international news and comment live from our headquarters here in central moscow this is r.t. . solved issues in russia u.k. relations should not stand in the way of healthy and profitable corporation that's what the leaders of the two states concluded after their meeting at the kremlin and he said now he has more on the outcome of the first official visit by british prime minister to russia. is. president its 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 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 litter in danko case and how that will if it will really continue to in fact ties and 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 tax to write 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 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 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 posturing 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 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 were president 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 let's just get russia believes the resolution on 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 a u.n. 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 asked at the 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 present day 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 that 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. and professor of politics at the university of kent dr adrian pep says the u.k.

and russia are currently facing many similar economic difficulties which together they could overcome. britain and russia suffer from a lack of diversification just as britain depends too much in financial services to the pens too much on certain natural resources like oil and gas birth economies need to diversify but this is not just a national issue for them this is also a global issue we know there are huge imbalances there's lots 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 in 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 as russia and the u.k. mull their differences over approaches to the crisis in syria moscow is steaming ahead with its efforts to mediate peace there 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 any day now and government demonstrations in syria flared up in march with the regime responding with brutal crackdowns at least two thousand six hundred people are said to have been killed and russia wants the u.n. to take action to push the warring sides towards dialogue and says assad needs more time to implement democratic reforms the u.s. and its allies want a more aggressive approach that will target the regime and have already called for assad to step down. iran's bushehr nuclear power plant has officially begun operating and is now providing electricity to the country's national grid it's the

first such facility in the entire middle east region and artes and in english there has been following the launch in bush years. this is a truly historic day for iran as its first nuclear power plant in bushehr is joining the national energy grid it's going to start operating at thirty five to forty percent of its capacity that is the thirty five to forty percent of energy and it's going to reach the hundred percent potential within the next couple of months now this is something that has been in the making for a very long time this is a joint russia iran venture russia's adam story expert has been vigorously helping the reigning inside of and construction of this nuclear power plant specially since the one nine hundred ninety eight the opening of the plant has been attended by russia's energy minister sponsor and also by the head of story expert both of whom have underlines the importance. for both countries now russia's energy minister has said that all of us here of course conducted by russia and iran should be honest with international standards together with the rate in comp of parts went through

difficulties and problems building the plant and today we can be proud to the results that are drawing the attention of the whole world i'm sure for the cooperation in operating the station and developing now the nuclear energy projects who would be distinguished by the atmosphere we created while working together you have to remember that this is the first nuclear power plant in the middle east so we should never underestimate its importance it's absolutely integral to iran no russia is going to supply the fuel for the power plants and it's also going to discard off the fuel this is going to continue for the next three years so russian engineers and specialists will stay at the plant will stay in iran for the next couple of years but then afterwards they will slowly handed over to the iranian side and then by two thousand and fifteen. the plant will should become fully operated by iran on its own like we said this is a very important venture for both iran and russia and. there is

a lot of hope for this power plant which is which has just become operational in the share in iran. shortly this hour for you here in israel in growing isolation we report on how some of the jewish state's neighbors a brimming with israeli sentiment in the wake of the arab spring. global markets slumped on monday of affairs that debt crisis is worsening as the country's fifty four billion euro austerity package goes before the lower house of parliament for final debate the government plans to make changes to the way its rural communities are run but some people are beginning to lose faith in their government's ability to make the right decisions for his other bennett went to one rebellious town that wants to break free from the rule of room. 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 he wants all 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 be. 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 but 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. as financial worries echo deeper inside the euro zone fears are growing that greece could be heading away from the euro unable to contain its debt crisis. develops the editor in chief of belgium's leading business magazine the trends thinks that greece should jump 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 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 portugal maybe i will and of course i'm not even mentioning here that would be an enormous problem countries like spain. and greece is planning to impose a new property tax to address its budget deficit thousands of people join together we can to protest against cuts and increase taxes imposed to secure international

rescue learns a little later we talked to greek m.p. kedikoglou who believes that membership is harmed not helped his country's financial well being. with the help of the european union greek far most have stopped producing can imagine a country like greece right now feed its people we don't produce enough me we don't produce enough we even oil we are important and we had a scheme from the european union that farmers were paid so that they wouldn't produce anything. we destroyed one of. the main assets of our economy the investments that were made in europe 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 products buying german cause maybe greece borrowed

a lot of money in the past ten years from getting 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. thanks is warning israel it faces growing regional isolation as the turkish prime minister arrives on a visit to egypt where one is expected to cement closer ties with cairo with both countries experiencing recently strained relations with tel aviv on friday night a raging mob in the egyptian capital stormed in sacks the israeli embassy forcing its staff to flee event response to find the gyptian officers were killed in a border clash with israeli forces last month meanwhile ankara expelled israeli diplomats last week of a televisa refusal to apologize for killing nine turks during last year's raid on

a gaza bound aid flotilla the turkish pm says the attack was a catalyst for war these country tries to refrain from the question and accept cross live now to take a view and get some. from. jerusalem thanks very much indeed for joining us there live in tel aviv the anti israeli sentiment in car was fueled by television refusal to apologize for the killing of those five egyptian offices but is that the only reason why we're now seeing this anger against israel. certainly i would say that if you look over the past two or three decades within egypt even though there was a peace treaty which provided it's the ability and security to the region inside egypt the media was constantly pumped with very harsh anti israel incitement and despite the fact that it was officially in a peace treaty with israel egypt and people were subjected to daily barrage of anti

israel rhetoric now if you're subject to that kind of rhetoric that's going to build up and it's going to create a very negative view of israel and these views and what we're seeing now is as the regime is losing its power losing its grip the military regime in egypt these forces are now coming forward in a spontaneous tenuous way and you're seeing that in the incident that took place outside the embassy you say that the egyptian authorities the military authorities seem to be losing control of the moment it's pretty volatile isn't it to have those elections as soon as possible and when those elections do happen do you see any change in the sentiment towards israel after that. well it's very difficult to predict what will happen but we know for a fact that one of the largest organizations in egypt is the muslim brotherhood this is an organization organization that has been providing social assistance to egypt for population and injecting that assistance with a radical islamist ideology so they're hoping that by the time elections come around probably around october they'll be ready with the support base and electoral

support base that should give them a respectable amount of representation in egypt in parliament so we're going to have to wait and see here in israel what will happen. who's going to take power in egypt but right now we are seeing a definite weakening of the military regime and we've seen some very negative consequences as a result of that already and of course israel shouldn't just be concerned with what's going on in colorado but of course at the moment it seems to be losing favor with turkey that is something of a big concern is it not for israel as we said at the start of this it seems as many commentators saying that israel is in danger of being isolated how important is that friendship losing that friendship with. turkey was a very important ally and i'm using the word was unfortunately it's quite clear that it no longer is. turkey because of internal political processes and the ideology of its prime minister has decided to embark on a sort of neo autumn and project to project itself as the leader of the new leader

of the muslim world and as part of that attempt it is confronting israel creating provocations so that he could turn around to the muslim world and say look we are the ones who should be leading this region and as a result we're seeing increasing harsh rhetoric from turkey's leadership and provocative moves it's a dangerous game and i hope that it doesn't get past the point of rhetoric but certainly we're seeing a dramatic shift in relations with turkey and it's a source of great concern there's no denying that whatsoever israel only has a peace treaty with two arab countries as you are saying it's being isolated even so it seems to be it really has to keep up good relations with its neighbors because clearly it doesn't have much influence on what's happening in the middle east at the moment. let's correct it has very little influence on what's happening at the moment of course good relations are but one of the problems is

first of all who who are our neighbors if we've signed a peace treaty with a government or representation and then that government falls we have to wait and see first of all who's going to replace the government before. we can figure out what our state of relations will be and this is in effect what's going on all around us israel is looking around and trying to figure out who will be standing on the other side of the border tomorrow next week and next month it's a very. unstable situation and that's the strategic surroundings that israel finds itself in at the moment and just briefly how important is the friendship with the u.s. clearly we've seen the u.s. backing the so-called democratic change within the middle east but at the detriment of relations with israel so what does that put the u.s. and israeli relations. the relationship with the u.s. is crucial it's fundamental the u.s. is closest ally. and at the same time there are certainly voices in israel that have expressed objections to the way the obama administration has handled the arab

spring this whole period that we're witnessing you have people like. who was the former head of the mossad who said that obama was far too quick to back populist movements that had no clear agenda and to abandon leaders who were formally as allies at the same time you have other all more optimistic voices in the country who believe that ultimately at the end of this evil democratic regimes in the long run can can form after all of this mess that we're seeing in the region so it really is a case of waiting it out and seeing what happens and responding to events and trying to figure out again who will be on the other side of the border who will israel be facing when the dust settles live from israel and of the jerusalem post thanks to it we have to say thank you. the only surviving hockey player of wednesday's. plane crash has died in hospital twenty six year old

alexander gleam of died from severe burns to his body and spirit three tracked the plane carrying russia's hockey team crashed in central russia last week on the squad was heading to bed a research for their first game of the season more than a hundred thousand mourners gathered to all of the players and their ceremonies also held in the native countries of the foreign players killed a crew member from the plane is now the only survivor of the forty five people on board and doctors say his condition is serious but stable. twenty two and a half minutes past the hour here in the russian capital let's have a quick look now at some other news from around the world in our world update thirty two people close to libyans former leader moammar gadhafi have fled to najarian the past ten days and use comes amid ongoing fighting between rebels and lawless troops in bani walid one of the colonel's last strongholds located one hundred forty kilometers southeast of the capital get off his fighters ignored the surrender deadline given by rebels which expired last week and the colonel son

saadi has also fled to tunisia while the whereabouts of libya's fugitive leader who vowed to stay in the country until the very end remain unknown. but hundred people have reportedly been killed by a fire at a pipeline in kenya's capital of nairobi more than eighty were injured and rushed to nearby hospitals witnesses said the pipeline that passes through a local slum burst on monday morning officials suspect some of the victims may have been draining fuel from the pipe when the fire started. there's been an explosion at a nuclear facility in southern france one person's been confirmed killed and several others injured officials early one of a possible radiation leak but say no emissions have been detected the facility handles nuclear waste with low levels of radioactivity. i mean every president has authorized his deputy discuss the transfer of power with the opposition from these months of political turmoil triggered by massive protests against the country's long time on the thousand people happy to have been killed during the clashes between government activists and security forces. just remind you

can access our news at any time on our website www dot com here's a quick look at what's waiting for you online right now about ninety percent of afghans are unaware of the september the eleventh attacks or the reasons behind the country's near decade by u.s. forces you can learn more about online. and russia dominates the london international film festival with multiple movie entries including alexander. which is just the top award at the venice film festival. to bring us up to date for the moment marina is next with the business to stay with us in moscow. hello and welcome to business here on artsy deals worth more than three 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 the i y. retailer kings for sure has unveiled a plan to open nine stores in russia total investment could reach one hundred eighty million dollars also engineering firm rolls royce has agreed to jointly develop nuclear power with the russian state energy corporation. and among other notable deals the russian state nanotechnology corporation is fine a forty to fifty percent off the london base pro bono bio for an undisclosed amount the financial times describes the company as a new medical company launching the world's first molecular scale nanotechnology treatments pro bono bio plants celeste and moscow anyone within four years. tony hayward is stepping down from the anglo russian oil firm seeing k.b. p.

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 leaving super sue other interests in the energy sector the departure of comes at a sensitive time following b.p.'s failed attempt to join with rolls left to explore the arctic the alliance was broken by the russian partners and seeing the who are now seeking compensation through the courts from their british parent company. now let's take a look at the markets now we'll start with oil prices there are higher this hour hopefully you can see it on the screen there we go the u.s. dollar in there up earlier against in the recovery came as the organization of petroleum exporting countries monday said some of its members could lower production as a slowing economy weakens demand light sweet is currently trading close to eighty nine dollars a barrel while the brands blend this at one hundred thirteen dollars. over in the

u.s. some markets are trading in negative territory as fears the mounds over europe is that problems especially after a credit rating downgrade of french banks. over in europe markets so a heavy losses shares in the u.k. lenders were under pressure after the independent commission told banks the will have to ring fence the retail arms following the credit crisis and european that war is waged on the russian markets as well and the seas here extended last week's losses in monday's trade in my six closed over one and a half percent down while the arts yes more than the three and a half percent and a second look at some index movers on the my sax and there's a major slow scrounged with gas from setting almost super cents banking stocks were also on the pressure with russia's largest lender losing over four percent. did better ahead of its board meeting on tuesday because it plans to discuss

a buyback of company shares from minority shareholders and michael stipe from what creates a financial corporation says the russian market is being led by global sense and it's. russian equities are sharply lower today importing both from volatility in share price weakness from european markets which are down on average of three to four percent today and it's more concerns about the future of the euro and it's more concerns about your resume banks and stability in the markets we see particularly weakness in the big cap highly liquid stocks slowing. gas problem speer bank metals and mining stocks are also weaker as those companies are exposed to global steel prices and a potential slowdown in demand i'd also note today's weakness in the oil price so with oil now within one percent of its two hundred day moving average this has a few investors concerns and this is one reason why the ruble has also been weak today. the sour the headlines are.

if you just joined us a very warm welcome live from moscow this is top stories now stronger relations for mutual benefit russia and ukraine not to allow their divided opinions on the if an ink a scandal in the resolution of the syrian crisis to stand in the way of their political and economic partnership. generation iran plugs its first nuclear plants into the national grid pushchair was built with the help of russia and will reach its full capacity and the. 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 and tough spending cuts the most basic fifty four billion euro program is aimed at financing the country's budget and triggering events.