer and injured over a dozen iraqi officials though the first blast which exploded in the center cools while your roof only targeting a pile of thing for these patrols two other devices went off in eastern baghdad and in the main shia neighborhoods. twelve people have been arrested in three cities

across the u.k. as part of the major anti terror operation the men are aged between seventeen and twenty eight it comes after intelligence agencies of pakistan europe and the u.s. intercepted plots to strike european cities police are searching the suspects homes for further evidence. freezing weather and severe snow is continuing to cause a massive disruption to travel across europe the world's busiest international airport lounge at heathrow has been reopened after having been closed for the most of the weekend but is operating on a limited flights were also counseled or delayed due to icy conditions in paris frankfurt announced that the arctic temperatures are predicted to last well beyond christmas. now for many people struggling to make ends meet in the republic from central asia russia is seen as

a land of opportunity to spider reason banning foreigners from working in russia without why they shouldn't millions still flock here every year in search of a better life most of forced to work illegally and live in fear of persecution as the reports. 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 like due to the broader so srijit conducted in order to find illegal immigrants usually we have about seven or eight such raids a month but this time around the federal migration service found just a few people without permission to work in the country one of them is a good and nice twenty two year old. i don't have documents i don't know russian i've been in russia for about a year and i don't understand the rules and customs of the country. 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 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 cemetery 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 vietnamese chinese in many from other asian countries continue to flock to russia. although they get paid a lot less the native workers would be paid for the same job is still a lot more than they would have been back home migrant workers or a very valuable resource countries we've developed economies they do 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 in the living conditions are cramped. party. now with katrina. hello and welcome to business alitalia has dropped russian plane makers sukhoi for a possible five hundred million dollar regional jet order italy's flagship carriers sites delivery delays saying it can't afford to wait for the superhit one hundred planes despite naming them as first choice instead says it's opting to lease twenty planes from brazil's embraer. u.s. stocks rise as great companies from huntington bank shares to metro communications

and bank shares rose four point nine percent to bank of america recommended the stock about four stocks and bonds for every three that fell on the u.s. stock exchange following tumbled three percent on concern it may delay its seven eight seven dreamliner again. and stocks in europe had finished the black in the black on monday on monday he was good to buy gains in world bank of scotland but retailers and airlines were pressured by worries that severe winter will hurt business british airways the biggest loser in london is down nearly two percent. here in russia markets close in the red on monday would both be obvious in my eyes it's anything less than a quarter of a percent most energy stocks were down at the close as light sweet stays on the eighty nine dollars a barrel oil is lost one point three percent poor old carly is coming under pressure after it revealed details of its merger with rival ports was a company to be needs it says it will be paying one point four billion dollars to

acquire for the twenty percent stake in the firm and noble libicki has reversed early gains the steel company posted stronger than expected third quarter profits at five hundred sixty million dollars but it warned of a price squeeze in the coming months. but his latest mining company nordisk nicu has agreed to sell three to have billion of stocks which is an eight percent stake to commodities trader i think gura you know snake you know will sell a stake in the form of american deposit two seats held by subsidiaries say the sale may indicate that the company's going ahead with its plan to buy a. last week no school for twelve billion dollars to buy the twenty five percent stake held by dairy passed because united company. consumer demand has been key to russia's recovery from the financial crisis mark rubenstein from metropole things that that will help shares in the bank outperform the market the bank is a proxy for the russian market and also

a proxy for the russian economy too is that it is. fundamentally on numbers it's growing and it's doing really well on financial results three there's a speculative dry wood next year we expect their their banks and your program to be launched and that's going to bring in. many more additional vessels into the name because the bank will the share which will become accessible internationally that's over me and the business team here find most stories just log on to our website r.t. dot com slash business thanks for being with us. more

news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world is seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations are on the day. the big. the official. told talk from the.

video. feed. dot com. example now i must go this is a room since dealing with the volume of said by the opposition to alexander to win the presidential elections hundreds of people well rested including a number of presidential candidates who claimed a vote was rigged to be wallowing theme all of the demanding answers on the arrests and ballots regularity. north korea calls all to regionals why the sell a reckless that meant she'd probably cation been involved to refrain from a television despite previous threads moscow has warmed souls

a council of war games to avoid the tension. rupture is battling with a neighbor glints in the trend shows that no sign of slowing down even though they come from four central asian states not tearing down one special in this country most said that moving in a condition on the move paid it's. now time for cross talk here today people are valentine's guess the debating whether the u.s. should continue to be the main broker in the middle east peace process stay with us . hello and welcome to crossfire computor a little embarrassing failure this is how many describe washington's most recent attempt to reach a peace settlement in the.