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 the meeting at the kremlin lottie's 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 it's true 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 news conference a lot of questions about the lives of engage 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 actually buy a russian citizen on the table go boy but according to the russian constitution in fact article in 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 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 it put it 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 stroke about that in terms of the most pressing international issues they spoke about libya and it turns out they spent most of the time reading about the situation in syria david cameron mentioned that he believes that that sanctions should go even further and president moves made him. 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 turning to another there be a crisis because 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 if syria is already under the e.u. and 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 a positive atmosphere i want to you last in fact one of the last questions i asked after the news conference by the b.b.c. to david cameron asking him about with 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 that she would be a very good k.g.b. agent the president needed to beg to differ. i'm pretty sure that david would be a good agent 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 he's in our reporting there and talked to patrick for nick who's experienced in science and technology

projects between the two countries told r.t. that russia has 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 where. british involvement is going to be absolutely key in terms of development companies development and helping russian high tech business is expand outside russia into markets in europe russia remains a kind of aladdin's weather up all kinds of interesting things to be found the legacy of the soviet research institutes a 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 to prove talking to me a little earlier here in r.t. and as russia and the u.k. mulla 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 her country would appreciate a fact finding mission by russian officials which moscow has promised to send any day now and he government demonstrations in syria flared up in march with the regime responding with brutal crackdowns of these two thousand six hundred people are said to have been killed in russia wants the u.n. to take action that will push the warring sides towards dialogue and says assad needs more time to implement democratic reforms and its allies want a more aggressive approach that will target the regime and the 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 artesian in english has been following the launch in bushehr. this is a truly historic day for iran. 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. vigorously helping the. nuclear power plant specially since the one nine hundred ninety eight the opening. by russia's energy minister and also by the head of. the important. countries now russia's energy minister has said that.

international standards. went through difficulties and problems. and to deal with the results. of the whole world i'm sure. operating the station and developing the nuclear energy projects. here we created 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. to iran no russia is going to supply the fuel for the power also going to discard 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 hand it over to the iranian side and then thousand and fifteen. the plant will 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 is which has just become operation in iran. this is all to you live here in moscow still to come to israel in growing isolation we report on how some of the jewish state's neighbors are brimming with anti israeli sentiment in the wake of the arab spring. that's still to come but first global markets slumped on 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 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 the government's ability to make the right decisions bennett went to one rebellious town that wants to break free from 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 its even started printing its own money the man on the

new 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 philip tino and its mayor a for the chop was a. terrible idea because it makes no 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 we should get rid of them in a stand 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 it 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 the 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 villa tino is the source of rose water supply and the mayor is threatening to cut it off if he doesn't get what he wants either bennett's artsy filipino italy. financial worries echo deeper inside the eurozone fears a growing that greece could be heading away from the euro unable to contain its debt crisis there had van overtveldt 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 the 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 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 cortical maybe ireland and of course i'm not even mentioning here that would be an enormous problem countries like spain. ankur is warning israel it faces growing regional isolation as the turkish prime minister arrived on a visit to egypt. and is expected to cement closer ties with with both countries

experiencing recently strained relations with tel aviv on friday night a raging mall been the egyptian capital stormed and sent the israeli embassy staff to flee in the event was precipitated by to the reserve to apologize for killing several egyptian soldiers by mistake last month meanwhile expelled israeli diplomats last week over tel aviv's refusal to say sorry for gunning down nine turks during last year's raid on. the turkish prime minister says it was a cause for war and his country chose to refrain from aggression turkish political analyst told me earlier that he feels israel shouldn't be surprised that. turned against. killing. soldiers by. force. for the. so that's why we.

people are very very upset all. in fact that family law in turkish activists in international waters what made it worth of course. calmed down you cannot go around killing people and especially. took. thirty five bullets many of the united nations. report indicates from a close range there were shot there people are very angry. the only surviving hockey player of wednesday's locomotive got a plane crash has died in hospital twenty six year old on xander died from severe burns to his body and respect. the plane carrying russia's hockey team crashed in

central russia last week the squad was heading to bed to receive their first game of the season one hundred thousand mourners gathered to all of the players in their hometown with 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. now let's update you on some other developments headlines around the world at this stage of the world updates on the u.s. says it has confirmed that the tends to tame one of colonel gadhafi son saadi is one of thirty two people close to libya's deposed leader to a fled there in the past ten days the news comes amid ongoing fighting between rebels and lawless troops in bani walid one of connell's one of the colonel's last strongholds and get that the supporters have ignored a rebel deadline to surrender which expired on saturday the whereabouts of libya's fugitive leader remain unknown. about one hundred people have reportedly been killed by far the pipeline and kenya's capital of nairobi more than eighty were injured and rushed to nearby hospitals to set the pipeline of pasta through first

on monday morning officials suspect some of the victims may have been draining fuel from the pipe when the fire started. every president has authorized his deputy to discuss a transfer of power with the opposition from his months of political turmoil triggered by massive protests against the country's long time ruler more than a thousand people are believed to be killed during the clashes between government activists and security forces. there's been an explosion at a nuclear facility in southern france one person has been confirmed killed and several others injured the blast followed a fire at a processing area of the site 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 paris based journalist most eager told me earlier that nuclear energy is turning into a costly and risky venture for france. the french public as one can operate

a play and decided that maybe nuclear energy is not safe that it can be dangerous that is vulnerable that is catastrophic you know a plant can go from an energy plant to a weapon of mass destruction you know it this is it fills my bill increasing every two years when nuclear energy was posted in the beginning also to be very affordable and here is france the number one supplier export or 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 with a record on its home soil of forty fourteen accidents and fifty one incidents. by the way you can. all the time here's what's waiting for you right now if.

aware of the september. international film. festival. about ten minutes from now. the country struggles under crippling debt. he says joining the eurozone has

destroyed his country's prospects special interview next. greece has given the world many edifying myths including the latest one that its

economy was strong enough to join the euro zone was it a comedy at tragedy or maybe a farce well to discuss that right now joined by the member of the greek parliament cmos thank you very much for the 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 to move or not in the right time in. greece was just the weakest link. in a building in a 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 at the point it should be what do you think the road of these 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 were never voted for and 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 moral 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 then that itself is borrowing so they are 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. for the best part of the last twenty years was. giving money giving benefits in order to collect the votes. that is not the

only reason for these. going taishan is that you referred to 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 another plantation of i don't know seventy percent you said but still the salaries are lower than in germany how bad the situation really is what i mean 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 foreign most 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 do something and should be and though 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 they are giving is full of disappointment do you think it was a wild decision for greece to join the european union in the first point 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 monthly 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 it'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 ten years from now you can go from germany especially why don't you. money germany has made out of greece the pos that he has you'll discover that that's more than what we borrowed.

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if you just joined us very well welcome this is all t. from to live from headquarters here in moscow. time to update you on the news stories of a stronger relations for mutual benefit russia and the u.k. agreed not to allow their divided opinions on. the resolution of the syrian crisis to stand in the way of their political and economic problems. generating power plugs its first nuclear plant into the national grid in facility a pushchair was built with the help of russia will reach its full capacity at the end of the year. is to be moved closer to the center of the eurozone debt crisis as it's crucial austerity package enters the final stages triggering a new wave of protests and tough spending cuts much debated fifty four billion euro program is aimed.