one almost eighty percent of the vote and a fourth consecutive term is captured as are the reports now from the capital that is. it appears that it's not just that people. are not satisfied with the way the presidential election was handled. one of the organizations monitoring the election. observers. to observe the way voting is going they're not satisfied with the way the election was handled either they said the election results are not satisfactory. and basically they wouldn't sign off on an election such as the one that took place here on sunday of course the president and president elect. has already commented on this telling the. times. 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. may well say hello to his fourth term in office likely guaranteed to say goodbye to all of the money. thousands of protesters with banners flags protest the result of the election. and continued protests their protest soon turned violent once. the parliament building on the doors. windows trying to break through. started pushing the protesters camera crew actually in the.

back. our camera got a little damaged we're not the only crew to have sustained injuries from riot police last night but as far as we know no one's been hospitalized no one's been badly injured russia has a very 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 had however expressed hope that 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 no strict comments about how russia views the election which many say is already a comment in itself. and coming up in the program

a call to break ties find out why he's in a diplomatic relations with britain. and the. new multibillion dollar deal between india and that's president medvedev heads to. south korean war games near the disputed maritime border with the north have passed without incident despite threats by pyongyang to launch military action you know they went ahead. an imagist a meeting of the un security council warning that new military exercises could further destabilize the already volatile region all season as the future of the story from new york for. 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 week and 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. 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 a full forty straight part is 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 this 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 two envoys to both say will and kyung yang 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's and 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 canada be amended or renegotiated sergei lavrov voices hope that the us senate will ratify the treaty by the end of december and said russian lawmakers are ready to do the same on sunday barack obama's democrats fall back another republican attempts to amend the deal a senate vote rejected calls to also or effectively the start treaty hailed as one of the obama administration's main foreign policy achievements started flash russian and american deployed nuclear arsenals by a third signed by president dmitri medvedev and barack obama in april it needs to be ratified by both the american senate and the russian duma it's a race against time for the democrats lose control of the senate to republicans in

january after last month's elections they currently need at least nine republican votes to pass the treaty about it's now thirty senators personally urging them to bank this deal and we're now joined live by joe rubin from national security network think tank in washington mr ben thank you very much indeed for your time so this senate is to vote and choose down the motion to end the debate what do you think is likely to happen. well it looks like the republicans are starting to trickle in for their support for the treaty we think that the numbers when folks around washington. are looking like there will be enough to pass this week and russian says there should be no amendments to the start treaty yet republicans are trying to introduce some including even assuming minor ones such as increasing the number of missile launches from seven hundred to seven hundred twenty what are the republicans trying to achieve that. many of these amendments are designed to

make a political point attempting to either embarrass the administration or cause debate on the floor they could bring others to the side of the rejection of the treaty these are all failing they need to get a majority vote and the democrats as pointed out have fifty eight out of the hundred votes right now so they're not making much headway there is an attempt however to negotiate some type of compromise amendment that senator mccain is leading that may become a doctor that may create space for other republicans to support the treaty but these amendments that you refer to are mostly gone by the wayside. what will it mean if the treaties not ratify during this session how want to fact president obama how will it affect russia u.s. relations from your point. it would have a very dramatic impact on the american russian relations and that's something that the administration and advocates for the treaty in the senate are using as an

argument to say we have to ratify it now and next congress in the senate there will be additional set of republican six more that mean six more votes would need to be found from a much more hawkish senate in addition to that the fall with russia could cause delays quite longer in this ratification process so it's urgent that it gets done immediately. and from your point of view all of the republican seeking to trade concessions on a she's in return for approving the start treaty or some of them simply opposed to the reset in relations with russia. well the irony in this is that many of the concessions that they have been seeking for the past year have already been met by the obama administration in particular an eighty five billion dollar commitment to modernize the american nuclear arsenal maintain its stockpile effectively and in addition to that in american russian relations there has been

a thawing reset we call it and obviously it's known to be that there is opposition to that from the republicans these concessions however seem to come to an end and the administration is being very forceful in demanding that there be a decision on whether to go forward or not. have been in washington thank you very much indeed. and on the way immigration nation many don't know the language of cars but more and more illegal migrants are being drawn to russia without a return take it or the details coming up next. an iranian parliamentary committee has approved a draft motion to count all diplomatic ties with britain after some sort of criticized terence human rights record the decision follows iran's claims that british intelligence was involved in the assassination of a top nuclear scientist in tehran last month london based journalist only recently

said that british envoys remarks were misguided. the politicians in iran 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 able to see 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 under targets many to truck. everybody lines up to their particular. russia 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 investigations that pilot ever was to blame it's still not clear whether we're also testing that but poland has said the findings into the accident in a southwest russia are acceptable they have reported to have sent over one hundred fifty pages pointing out. that what bad believe a big investigation was flawed aspect chris says the russian destination was start and that eventually but science will come to some sort of agreement. i think the key issue 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 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 it is telling to note of course that the head of the accident investigation authorities say also that the poles 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 dip in 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 report is produced. certain issues are settled we're doing that there i'm sure that those that relationship will build back to the strength of it before.

and that was aviation expert cruciate talking to us on poland's rejection of moscow's report into the plane crash that killed the president lech kaczynski and ninety five others russian president dmitry medvedev is visiting india on a two day trip aimed at strengthening trade and investment ties the two countries are expected to sign a number of agreements current saying that expels. 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 to 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 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 where would they 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'll be seeing 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 there will be looking at taking this to the next level in new delhi. and let's now have

a look at some other news from around the wild a series of bombings in baghdad have killed one police officer and injured as a dozen iraqi officials say the first blast which exploded in the center was caused by a roadside bomb targeting a passing police patrol the other devices went off in eastern baghdad and in a mainly shia neighborhood. freezing weather and serious now is continuing to cause massive disruption to travel across europe and instead. port has been reopened after being shut for most of the weekend but is operating on the limited chad you're flying it's 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 round his car through the gates of a primary school was pupils were driving the driver was a sixty seven year old who believes containers of petrol inside the vehicle in an attempt to suicide to commit

a suicide teachers and parents who witnessed the incident were able to put out the fire saving his life taiwanese media reported that the man was having problems with his family. so many people were struggling to make ends meet and 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 and most of forced to work illegally and live in fear of persecution as everyone gathers cover ports. 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 srijit conducted in order to find illegal immigrants usually we have about seven or eight church raids a month but this time around the federal migration series found just

a few people without permission to work in the country one of them is in your twenty's twenty two year old. i don't have documents i don't know russian laws 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. there's russian. yes it does but only as many years 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 the 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. these 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 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. palestinians have called on the you to recognize the west bank of the gaza strip as an independent states despite the peace process being frozen after settlement building resumed in september but up next our interview with rabbi andrew break of the american jewish committee. is no middle east peace solution is possible without israel.

thank you very much for being with us today so we'll start with

a 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 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 say in 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 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 events 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 anti-semitism and that's where the state of israel itself has demonized 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 stalemates in the middle east is affecting. 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 that there is something about the state of israel that has in gendered very paganistic 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 word no one 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 insurance 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 recently for foreign ministers put off their 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 the 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 some. recognition of a decree from outside so your concerns for the rise of online anti-semitism have been heard and ever recorded what 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 beat this somehow prohibit wholesale this kind of expression but there really need 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 you know naturally staged violent rallies just outside of kremlin 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 male. 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 room. the real test the real measure is how you dress there 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 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 there are people i meet that give me reason to hope that it will measure up to it by baker thank you very much for this thank you very much. i am observing nature and discover its beauty. communicate with the wild and learn. test yourself and become free.

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strike at south a second time the war. games went ahead and we have the latest on the tensions of the korean peninsula. as republicans try to introduce more amendments in the u.s. senate delaying gratification of the start. of school walls that any changes could destroy the deal. that millions of migrants from central asian states see russia as a land of opportunity but as immigration increases and many end up in poor living conditions. we're back with the news headlines in thirty minutes time now that it's time to put on your violin. and as we go to siberia to explore a stunning nature reserve located in the heart of the russian. siberia is largest city and a major industrial center. a unique nature reserve called the.