looking at taking this to the next level they're going to be talking about other areas especially defense in the next year. indeed as you say many different areas discussed and many agreements signed we understand that russian india have also been talking about in the contract to jointly build a fifth generation fighter jet fighter is a bit more about that. yes this is the cornerstone of the future synergies all of the defense studies so far india and russia have usually taken the form of supply by ablation ship in the last couple of years they've been looking at joint development of weapons a spectacular success has been the supersonic from most gruesome site and now the development of a fifth generation fighter aircraft is what both sides want it's a contract what thirty billion dollars and it will be one of. fighter jets. goods it will be one competitor in the world and we will find service in both air forces so both sides are still talking about it should be done by the time president would

it be. ok thanks much indeed terence singh of course to have more on this throughout the day here on out. now moving on there's been widespread international criticism of a violent police crackdown on opposition protests and then the roofs following sunday's presidential election many protesters were beaten and more than six hundred arrested including several candidates incumbent leader and examine the question when a fourth term with an almost eighty percent of the vote he's cutting reports from the capital minsk. this is a. rooster new song. becoming the president on thursday. privately bowlers is a better. the people may have deserved better but what they got instead was more of the same sewer service or public good it's from the bottom of my heart i would like

to tank my supporters and congratulate them on a victory by the. so you pretty ricky and as for my opponents i have to inform you on the saddam's to vocations for you that you will now have to do with the acting president for at least another five years. and this thinks 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 senior

disappearing without trace. i was with my husband in the hospital when syrian man entered the room they held me down i was trying to free myself i was screaming but no one came to help the team of the bed he couldn't walk so the reaction in the blanket dressed him out of the room and looking inside. 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 talking trollish. when it comes to gas it's not for. 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. promise dollars billions of euros if there are signs of free and fair elections. 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. 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 anytime soon. r.t. minsk. america's official envoy to north korea says his visit provided an opening to return to dialogue over its controversial nuclear program. bill richardson had said the secretive state would have no inspectors from the international atomic energy agency to examine the facilities he also praised north korea's president isn't responding to the south's recent military exercises near the disputed

seaboard it go hearing it said it would not retaliate of what it's called a provocation despite previous threats intended to show that it's going through the council warning that mutuals could argue that tensions on the peninsula the delegates failed to reach a conclusion it's a real games are disturbing the precarious balance of syria. 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 powered

a nuclear weapon aircraft carrier 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 it tangled in a web. claims to two women seeking sensationalism. from. and why iran wants to cut its cause really. in just a few moments. well known makers in washington that any change to a new nuclear arms reduction deal could destroy the pact foreign minister. said that for russia to stop the treaty is not top of the negotiation meanwhile the u.s.

senate rejected a woman from republicans seeking a directive occasions when they hold a joint there will be democrats who the treaty will have enough support acquired for passage surprised in the senate. this week describing the start of national unity. hostiles. from the national security network says despite the republicans amendments 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 that could bring others to the side of the rejection of the treaty these are all failing they need to get a majority vote 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 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 or not 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. wakey leaks founder julian assange on this may be out of jail but his deal battle on sexual assault charges is still ongoing and his lawyers claim the women behind the allegations are simply trying to cash in on this stories well remet is following the case in london. in sweden it's not many people who say today that that they suspect. it's

a case of. you know not being the best of men until great charges were leveled at julian assange is 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 as songs 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 diminish 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 the sand but 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 to rate claims were valid and sweden swallowed it whole including some of its most outspoken commentators it's clear. as 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 songs himself is calling this a political witch hunt and he's not the only one outside sweden who's drawing that conclusion maybe in the near future will come. across some leaked documents showing how the us put pressure on sweden in great britain to secure the arrest of julian

assange as it's very unusual for a man to be accused of having consensual sex but not necessarily using a condom on that suddenly find himself on the same list policy alongside senior mexican drug lord i don't think this case or to be brought at all julian assange offered to meet the swedish prosecutor here he offered to meet the swedish prosecutor over there 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 on 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 associates supporters 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 rapists without questioning any of the possible political motivations behind the claims nor am i it's our duty not to. well it's not just swedish authorities during the song has to worry about american lawyers are seeking ways of extraditing him to the u.s. as the fallout from the latest charging documents released for whistle blowing web site wiki leaks continues author laura flanders told r.t. and the leaks highlight the power america wields comes at a price. it's been very interesting in the wiki leaks documents that have been released over the last few weeks as we've seen the american power is evident not just in how many weapons this country has but in the pressure it's able to bear on just about every embassy around the world to do its bidding the u.s. arms race to become by far the most weaponized its nation on earth

is an asset when it comes to the state department bullying other countries and undermining their democracy to get what they want you've seen tremendous power come to the united states but you've come to see i think the cost as our economy. and you can watch that full interview in just over an hour's time here in r.t. . a group of iranian lawmakers who voted for diplomatic ties to the u.k. to be severed the move comes off the british ambassador to the islamic republic criticizes its washington right special. relationship here to go rounds play britain's intelligence service was involved in this isolation of the scientists last month a london based journalist when really it comes to basic freedoms to taze reckless fantasy perfect. the politicians in iran all 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 for. iran has its many supporters many to truck . as they everybody lines up to that particular. one of the more news analysis is always available on our website that's called just taste of what's on life you write to me going to america's media music outlets stoke fears that there's a hotbed of terrorism in the country become another possible war from the us.

and shocking footage of a million chicks rushing from dumped into barrels and left out in the cold to die it's a mission the prosecutor's office is being urged to open carry on the crew to go talk to a doctor. he's .

the official. video. feed. of some of the international news at this hour. freezing temperatures and heavy snow will continue to cause further massive disruption in the u.k. and across europe most of london's heathrow airport was shut even tens of thousands of people stranded forcing him to spend another night on terminal floors many flights were also canceled due to icy conditions paris frankfurt brussels temperatures are predicted to continue into christmas even beyond. the

u.n. has extended the mandate of its peacekeeping force in ivory coast for six months to go positionally there to be recognized as president is a challenge to the on the bug was one of the ten thousand strong force to leave and ignored international calls to step down he claims the un has been arming his rival at a sound service one of them has run off election for his own growing over the number of volunteers in the country's two recovering from the civil. explosion has ripped through a bus station in kenya leaving one person dead and injuring more than two dozen others that occurred while passengers were processing through a security checkpoint and say nothing bad can turn an explosive device most of the victims were ugandan citizens traveling home for christmas. russian investigators say they would not comment on the punish criticism of their

report that a poor plane crash killed the polish president and one to five others it was to get concluded that pilot error was to blame for the polish prime minister has called the findings into the extant unacceptable. hundred poland a draft report of the incident after months of investigation but it has not been made public education expert chris yates says the russian investigation is thorough no further international arms needed. i think the key is to you for the polar 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 authority has also said that they the poles themselves share the lie 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 approach. that the findings will be any different to walk they are i think this is a mind a dip in what house believes evidently a very close working relationship between poland and russia in recent years it is a minor blip so i think very the full. investigating reports is produced. once certain issues are settled with doing that that i'm sure that those that relationship will build back to the strength of it have before.

us banks who were making mortgage backed securities knew they were secure in fourteen loans in housing agency business analyst and it clearly placed the blame for the bubble on the individual firms ati's financial guru max kaiser explains how brokers are used to backtracking on their promises. after the thing blows up you always say nobody can predict markets but to get people out of the markets you pretend as though you can predict which way things are going so of course the bankers which now run the economy will say number the iraq war was sold the same way it's going to sell financing we're going to predict that they are always going to pay for the invasion but this is a typical leverage buyout mentality for brokers like we know how this really works we're smart we're we've got quantitative analysis or economists are brilliant we know we know which way it's going now ninety nine percent of the time it blows up and then ninety nine percent of the time the excuse is always well we never saw it go how would we go i don't know you put always thought it was the point it was

about a bloke who guessed you look at me well give me a lego i don't think. yes you can watch the kaiser for two no less than ten minutes here dotty done it will be hit with the latest business news in just a few times. welcome to business russia and india have signed twenty agreements spread over many areas of the economy including banking and the possible creation of joint oil and gas ventures president made very physically india for

a two day visit the countries have stated their intention to boost trade turnover to up to twenty billion dollars within five years. biggest mine in the us nickel has agreed to sell three and a half billion dollars of its stock to commodities trader traffic the nickel will still be a percent stake in the form of american depository receipts subsidiaries is the latest move in the tussle between shareholders. for control of the metals for last week twelve billion dollars to buy the blocking share held by their pascoe. 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 low for japanese companies also recovered from yesterday's two months low on investor sentiment the bourse is undervalued it's not just. this year compared to over sixteen percent of the m.s.c.i. index of asian markets outside. over in europe the footsie index already up around

half a percent in the first few minutes of trade british airways shares are higher by one and a half percent as it moves to clear the flight off the sonos flights and the r.t.s. has opened higher for the first session in three on the global markets upswing already raised yesterday's losses point seven seven percent the my six however is down. part of a consulting on buying cable t.v. operator national telecom for one point four billion dollars energy also growing after russia raised its full cost. from seventy five to eighty one dollars a barrel. russia's once again big leagues membership of the world trade organization is now expected to happen next year we're joining brings obligations that may hurt some parts of the economy getting the dorsch in from jones lining believes membership overall will be beneficial. to the whole economy will benefit

in the short term without any single doubt the benefits should be on the consumer side simply because i expect a decrease in the imported into overtime but one of the benefit may come to produce to those one who we were able to adopt their production management style will be able to modernize they plan to increase their competitiveness if they fail to do so they need he said from the markets from the economic conditions shares in email service meldrew have slumped fourteen percent since its london i.p.o. last month but some analysts think this should fall even further several investment banks which are related to the will have published research reports where they highlight the upside potential of the stalk strangest somewhere from seventeen to forty three percent but at the same time several independent investment banks not related to the 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 fund did not come overnight prospectors had been exploring the area for seventeen years before discovering the five hundred ton field even better jolla just say the mining process should be easy as most of the precious metal lies near the surface. that's the latest round you can always find most always on our website that's called.

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border the north korea would not retaliate against. a show on. tensions on the peninsula. when next. how the wealthiest on wall street have created the biggest income gap in generations. oh my guys are this is the kaiser report you know markets are made up of rewards and the risks the problem is that over the past five years ten years fifteen years all of the rewards have been sucked up by a few people and in exchange they have all the risk on to the general population the result has been the widest wealth and income gap in generations.