a chilling thought hamas delegation has been in moscow where they've been putting forward their plans to statehood. barack obama reaffirms the so-called special relationship gone is the first of a state visit to the u.k. the critics say he's just tightening his leash on not to. cross the georgian opposition or rallies for a fourth day of protests against the president promising to show. to the door by the way. plus it's back on a solid ground for three space travelers who have spent a grueling six months in zero gravity pulls all aboard the international space station. and in business and russian steel production has seen

a great stood in the first level since this new year and that translates to continue to bring you the full story in business and around transfer minutes time. just after three pm here in the russian capital here with r.t. a very warm welcome to here a palestinian television is here in moscow seeking backing for alternative resolution to the arab israeli conflict fatah and hamas representatives have met with russia's foreign minister and outlined their roadmap to peace and so to get more details on this now across live through all of these green following this visit peter so just one of the television been saying at this point well they met with foreign ministers to put forward their plans of palestinian statehood not delegation consisted of members of hamas and fatah those two organizations decided

they were going to work together on the fourth of may they signed an agreement. in cairo putting behind them sometimes turbulent history between the two groups they said they've now put that behind them completely and a willing to work together in order to achieve a palestinian state and said that they will work together in a government of a palestinian state now they're going to put forward these plans to the u.n. general assembly in september they met with the foreign minister sergey lavrov to tell him all of this and following that meeting the tele cation seems happy for what they heard from mr lavrov that russia was ready to give the palestinian state a palestinian state their full backing. we're not planning to proclaim independence unilaterally so next september we're going to call on the u.n. to recognize a state and foreign minister sergei lavrov has reaffirmed russia's support for this process to the palestinian delegation they're saying makes them circular for all of

they getting that russia will provide full support in palestine and their quest for a palestinian state we have to hear from mr lavrov often the foreign ministry though to confirm what was said in that meeting. with israeli officials over his call for an independent palestinian state he was then forced to back pedal sort of speak when he would have to address the powerful israeli lobby what's been the reaction so far from palestinians course what happened there was the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu really slammed down those proposals for a return to nine hundred sixty seven borders now the palestinian delegation that's been in moscow a hamas side of that it said that they will never recognize the state of israel the fact that delegates that have been here have said that they still view israel as the main stumbling block in the road to peace however both sides this bit made up the study cation said that they were happy about mr obama putting forward. a plan

that would see a return to nine hundred sixty seven borders however that this didn't go far enough for them. it's not the first time he was has made statements on the need to recognize palestine in its nine hundred sixty seven borders in any case this is a positive sign but unfortunately it's not enough because the initiative says nothing about jerusalem which has been an indispensable part of the palestinian lands occupied in one thousand nine hundred seventy the usa being a key player in the middle east for most observant to be all resolutions made by international institutions and above all by the un. well with the latest u.s. attempts to rekindle the peace process in the middle east seeming to be days in the war two palestinian delegates from hamas and fatah here in moscow to put forward their ideas to bring peace to the region all right thank you all and able to make

a breakthrough with peace talks in the middle east iraq obama is continuing his european tour presidents in london on his first state visit to the u.k. where he will attend some high level meetings he has arrived at the buckingham palace to meet the queen for a private lunch the president and the prime minister on wednesday and right now reports from the french capital. president obama will be staying here at buckingham palace as a guest of the queen while he and prime minister david cameron plan to establish closer security ties between britain and the u.s. the idea is to create a joint national security strategy for it is a unique arrangement in which the u.s. will open up its highly secretive national security council to u.k. officials and it comes at a time when both countries admit they weren't prepared for the uprisings in the middle east and north africa it might not be easy for us those to say britain cutting defense spending could harm its cooperation with the u.s. in the two sides have been divided over libya with the u.s.

more reticent about its involvement than britain myself likes that also be talking about afghanistan and the u.s. will be trying to persuade the british army not to pull troops out later this year both countries see two thousand and fifteen as the target date for withdrawing troops terrorism will also be on the agenda with the us asking the u.k. to support its tough line on pakistan harboring terrorists and to call it will be asking cameron to do more to combat british muslim extremism the u.s. will also ask britain to reassure russia about the sizing of the missile defense shield in poland all in all the so-called special relationship between the u.s. and u.k. is far from over whatever that means to the rest of the world's. reporting right there now are still to come for you here one hour to your drug dealers in the russian capital see what. this is how some of the activists are trying to

stop the madness threatening the country with waterproofed i find out why you vigilantes are going to such whether it's even in line with the law. thousands of protesters are rallying for several days now and the goal to overthrow president mikheil saakashvili your position has vowed to take. radical action by wednesday saying of the current regime of moscow by then russia has condemned the disposal of demonstrations with tear gas and rubber bullets saying it violates fundamental human rights of position parties meantime claim the elections are needed to stop what they're calling a criminal regime leading the country to disaster the main opposition leader. told us here at r t the people will continue to protest even if the government uses force. we have like. everything angel i can include being silly just peace loving god i mean we don't want to leave

the country i know the companies use any kind of like that if they will be fair if you believe what you believe it was them to sit like. it is a china if you like. seriously spike up you can't which is coming from the government giving every media that they are receiving and i made. a documentary. nevertheless give me a list tell our people and i'm sure. if you give a shit if. i did a nation really. i think elections into it i mean time according to political experts if you. produce policies are not popular in georgia he's already losing support among his allies. this the words of saakashvili has diminished drastically for several reasons well its economic situation in the country is not good because

in the beginning of his presidency the support of the west of the european union and the united states was rather big now it has diminished for several reasons again well there was crisis but also the policy of such as really is not wise and it is not that much supported in the west so we may for see that there truly a group of he is supporters will diminish and it will diminish drastically in the next while few days it may be just part of the lead just the power of the opposition is growing you with r.t. you could have your companies are still ahead for you this hour but on. three crew from the international space station have landed safely in kazakhstan join us for all the details of mission control in moscow. russian authorities are stepping up the war on drugs in the country but for some the speed of progress just isn't fast enough now activists are taking the fight into their

own hands but it's landing some of them in trouble with the law for national reports. kate said all is fair in love and war and perhaps even more say in the war on drugs drugs that killed two point five million people every year across the globe and almost two hundred fifty men women and youngsters every day in russia alone some are fighting their own introversion battle against the threat payson as customers they arranged to meet alleged drug dealers and the once you satisfied they suspect is a drug pusher they serve them a black mark and leave them red faced. people have to know their enemies would be like this people will be free to go out next time because next time police may be there. these guys are not alone in rushing there and conventional methods of fighting against drugs their colleagues from the drug free city movement have been

accused of torturing addicts after they'd used handcuffs to force them to keep their habit they've also marked drug dealers houses to shame them in the community . it is our uprising against the drug dealers do you think it's better to sit at home and watch how the drug dealers will be killing you we managed to unite our forces and declare war to the drug dealers. sociologists a mob just as occurs when people become disillusioned by official efforts of the public taking the law into its own hands is an unwelcome trend work the murther of our border there are a lot of enthusiastic who are striving to eradicate this horrible evil by any means possible the women actions don't comply with the law the law is against them for sure we can eradicate is evil but only by legal methods there are over five million drug users in more than russia vast amounts of money has been blown on reducing drug demand and treating addicts for sadistic so just getting more and more gloomy

. this is how the moscow activists to try. mind to stop the menace threaten the country with waterproof dye they must do as they say will have to hide from the public for at least three weeks some are skeptical about their methods are others even accuse them of hooliganism put the end to drug vigilantes argue their form of justice is war fit if it helps save at least one life. grief notion r r t moscow. most of the heroin used by addicts here in russia is trafficked from afghanistan and pakistan out in caught up with some about anti drug chiefs to find out what's being done to stem the narcotics trade. we're just happy with from princes awareness campaigns because it is the easier part of the thing done we have been talking about it all over the world in all the conferences if you have to hit

this menace it is the same thing to say this to catch a thief you have to be written from and. be there and this thing will go down. hard and that is what we are doing and the support that comes from the international community the countries which are destined for this drug are feeling the heat of it they must do things more emphatically and in twenty five numbers which is not happening or god i am blaming the international community not for doing enough if unity is he had been there for about fifty years the question is he has introduced a drug it hasn't in the united states of america is there in a while islam for the last almost seventy dhea there's so much of forces there are drugs production there it has not so what can pakistan alone do on the supply.

and you can watch the full interview with the head of pakistan's anti drug force in just over and i was time right here on c.n.n. let's turn our attention to that to that over libya where on a tuesday morning the libyan capital awoke to the heaviest nato air strikes on the city since the beginning of the foreign intervention that's now are over two months ago tripoli reports three people were killed dozens injured during the assault the main target appears to be in colonel gadhafi his compound which has already been bombed by the coalition several times rebel efforts against the colonel's forces are failing to yield a break in the ongoing civil pressure attempts to end. being undertaken by mediators of the russian foreign minister met with the rebel officials in moscow and recognized them as a legitimate party in a peace negotiations socials maintained they will not stand down until khadafi. iran has announced its planning to impose sanctions against twenty six u.s. officials for violating human rights the iranian parliament has accused them of escalating terrorism and drug trafficking in persons mohammad marandi says the

government wants to put an end to what it claims is u.s. lawlessness in the region i think of you really. is that the united states and its allies including members of the you are basically the countries that are why are they doing human rights more than any other country in the world they're constantly waging wars in afghanistan and iraq and now in libya. killing and murdering hundreds of thousands of people in addition to that for example the siege on gaza which is illegal and barbaric and where ordinary women and children are made to suffer it is being done with the support of the united states in the you so basically what the iranians want to do is they want to break this culture where the americans and the europeans constantly act as if they are the center of the world as if they are more civilized than others whereas in reality the harm that they've been causing to the world is unprecedented i think the world is important not the

actual sanctions themselves it is breaking this this year old centric model that has been imposed upon the west and the rest of the world. with artillery for almost an hour let's get some other international news in brief for you this hour a roadside bombs exploded in southern afghanistan killing twenty and wounding another twenty explosion which took place in kandahar province during the morning rush hour as local laborers were heading to work there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast and it is the latest in a series of attacks in the country at least a dozen people have been killed in the past week alone. from the erupting icelandic volcano is causing further disruption to air travel as it sweeps over europe more than two hundred delays and cancellations have been reported in parts of scandinavia ireland and scotland while the threat is hanging over us in england before saturday's eruption of iceland's most active volcano the largest in one hundred years the ash in the atmosphere effects of visibility and kind of clogged

engines therefore it makes it dangerous to fly remain they'll be a repeat of last year's travel chaos on a different icelandic eruption close to much of europe's airspace for quite some time. and one of the deadliest tornadoes ever recorded in the united states is now claimed at least one hundred sixteen lives it's left more than four hundred people injured but death toll is expected to rise as rescue teams are combing the devastation some people have so far been found alive in the day the storm tore through the city of joplin that's in missouri flattened homes it crushed cars and left the city without power a local hospital that suffered a direct hit killing four meanwhile forecasters predict more severe weather for the region is on the way. but the operator of japan's troubled nuclear power plants confirmed that two more reactors experienced a partial fuel meltdown at the site that had previously been thought that only the number one reactor had suffered such a fate the plant's cooling systems were of course knocked out by march's

devastating earthquake and tsunami the official death toll from the disaster currently stands at summer fourteen thousand class peter kohlmann from the u.s. go intergovernmental oceana oceanographic excuse me commission told us here at r t that the japanese authorities never did enough to prepare for the natural disaster that struck them i don't think you could for class income not because incredible for costs quake and. tsunami on the eleventh of march or the disaster which everybody thought the boat for food to use just might be lifted from people from the preparation but not enough assessment close and very thorough and the possibilities of error must come from it must take code and then the preparation early and fast enough because it took the. places r.t. live from moscow now the crew of the international space station has just been

reduced to three that's because three other intrepid travelers have now returned safely to an american italian a russian cosmonaut all receive a very warm welcome as artists talk about reports. the crew of the i assess that have spent six months there have safely landed in the step in kazakhstan as we've been watching on the screens here in mission control in moscow the craft the module that they came back in departed from the i.s.o.'s a few hours before it came to land then it started its descent reentered the earth's atmosphere came in over the caspian sea then opened its parachute and eventually landed safely in the step in kazakhstan and teams of helicopters and planes were ready to receive the crew and to make sure they were all ok after their descent it's the end of the twenty seventh expedition on the i assess this crew been up there for six months and while they've been up there as well as conducting a lot of experiments both on themselves to see how they responded to the environment of space and also many technical experiments and perceiving space

vehicles up there they've also seen in some rather interesting and a verse or it's the spent the new year up there they saw that multiple times because of the time differences here on earth and they also saw in fifty years since you're a good guy and was the first man in space and they recorded a special video message to thank all those involved and to mark that very special anniversary and they received the last ever u.s. endeavor space shuttle on its mission up there it brought some equipment up to the i assess and then they waved goodbye to that for the last time they've been up there for six months they're now back down safe on earth and all the people down there who have just received them in the step in kazakhstan will be trying to make sure that they receive a proper welcome back on earth. artist humbucking right that minute always i check out more of the stories we're covering the can do so at our website that's all they will find such i think tensions are between athens on the e.u.

growth over greece is a lack of a long new economic reforms sproing weary of being away down by the country's huge national deficit. and mollifies here in russia have wiped out twice as much force compared to the same time last year and people are bracing themselves for another potentially choking of summer and also. looking back in time of the man who might have pulled the wrong we remember one of russia's most celebrated lives nobel prize winner joseph he would have been some he won today read more about his life and of course his for online at c.n.n. dot com. right now it's time for the business news with katrina.

hello and thanks for joining us artie's business today russia's steel production grew six point six percent year on year this first quarter to almost twenty three million tonnes are still young suggest production should pass pre-crisis levels here boosted by the manufacturing and energy sectors to discount the report's findings i'm now joined by anson young's knockabout delap michael thank you for joining us here on three now tell me what's your prediction for steel production growth in russia over the next two years. the next couple years we see brad production between five and ten percent. right am i what do you think is going to happen to prices in terms of stocks and of course production costs. but i think the proselyte really going to be depending on the consumer confidence i begin to see returning if it does return but i think in terms of costs i think it is getting more difficult. companies are going to be finding more efficiencies. and just the

remoteness of where we're going to find all material of course and that is the selling at that russian companies will have to deal with how do russian steel companies stand in comparison to the rest of the world. well i think in some respects very favorably if you think of the the raw material subsystem into you know i've got all the material you call being an important element in the production of steel was the subsurface and i think on the flip side probably the disadvantage would be a lot of the plants are holes. some investment needs to go into that's. sort of like a ship so you know not all the infrastructure is there now to make as efficient competitive compared to other countries. so to go with a slave labor still relatively cheap compared to some of the other regions in the world. thank you very much for your insight there michael barbero metals and mining

leader at ernst and young. let's take a look at the markets oil futures are still for actuating about some of the previous losses held by china's energy demands us up though again in the u.s. dollar is limiting the rebound european shares continue their gains today with metal prices supporting miners although investor sentiment remains fragile and persistent concerns about the eurozone sovereign debt crisis here in moscow the markets are continuing their gains after monday's major losses with the r.t.s. gaining one point five percent this hour let's take a look at some individual share moves on the my six energy majors are among the main gain is supported by stronger commodity prices get its promises up two point six percent and rosneft gains around one point seven percent this hour banking stopped also on the rise with sperm bank one point seven percent in the black. and . the influx of foreign money into russia has increased by almost three and a half times in the first quarter of the year it's at around forty four point three

billion dollars compared with thirteen billion dollars during the same period for last year foreign loans were the main drivers for the growth while the amount of investments into securities fell almost eighty percent to sixty million dollars russian markets may be on a bit of a rebound this hour but they've taken a mess of it in the last month it's been the longest losing streak since two thousand and eight after the first quarter buoyancy the market has lost favor because investors business out he's probably a pervert explains why. as almost always in russia the stock markets for those that will prize so there is no surprise here all fell about three percent of them on the trade and the russian stock market fell about the same market watchers also say that investors are concerned that europe's debt crisis may hurt the economic recovery and god they lose advertise for riskier assets russia is still considered a risky investments favored by speculators but analysts say the speculative capital

is leaving the contre scared away by political uncertainty before the elections next year and by possible curbing off quantitative easing program in the united states some analysts say that the full will continue they predict the russian r.t.l. still gets below seven hundred points in the near future but authors say that the trans may soon change op words as such huge capital outflow as we saw last week is often a sign that the market has reached its bottom and around three hours yannick stocks will kick off trading in new york russia's web search market maker has raised one point three billion dollars in its i.p.o. it's the biggest float by an internet company since google went public in two thousand and four i've subscribed by fifteen times yandex top was priced above the expected range all eyes are now on how trading will start in new york and six moscow time and once things get underway we'll be talking to the c.e.o. of yandex live from mystic. and that's all business for now will have now for you

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