six pm in moscow i'm at trezise good to have you with us here on r t our top story on the solve the issues in the russian u.k. relationship should not stand in the way of a healthy and profitable cooperation that's what the leaders of both countries concluded after their meeting at the kremlin and he's a nice in a way has more on the outcome of the first visit by a british prime minister to russia for six years. president medvedev called the talks direct and constructive david cameron called them excellent the two leaders have pretty much agreed to disagree on their sticking points saying that they have to be able to move forward in other spheres especially business a lot of talk at least in the news conference a lot of questions about the lips when you go case and 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 the london eye diplomatic spat broke out between the u.k.

and russia after that british authorities wanted to actually fight the russian citizen on today will go 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 parks 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 it 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 to get

through the years of course work together in many different formats including the g twenty the g eight the un security council and 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 their time speaking about the situation in syria david cameron mentioned that he believes that that sanctions should go even further and president medvedev. to doubt that he or you would read it doesn't think what's happening in syria is right and something needs to be done but by no means can this turn in to another libya crisis because russia believes the resolution in syria should be tough but at the same time balance to address to both in 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 already under un u.s. sanctions he doesn't need additional pressure so 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 i asked after 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. 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 also met with prime minister vladimir putin and members of the civil society where the focus there was on human rights. professor of politics of university of kent dr adrian pabst says the u.k. and russia are currently facing many similar economic difficulties that together

they could overcome. britain and russia suffer from a lack of diversification just as britain depends too much in financial services or russia the too much on certain natural resources like oil and gas or both economies you can diversify this is not just a national issue for them this is also a global issue we know there are huge imbalances there's a lot of hot money circulating that money needs to be channeled into productive activities in britain in russia and elsewhere and i think there is mutual benefit from cooperate in areas like technology where britain can certainly help russia explore some of its natural resources we know this from energy and other areas but also you know russian investment in britain is also important to all sorts of areas like civil aviation even the car industry where the two countries couldn't visit some form of technological exchange we need to build a high tech manufacturing in india industrial base across europe and it seems to me that britain and russia have a lot to cooperate on precisely in this field. 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 say anti-government demonstrations in syria flared up in march with the regime responding by brutally cracking down on them at least twenty six hundred people said to have been killed russia wants the u.n. to take action that will push the warring sides toward dialogue and says assad needs more time to implement data democratic reforms at the u.s. and its allies want a more aggressive approach that will target the regime and i've already called for assad to step down. iran's bush era nuclear plant has officially begun operating and now providing electricity into the country's grid it's the first such facility in the entire middle east region iranian and russian officials attended the launch ceremony the facility came online september third after

a number of different tests were successfully completed russia which helped build the plant will also provide it with necessary to fuel neuron will return the spent fuel to russia to ease western concerns over the country's your rainy aminah richmond program tehran has once again stressed that its atomic ambitions were peaceful and not aimed at building nuclear weapons russia's energy minister praised the efforts in the cooperation and promised similar projects in the future. you would use them union. 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 to come through upgrading the station and developing other nuclear energy projects who would 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 the town and that has its own a ruler and even prince its own cash as

a plans to break away from rome. global markets slumped monday over fears that italy's debt crisis is worsening as the country's fifty four billion euro austerity package goes before the lower house of parliament for the final debate the government plans to make changes in the way its rural communities are run but some people are starting to lose faith in the government's ability to make the right decisions for bennett one one to one a rebellious town hoping to break free of the rule of rome. 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 the 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 tino 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 that 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 these notes aren't legal tender they 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 so. 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. 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 filipino is 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 well as financial woes echoed deeper inside the euro zone fears are growing that greece could be heading away from the euro able to contain its debt crisis you know how about over about editor in chief of belgium's leading business magazine thinks greece changeup ship the greek economy is in an outright depression now g.d.p. is shrinking at the moment at seven to eight percent on an annual basis unemployment is officially at sixteen percent but in 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 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 say for greece within the euro zone greece will have to act 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 portugal maybe ireland and of course i'm not even mentioning here that would be an enormous problem countries like spain. greece is planning to impose a new property tax to address its budget deficit thousands of people joined together at the weekend to protest against the cuts and increased taxes imposed to secure international rescue loans a little later we speak with a greek member of parliament who believes eurozone membership has harmed not helped his country's financial well being. with the help of the european union greek foreign most have stopped producing can imagine the country

like greece right now feed its people we don't produce enough meat we don't produce enough we even oil we are importing and do we had the scheme from the european union that far most were paid so that they would the produce anything. we've destroyed one of the main the main assets of our economy the investments that were made that. were only to sell germany you know what's the biggest investment it's made in greece for the past ten years super markets. and we ended up buying german productions buying german because maybe greece borrowed a lot of money in the past ten years who could get it from germany especially why don't you check out how much money germany has made out of greece the past ten years you'll discover that it's more than what we borrowed.

there's been an explosion at a nuclear facility and mark you'll in southern france one person confirmed killed several others injured the blast followed a fire in a processing area of the site officials earlier warned of a possible radiation leak but say no emissions have so far been detected visibility handles nuclear waste with low levels of radioactivity let's get reaction now from french anti-nuclear activists to any lorry melody. thanks for joining us here on our team so fresh authorities have been quick to downplay the accident saying there was no risk to the area around the facility but are the french people around still worried well the french people around there and all the threats are about hope not informed and old. several hours before the authorities would even declare the accident and apparently no specific confinement measures are being taken put

children or people to be safe or their friends is the world's largest consumer of nuclear power with some eighty percent of its power coming from atomic energy and of course the neighbors are germany and switzerland they've abandoned their nuclear plans is it possible that france could go that same way well of course an organisation like mine works for that purpose. we just hope that. has opened the eyes of most of the population but the government kept on blinding itself with nuclear power and fortunately today again we have a new explosion and again measures of good information are at least retention and center out so it's very hard to tell if the government is ready now to take the necessary measures to phase out nuclear france is also the world's largest exporter of energy wouldn't cutting down on atomic energy hit the whole of europe which is

already reeling from the blow of the economic crisis going on right now. well of course the numbers can be discussed if you listen to the french go to the french nuclear industry of course we are and net exporter of energy but when you look at actual numbers we do import e.g. especially for instance in winter when the weather is too cold and our nuclear power plant cannot provide sufficient electricity for their heating among those things so of course it is possible to raise a nuclear now and to prevent further risks and further danger and which the population has to live the first powerplay in france was open nearly fifty years ago and this is the first accident that's resulted in the loss of life doesn't that make nuclear energy a relatively safe bet for the french things into account small to average accidents occurring in france you have an average of more than two

incidents occurring every day in france per year and that's according to the official numbers from the french authorities for two thousand and nine two thousand and ten and the other thing is how many disasters and to what extent do you consider it is or it disaster because what is happening right now in market will will probably have effects on the environment. that is what are and also very potentially other populations if we don't take quickly measures necessary to protect the people. right friends and french anti-nuclear activists to any laurie m l a back thank you. has worn israel it faces growing regional isolation as the turkish prime minister heads for a recent visit visit to egypt. air got as expected to cement closer ties with cairo with both countries having recently strained relations with tel aviv on friday night a raging mob in egypt's capital stormed and sacked the israeli embassy forcing its

staff to flee on her x. spelled israeli diplomats over last week over television refusal to apologize for the deaths of nine turks during our last year's raid on a gaza bound aid flotilla turkey's prime minister says the attack was a cause for war but his country chose torah frayne from aggression middle east analyst jonathan spyer says the implications of the arab spring make israel's isolation unavoidable. it's important to remember that there are there a process is under way in the region right now which are in no way in which israel can in no way really exert any influence we are in the midst it might be said of a tectonic shift actually in the strategic picture of the middle east the government of egypt won't suit continue to have a general atmosphere of known simply to israel and western and so is ready 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 approaches is 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 as much truck 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 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 plane crash has died in the hospital twenty six year old alexander gallop suffered from severe burns to his body and respiratory tract the plane carrying russia's k h l hockey team crashed in central russia last week the squad had been heading to belarus for their first game of the season while the one hundred thousand mourners gathered to honor the players in their hometown with ceremonies also held in the native countries and the foreign players were killed a crew member from the plane is now the only survivor of the forty five people who

are aboard doctors say his condition is serious but state. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe thirty two people close to libya's fall in leader moammar gadhafi have fled to meet there in the last ten days the news comes amid ongoing fighting between rebels and loyalist troops in bani walid one of the prisons final strongholds located one hundred forty kilometers southeast of tripoli gadhafi fighters ignored the surrender deadline given by rebels that expired last week the colonel's son saadi had also fled any share while the whereabouts of the man himself colonel gadhafi who vowed to stay in the country till the very end remain unknown. but one hundred people have reportedly been killed by a fire at a pipeline in kenya's capital nairobi more than eighty were injured and rushed to nearby hospitals witnesses said the pipeline that passes through a local slow burst monday morning officials suspect some of the victims may have been draining fuel from the pipe when the fire started. yemeni president

ali abdullah saleh has authorized a deputy to discuss transfer of power with the opposition it follows months of political turmoil triggered by massive protests against the country's long time ruler more than one thousand people are believed to have killed during clashes between anti-government activists and security forces. so you can all find all the latest news any time on our website r.t. dot com here's what's a click away right now. ninety. afghans unaware of the september eleventh attacks or the reasons behind their country's near decade long occupation by foreign forces are in about it online. to russia dominates the london film festival getting multiple entries including alexander follows which scooped up the top award at the venice film festival.

business next with marina stay with us here on our. hello and welcome to business here on artsy deals worth around four hundred million dollars have been signed during the visit of the u.k. prime minister david cameron to russia the delegation includes blue chip companies like royal dutch shell b.p. and british airways british d.i.y. retailer kingfisher will unveil a plan to open nine stores in russia total investment could reach two hundred fifty million dollars the u.k. is also expected to sign a deal with the russian state energy corporation which would help you create companies with contracts and russia's expanding nuclear industry.

so in the hayward is stepping down from the anglo russian oil for him. and that's less than a year after joining the board as a non-executive director the former chief executive officer who was fiercely criticized for his handling all of the gulf of mexico oil spill is leaving to pursue other interests in the energy sector the departure comes at a sensitive time following b.p.'s failed attempt to drown we've also have to explore the arctic the alliance was broken by the russian partners and the who are now seeking compensation to through the courts from the british parent company. let's take a look at the markets now oil prices are mixed this hour investors fear europe's debt crisis will harm economic growth temper and demand for draw materials light sweet is currently trading at about eighty seven dollars a barrel approaching eighty eight while the brunt blunt's is approaching one hundred twelve dollars a barrel. in the u.s.

markets opened lower right now there are less flats and that's us fears mount over europe's debt problems especially after a credit rating downgrade of french banks. that there were no we can see you have now markets there are soon heavy losses shares in u.k. lenders are under pressure after the independent commissions hold banks there will have to bring funds their retail on is following the credit crisis and european that worries are weighing on the russian markets as well the indices are extending last week's losses in monday's strike the r.t.s. is down over three percent of all the my sense is that over one percent now let's take a look at some index movers on the my sex energy majors are losing ground with gas from seven over three percent banking stocks are also on the pressure with russia's largest lender losing close to four percent and north snake oil is trading slightly better ahead of its board meeting it plans to discuss a buyback of company's shares from minority shareholders. here's our mountain the

world is heading rapidly for a second dip of the recession russian finance minister alex secluded and says it's more probable now than before the summer russia's balanced budget means it is reasonably well placed to ride out the term all but short the strategist chris we first says that's will only all for limits of protection when the mood turns 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 very best 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 mystic about global recovery russian asset prices tend to rise higher faster than others and equally

when there's a sell off as we saw no against russia nasser prices will go down even faster than the rest. as for parents abound small air carriers from running both charter and a local flights routes will be given to the country's major airlines who will also get state subsidies analysts say this could reduce existent passenger traffic by up to forty percent with just a few companies operating in the market the move is aimed at improving russia's 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 is for now for stories head over to our web sites are to dot com slash business in the meantime states and for the headlines with let's.

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six thirty pm in moscow good to have you with us here on our teeth use your headlines there's been an explosion at a nuclear facility in southern france with one person killed several injured officials report no missions outside the site which handles nuclear waste with a low level of radioactivity. strong relations for mutual benefit russia and the u.k. agree not to allow their divided opinions on the live in and go scandal in the resolution of the syrian crisis to stand in the way of a political and economic partnership. generating power iran plugs its first nuclear plant into the national grid the facility had to share was built with the help of russia and will reach its full potential of the end of the year. italy moves closer to the center of the eurozone debt crisis as its crucial austerity package and.