even more important. is the growing economies of both countries both russia and india bric countries and their economies are growing at a hospital and one of the key areas that we've seen agreement signed to be over a dozen agreements signed today one of the key areas energy oil and gas and also nuclear power india has a huge demand for energy it's growing at almost nine percent and just two point five percent of its energy mix comes from nuclear energy it wants to increase just ten percent and sixty three thousand megawatts of nuclear energy is what it wants to add in the next twenty years and russia is going to be a leading player in this russia to provide plastic knology in. civil nuclear energy it will also build nuclear power stations for india it's going to be building through in southern india and the agreement signed today will set out the roadmap for building two additional nuclear stations nuclear power stations in

southern india and both leaders are quite clear that any. are important in their relationship. russia is positive about energy cooperation in the future i told the prime minister today that india is a convenient partner in the energy field it applies not only to nuclear energy where we've achieved a lot in the past few years but also in the extraction of hide your codes. i am particularly. corp. checked it reflects. our. defense ties between both countries is also very strong russia is india's largest weapons supply and most of india's weapons hardware comes from russia and of course before that from the soviet union the agreement signed today. is the

joint development of the fifth generation fighter aircraft this is this is the only one outside the united states which is in the air both sides will be equal partners and in this the development costs will be around ten billion dollars both sides will put in the money russia will develop the propulsion systems india will develop the avionics and the navigation software and the road map will be around two hundred fifty fighter aircraft of this model will be built for the russian air force and two hundred for the indian air force and the total contract will be worth thirty billion dollars it will be the backbone of forces for decades to come so really we're seeing this way forward of. merely just buying off the shelf joint development of weaponry we've seen that with the bromo supersonic messiah and now with these with this particular fighter aircraft. russia's prime minister vladimir putin has met with the leaders of the country's main football supporter clubs in

the wake of the recent street violence in moscow and st petersburg as follows a number of violent ultra nationalist demonstrations after a spartak fan was killed earlier this month for more we go live to our team having a gradual over hello catarina so what was the prime minister trying to achieve in his meeting with these football fan leaders. prime minister putin described the killing of football fan you go to the feds a tragedy targeting the entire community of russia's food bowl funds he set we should treat these as an attack against all of you regardless where you leave your faith and you are a nationality he said during his meeting with the representatives of different football clubs in most cases he said he understood it well that emotions sometimes ran high as people supporting different football clubs try to settle scores off to matches and these can be understood that this is done in compliance with law and with common sense but what happened in moscow last week was unacceptable he said

and to the great peace he immunity against xenophobia and extremism which had existed in russia saying true is is beginning to weaken off he also reminded that to the great beauty of this is manifesting itself during football matches football teams often consist of representatives of different as new groups and of different nationalities and that it's a multi national sport and russia's trend he said isn't that it's a country consisting of people of different nationalities and that once young people forget about this the country will start simply falling apart it will shut down and will start degenerating he promised that those responsible for the killing of the sparta football fan will and behind bars and steal he called on football fans to stay independent and to shrug off the strain means. to assist police would. the current situation with russian fans is not that different to problems in other countries and europe in particular both here and there are various

destructive elements trying to make their way into supporter clubs any to bring the clubs under their control and i'm talking about radicals and they don't do it for the sport they don't do it to support fan clubs they do it for their own selfish political reason as to they want to destabilize the country so that afterwards they can scream that they are the only ones that can save russia it would be a tragedy if we let that happen. but. after the meeting prime minister putin and the football fans that went to the grave for. this part found twenty eight year old. to lay flowers to pay their respects to the deceased young man many people have likened the killing of. this young man to a similar case when anatomy groschen was killed earlier this year and all of the suspects were released and went into hiding. right a catarina so how was the investigation into. on monday the

investigative committee opened a criminal case against several officials who released three of the suspects linked to the killing or for the reader of the officials whose names ranks and numbers have not been identified are investigated for criminal negligence investigators check whether they had personal interests in freeing the suspects and whether they did it under pressure. all the suspects relieved after a brief detention drew prime minister i are during his televised call in show last week and shortly after that on friday a preliminary check was opened and. it was up to prime minister said that it was unacceptable that those suspects were released the suspects who are linked to a murder case that means that a public sweeping of law enforcement should have been done without delay putin said and this would have helped prevent street riots over the weekend in moscow and

sent but his broke some over five thousand people. who were fans radical football fans that clashed with migrants and police and and up in arrests all over a thousand people prime minister today acknowledged that the government did not respond properly to the killing of these particles will find and these triggered the disorders all right out here catherine mcgrath show reporting live thanks for that. a monument to soldiers who gave their lives fighting fascism in world war two has been unveiled in moscow the project was conceived after georgia blew up a war memorial in the country western city of kutaisi last year prime minister vladimir putin and leaders from the georgian opposition attended the ceremony in the russian capital they both expressed hope that it will be the start of better relations between the two countries the new monument symbolizes unity of the people and the chosen in

a nationwide vote. britain's foreign secretary says that russia and the u.k. have each expelled a diplomat from their embassies amid a row over alleged spying a russian envoy to leave the u.k. two weeks ago after accusations of espionage surfaced he claimed that russia booted out a british official in moscow weeks later for more we go live to our correspondent with the details sara firth in moscow and laura emmett in london good to have you both with us to you first laura what's the british foreign ministry saying about this. but we have had a little confirmed by the british foreign ministry william hague the foreign secretary race unless the house of commons explaining what had happened he said that britain has indeed expelled a diplomat from the russian embassy in london they requested that diplomats expulsion on december the tenth off what hague is cooling clear evidence of russian intelligence service activities acting against bush interests here in london then we are also haring of cool strong the other and that there was

a tit for tat expulsion from the british embassy in moscow and in response to that it's expulsion from william hague said that britain would check any basis for that particular action despite the fact that of course it was any response to what the foreign office here had done. now turning to use our there's quite a bit of history between the countries with diplomatic disputes of this kind tell us a little bit about that. sorry one more time there's quite a bit of history between the countries when it comes to diplomatic disputes of this kind can you tell us more about that. if could subtly yes and of course russia saying it's a spy story it's not big on being in the summer when we saw the spice looks between america and russia in that case of kools ten russian citizens in america that were accused of spying i would oppose it back to russia and they would swap the citizens

in detention and recently we've seen the case of the twenty five year old woman in the u.k. where king is the ace of the liberal democrat and he might hang coke and now this case isn't related to this current what she's currently on bell at the moment in the u.k. appealing a deportation order says he'll be very interesting to see how this now plays out of course in the case of the american russian spy story we still don't resolve a very very quickly with a minimum the first and actually in that instance it was really seen as a sign that the reset that happened between the two sides was working and britain of course really has been trying to emulate the reset that american mushers has and it's the scene with the deportation of these two diplomats perhaps not being quite so successful. back to you or i now how do you think this could affect relations between the two countries. well this of course is a huge embarrassment for the foreign secretary william hague who when he took office as recently as may this year said that he vowed to improve relations with

moscow and him fact went to moscow in november and met with president dmitri medvedev which is quite a rare occurrence for a lower official than the prime minister and then we're going to see the do a visit by david cameron the prime minister of the u.k. which is supposed to take place early next next year now whether that will affect the time this will affect the timing of that visit is obviously not clear yet we're not sure what the repercussions will be but it's interesting to note that that would be the first visit by a british prime minister to moscow since the affair which is now become the stuff of legend in two thousand and six william hague the foreign secretary says that he still wants to have a co-operative and productive relationship with russia within the bounds of this country's laws we saw another tit for tat expulsion in two thousand and seven following the libyan young professor three diplomats were expelled from each side

then as well and that was in protest from the british side a russian refusal to extradite lugovoy to face trial in the u.k. he is of course britain's prime suspect in the murder of alexander litvinenko since then there has been attempts on various sides to push what they're calling the reset button in russia u.k. relations this could have serious implications for that reset button and it follows total on the heels of the wiki leaks cable which says that the u.k. foreign office believes that spying activity by russia in the u.k. is is higher than ever it says so pressing the reset button against a background of that degree of mistrust is going to be quite difficult for william hague and indeed david cameron the prime minister already thanks for that report ortiz laura image in london and sorry for porter from moscow. brought her the brother of the late polish president killed in a plane crash in southwest russia has claimed that the body buried in krakow does

not belong to lech kaczynski the former prime minister said he's not yet decided whether he'll ask for the remains to be examined but a polish political expert says that although the words of jaroslav kaczynski still carry some weight the shock claims won't hinder moscow warsaw relations he is the leader of the political party god knows about. the five percent of votes mainly all the made money may need traditional people maybe traditionally with some misgivings course earning russia as a neighbor so it is important buckboard point of view of this point bullets you know a lot of the relations it is significant but not important it is very extravagant and even some leading members of the political party were very much surprised by the radical statement they didn't hear before in their vote before the state that there is the problem. of the book deal rather the president. so the fact that he

actually said it openly unity puts gone first will shock to many and immediately the prosecutor general officer. each of you gauge in with multiple all the proceedings on the points site have stated a very strongly that this is not the case that this is actually the border. wars believe. or that. earlier warsaw rejected the findings of the investigation into the april plane crash airport concluded that pilot error was among the main causes of the fatal accident that killed ninety six people the polish prime minister has called the findings unacceptable and groundless the final crash reports expected to be released in january aviation expert chris yates says the russian investigation was thorough and no further international inquiry is needed. i've 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 the russian authorities i do believe personally that if we bring an international investigating team into the equation that the findings will be any different to what which seems to be the pressure groups in some way shape or form on the pilots who copilot. to make an attempt to learn and that's an important where there were no conditions at school too low and too much focus not enough this ability and a lot of pressure being brought on the pilots conspire to cause that accident president barack obama's democrats have won over enough republicans to pass a landmark nuclear cuts deal with russia at least now republicans have openly announced that they support the new strategic arms reduction treaty also known as

a start i will vote for its ratification and looks set to happen on wednesday held as one of the u.s. administration's main foreign policy achievements start would slash both country's nuclear arsenal by a third signed by president medvedev and obama in april it needs to be ratified by lawmakers in both countries and it's a race against time for the democrats whose majority in the senate will be reduced in january the russian state duma has been ready to ratify the treaty for months but wants to do so at the same time as washington. the u.s. led coalition in afghanistan is denying reports it's pushing to extend the war into neighboring pakistan the new york times earlier quoted unnamed american officials saying special forces should start targeting militants across the border and u.s. currently uses unmanned drones to strike at suspected insurgents in pakistan often killing civilians by mistake islam abad calls the attacks a violation of the country's sovereignty for more on this we go live to jason dietz a new set of very antiwar dot com good to talk to you so what's your take on all this how likely is it that the u.s. and its allies should want to send special forces into pakistan well i think they

want to do so for quite some time but whether they can actually do so without completely discrediting the pakistani government another matter nato has already used unmanned drones to strike militants on pakistan's territory what's the difference of special forces do likewise well be. the drone strikes have been largely a product of the cia and having an actual military ground force in your country is i guess psychologically at least a different matter than having the drones flying overhead over the tribal areas so what pak what can pakistan actually do to stop its border from being breached by nato drones and ground troops can they deploy their own soldiers to meet them i mean what do you think well i think they certainly could threaten to do so and i don't think. nato would necessarily. deploy the troops against the pakistani

government's wishes those are very governments very friendly to nato and i don't think they necessarily want to completely discredit him by going in against his will but officially of course the pakistani government has always denied supporting the drones but it's. it's been indicated a number of times among u.s. officials that privately they are not only accepted them but embrace them so why hasn't pakistan been able to crush the insurgency itself well it's it's a difficult matter those tribal areas are historically have been. very far from controlled by the pakistani government and they're mostly independent the tribes don't really view themselves as under the control of the pakistani national government and they see pakistan's military as much of group of invaders as they

would the nato troops. so that if we're seeing taliban and al qaeda linked forces working in afghanistan then moving back across the border into pakistan to try and get out of harms way do you think that we should start to see more what do you think needs to be better done to make sure that they are intercepted when they get on the other side well it seems like both sides could do a much better job of coordinating it seems so far that the pakistani government regularly blames nato for the exact opposite when. they clash with people along the border they flee into afghanistan and when nato clashes with them in afghanistan they flee into pakistan and it seems like it's such a long such a poorly poorly controlled border that there's very little they can do about it particularly when they're not coordinating with one another all right jason needs

news editor for antiwar dot com thanks for your perspective thank you for having me . let's take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe freezing temperatures and heavy snow are continuing to cause further massive disruption across europe britain is one of the worst affected so far with tens of thousands stranded frights two flights to and from the u.k. are grounded and travelers are likely to suffer for several more days many flights were also canceled in paris frankfurt and brussels to you has heavily criticized airports are failing to deal with the situation calling it unacceptable and saying it could lead to tighter regulation. the u.s. led coalition in afghanistan is denying reports it's pushing to extend the war into pakistan the new york times earlier quoted unnamed american officials saying special forces should target militants across the border the u.s. uses unmanned drones to strike at suspected insurgents in pakistan often killing civilians by mistake islam a bad policy attacks a violation of the country's sovereignty. israel has launched air strikes against

at least seven suspected militant sites in gaza when in three palestinians israeli forces say rockets the rocket squad targeted smuggling tunnels a hamas training center and a weapons factory the air raids come after more than a dozen rockets and mortars were launched across the border into israel this week. and earthquake scaling six point five on the richter scale struck southeastern iran killing at least seventy injuring dozens many homes and several villages were destroyed officials say they believe they've pulled out all the survivors but are still searching for bodies among the rubble later this hour we talked to a journalist and best selling author laura flanders about a recent poll that suggests americans don't trust the media but first let's go to live to our tease corrina melican for more about the business news. good evening and welcome to business news after almost a year of negotiations 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 forty percent by two thousand and fifteen that amounts to five hundred eighty billion cubic meters of gas a year gazprom has also announced an agreement with not to gas to extract coal seam methane gas. now window comes 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 and a half billion dollars for weather investments owner of italy's wind and egypt. but three of the nine board members called for better financial terms before finalizing the agreement. here's stocks are trading high on tuesday commodities are gaining as u.s. retail sales and earnings forecasts you optimism of the world's largest economy corporate deals are also driving stocks higher thronged to dominion bank is buying chrysler financial the automakers all lending arm from bruce capital management for six

point three billion dollars. in markets in europe finished in the black on tuesday miners led london's footsie to a positive finish up over a percent while germany's dax finished point eight percent higher prisoner little rally three percent and xstrata rose three and a half percent banks were also a boost on the index it barclays gained one point eight percent and the news that its incoming chief executive has bought more stock with while world bank of scotland topped the winners list on a put the point. and here in russia markets finished the trading day in the black with most of the blue chips gaining the r.t.s. and in point nine percent higher end of my six was up over half a percent now among the stocks whilst telecom was up on reports it's part of a consortium. cable t.v. operator national telecom pulled one point four billion dollars energy stocks were higher after russia raise its forecast for euro's blant next year from seventy five

to eighty one dollars a barrel and finally moscow now go again reporting a three fold increase in earnings for the first nine months of the year. trading volumes are getting lower on the russian markets the holidays approach but individual news stories are still persuading investors to get involved eager pro high fives president a dialogue explained the main triumphs on tuesday the markets in general of. the environment global environment is fine wool prices are high international markets we see some consolidation but still the strong. is for internal factors doesn't the market is trading some specific ideas for example yesterday there were news about sylvia newton the roll call deal to do the market he's talking you both . for taking notice so it's probably do the hottest news of the day i think local local factors and local news also very important and

especially in these quotes market so any positive news can boost interest and again with the inflows in russian market we see. new money coming into these stores and that's all the business out there to have for this hour but join me in less than fifteen minutes from now for more here.

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slowly. bringing you the latest in science technology from around the world. we've got the future earth covered. ten thirty pm in moscow good to have you with us here on r t these are your headlines russia and india secure a multi-billion dollar deals on a trip to new delhi by president medvedev as two of the so-called break nations cement relations nuclear power trade and investment were just some of the agreements they see. prime minister putin urging football fans to be on the lookout for extremists saying russia cannot eliminate radicalism without their help as follows the death of a supporter that prompted the violent demonstrations between nationalists and groups from the caucasus region but amir putin also visited the grave of your doors

to pay respects. and poland rejecting moscow's report into the april plane crash that killed the polish president and ninety five others but aviation experts say the russian probe was open and thorough meanwhile the leaders brother who's the country's former prime minister claims the wrong body is buried in. the inner workings of u.s. politics at the state level have been under intense scrutiny since the latest wiki leaks revelations spoke to journalist and best selling author laura flanders on her take on u.s. domestic and foreign policy stay with us. are 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.