southern india and the chances are we're going to see an agreement today to build an additional two so russia is. a large reactors for the peaceful use of nuclear energy for. going economy also india. would like to. invest in russia and like the russian firms investing in india clearly looking at this to take this partnership to a next level we've seen visits in the last one month from all the heads of the five permanent security council members but the russian visit is especially important for india because russia is a tried and tested strategic partner which india has had a decade long strategic partnership we're going to see. the much awaited contract for the joint development of a fifth generation fighter aircraft cutting edge fighter aircraft which will be. service in both countries india and russia have a very long defense cooperation. from the former soviet union as well

the majority of india's weapons and spares come from russia russia india's leading . sides are looking at moving this from a. relationship to joint development of weapons we've seen that in. the fifth generation fighter. the next level president is going to obviously. look at defense and economic. model he's going to visit the. in the afternoon he's going to. he's going to interact with members of bollywood. from industry so. it was actually quite a lot of wide range of areas in his visit here. very soon we crossed into a media conference with him and promised him on. and singer and soon as we get it

here in o.t. . there's been widespread international criticism of a violent police crackdown on opposition protests and then roofs following sunday's presidential election many protesters were beaten and more than six hundred arrested during several candidates incumbent leader and his own of the one a fourth term with almost eighty percent of the vote ortiz cutting reports from the capital mints. this is a. ruse the new start the media. accounting for this is what comes out of the city . privately. is a bet that the people may have deserved better but what they got instead was more of the same. public good it's from the bottom of my heart i would like to thank my supporters and congratulate them on our victory but be a. so you pretty ricky and as for my opponents i have to inform you on the saddest

of all cajuns for you but you will now have to do with the acting president for at least another five years. and this. opposition supporters journalists and a number of foreign investors all came to a thousand strong demonstration outside the government building in the center of the capital minutes. despite calls to keep the protest peaceful some started storming the building smashing windows and breaking down doors right police reacted immediately the result over six hundred people detained dozens including artie's camera crew injured hit with police petards at least six of the nine presidential candidates have also been arrested many of them seem more disappearing without trace yeah. i was with my husband in the hospital when syrian men entered the room they held me down i was trying to free myself i was screaming

but no one came to help the bottom of the bed he couldn't walk so they ripped him in the blanket dressed him out of the room and looking inside with. e.u. and u.s. officials have already condemned the violence but as with the observers president aleksander simply told everyone to mind their own business but we do sometimes the o.s.c. forgets that it came to observe the election not to control it when it comes to gas it's not for them to evaluate. europe's last dictator as he has been dubbed in some western media did receive some praise from observers they've all agree this election was much more democratic than the previous one in two thousand and six the relative freedoms given to opposition candidates in the run up to election day was marked as a positive sign the e.u. promised deloris billions of euros if there are signs of free and fair elections whether look i shan't will be able to collect some cash from the e.u. while enjoying a fourth consecutive term in office is the question many are asking alex on the go

promised his people political changes but no change in power he's already made good on one half of that promise but here on the once again quiet streets of the capital minsk not many believe the political changes are happening any time soon. catherine as our r.t. minsk. people living on south korea's are than the disputed seaboard all returning to their homes of the souls military exercises the past without incident with korea said it would not retaliate over what was called a provocation despite previous threats well russia called an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council warning that you could aggravate tensions on the peninsula and the situation in the polls. 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 there may be. going to vision of tension. serious conflict for that matter so in the big chamber when we have the private meeting which was also of course asked for by the russian federation. we reiterated the call for forty straight borders in no uncertain terms ask the republic of korea to refrain from conducting the search the size of this at this point in time 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 two envoys to both south korea and north korea 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 reader reading 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. sara flounders from the think tank the international action center says south korea's military drills are disturbing the

precarious balance on planes. this is a fourth direct provocation of u.s. south korean military exercises in less than a month 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 us and backing support and u.s. participation and the united states moving nuclear power to nuclear weapons aircraft carriers still regularly into the region off the coast this these are really dangerous provocations 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 world calls. south korea and the

u.s. went ahead with these military exercises on its way here naughty tangled in a web the reports whole and free zones playing victim to agreements sensationalism . and want your grown ones to come to its ties with you take it down to just. moscow has warned lawmakers in washington that any change to a new nuclear arms reduction deal could destroy the percs foreign minister in the role of said that for russia the start treaty is not up for renegotiation meanwhile the u.s. senate rejected all amendments from republicans seeking to do that either ratification to january when they hear a majority in congress democrats hope that from three will have enough support required for passage the us president urged the senate to ratify the document this week describing this datsun treaty as a national priority to see cities in the job ruben from the national security

network says despite the republicans amendments the treaty will eventually be signed. 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 have fifty eight out of the hundred votes right now so they're not making much headway 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 and 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 and it would have very dramatic impact on 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 when he's found that you in the songs may be out of jail but his legal battle on sexual charges is still going so there's no escaping the wind the jaime on occasions simply trying to cash in on this story it's more emmett one of the case in the. in sweden it's not many people who say today that they suspect. it's a case of. you know not being the best of men until great charges were leveled in a song as the founder of wiki leaks the state of sweden's justice system might not

have been something that kept you awake at night but now sweden is requesting a song his extradition from the u.k. the having unprotected sex with two women they call it rape. the charges being dubbed sex by surprise a song's allegedly refused to wear a condom and it's a crime unique to sweden here in the u.k. people say it would be funny if it wasn't so serious this just seems ridiculous to me and it's actually diminished the whole issue of of rape and i regret that and it's such a shame it's been an injustice to not unusual in a sand women and to feminists and victims of rape even in sweden the original prosecution through the allegations out on lack of marriage then began the release of a quarter of a million u.s. diplomatic cables revealing and humiliating for the u.s. government all of

a sudden sweden's director of public prosecutions decided the rape claims were valid and sweden swallowed it whole including some of its most outspoken commentators it's clear. not a person who should be jailed for journalism f. he has committed a sexual sexual offense then that's a separate issue from wiki leaks i do not think this is politically motivated at least. as soon as himself is calling this a political witch hunt and he's not the only one outside sweden who's drawing that conclusion maybe sure will. across some leaked documents showing how the us put pressure on sweden in great britain to secure the arrest of julian assange it's very unusual for a man to be accused of having consensual sex but not necessarily using a condom but suddenly find himself on the same list in the policy alongside senior mexican drug lord i don't think this case being brought it all julian assange

offered to meet the swedish prosecutor here he offered to meet the swedish prosecutor over he left with the permission of the swedish prosecutor. there's been no suggestion that he didn't want to cooperate so why are we going through all this why why did julian assange joined up in the punishment block at wandsworth prison questions that the swedish media doesn't seem prepared to ask london's high court was the scene of loud protests by a storm system called says during his bail hearing and they're likely to show up again when he reappears to fight extradition in january but if he is sent to sweden he's unlikely to get anything like the level of support in a country which appears to be ready to condemn him as a rapist without questioning any of the possible political motivations behind the claim you are and it's our duty not to. the group of iranian lawmakers have voted

for diplomatic ties in the u.k. to be severed the move comes after bush and bassett. criticizes paul he writes reports iran's relations with the youngest tuesday after iran's claim that britain's intelligence service was it was all in the assassination of a top nuclear scientist last night and based on mr. intensive freedoms that. the politicians in iran are quite angry and outraged at this very undiplomatic. blog which has been produced from the. 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 money to trucked is. everybody lines up to that particular. more news and analysis is always available on our website altie dot com or he's just a taste of what's online for you right now america's alarmist media as news outlets fears that again it is a hotbed of terrorism could the country become another possible war front for the u.s. . and shocking footage of over a million chicks on a russian dumped into barrels and left to die it's a nationwide the prosecutor's office is going to have to open inquiry into animal cruelty and that more people. russian investigators say they won't comment on criticism of that draft report into the april plane crash that killed the polish president lech kaczynski and ninety five

others investigation said upon a terror was to blame poland has said the findings into the accident in southwest russia unacceptable seoul has reportedly sent over one hundred fifty pages pointing out what it says all flaws in the proud nation expert chris and kate says the russian best a geisha was thora that eventually both sides will come to some sort of agreement. i think. for the polish so it is probably quite a significant amount of criticism of the polish air force i've looked this issue since the accident and i can't fault any of the conclusions of the being 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 has also said that they the poles themselves shared the lie the lion's share of blame for that crash will not i don't believe personally that if we. bring an international investigating team into the approach that the findings will be any different to what they are i think this is a mind a dip in what house but. evidently a very close working relationship between poland and russia in recent years it is a minor blip so i think cuz they the full crush investigating reports is produced. once certain issues are settled with doing that that i'm sure that there's that relationship will build back so the strength to get help before. not in some of the international news this hour freezing temperatures and heavy snow

turning to cool for the massive disruption u.k. and across europe most of london's heathrow airport was shut weakened tens of thousands of people stranded forcing them to spend another night on terminal floors many flights were also cancelled due to icing conditions from brussels to temperatures are due to continue until christmas eve meeting with. the u.n. has extended the mandate of its peacekeeping force in ivory coast for six months getting the opposition needed to be recognized as president it's a challenge to the want the bank has awarded the ten thousand strong force to leave and ignored international calls to step down he claims the un has been his rival. observers say one of them is running for election he is offering a young father a confused recovery from a flood the civil war. an explosion has ripped through

a bus station in kenya leaving one person dead and room during one two dozen others because it wasn't just the sense of security check they say the dead man had of containing an explosive device most likely to miss one citizens traveling across. behave with the latest business news in just a few lines. welcome to business russia's biggest nickel has agreed to sell three and a half billion dollars of its stock to commodities trader trafigura. eight percent stake in the form of american depository receipts held by subsidiaries is the

latest move in the tussle between shareholders. and patani in full control of the metals last week twelve billion dollars to buy the blocking share held by. the nikkei jumped in the final hour to finish up one and a half percent in a news conference the governor of the bank of japan committed to keep borrowing costs for japanese companies saying he's also recovered from yesterday's two months low on invest to send some of the is on devalued just four and a half percent this year compared to over sixteen percent for the m.s.c.i. index of asian markets outside japan. in the. open for the first session in three on global markets upswing has already raised yesterday's losses zero point seven percent the my six figures there are monday's closing they open in a few minutes time. burbank is higher on the positive news from the u.s.

yesterday encouraging signs from the federal reserve on the economy nor cynical as we've been hearing is moving to resolve its crisis shareholder conflict is also high as light sweet holds dollars a barrel. russia has once again been linked with membership of the world trade organization is now expected to happen next year well though joining brings obligations that may hurt some parts of the economy going into the ocean from jones lang less believes membership overall will be beneficial. the whole economy will benefit in the show job without any single dollar the benefit should be on the consumer side simply because i expect a decrease in the import in the longer term but. the benefit may come to produce to those one who we were able to adult without management style will be able to modernize they need to increase their competitiveness if they fail to do so they need she said from the market. you can see. shares in email service meldrew have

slumped fourteen percent since its london i.p.o. last month that's obviously left many investors disappointed but some analysts now think they should fall even further so really western banks which are related to the all have published research reports where they highlight the upside potential of the stalk 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. have highlighted the downside potential of the company of this company's stock and we believe in the pen research we believe that from current levels the company has to lose half of its value to reach a fair valuation finally this hour huge deposits of platinum worth twenty seven billion dollars have been found in russia's north west the fun did not come overnight prospectors had been exploring the area for seventeen years before

discovering the five hundred ton field even better geologists say the money process should be easy as most of the precious metal lies near the surface. of the business join us for opening markets in europe next. did i kill innocent. allies a call of course and that's never a. mom a song from the skull spoke with me i think of it every day. of the flies fired from a memory. and i'm not so much a long time i'm just here trying to tell him. i was. i was ashamed that i had been. i was ashamed that i hadn't been a hero why i got my legs.

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question. it can hear dr swan's policeman's wives ministers why i just pray to god. if you didn't find me if i could slip through the night that i would get my kids out of here because i knew that what was going to happen was that he was going to kill me many victims don't understand that domestic violence includes verbal abuse psychological abuse physical abuse and sexual abuse at least four million women are affected by abuse every year those are my only two options that i saw at that moment i'm going to kill him i'm me in jail or he's going to killing me.

you're watching r.t. the top stories we're covering for you this hour we stink defense ties and business corporation russian president with indian leadership any deals worth billions of dollars are expected to be signed. a severe crackdown on opposition protesters it comes on the phone around the world hundreds would be to underestimate company president the shrinker plane another victory almost eighty percent of the vote. and life returns to normal in south korea's border on and off the north korea said

it would not retaliate against souls' brutal games there. you drills could aggravate tensions on the peninsula. but revelations by a whistle blowing web site wiki leaks have exposed america's role in global affairs as one of a bully best selling author were flown this told r.t. that the leaks exposing washington's hidden agenda made americans think the media is not giving them the full story. or two sitting down with broadcaster and best selling author laura flanders laura thank you very much for joining us tonight to be with you let's get right into it my first question to you is about it being over two years since barack obama has been elected as president and through your eyes which of his very ambitious promises hasn't kept well i mean i think he's kept the one which was he's going to try and i think that he has been trying but the change that he promised the hope the people had i think it's living.