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a very neutral 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 dmitry medvedev 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 there to serve russia. being told that someday the protests in minsk took place because many think. he's been in power too long but i think that people who went to the streets they doubt that.

he can we but he can't win so much the message of the so so i think it's a big. indication of nervousness of the regime the results are so high and the protests were beaten saw it 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 used to be organized in the way we share so to see makes a victory for missile question could pretty secure. global affairs magazine well coming up later in the program a call to break

a tie find out why you're a need for an abrupt end to diplomatic relations with. north korea says it will not retaliate against the south that war games close to a disputed maritime zone but it has condemned the military drills calling them a reckless provocation russia called for a u.n. security council session warning that the war exercises could further destabilize the already bought us whole korean peninsula. reports from new. the events of the last couple of days are definitely the threats and warning signs that have been coming from north korea have been having the international community certainly walking on egg shells here in new york the united nations security council has been meeting round the clock throughout the weekend these emergency sessions were called for by russia which is certainly not taking the tensions between south and north korea likely whatsoever for many different reasons one of

them of course being russia's proximity to a possible conflict as well as a serious threat that any tensions including a war would cause to the international community let's take a listen to what the russian ambassador to the u.n. said here in new york last night 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 reiterate that the cool or for the strain on both parties in 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 the situation unfortunately so far the security council has not been entirely successful throughout the weekend russia the united nations has been circulating

a draft document where it proposed that the best thing to do to downplay the tensions between south and north korea would be to make sure that all of the sides that are involved contain themselves and really not escalating tensions by taking any further steps that could cause north korea to act out aggressively or south korea and also what russia is proposing is that the united nations secretary general send to envoys to both say will in pyongyang that could help make sure that tensions don't escalate and of course the united states has been playing somewhat of a different game we have to remember that the us. has as many as twenty soldiers involved in the military exercises with south korea and the u.s. of course has been read a rating over and over again that what some what's more important is to condemn the actions of north korea and this of course is something that has been causing a diplomatic deadlock throughout the weekend here but for now security council sessions have somewhat died down and the members have taken a break to wait and see this because now north korea has said that they're not

going to react to the military exercises. russia's foreign minister has warned that the new strategic arms reduction treaty with washington cannot be amended or renegotiated. voiced his hope the u.s. senate will ratify the treaty suit and said russia has a whole ready to do the thing. well on sunday barack obama's democrats for back another republican attempt to amend the deal a senate vote turned down calls to alter and effectively kill off the start treaty hailed as one of the u.s. administration's main foreign policy achievements stand would slash the two countries deploy nuclear arsenals by a third signed by a president to be put in there that bracket bomb in april it needs to be ratified by the american senate and the russian duma it's a race against time for the democratic majority in the senate will be reduced in january they currently need at least nine republicans to pass the treaty

a bomb is nothing senators personally then to support starts political analyst meeting is too small so the republicans are out to undermine the president and the pushing the treaty as a tool to that. 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 and second which is more important they want to show a bomber is a weak president as a president who can't guarantee the fulfillment of the commute the commitments that the mates they want to undermine obama's credibility worldwide not only russia killing start treaty will undermine obama's crew to be able to among all the contras american allies both in the 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 analysts because they're from accounts for foreign and defense policy on the way here on r.t. immigration nation many know the long haul but more and more illegal migrants are being drawn toward without return ticket what the details are coming. rasul investigators say they won't comment on 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 with contesting this but poland has said the findings into the accident and southwest russia on acceptable they reported to have said over one hundred fifty pages pointing out where they believe the best occasion was floored aviation expert chris gates says the russian investigation was power and that

eventually both sides will come to some of the equipment. i think the key is to for the polish side is probably quite a significant amount of criticism of the polish air force. in particular the captain of the aircraft and his copilot i've looked at this issue since the accident and examined the cockpit voice recording transcripts 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 this accident investigation it is telling to note

of course that the head of the polish accident investigation authorities has also as. that the poles themselves share the lion the lion share of blame for that crash 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 and to the equation here an awful lot of conspiracy theory has been thrown around. surrounding this accident since it happened the concept of bringing in national investigators will just fuel further conspiracy theory in my opinion and i think this is a minor dip in what has been evidently very close working relationship between poland and russia in recent years it is a minor blip. because the the full. investigating

reports is produced. certain issues are settled with doing that there i'm sure that those that relationship will build back to the strength of it before all that was aviation expert kristie talking to us on potence rejection of moscow's report into the plane crash that killed the president lech kaczynski hundred ninety five. the russian president dmitry medvedev is visiting india on a two day trip aimed at strengthening trade and investment times that you can't use are expected to sign a number of agreements counseling for the town. 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 by two treat means expansion and both sides would like to expand this to plenty billion dollars by two thousand and fifteen here in new delhi on monday there was a forum 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 of government but now will be seen 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 devil be looking at taking this to the next level in new delhi. a group of influential a rainy day she's put to run to break diplomatic ties with the u.k. back to the criticized the country's human rights record then we've come on the back of iran's playing intelligence. i mentioned off the top news he. was killed during a bomb attack in the ukrainian capital last month london based journalist reduces the british employees remarks with this guises. the politicians in iran of quite angry and outraged at this very undiplomatic. blog which is being produced from the british embassy in tehran 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 many to truck to is. everybody lines up to their particular. news this hour and a series of a bombing in baghdad one police officer and injured over a dozen iraqi officials say the first blast which exploded in the center was caused by a roadside bomb targeting a passing police patrol too although 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 a major anti terror operation the men are aged between seventeen and twenty eight it comes after intelligence agency republican stan the u.s. intercepted plans to strike european cities police a search of the suspects homes for further evidence. freezing weather and severe snow is causing massive disruption to travel across europe the world's busiest international airport london heathrow has been reopened after having been closed for most of the weekend but is operating on a limited flights were also canceled or delayed due to icy conditions in paris frankfurt and. they also temperatures are predicted to last well beyond christmas. in taiwan of four children were injured when a man or rammed his car to the gates of a primary school this people's lives the driver was a sixty seven year old who then lit containers of petrol inside the vehicle in an

apparent suicide attempt teachers and parents who witnessed the incident were able to put out the fire saving his life time when his media have reported that the man was having problems with this. so 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 the forwardness from working in russia without authorization millions still flock every year in search of a better life most of forced to work illegally and live in fear of persecution as that in a goodish to report. 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. 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 in your twenty's twenty two year old one. i don't have documents i don't know russian law 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 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 vietnamese chinese in 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 or a very valuable resource countries with developed economies they do 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 in the living. called on the e.u. to recognize the west bank and the gaza strip independent state despite the peace process being frozen a jewish settlement building resumed in september while next interview with. the american jewish committee on the. who argues no middle east. without israel.

andrew baker thank you very much for being with us today so we'll start with a question what do you think is anti-semitism rising or is it falling well it's sort of hard to give a simple answer except i would say a decade ago we imagine anti-semitism was. diminishing and we had hoped it would be more of the historical issue than a contemporary one unfortunately i think over these last ten years we've seen something very different we have seen a resurgence of anti-semitism in countries where we wouldn't have expected it because western europe we've seen it nevertheless persisting in many other parts of the world so i think we've given more attention to it during these last two years it's still with us unfortunately what do you think some of the factors increase. well again i think it varies from country to country clearly one aspect that has emerged more recently has been the vents in the middle east the state of israel

essentially true. semitic incidents in various places particularly in the west but we've also seen what some people would call a new form of semitism and that's where the state of israel itself is the is brought into question is the clear to racist state essentially where that itself becomes a new form of anti-semitism so you do think that the ongoing stalemate in the middle east is affecting globally well at the very least we can certainly demonstrate that conflicts in the middle east may trigger anti-semitic events elsewhere and particularly in europe western. in europe where you have growing arab and muslim communities they have become a source of anti-semitic incidents at least elements of those communities so that's clearly one aspect but then i think even in public discourse there is something

about the state of israel that has engender very good mystic reactions that cross over from a point of being mere criticism and to become something worse so it's holding jews collectively responsible for the actions of israel is considered anti-semitism why does israel want to sanctify jewish character at the state well i think from the very beginning the notion of israel was to be a jewish state to be a jewish state but also a democratic state with full rights for all of its citizens jewish or no in jewish i think in all of the world to have one state that is infused by jewish tradition and by the spirit of judaism is feeling it appropriate i mean many countries have established a church is be a good church that is ascended in great britain but no one would suggest that. in the u.k. there is not. freedom and democracy. rights for all of its citizens personally

for foreign ministers part of the decision to recognize palestine how does this set back your mission well i think personally i would say my view shared by many others is that palestinian state should come out of direct negotiations between the palestinian authority in the state of israel and i hope that happens at some point soon but i think that's the way the state of palestine should emerge not by. recognition or decree from outside so your concerns for the rise of online anti-semitism have been heard on the record quite a thing is to blame media. is it the media that's irresponsible or the legislators failed to protect the society you know this is a real challenge everywhere i think the last thing we want is to say somehow governments need to control the media beat this somehow prohibit wholesale this

kind of expression but they really need it needs to be concerted efforts to figure out how to control this kind of hatred that is spreading as you've identified particularly on the internet these days and that means engaging internet providers that means developing good practices that means of course working with media so they recognize the responsibilities they have here naturally staged. crime recently what are your concerns for russia you know i think this was very troubling to to observe in fact and we've so even as i'm here in moscow. here again i think it's a challenge for the government and for leadership these kinds of voices we see in all parts of the world the real test the real measure is how you address them in the short term obviously it involves the role of police but in the long term russia

is in this sense very much like america is a heterogeneous multi cultural diverse society and a society that can embrace its diversity with full rights for everyone and respect for everyone is strengthened by it to me this is a long term challenge that russia faces i hope certainly the people i meet they give me reason to hope that it will measure up to. thank you very much for this thank you very much. it's the secret incursion into the country. it's the invasion by means of. tradition the language is low you. bestie copied the beat.

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seem better as it is they're dealing with the altamont of on and protest find no position to alexander when in the presidential election. hundreds of people were arrested including a number of presidential candidates who claimed the vote was rigged the wall over to see. me arrest ballots regularity. north korea calls all jittery drills by the south are reckless military provocation . to refrain from retaliation despite previous threats of war

council to avoid further tension. prosser is battling with an overflow of illegal immigrants of the trend shows no sign of slowing down even though they come from poor central asian states that are not doing that much better in this country. and poor living conditions and with paid jobs. there is more news than around thirty minutes time but now with some to put a link here as we go to sign to explore a stunning nature is in the heart of the russian wilds. siberia's largest city and a major industrial center. a unique nature reserve called the crescent. the pillars can be found only four kilometers away from the city here thousands of.