grown to be closer to old macand it would be sure marco result. would result michael's closer to toe much revere if he told the truth he told the. town of these two ukrainians in a state of fear a double an identified terrorists are demanding a find and a half million dollar ransom or else. quick covering this story the. pressure falls from wiki leaks show how russia's own position turned to the u.s. spent helping but frequently gets the cold shoulder from washington. as chinese other american leaders agree that the power to stand that it is beijing's growing influence in the u.s. is making a. profit warning is in the middle of the desert uninvestigated

german it was one of the world's largest buying bases in israel after decades of secrecy. russia will offer bellerose more than four billion dollars in subsidies on its ball deliveries following a rout over prices find out more about what the sides of agreed to in our business report in about twenty minutes time. very warm welcome to you this is from moscow as the russian political position has many internal squabbles but one thing that they will have in common is that they frequently visited the u.s. embassy here in moscow fresh files from wiki leaks published by the newspaper. but all of that revealed they often requested financial and political help but washington's officials got tired of the constant please. report.

authority called talks about the inability of the russian opposition leaders to log be their interests on the domestic level and having to reach out to the third parties to achieve their goals in this case the third party being the united states of america now they believe that harsh criticism from the u.s. would ensure a healthy human rights ad most fear in the country but the response from one of the top ranking u.s. security officials who spoke to the opposition leaders was that it shows the incompetence of the current opposition in the country and that they have to learn to negotiate with their thirty's on their own in achieving their goals and that even though during the bush administration the u.s. has shown support to the countries opposition the situation has changed nowadays it is up to russian activists to build up their relations with their administration

with very true learning on america so much has changed in the relation between russia and the united states since the bush administration of especially after the so-called resets of the relations between russia and the united states but at how do the presidential election in two thousand and twelve russia's opposition once the united states to side with it in order to lobby their interests but the response from the us ambassador to russia to that's was that it shows the fact that russia's opposition do not have the same understanding of democracy as americans do . now as the chinese leader visits the u.s. the two global how it can define their relations in terms of being partners all rifles with china on the rise american officials are getting nervous about losing their grip global affairs but some say the march the u.s. can learn from china rather than washington simply focusing on losing its role as

global top dog. for report. i went into burger king with my son and i. think it's a z h e uses z. z h u z h u and recognize the that is chinese for some americans the word china elicits fear recognizing china's rise means recognizing america's decline and now we are getting not our toys there are things that are a little happy meals which should be banned there so dangerous. not just our toys in the bag made in china. but the image and everything else but culture coming from china. or others china elicits feelings of inferiority according to the pew research center forty seven percent of americans think china is the world's leading economic power only thirty one percent think america. that's certainly the opinion

among students at millinocket school in maine which will welcome paying chinese students to close its budget gap next year i think the chinese are going to be total shock i think about high tech in a way more advanced elastic ten times more money in like in a better society and then you look at as they were away poor and nothing as her jintao towards the u.s. capitol american officials are eager to quell fears about what a rising china could mean for the world's only superpower still some analysts say that the united states should be focusing on what it can learn from china rather than merely containing it china knows how to develop it they're doing it we are spending boring and consuming rather than saving and investing for the future a sentiment echoed by many we spoke to a lot to learn terms of productivity organizational resources and also having a culture that values hard work and i think they're trying to develop their economy and cheer some of the wealth with the folks economically politically militarily

china is on the rise and while the u.s. put education on the chopping block this year china invested four percent of its g.d.p. in primary and secondary schools in poor rural areas chinese universities are mushroom all across the country and increasingly attracting prestigious foreign professors and even american students like philadelphia native zachary franklin it seems. just a better decision to be in the country learning about economics where so much is happening economically getting a master's in shanghai doesn't mean crippling student loans chinese students themselves you know not plane. amounts of money in education in this country. china is also speeding ahead on high speed rail lines in massive infrastructure chinese officials say they will complete the first eco city by two thousand and twenty which will be home to three hundred fifty thousand as u.s. lawmakers squabble for years over who will foot the bill for every high speed rail

link bridge or metro expansion america just adds to dream super bowl to hold interstate system gigantic infrastructure projects in u.s. history. to be more unified as a people are moving in a positive direction and i wish we could see this president obama has plenty to put on the table as he hosts his chinese counterpart at the first us china state dinner but will the white house be equally eager to learn from its gas and ford r t washington d.c. . and while it's on the west violate for the world through the walls is wall street isn't this an idle aussies right clive and thanking her but explain how things behind the us financial crash of two thousand and eight acted i gather this time with government help because the report coming your way just over an hour with timing. this psychological profile of jamie dimon lloyd blankfein goldman morgan this guy daily is that of the arsonist the arsonist likes to burn things down their

pyromaniacs here on wall street you've got debt maniacs they like to destroy things with debt and they like the price of debt to be as cheap as a pack of matches if the price of debt is a cheap as a pack of matches as it is now they can continue to burn things down to destroy the economy like they're doing at this very moment and what is the obama administration doing they are giving the pyromaniacs and the arsonist more starting fluid more lighter fluid more matches whatever they need to destroy the economy so you have to ask the question is obama in the pocket of the financial terrorists yes. heat is dog. panic has swept through a town in eastern ukraine which has been a rock by two in the morning and identified a promising more attacks today if they do and

a half million dollars well for more on this story let's cross live to our correspondent crane. could happen at any minute there was going on in the town. well as far as we heard the town is now is in full panic everyone is panicking mothers are taking their children away from schools and kidan gardens that is because in the middle of the night two blasts rocked this four hundred thousand town of mikey in eastern europe east of ukraine something very and typical for this country terrorist attacks don't happen here too often so everyone now is in panic and especially because the and and and identify terrorist group said that they would explode five more bombs at five pm local time which is just about now if the government doesn't buy four million euros to them or more than five million u.s. dollars this so far has not happened we are waiting to see how this story will unravel in the meantime the whole city as i've said is in panic and we managed to

acquire some thoughts from locals let's listen to what they had to say. no doubt we ask aaron because they're promising more blasts later today we're very nervous we're all shocked we just don't understand why this is happening to us. we know that interior forces troops are now dispatched to this little town and they are now in full alert the special order was given from kiev for the forces to be ready for any any developments in the story and we're waiting for any news to see whether the terrorists will keep their approach. explode more bombs any moment now thanks for keeping us updated. on this we have any developments on this story they're reporting for us from ukraine. now it's one of the biggest of its kind still a spying base in on his radio does it went on noticed

a few years thousand till an investigative journalist spotted it on a fun light image. to have the story. many israelis have probably driven past year and not cast a second glance a few satellite dishes outside a little known town in the negative desert but this is no ordinary military base this is the largest or equal storing facility that i've seen on the earth and hagar should know he's been studying signal intelligence or electronic spying for the last twenty five years a tip off gave him access to people on the inside you know want to talk to or and it could be setting up it's simply to come on the back it never been seen but now it's showing up all over satellite images with thirty different listening antennas directed high over the equator each targeting a different dish in the sky became everything that passing over the satellite system simply doesn't discriminate. and that's

a lot of listening from this hub every telephone call every email can be intercepted and according to duncan campbell somewhere here along the coast the water telework large groups of people are not typically you have large windowless what looked like dust or warehouses but with massive security you are seeing many such places across the united states and several hundred people will check in in the morning start filing through checking emails looking at. listening to telephone calls but inside israel no one's talking haven't heard about the boat i don't know what's the word refers to exactly what is the reason behind the focus if there is a focus of this particular word is just a platform you have to understand the new comes to intelligence you need a platform in order to carry. needs you need in order to

intercept but why wasn't this platform itself intercepted it was pretty well hidden until recently when hagar. i went to public on ash my first surprise was the style that they could that there was this huge spying facility which will be profound the influencing the politics of the middle east and beyond but then with the sick and very surprise was that it's clearly been there as long as the some of the places what's your point the brits and germany and russia and united states and other countries and just maybe that's the point those who need to know know exactly what these what are these. television. we can always find out more about story and of course everything that we're covering all our website dot com they will find all the news blogs and much more of course here's just one line few minutes. each and i think it first he created smoke and then a fire and now those charges that are put forward in the car against stick to boot

don't relate to those accusations that the american press was talking about for more than ten years find out a water alibi expects from before coming. he's been extradited to the u.s. for alleged steals she believes his case is simply a propaganda piece of interview to all the it's all i want size dot com. financial and an online yoga law also classes the eggs consonance drugs on how to retain in their piece and shake off the stress of the big city. the e.u. part of it is the balance to impose sanctions against about a russian leadership in response to a rigged presidential election there last month they'll include not only these

restrictions for officials but also economic sanctions including a free the international monetary fund they call me just ahead of the inauguration of the country's president who wrongly elections and made numerous violations in a brutal plunk down and thousands of protest rallies all that only the same code dubbed europe's last dictator has long been coming under fire from oppression it's all the opposition. who should not who is from the mosque a state university of international relations the leader shoko respond in the aggregate both the east and the west. this is the first time one look at my image to install. them equally. that he provokes the. chanda. to go whole could deal be supporting the whole look i should go. actually he probably be. consolidated you will leave european view on this matter

and start you to. become your russian dork you know. ok let's update you on some other international headlines now this hour on the south korea set to press a proposal from the north to hold high level military talks an offer by pyongyang earlier this month to hold discussions was rejected by so which criticize your. attention if you've been high on the korean peninsula since last november's deadly artillery exchange between the two countries also on thursday so welcomed an agreement between the u.s. and chinese leaders on the need to maintain peace and stability on the peninsula. the prime minister of ireland is announce that he intends to dissolve the parliament and call an early general election in march it comes after four ministers resign from the cabinet even night bringing the total to five even just today leaving the p.m.'s cabinet in jail brian cowen's government has seen it

support free fall since agreeing to an international aid package for the debt ridden country last year. he is the interim it leaders are abandoning the former ruling party with several ministers outcries you see government intended to guide the country to further elections has been under intense criticism for retaining many of the deposed president supportive despite the resignations protesters threw out to near zero are demanding to move in coalition do more to distance itself from the regime that was overthrown last week. former british prime minister tony blair is due to testify. before the around war inquiry on friday body won't reveal the details of correspondent with george w. bush in the build up he leave agent in two thousand and three while the british government rejected requests from the inquiry for the lessons to be published because they said that with closure would damage britain's relations with the us

blair himself was reported to configure the correspondence personal the iraq war and wire is investigating why the u.k. supported america in the invasion british politician journal called when with the labor party when it was under power under blair in a few minutes he does not see that the investigation would have more credibility if you went before an international court. if european politicians former head of government in the case of tony blair was actually brought before the . international court in the hague and investigated the rest of the world for far more respect for the international process because the moment the most prominent people who come before it have been. the temps of the rest of. the current trial that's going on charles taylor from liberia and the past process

on milosevic the situation in yugoslavia but the perpetrators of this war. iraq war are in the united states and in in europe and i think it would do an awful lot for the standing of this because there is a bit of a feeling around that ok you go to big guys in small countries you go after big guys in big countries. now let's cross about our top story fresh files from wiki leaks let's all live to john laughlin director of standing is. democracy in cooperation he's over in paris for us many thanks for joining us here on ars you through these leaks that show you the intel rivals of the kremlin groveling at the u.s. embassy what's wrong with the upon a drop of issue here in russia. well i think

these documents like many of the wiki leaks documents in some respects rather disappointing because while it's always exciting to read a confidential piece of information in fact the information contained in them doesn't tell us anything we didn't really know what's wrong with the opposition the opposition does not have a great deal of support in the country in russia and that's why as these documents show the spend their time going cap in hand to foreign. supporters in this case the americans i imagine the principal supporters they asked them for political and financial support. because they know that as indeed these documents themselves prove they know that they don't have a significant level of support in the country itself now you know so that's what's wrong with it sorry sorry for the butting in there you say that nothing new has come out of these cables but what it does seem to show that the u.s.

is is the perplexed look confused that the opposition here in russia seems to be demanding that the u.s. be more aggressive towards russia in the clear. would you say that the russian parliamentary opposition is that the operating under something of a cold war mind set here. definitely but i mean i. can tell no one in denouncing the americans' propensity for financing both political groups and nongovernmental organizations which in fact pursue a political agenda so i. salute lee think that that is wrong and i think that that has happened a lot over the last twenty years throughout the former warsaw pact countries but these particular documents show something slightly different they in fact show a frustration on the part of these groups with the new obama foreign policy the reset they show of frustration because these groups the opposition leaders and

the ngo leaders are going to the americans and saying that they don't feel that the denunciation is active enough so they are. they are the ones asking for more and the americans in these documents at least are being slightly reserved and slightly reactive and saying that in fact they're already doing as much as they can and of course there's the clarify we are talking about the non issue here in russia you know what do you think is on washington's mind when dealing with this norm the parliament your opposition here in the country. well as far as the both as far as the norm parliamentary and parliamentary opposition is concerned in other words the politicians and the human rights all the ngo activists the american view judging from these documents is one of disappointment the opposition leaders are attacked and criticized for being hopelessly divided divided essentially by personality rivalries while the human rights activists

derive does being basically superannuated and marginal figures. we see a sort of disappointment really on the american side on the side of the american strategists with the people who they've been supporting for so long. but you asked me earlier about a cold war mentality absolutely that's very much it's very clear that these groups both as i say the political groups and the theoretically nonpolitical ones are pursuing indeed what one can rightly call a cold war mentality to the extent that they are going beyond the boundaries of their own country and seeking help from foreigners in this case from the americans whereas of course the normal thing to do if you're fighting a political cause in any country is to fight basically at home and to try and carissa curry support at home not from abroad and not. only that washington seems to be somewhat disappointed in the opposition do you think that it just doesn't

take opposition here in russia seriously it's. all going to. do you think washington think is non-parliamentary opposition groups have a future in the country. well i mean you know we were only looking i've only seen a few cables i suppose one would have to read far more than just a few cables but certainly that's the impression that you get from the ones that were published in the newspapers this morning. the impression indeed is that america has rather given up on these people after all they are a bunch of retreads i mean people like boris nemtsov ski have been playing the pro-american card for twenty years now and that's quite a long time in politics so yes i do think that that's the impression i get but as i say one would have to do a much more exhaustive study of the of the cables to arrive a different conclusion on this you're so lucky many have behaved days later. with

our star lochlyn there director of studies at the institute of the and operation speaking to us from paris many thanks. go away now we've got a business update. hello welcome to our business program i'm sure on a qian russian values are looking to resolve a rally over all prices which led to moscow halting supply to its neighbor on the first of january russian oil firms insist balderas must pay more due to rising global prices and an imminent transit tariff increase by minutes prime minister vladimir putin has met with his bell russian counterpart mikhail meus now the cold which to try and iron out the conflict our correspondent peter oliver brings us the latest from the meeting. it's taken quite a while but it seems that russia and belarus of come to terms over the recent oil dispute it's come between the two nations a proposal has been put forward is accepted by both sides we'll get to that in just

a moment that wasn't the only thing that was being discussed by prime minister vladimir putin and his belorussian counterpart bella reese will also receive a six a billion dollar created from russia to build a new nuclear power station that's something that's also been on the table for discussion and the meeting between the two pm as well in the oil dispute it's become between these two nations there's been no oil sent from russia to bellary since the first of january now it seems that we will see the resumption of oil transport from russia into valerie's following the meeting between the prime ministers now this has threatened to affect the production of diesel oil in belarus that could be shipped into europe. to the fact that belarus wasn't receiving the oil that it was supposed to get from russia because it refused the initial deal that the big oil russian oil companies put forward now for the prime minister

vladimir putin and his brother russian counterpart seem to have come to a deal in which russia will give a subsidy of four point one billion dollars to bellary to ensure that crittur of oil and the distribution of oil can continue between the three nations used. there are of course questions regarding the details but we have reconfirmed our position and we will get this approved to soon as possible to be a low risk economy will receive a subsidy of no less than a full billion one hundred twenty four million dollars in return for cheap russian oil deliveries. analysts look at the market starting with the u.s. now american stocks are trading down for a second day ask concerned that. interest rates will rise in china weighed on commodity producers overshadowing a bigger than expected drop in jobless claims the dow is down close to a third of a percent and the nasdaq has lost less than one percent. meanwhile in europe stock

markets are also losing ground mining stocks banks pharmaceuticals are among the heavyweight fallers britain's footsie is shedding close to one and a half percent and germany's dax is down over two and a third percent lower carmakers diam lurve mat and volkswagen are also losing around four percent this hour. and russian stock markets are lower following a downswing in international come madeon equity markets energy majors mainly gas palm oil are losing the most on the back of lower oil prices although both of them have the potential to show better dynamics gas problems down close to one and a half percent and luke oil is down less than two percent but the biggest loser is come oz it's down close to nine and a half percent. and that's all the business news for this hour but you could always find more stories on our website that's r t dot com slash business thanks for watching.

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