most of these were in new areas because they were they said they wanted to bring other areas but this tradition is strong. on defense and nuclear but one of the key agreements that has been signed is on expanding the oil and gas sector we've also seen an agreement on a framework agreement signed in expanding the civilian nuclear cooperation as you know russia is building through a new nuclear stations in southern india an agreement has now been signed to build another nuclear reactors in india india has identified one site in eastern india for building the next reactor india. has about two point five percent nuclear energy in its energy mix it wants to increase this to ten percent and it's relying on countries like russia and to bring that technology into will react this forward and russia is expected to build about fifteen to twenty nuclear reactors in

india for providing its energy needs in the next decade or so they have also discussed. the systems and navigation system that russia is developing and india is interested in being a partner with us and using this is the equivalent of the american navigation system g.p.s. both leaders were quite clear on energy being an important part of this week's. russia's positive about energy cooperation these teachings just told my minister today the emir is inconvenient. it applies not only to nuclear energy to cheat the laws in the last few years but also extraction of the series. i am. checked flecked. both sides have been

talking about cooperating on developing this fifth generation fighter aircraft they have now signed the contract the contract is worth about ten billion dollars and this will be this has been signed by rules about an export from the russian site and hindustani out of the limited from the indian site and we saw just building a joint to be putting in equal amount of money in this joint the building and developing a fifty in addition fighter aircraft russia will provide the fighter jet people and india will provide the navigation and the this is going to be provide about two hundred fifty eight ruffle the russian air force and about two hundred fighter aircraft for the indian air force and this will be the means to all the forces for the next couple of decades so clearly this is an important agreement that has been signed and this has been the cornerstone of this particular visit by president medvedev also they've. had the both sides have been quite clear that. while talking about nuclear while talking about economy while talking about defense that the ties

between russia and india are actually a source of stability not just for south asia but for the world and both sides have also discussed. to end international debt as well i'm going to follow it in from the diplomatic academy at russia's foreign ministry says nuclear energy is a vital field for russia's cooperation with india. russia's contribution to energy security of india in the field of tomic and of your monk lesser goal and the crucial first and foremost by the year twenty fifty there will be seven hundred million indians living in cities so it is. wide and wide area for our cooperation in the field of energy security due to do a lack of. natural energy sources in india india is one of the balls in. the world politics sought india should be accepted

should be adopted in the security council but this is a process and incorporation of with other members of the security council russia will facilitate. stepping into the security council india is a strange power and it can articulate the needs interests and desires of the developing nations there's been widespread international criticism of a violent police crackdown on opposition protests in belo bruce following sunday's presidential election many protesters were beaten and more than six hundred arrested including several candidates the incumbent leader alexander lukashenko won a fourth term with almost eighty percent of the vote parties catherine as our reports from the capital now. this is

a playlist roosts the new song. becoming for this is what comes out of the city. privately to people of color it is a fact that. the people may have deserved better but what they got instead was more of the same but sure sure sir publicly that it's from the bottom of my heart i would like to tank my supporters and congratulate them on our victory but be at the . so important to me and as for my opponents i have to and follow you and assad must have occasions for you that you will now have to deal with the acting president for at least another five years from president kim and this week up a zisha 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 the protests peaceful

some started storming the building splashing windows and breaking down doors right police reacted immediately. result over six hundred people detained dozens including artie's camera three injured hit with police batons at least six of the nine presidential candidates have also been arrested many of them seem are disappearing or without trace you know full of thirty 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 their people the bottom of the bed he couldn't walk so they reached him in the blanket driven out of there looking inside one with. a new 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 didn't just comes the o.s.c. forgets that it came to observe the election not talking trollish when it comes to

gossip 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 agreed 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 dollars billions of euros if there are signs of free and fair elections what they're looking 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 question 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 on its way here are to be out of drought but not

a free man as we desperately through you know songs extradited from britain he fears he won't be dry fairly there. america's unofficial envoy to north korea says his visit provided an opening for pyongyang to return to dialogue over its controversial nuclear program earlier bill richardson had some of the secretive state would allow inspectors from the international atomic energy agency to examine their facilities he also praised north korea's pragmatism in not responding to the recent military exercises near the disputed c. border going gang said it would not retaliate over what it's called a provocation despite previous threats on the weekend russia called an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council warning that new drills could apple vacations that the delegates failed to reach a conclusion analysts say the war games are disturbing the peace of balance on the

peninsula. it's 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 carriers directly 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. moscow has warmed lawmakers in washington that any change to a new nuclear arms reduction deal could destroy the pact foreign minister sergei lavrov said that for russia the start treaty is not for renegotiation meanwhile the us senate rejected all the amendments from republicans seeking to delay the ratification until january when they have a majority in congress but democrats hope the treaty will have enough support passage u.s. president urge the senate to ratify the document this week describing the start treaty as a national priority deal would see nuclear arsenals of one third joel rubin from the national security network think tanks 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 that could bring others to the side of the rejection of the treaty

these are all failing they need to get a majority of votes 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's 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 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. we can leaks founder julian assange maybe out of jail but his legal battle on

sexual assault charges is still ongoing so he didn't insist on his extradition from the u.k. just sure no proper justice awaits him there is following the case in london. 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 the sand women and to feminists and victims of rape even in sweden the original prosecution through the allegations out on black america 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 break 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 if 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 it's very unusual for a man to be accused of having consensual sex but not necessarily using a condom but the suddenly find himself on the same list of polis alongside senior mexican drug lord i don't think this case also being brought it 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 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 rapist without questioning any of the possible political motivations behind the claims you are and it's our duty not to. it's not just swedish of our it is julian assange has to worry about american lawyers are seeking ways of extraditing him to the u.s. as the fallout from the last transfer of documents released by wiki leaks continues all far more flanders told r.t. that 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. almost race to become by far the most weaponized it's nation on earth is an asset when it comes to the state department building of the 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 probables. and you can watch that full interview here in our in just under fifteen minutes and more news and analysis is always available on our website that's our t.v. dot com here's just a taste of what's online for you right now america is alarmist as news outlets don't fears that yemen is a hotbed of terrorism but the country the company number of possible war front

what's. shocking footage of over a million checks on a russian farm dumped into barrels and left out you could call die. the prosecutor of all to be urged to open an inquiry into animal cruelty find out more in our team dot com. russian investigators say they will not comment on polish criticism of their report for the april plane crash that killed the polish president and ninety five others investigation concluded that pilot error was to blame but the polish prime minister has called the findings of the accident on acceptable russia headed poland a draft report of the incident after months of investigation but has not been made public aviation expert chris yes. as the rest of us a geisha was sparrow and that no further international inquiry. i

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 i don't believe personally that if we bring an international investigating team into be equation that the findings will be any different to what they are which seems to be the pressure was brought to bear in some way shape or form on the pilots and copilots of the aircraft to make an attempt to land at an airport where there were no conditions at all to land too much fog not enough visibility and a lot of pressure being brought on the pilots conspired to cause that accident. from some other international news for you this hour freezing temperatures and

heavy snow are queuing to cause further massive disruption in the u.k. and a call so europe most of london's heathrow airport was leaving tens of thousands of people stranded forcing them to spend another night on terminal floors many flights were also counsel due to icy conditions in paris frankfurt and brussels the arctic temperatures are predicted to continue until christmas and even beyond. the u.n. has extended the mandate of a peacekeeping force in the ivory coast for six months urging the opposition leader to be recognized as president it's a challenge to the wrong back to go and has ordered the ten thousand strong force to leave and ignore international calls to step down he claims the un has been arming his rival assign you tara who observers say one november's run off election fears are growing of new violence in a country still recovering from a bloody civil war. an earthquake in southeastern iran near the

city of bam has left at least seven people dead and hundreds more injured the six point five magnitude quake destroyed several buildings many houses collapsing and bringing down power lines officials say the death toll could rise as scores of people are trapped under rubble the city of bob was the scene of a devastating quake that killed tens of thousands seven years ago u.s. banks who were making mortgage backed securities knew they were securing fraudulent loans artie's financial guru max kaiser explains how brokers are accustomed 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 know you can't 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 finance it we're going to predict that they are always going to pay for the invasion but this is a typical leverage by mentality of

a brokers like we know how this really works we're smart we're we've got quantitative analysis or economists are brilliant you 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 i would go i don't know you put always done it was the point it was about blows up who did you look at me well you got me i want to go i don't think. they'll miss the kaiser report in just over an hour here on our team now russia's main christmas tree has been erected at the heart of moscow it will be the focus of the kremlin's cathedral square for the next three weeks to mark the new year celebrations thirty meters high it's being decorated with thousands of russian tri color lights and ornaments a two meter star will complete the book for you and me. it's one hundred years old

and was held in a special ceremony in the local forest and got a very high p. delivery by father frost himself the kremlin tree is a pretty revolutionary tradition restarted by russian using force he had to make it through. well if you're in moscow for the holiday certainly do a go have a look at that tree up next here in our two daniels aren't us with the latest from the world of business. welcome to business board has agreed to review a merger creating the world's fifth biggest mobile network the b. line network operator was due to pay six point five billion dollars from weather investments owner of italy's win and egypt for us but three of the nine board members of call for financial terms before finalizing the agreement. after almost a year of negotiation gazprom has agreed to sell gas to latvia at

a fifteen percent discount the deal will come into effect next year meanwhile the company says it will raise production by up to fourteen percent by twenty fifteen miles through five hundred eighty billion cubic meters of gas a year from says the plans are based on developments in the domestic and external markets he expects to produce just over five hundred billion cubic meters of gas this year. russia's biggest mine and the us nickel has agreed to sell three and a half billion dollars of its stock to commodities trader traffic. will sell the eight percent stake in the form of american depository receipts subsidiaries is the latest move in the tussle between shareholders. led to methe patani for control of the metals for last week twelve billion dollars to buy the blocking share held by their past. stock markets european shares are gaining for the second day in a row engine make a rolls royce group has driven up two percent of the citi group of grated the firm

to buy from hold portugal's government bond ratings have been put on review for possible downgrade by moody's which cites the country's we no longer term outlook both the nikkei and hang saying ended up one the half percent today in asia same with convert from yesterday's two months low on investor sentiment the forces on the valued just four and a half percent this year compared with over sixteen percent for the sci index of asian markets outside japan. monkeys here in moscow holding on to the morning's gains the old ts has now raised yesterday's losses it's not point six percent telecom is up one report is part of a console to buy cable t.v. operates a national telecom a one point four billion dollars energy stocks are also growing off the russian raises for cost for your old glendora next year from seventy five to eighty one dollars of barrel a must in a good continues to gain after reporting a three fold increase in earnings for the first nine months of the year. russia's

once again being linked with membership of the world trade organization it now expects to happen next year although joining brings obligations that may hurt some parts of the economy you get in the ocean from jones lang let's sell billy's overall membership will help the country and hold the whole economy will be in the show job without any single doubt the benefit should be on the consumer side simply because i expect decrease in the imported into overtime but much of a benefit may come to produce up to those one who we were able to adopt their production management style will be able to modernize the equipment and to increase their competitiveness if they feel they need he said from the market and from the economy could use an email provider raised a billion dollars in a highly successful london i.p.o. last month but investors have been disappointed with its shares since then slumping fourteen percent some analysts explain why the stock is expected to fall even

further. so reston banks which are related to the all have published research reports where they highlight the upside potential of the stalk ranges from where 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 of the company over the company's stock and we believe in independent research we believe that from current levels the company has to lose half of its value to reach fair valuation. we go live next hour to talk metals with a novelist in london about.

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land still asking them my dear cuts like. i don't know anything about them alaska the great. one are cheap. artsy and live from moscow these are the headlines at two thirty pm agreements on nuclear power and trade deals worth billions of dollars have been struck as russian president dmitry meets raids in visits india. leaders of the continent said their ties are crucial for global stability. because of your crackdown on opposition protesters invalid bruce comes under fire around the world hundreds were beaten and arrested after incumbent president alexander lukashenko claimed another victory with almost eighty percent of voters. and life returns to normal on south korea's

border island after the north said it would not retaliate against souls' war games there russia had warned the new drills quote to aggravate tensions on the peninsula . now revelations by whistle blowing web site wiki leaks have exposed america's role in global affairs as one of a bully bestselling author laura flanders told r.t. that the leaks detailing washington's hidden agenda have 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 to read 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 has you kept well i mean i think he's kept the one which was he's going to try.