italy moves closer to the center of the eurozone debt crisis as its crucial austerity package enters a final stage triggering a new wave of protest and tough spending cuts. five pm in moscow i matras are going to have you with us here on r t our top story we're covering breaking news on r.t. an explosion at a nuclear facility in markkula in southern france one person reportedly killed several injured authorities say no radiation leak has been reported the explosion followed a fire in a storage area for radioactive waste according to the live figaro newspaper the facility is in the garden region it's a major site involved with decommissioning nuclear facilities and operates a pressurized water reactor we'll bring you more on this breaking news story shortly unsolved issues in russia u.k.

relations should not stand in the way of healthy and profitable cooperation that's what the leaders of the two states concluded that their meeting at the kremlin artie's a nice and now a has more on the outcome of the first official visit by a british prime minister to russia for six years. president made of called the talks direct and constructive david cameron called them excellent the two leaders have pretty much agreed to disagree on their sticking points and saying that they have to be able to move forward in other spheres especially business a lot of talk at least in the new summer as a lot of questions about the lives of engage location how that will if it will really continue to in fact ties in just to remind you alexander litvinenko was a former russian security officer who was poisoned with polonium and died in london diplomatic spat broke out between the u.k. and russia after that british authorities want to tax tonight russian citizen on

facebook oh boy but according to the russian constitution in fact article sixty one which president medvedev reminded david cameron once again today doesn't allow for the russian federation to extradite its citizens to another country to be tried both sides saying that they don't want litvinenko to effect any further growth i david cameron went as far to say that the issue is not parts but we will continue to grow in other spheres let's take the us it remains an issue between britain and russia and we haven't changed opposition about that and the russians haven't changed their position but i don't think that means that we freeze the entire relationship it's not parking an issue is just recognizing there is a disagreement that hasn't changed the two countries are changing their arrangements because of it but we should work on our relationship beyond it so that your leaders of course work together in many different formats including the g twenty the g eight the un security council in both sides spoke about that in terms

of the most pressing international issues they spoke about livia and it turns out they spent most of the time reading about the situation in syria david cameron mentioned that he believes that that sanction should go even further and president medvedev. he said i think he has more you would read other things what's happening in syria is right and something needs to be done but by no means can this turn in to another the. russia believes the resolution in syria should be tough but at the same time binds to address to both the syrian conflict president assad and the opposition only then can such a resolution succeed it should be tough but not automatically sanctions syria is ready under a un us sanctions he doesn't need additional pressure to certainly no major breakthrough in british russian relations but a very positive atmosphere considering that a british official at that level hasn't been in moscow on

a visit like this in so long positive atmosphere lots of laughs in fact one of the last questions asked up a news conference by the b.b.c. to david cameron asking him about rumors that he was possibly recruited or attempted to be recruited into the k.g.b. back in the ninety's cameron said he doesn't think he would be a very good k.g.b. agent president needed to beg to differ david i'm pretty sure that david would be a good k.g.b. agent but in this case he would never have become the u.k.'s prime minister the official visit at this level ended on quite a light no lots of laughs there after that joke about the k.g.b. and david cameron he goes on to meet with members of the civil society and n.g.o.s and also will be sitting down with prime minister putin on this visit to moscow. as russia and the u.k. mol their differences over approaches to the crisis in syria moscow was steaming ahead with efforts to mediate peace russian lawmakers are hosting a delegation from damascus after holding talks with the opposition last week

president bashar al assad's advisor says her country would appreciate a fact finding mission by russian officials which moscow has promised to send anti-government demonstrations in syria flared up in march with the regime responding with a brutal crackdowns at least twenty six hundred people said to have been killed in russia wants the u.n. to take action. and that will push the warring sides toward dialogue and says assad needs more time to implement democratic reforms the u.s. and allies want more aggressive approach is that will target the regime have already called for assad to step down. iran's boosh air nuclear power plant has officially started working and now providing electricity the country's national grid is the first such facility in the entire middle east region iranian and russian officials are attending the launch ceremony it's the billion nuclear facility came online september third after a number of different tests for cars successfully completed russia which helped build the plant also provided with necessary fuel but iran will return all the

spent fuel to russia to ease western concerns over the country's uranium enrichment program tehran has once again stressed its atomic ambitions are peaceful not aimed at building our nuclear weapons programs russia's energy minister praised the efforts and working together and promised similar projects in the future. if you would. together with oh you rate income to parts when through difficulties and problems building plans and today we can be proud to the results that are drawing the attention of the whole world i'm sure the cup ration the uprooting the station the developing now the nuclear energy projects who will be distinguished by the atmosphere we created while working together. stay with us here on r t coming your way shortly we pay a visit to a sleepy town in italy that has its own ruler and even prince its own money as it plans to break away from rome. but before we get to that back to our breaking news story more talk on the explosion at the nuclear facility in france i

drive by yon hover camp and nuclear power expert for greenpeace. thanks for joining us here on r t so the blast happened at a nuclear waste processing facility how potentially dangerous could that be. well the blast happened when nuclear waste was mixed and that means probably that there was some explosive material within the waste. the the risk could be that some of the radiation would come outside of the building and would pose a. threat to the people around it people on the sides are at the moment inside are kept inside is one casualty and three people have been wounded so it's not a proper nuclear power plant but it still processes nuclear waste so is there a potential for a leak from that. has been an explosion so you never know whether whether the building itself is still completely airtight and if it isn't then of course some radiation could leak out site. after the fukushima tragedy in japan germany and

switzerland decided to scrap their nuclear plans do you think the rest of the world should follow suit or what is the ultimate fate you think of nuclear power well i do think that this is this small accident or this accident in france definitely is also a wake up call for what is happening in this country and the discussions in trans are very interesting because they seem to follow what is happening in germany and people are more aware in france know all the risks of nuclear power. nuclear power is not necessary the world has more than enough renewable and clean energy sources to fulfill all the moment the problem is that in many countries the political will is still still missing to go into that direction and as i said i hope that this accident will be the wake up call for a sure french politics to also to find their way to clean alternative. france gets around eighty percent of its power from its nuclear plants make such

a heavy dependence that justifies. it it's not that it's not justified is not necessary but it was very logical in the one nine hundred seventy s. when there was a nurse an oil crisis where france was tricity had really depending on the oil and they decided to move away from that by building nuclear power i think that was a wrong choice because it introduces the nuclear risks and it also introduces. a high level of security in the country but. it has a chance to move away from it and we see very very positive discussions currently going on in the socialist party among selves. of our cabinet where power experts are going back to their perspective you're welcome. global markets have slumped on monday over fears italy's debt crisis is worsening as the country's fifty four billion euro austerity package goes before the lower house of parliament for a final debate their proposal includes changes to pensions government spending cuts

and a special levy on the rich there are now fears that greece could be heading out of the eurozone unable to contain its debt crisis. artie's ivor bet it wait a second you know how to bend over a belt editor in chief of belgium's leading business magazine trends things greece should jump ship the greek economy is in an outright depression now g.d.p. is shrinking at the moment seven to eight percent on an annual basis unemployment is officially at sixteen percent but the reality it's more close to twenty five percent what we hear from people from the i.m.f. informally is that the budget situation is out of control so there's no way that the greek greece can escape from this situation unless there's a somewhat orderly exit from the eurozone followed by a huge devaluation of the new greek currency i think we have passed the point now

where we can argue that we can save greece within the eurozone greece will have to exit it can be organized in an orderly way but the risk is of course that there will be contagion in the direction of countries like for example poor to go maybe i will and of course i'm not even mentioning here that would be an enormous problem countries like spain as financial woes echo deeper inside the euro zone some people are beginning to lose faith in their government's ability to make the right decisions as part of it spending cuts package italy's government plans to make changes to the way it's a rural communities are run but the people affected say enough's enough are his ivory bet it went to one rebellious town hoping to break free of the rule of. welcome to filipino a small town in the middle of italy that also claims to be an independent principality and to prove it it's even started printing its own money the man on a new note says town mayor lucas

a lhari now self-proclaimed prince i guess everyone dreams of being a prince when they're a little boy and so did i now i get to live that dream filipinos going solo in protest over government plans to slash council funding it wants small towns to merge having the number of local authorities with a population of just six hundred phila teano and its mayor for the chop. it's a terrible idea because it makes no economic sense we have everything here to be autonomous and besides our neighboring towns are at least thirty kilometers away so it's not practically possible it wouldn't even save that much money most regional administrations do nothing to get rid of them instead italy's in deep debt one hundred twenty percent of g.d.p. the second highest in europe but unions a furious with the cuts accusing the government of punishing those already at their poorest even some of silvio berlusconi's own allies now oppose them with amendments

piling up but filipinos fed up determined to be the next san marino a constitutional republic within italy that has no national debt a rare thing in europe the methinks the town can live off its natural resources of wood and water but currently profits go to private companies there are constitutional hurdles but since autonomy is not illegal it could just be a matter of time at the moment there is no exam legal tender just souvenirs but the plan is for two theory to be worth one euro and for this to be the only currency they could be spent in the shops and restaurants here. business is always been slow in this sleepy town but shopkeepers hope the new money will bring new cash. i'm sure that once we start using the new currency the economic situation here will significantly improve it will have

a positive effect on tourism of course attracting more people to the town so far from being a p.r. stunt filipino means business and berlusconi knows it he's visiting the town later this month to stave off the rebellion and he'll have a fight on his hands filipinos the source of rome's water supply and the mayor is threatening to cut it off if he doesn't get what he wants either bennett r.t. filipino italy back to our breaking news story this hour an explosion at a nuclear force or facility in mark you all in southern france provide as we go live our he is daniel bushell live for us in brussels. so daniel what do we know about the incident and how serious is the situation at the plant right now. because one person is reported dead a male worker is the been found. according to one local paper the french atomic safety thirty said that an explosion had taken place in an oven that used to milk

waste now after the recent accident the nuclear accidents in fukushima in japan countries like germany and switzerland had promised to phase out the nuclear power . for your biggest atomic power producer and it has strongly defended his decision to keep producing nuclear before this accident place is heavily dependent on nuclear energy to produce its heat and electricity and french leaders had said the fukushima power stations are extremely safe and something like that could never happen in france politicians already calling for real time and transparent information on the incident the rules on fears that falls may try to cover up the extent of this incident to avoid fronting export pollution alright artie's daniel bush a live in brussels for us thanks for that update. has warned israel that it faces growing regional isolation as turkey's prime minister heads for a visit to egypt the prime minister is expected to cement closer ties with cairo

with both countries having recently strained relations with the jewish state on friday night a raging mob in egypt's egypt's capital stormed the israeli embassy forcing its staff to flee on her ex belled israeli diplomats last week over television refusal to apologize for the deaths of nine turks during last year's raid on a gaza bound aid flotilla the turkish prime minister says the attack was a cause for war but his country chose to refrain from aggression middle east analyst jonathan spyer says the implications of the arab spring make israel's position not avoidable. it's important to remember that there are there a process is underway in the region right now which are in no way which israel can in no way really exert any influence on we are in the midst it might be said of a tectonic shift actually in the strategic picture of the middle east the government in egypt wants to continue to have a general atmosphere of non sympathy to israel and western and so israeli rhetoric and at the same time in reality they are dependent on american support and one of

the aspects of turkey's move towards making a bid for regional leadership is once again the very distinct cooling of to put it mildly its relations with israel so these are processes of historical magnitude which israel can't really influence israel in a certain sense is only going to be able to pursue a policy of damage limitation hoping very much to keep these relationships with egypt with turkey as much as they possibly can it doesn't really matter right now exactly what israel does israel is going to be increasingly isolated it's going to be put in a very defensive situation and that i think is the reality in the region we're looking forward to at the moment. the only surviving hockey player of wednesday's locomotive jaroslava plane crash has died in the hospital twenty six year old alexander died of severe burns to his body and respiratory system the plane carrying russia's hockey team crashed in central russia last week the squad was heading to belarus for their first match of the season more than one hundred thousand mourners gathered to honor the players and their hometown with ceremonies

also happening in native countries of the horn players killed a crew member from the plane is now the sole survivor of the forty five people aboard doctors say his condition is serious but stable. tonight as some other stories making headlines across the globe reports say explosions have happened near the airport in the libyan capital tripoli with heavy smoke seen above the city fighting between gadhafi as troops and rebels is continuing in bani walid one of the colonel's last strongholds located one hundred forty kilometers southeast of tripoli coffee's fighters ignored the surrender deadline that was given by the rebels that expired last weekend the colonel's son saadi fled tunisia there while the whereabouts of the leader himself who vowed to remain into the country till the very end remain unknown. about one hundred people have reportedly been killed by a fire at a pipeline in kenya's capital of nairobi more than eighty people were injured in the rush to nearby hospitals witnesses said the pipeline that passes through

a local slum will burst monday morning officials suspect some of the victims may have been siphoning fuel from the pipe when the fire started. remember you can find any time any stories analysis video and more a click away at our dot com here's what's online right now. about ninety percent of afghans are unaware of the september eleventh attacks or the reasons behind their country's near decade long occupation by nato forces learn more about that on r.t. dot com what's. russia dominates. london international film festival with multiple movie entries include alexander including alexander policy which won the biggest award at the venice film festival. is.

the official. from the. video. and. in the palm of your. home updating you now on this hour's breaking news an explosion at a nuclear facility in mark you'll in southern france one person confirmed killed several injured authorities say no radiation leak has been detected the explosion happened after a fire in

a processing area for radioactive waste the site is involved in decommissioning nuclear facilities and handles nuclear waste with low levels of radioactivity will bring you more on this breaking story shortly coming up later though we focus on the environmental footprint of war in our special report but first marina joins us with business. hello and welcome to business here on artsy deals worth four hundred million dollars have been signed during the visit of the u.k. prime minister david cameron to russia that delegation includes blue chip companies like royal dutch shell b.p. and british airways british the i why everything alerting fresh air will only fail applies so when and nine stores in russia total investment could reach two hundred and fifty million dollars the u.k. is also expected to sign a deal with the russian state energy corporation which would help companies wind

contracts and russia's expanding nuclear and the street. and among other notable deals the russian state nanotechnology cooperation is fine of forty to fifty percent of the london based pro bono bio for an undisclosed amount the financial times describes the company as a medical company launch in the world's first molecular scale and that its acknowledge the treatments pro bono by a plan celeste in moscow and london within four years. tony hayward is stepping down from the anglo russian oil firm seeing table and that's less than a year after joining the board as a non-executive director the former chief executive of b.p. who was fiercely criticized for his handling of the gulf of mexico oil spill is looking to pursue other interests in the energy sector the departure comes at a sensitive time following b.p.'s failed attempt to join with false left so explore

the arctic the alliance was broken by the russian partners in seeing to be who are now seeking compensation through the courts from the british parent company. and let's take a look at the markets now we'll start with oil prices there are lower investor. this fear europe's debt crisis will harm economic growth tempering demand for all materials light sweet is currently trading at eighty six dollars a barrel while bryant is hovering at one hundred and eleven dollars. over in europe markets are seeing the heavy losses shares in u.k. lenders are under pressure after the independent commission told banks they will have to ring fence their retail arms fall in the credit crisis the footsie is losing close to two and a half percent while the dax is down three and a half percent and european debt warrants are weighing on the russian markets as

well the indices are x. then than last week's losses in monday's trade the r.t.s. is down four point three percent the south the my sex is down two and a half percent and let's take a look at some index movers on the my sex energy majors are losing ground with gas at an over three percent banking stocks are also on the pressure russia's largest lender losing close to four percent this hour north clinical though it's trading slightly better head of its board meeting it plans to discuss a buyback of company shares for minority shareholders this hour it's at any point two per se it's. fears on mounts in the world as has been rapidly for a second dip of the recession russia's finance when the surf says it's more probable now then before the summer rush is balanced budget means it is reasonably well placed to ride out the turmoil but troika dialog strategist chris we first

says that's will only off limits of protection when the mood turned sour. in reality russia is in a much stronger position today than it was in two thousand and eight so you know russia is in a much better position to be able to withstand global downturn. you know to to to remain fiscally solvent and stable yes to reality it doesn't matter the perception is that russia is still a high risk environment most international investors view russia as a derivative of global growth therefore if they become up to a mistake about global recovery russian asset prices tend to rise higher faster than others and equally when there's a sell off as we saw in august russian asset prices will go down probably even faster than the rest. russia is for parents to ban small air carriers from running both charter and local flights routes will be given to the country's major airlines

who will also get subsidies out of the say this could reduce existent passenger traffic by up to forty percent with just a few companies operating in the market the move is saying that i'm proven wrong or aviation safety record after almost an entire professional ice hockey team was killed in a plane crash last week. and that's all the business news for now for more stories you can always check out our websites are to dot com slash business in the meantime states in for the headlines with matts bye for now.

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five thirty pm in moscow these iraqi headlines there's been an explosion at a nuclear facility in southern france one person is dead several injured have visuals reported no emissions outside the site that handles nuclear waste with a low level of radioactivity. stronger relations for mutual benefit russia and the u.k. agree not to allow their divided opinions on issues like the lisbon ngo scandal and the resolution of the syrian crisis to stand in the way of a political economic partnership. generating power iran plugs its first nuclear plant into the national grid the facility had to share was built with russia's help . italy moves closer to the center of the eurozone debt crisis as its crucial austerity package enters the final stages triggering a new wave of protests.