the way. they're not satisfied with the way the election was handled. has already. telling the. gents that it came to observe the election. it's not for them to. promise billions of dollars in financial aid. of a free and democratic election when an organization such as. refuses to sign off on an election as free and democratic. term in office

likely guaranteed to say goodbye to all of the. thousands of protesters. the result. of. protests their protests. trying to break through the. camera crew actually. the only crew to have. been hospitalized no one's been badly injured russia has. neutral position saying 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 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 the editor of russia in global affairs magazine told me that sunday's protest in minsk took place because many think. has been empowered. by things that people who went to the streets the doubt that. he can we but he can't win so much so massively 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 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 eight persons for a very limited electorate so it's not serious but at the same time elections to be organized in the way we cheer so to see makes victory for missile question could pretty secure. if you had the road that it's a river. scene well still to come on the program a call to break ties find

a radian and an abrupt end to diplomatic relations with. north korea says it will not retaliate against the south close to a disputed maritime soon but how can the minute you 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 volatile korean peninsula. because i reports from. 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 and a serious conflict for that matter so in the big chamber when they have the private meeting which was also of course asked for by the russian federation. we reiterated the cool for forty straight part is in no uncertain terms we asked for the republic of korea to refrain from conducting the successes 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 throughout the weekend russia the united nations has been circulating the 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 and 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 u.s. 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 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 we negotiated through his hope that the u.s. senate will ratify the treaty soon and said russian lawmakers are ready to do the same while on sunday as democrats support another republican attempt to amend the deal a senate vote turned down corner to alter and effectively kill off the start treaty hailed as one of the u.s. administration's main foreign policy achievements start would slash that you can't use deployed nuclear arsenals by a third signed by a president to be put in the dead of a brown paper in april fifteenth to be ratified by the american ferret and the russian it's a race against time for the democrat majority in this that it will be reduced in january they certainly need at least nine republican votes to pass the treaty farm is now throwing senators personally urging them to support start political analyst

impetuses law says the republicans are out to undermine the president of the using the treaty as a tool that heads. 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 who can't you know guarantee the fulfillment of the commute the commitments that the has made they want to the mayan 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 that 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 analyst from the council for foreign and defense policy there on the way immigration nation many don't know the language will come to this but more and more illegal migrants are being drawn through all right sir without a return ticket but details coming up. russian 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 war four is contesting the esparza poland has said the findings into the accident in southwest russia on acceptable 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 tara and that eventually both sides will come to some sort of agreement. i think the key is to you for the polish side is

probably quite a significant amount of criticism of the polish air force i've looked at this issue since the accident and i can't fault any of the conclusions that have been leaked by the russian authorities i can't fault the thoroughness of the investigation and i do believe that they have bent over backwards to accommodate the polish authorities it is telling to note of course that the head of the accident investigation thora to also that the polls themselves. the lion's share of blame for that crash on that i don't believe personally that if we bring an international investigating team in to be a question that the findings will be any different to what they are i think this is

a minor. what has been evidently a 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 so the strength of it before when i was aviation expert crissy eight talking to wosm opponents rejection of moscow's report into the plane crash that killed the president lech kaczynski and ninety five. now the russian president to be preventive is the visiting india on a two day trip aimed at strengthening trade and investment ties between countries are expected to find a number of agreements ask karen think how that is how. the 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 twenty 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 to 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 iranian m.p.c. voted for surround to pray cool diplomatic ties with the u.k. after its ambassador criticized the country's human rights record the move comes on the back of a round intelligence service with a vote in the assassination of a top nuclear scientists. to show you and was killed in a bomb attack in the reigning capital. london based through a journalist yvonne ridley says the present was from all the misguided. 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. well the news this hour and a series of bombings in baghdad one the police and injured over a dozen iraqi officials say the first blast which exploded in the center was course one roof side bomb targeting

a passing police patrol two other devices went off in eastern baghdad and in the main the sheer neighborhoods. twelve people have put 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 agencies. and the u.s. interests to strike european cities police are searching for 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 london heathrow has been reopened after having been closed for most of the weekend but is operating on the limited schedule flights were also canceled legal age due to icy conditions in paris frankfurt and out of the arctic temperatures are predicted to last well beyond christmas. in taiwan four children were

injured when a man rammed his car through the gates of the primary school pupils were driving 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 taiwanese media have reported that the man was having problems with his family. now for many people struggling to make ends meet in the republics of central asia rusher is seen as a land of opportunity despite a recent law banning foreigners from working in russia without authorization the millions that will still flock here every year in search of a better life most are forced to work illegally and live in fear of persecution as 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 due to the broader. 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 isn't it means twenty two year old. 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. because russia needs foreigners yes it does but only as many as are required for the economy there about its 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 are 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. conditions are cramped he didn't. recognize the. independent state of the peace process being jewish

settlement building in september next our interview with the rabbi of the american jewish committee and the. with.

andrea baker thank you very much for being with us today so we'll start with a turn question 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 imagined anti-semitism was. diminishing and we had hoped it would be more than a story collision that a contemporary war and unfortunately i think over these last ten years we've seen something very different we have seen a resurgence of. in countries where we wouldn't have expected it because western europe we've seen it nevertheless. in many other parts of the world so i think we've given more attention to or during these last years it's still with us unfortunately what do you think some of the factors driving to 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 triggering anti-semitic incidents in various places particularly in the west but we've also seen what some people would call a new form of anti-semitism and that's where the state of israel itself is the is brought into question is the clear to races 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 antisense and 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 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 in gendered very antagonistic reactions that cross over from a point of being mere criticism and do become something worse so it's holding just collectively responsible for the actions of israel is considered anti-semitism why does israel want to sanctify character of 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 non 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 fitting and appropriate i mean many countries have a stablish state church is be a good church if it is

a send it 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 recently. foreign ministers put off 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 on line anti-semitism have been heard and never recorded quite a thing is to blame the media is it 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 media need to 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 in gauging the internet providers that means developing good practices that means of course working with media so they recognize the responsibilities they have here you know naturally violent rally just outside of kremlin recently what are your concerns for russia you know i think this was very troubling to to observe and. in fact and so even as i'm here in moscow. here again i think it's a challenge for the government and for the 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 at the 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 to me this is a long term challenge that russia faces i hope certainly there are people i meet they give me reason to hope that it will measure up to. thank you very much at this thank you very much. for sure is that so much to know there's a huge music to share on. various things fail this is how many described

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games to avoid the tension. roster is of battling with an overflow of illegal immigrants and the trend shows no signs of slowing down even though they come from central asian states the north doing that much better in this country in poor living conditions and we've moved paid jobs. time now for. our c.n.n. today peter bell and his guests debate whether the u.s. should continue to be the main broker in the middle east peace process. the official location. for me. john.