international news and comment live from my headquarters here in central moscow this is. 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 after their meeting at the kremlin aunties and he said now he has more on the outcome of the first official visit by 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 just 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 lives of ending the case and how that will if it will really continue to in fact ties to remind you alexander litvinenko was a former russian security officer who was poisoned with polonium and died in london i diplomatic spat broke out between the u.k.

and russia after that british authorities wanted to activate the russian citizen on today will go boy but according to the russian constitution in fact article sixty one which president is very different minded 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 affect any further growth i david cameron went as far to say that the issue is not parts what we will continue to grow in other spheres let's take a listen 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 on changing their arrangements because of it but we should work on our relationship beyond the 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 the time speaking about the situation in syria david cameron mentioned that he believes that that sanctions should go even further and president made made him . to doubt that he or you would read 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 the be a righteous cause russia believes the resolution in syria should be tough but at the same time violence to address to both in the syrian conflict president assad and the opposition only then can such a resolution succeed should be tough but not automatically sanctions syria is already under the e.u. and us 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 a positive atmosphere lots of laughs in fact one of the last questions asked after news conferences 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 government in this case he would never have become the u.k.'s prime minister the official visit at this level and 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 dr patrick fully koos experience in science and technology projects between the two countries told r.t. that russia is a pot of gold the u.k. would like to get its hands on. russia has taken the first steps in establishing

the new business center at skolkovo establishing what is going to be i suppose a kind of silicon valley there and british involvement in that is going to be absolutely key in terms of development companies development and helping russian high tech businesses expand outside russia into markets in europe russia remains a kind of aladdin's cave where there are all kinds of interesting things to be found the legacy of the soviet research institutes first rate mathematics science and engineering education system means that there are all kinds of people ideas intellectual property that remain in russia to be discovered and exploited that i think is really key to the interesting future but. russia has in store in this whole area patrick fuller talking to me

a little earlier here in r.t. as russia in the u.k. muller 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 and president bashar al assad's advisor says the country would appreciate a fact finding mission by russian officials which moscow has promised to send any day now to government demonstrations in syria flared up in march with the regime responding with brutal crackdowns against two thousand six hundred people are said to have been killed and now she wants the u.n. to take action that will push the warring sides towards dialogue and says assad needs more time to implement democratic friends but 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 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 artie's an

english guy has been following the launch in bushehr. this is a truly historic day for iran as its nuclear power plant is joining the international energy grid it's going to start operating at thirty five forty percent of its. thirty five to forty percent of energy and it's going to 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. venture. that's been vigorously helping the. nuclear power plant specially since one nine hundred ninety eight the opening. by russia's energy minister and also by the head of. the important. countries russia's energy minister has said that all of. the international standards together with. went through difficulties and problems.

and to deal with. the whole world i'm sure. of the station to develop the nuclear energy projects. we created together you have to remember that this is the first nuclear power plant in the middle east so we should never underestimate it it's important. to know russia is going to supply the fuel for the power also going to discard 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 get it over to the iranian side and then two thousand and fifteen. the plant should become fully operated by iran so. this is a very important venture for both iran and russia and. a lot of hope for this power plant which has just become operational in iran.

israel in growing isolation the report of how some of the jewish state's neighbors a brimming with anti israeli sentiment in the way called the arab spring. the first global markets slumped on monday of affairs 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 final debate the government plans to make changes to the ways rural communities are run but some people are beginning to lose faith in the government's ability to make the right decisions. went to one rebellious town that wants to break free from the rule. 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. 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 village tino and its mayor a for the chop was a. terrible idea because it makes economic sense we have everything here to be autonomous and besides the 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 the term and 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 these notes aren't legal tender they're 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. 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 guillotine is the source of rose water supply and that may is threatening to cut it off if he doesn't get what he wants out of bennett's artsy filipino italy. when his financial woes echoed deeper inside the eurozone fears are growing that greece could be heading away from the euro unable to contain its debt crisis you had van overtveldt he's editor in chief of belgium's leading business magazine the trends think that greece should jump ship a greek economy is in an outright depression 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 safe release within the euro zone greece will ask let's see if 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 cortical maybe ireland and of course i'm not even mentioning here that would be an enormous problem countries like spain. ankara is warning israel it faces growing regional isolation as the turkish prime minister arrives on a visit to egypt as the one is expected to cement closer ties with current with both countries experiencing recently strained relations with tentative on friday night a raging mob in the egyptian capital stormed and sank the israeli embassy forcing

its stuff to flee. television refusal to apologize for killing several egyptian soldiers by the state last month meanwhile expelled israeli diplomats last week over television refusal to say sorry for gunning down. last year's raid on the gaza pound eight flights and. the attack was a cool. but his country chose to refrain from aggression political analyst my son told me earlier that he feels that israel should not be surprised if situations in turn turn against him. and. soldiers by. force. so that's why we have. people are very very upset. in fact with family execution or ma in

turkish activity in international waters what made it worth of course. you cannot go around killing people and especially. bullets that many don't the united nations. report indicates. a close range there were shot there people are very angry. the only surviving hockey player of wednesday's locomotive units level plane crash has died in hospital twenty six year old alexander died from severe burns to his body and respect retract the plane carrying russia's. crash in central russia last week the squad was heading to batteries for their first game of the season well one hundred thousand mourners gathered to honor the players in their hometown ceremonies also held in the native countries of the former 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. and some other news from around the world in our world update this hour the u.s. says confirmed it intends to contain one of colonel gadhafi sons saadi is one of thirty two people close to libya's deposed leader to have fled there in the past ten days the news comes amid ongoing fighting between rebels and loyalist troops in bani walid one of the colonel's last strongholds gadhafi supporters have ignored a rebel deadline to surrender which expired on saturday and whereabouts of libya's fugitive leader 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 were injured and rushed to nearby hospitals when is 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 toilets and the faster. president ali abdullah saleh has authorized his deputy to discuss the transfer with the opposition it follows months of political turmoil triggered by massive protests against the country's long time ruler while the thousand people are believed to be killed during the clashes between anti-government activists and security forces. there's been an explosion at a nuclear facility in mccool in southern france and one person has been confirmed killed and several others injured the last fall into foreign a processing error in the science and 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 and paris based journalist most eager told me that nuclear energy is turning into a costly and risky venture for france the french public as an operator lay and decided that maybe nuclear energy is not safe that it can be dangerous there is

vulnerable that is catastrophic you know a plant can go from an energy plant to a weapon of mass destruction you know if this is it shows my bill increasing every two years when nuclear energy was supposed to in the beginning also to be very affordable and here is france the number one supplier exporter of electricity to the world who currently has signed a contract with libya to build a nuclear plant and signed an agreement to build the biggest nuclear plant in the world in india where the record on its home soil of forty eight fourteen accidents and fifty one incidents. by the way you can access news at any time you like on our website. and here's what's on the line right now about ninety percent of afghans are unaware of the september the eleventh attacks all the reasons.

among the international film festival with multiple movie entries including. which is the top award of the film. and. the story. is the country struggles under a crippling debt. who says joining the eurozone has destroyed his country's financial prospects and that interview with a summary. greece

has many. including the latest its economy. was. a comedy at tragedy or maybe a farce well to discuss that we are now joined by the member of the greek parliament c must get it thank you very much for your time sir now greece has been at the center of political and economic debate in new york for quite some time now

do you think the european union has done and not to how greece out not enough and not in the right timing and greece was just the weakest link. in the building in the chain that wasn't well constructed it is a problem when you promote financial integration without having political integration and i think it's the time for big decisions in the european union i'm not so sure that the political leadership of the european union today is the point it should be what do you think is at the root of this crisis at the root of this crisis is that the political leadership has given up a big part of its power to the let's call it financial establishment to people that will never vote for never elected. but they seem to have more power

than their elected leadership that is something that has to change and another point of view maybe it sounds a little bit more oh but making the money without producing anything is immoral and that's what we're paying right now so what you seem to be suggesting is that greece has lost more than they've gained from joining the european union and the euro zone listen our fault is that we lost chances we could then should have done more in the good days. right now it is costing us a lot you can imagine that. germany for example is lending us money when the big hit with the biggest interest rate in itself is borrowing so they're making money out of the help to us now some critics say that sense euro was introduced in greece wages have been increasing at a pace seven times higher than in germany that you just mentioned for example

salaries for public servants have increased by seventy six percent so some critics may say that it's actually this inefficient bodging inefficient cost management that glad to be a dire situation this and there is truth to that the greek political system. for. of the past both of the last twenty years was. giving money giving benefits in order to collect votes. that is not the only reason for these. grand taishan is that you refer to two because you must keep in mind that when we entered the european union the salary of the public servants in greece was one tenth of the salary of public servants in germany and it was supposed to be that. the aim of the european union was that all europeans would

come to the same level so yes there was an augmentation of i don't know seventy percent he said but still the salaries are lower than in germany how bad the situation really nice want to be chances of greece defaulting on it in the near future i believe in the perspectives of greek economy maybe right now it seems rather gruesome picture but we have many capacities that haven't been explored and that's one of the reasons i'm here in moscow to promote the conference that we're having in road us about greek russian collaboration there are many things to do specially in the energy sector of course the tourist sector the real estate sector the corporation and coal production of. items of high technological value with russian know how and production and grace they swith have

advantages for both sides plus the fact that with the help of the european union greek farmers have stopped producing can you imagine the country like greece right now conk feed its people we don't produce enough meat we don't produce enough we even oil we are importing a country like greece that should be producing everything come to the same thing and should be and we had the scheme from the european union that farmers were paid so that they wouldn't produce anything. we destroyed one of our main the main assets of our economy and this has to change now the sentiment here giving is full of disappointment do you think it was a wise decision for greece to join the european union in the first place the decision to join the e.u. was a wise one the way we entered the monetary union was the wrong one. relation

of the greek drachma that we had to the euro was and correct the way we sense. who made the transition from the drachma to the euro was incorrect for example prices went three times up we didn't pay attention at the time because what we gained from the monetary union right away was more credit greece and greeks could borrow money easier but it wasn't used in the correct way it was used just to buy things but also the investments that were made in europe were only to sell germany you know what's the biggest investment that's made in greece for the past ten years super markets. and

we ended up buying german products buying german cause. we have helped the german economy very much by our buying capacity i'm telling you maybe greece borrowed a lot of money in the past and here as well you know 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. well when one deals with war for us to realize that this tremendous amounts of damage that are done not just human damage but damage to the physical environment in which the battlefield takes place tremendous amounts of damage done by aerial bombs by napalm boy coming from the city whether it's on

a sonic boom say track to marine mammals or it's the burning oil field syria and iraq or even destroyed coral reefs in the pacific for landing purposes the list just goes on and on the geneva conventions of nineteen forty nine states that they are shall be taken in the war to protect from violence against widespread long term and severe damage the united states although it is accepted almost all of the provisions of protocol one has taken exception to that. commission free cretaceous three terms for judges three coming from and three. free stuart free.

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