thanks for joining it's unsold issues in a relationship not stand in the way of healthy and profitable cooperation that's the view of the leaders of the two nations as they met at the kremlin to sign four hundred million dollars worth of contracts and he said now has more on the outcome of the first official visit by british prime minister to russia full six. 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 litigate 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

a russian citizen on facebook oh 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 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 broke about that in terms of the most pressing international issues they spoke about livia and it turns out they spent most of the time thinking about the situation in syria david cameron mentioned that he believes that that sanctions should go even further and president moves made him . without you or you would. think what's happening in syria is right and something needs to be done but by no means can this turning to another that be. russia believes the resolution in syria should be but at the same time violence to dress to both in the syrian conflict with him as president assad and the opposition only then can such a resolution succeed should be turned off but not automatically lose sanctions to syria is under the e.u. and u.s. sanctions it doesn't need additional pressure as it's certainly no major breakthrough in british russian relations but a very small stores as it was considering that a british general of that level hasn't been in moscow on

a visit like this in so long a positive atmosphere last year laughs in fact one of the last questions asked and most conferences by the b.b.c. to david cameron asking him about with rumors that he was possibly were going to do it 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 present major bank to different they were pretty sure that david would be a good movie gigi agent put in your minister case he would never have become the u.k.'s prime minister the official visit at this level and on quite a light know lots of laughs there after that joke about the k.g.b. and david cameron also met with the 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 atran says the u.k. and russia currently facing many similar konami 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 russia the too much on certain natural resources like oil and gas that both 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 to all sorts of areas like to play the ation even the car industry where the two countries couldn't visit some form of technological exchanging need to do that much factoring in in the 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. mold their differences about proceeds to the crisis in syria most coups forging

ahead with its efforts to mediate peace that russian lawmakers are hosting a delegation from damascus after holding talks with the opposition last week president bashar al assad's advisers says the country would welcome a fact finding mission by russian officials which most the has promised to censure would lead to government demonstrations in syria flared up in march with at least twenty six hundred people still to have been killed in the clashes including around seven hundred soldiers and security across the now russian all of the u.k. to take action that will push this size towards dialogue and doesn't a one sided approach saying assad needs more time to implement democratic reforms that the u.s. and its allies have taken a more aggressive stance targeting the regime puppetry told ivana's have already called for us to step down. and you could have power plant in iran has been officially launched with the joint rainy and russian project not providing electricity to the country's grid is the combination of work and corporation between moscow and tehran which began in one nine hundred ninety eight ati's arena

i'm going to report from the site. this is a truly historic day for iran as its first nuclear power plant is joining the national energy grid it's going to start operating at thirty five to forty percent of its. 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. venture. that's been vigorously helping the. nuclear power plant. the opening of the plant by russia's energy minister and also. underlines the importance all. countries know russia's energy minister has said that all of. the international standards together with the rain in come to parts went through

difficulties and problems building plans and to deal with the results. of the whole world i'm sure. operating the station and developing nuclear energy projects. we created working together 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 they were any inside and then two thousand and fifteen at. 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. and. africa. international community will have to. we have now a decades long standoff between iran and the west and over it the iranian

nuclear program this has been very hyped of. the nuclear issue for political reasons in order to be able to garner support to put pressure on iran if you cannot control or influence a country you might go for isolation and weakening of the country in the best way to do that is through economic sanctions economic sanctions and if we just listen to the most authoritative source when it comes to analyzing the iranian nuclear program which is the international atomic energy agency and if we read their reports we see that there is no evidence for any weaponization and also this is. a new numerously and on numerous occasions by the u.s. intelligence services and very recently so as well so the world has to face that iran as other developed countries has a nuclear program which is peaceful according. to all the evidence that we have.

meanwhile no cordial welcome away from iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad and his visit to new york city have a massive billboard has appeared in times square claiming iran's alliance with al qaida it was put out by united against iran a pressure group seeking to stop companies doing business with tehran to hold the country's nuclear program and also calling on new york hotel strophes president shot accommodation but haven't even being dependent is that she the same time told us he that such actions may be more i think to provoke iran further on the right to making nuclear weapons. if you remember after zero nine eleven iran helped the united states apprehensive malka people and provided intelligence on them because remember iran. islamic government is different than the al qaeda which is sunni and the iranian government is shia and the al qaeda is hostile to the board for earlier demonizes iran and iran has been demonized since the late seventy's

when they took over the embassy so i think the problem with demonization as we've seen in the case of saddam hussein and when market off he is that the united states then seems to take out those leaders after a while so iran is much bigger and much stronger than iraq in libya but this adds to the pressure and if you've got a republican administration in who beat obama in the next year in the elections by two thousand and thirteen we could hear the drumbeat for attacking iran which of course i think would be disastrous you have to put yourself in their shoes they do have legitimate security fears and even security interests and you may not like those interests but nonetheless i think you have to take them into account and you have to do everything that you can not to demonize them because that in turn creates pressures for attacking them later on this coercive approach merely makes

iran want to have weapons more ron sees that iraq and libya who gave up their nuclear weapons programs they got invaded or attacked. in growing isolation loophole in the true states neighborhoods brimming with anti israeli sentiment in the wake of the arab spring that's right. global markets fell sharply on monday i will say is that the debt crisis is watching in both greece and italy this comes as italy's fifty four billion euro austerity package goes before the lower house of parliament was approved this week so to hold budget can state government fuel local authorities and existing ones to match but faces stiff opposition with some borrowers actually seeking independence bennett went to one rebel is determined to. 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 small towns to merge having the number of local authorities with a population of just six hundred philip tino and its mayor 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 regional administrations do nothing we should get rid of them in a standard 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 these notes on legal tender they just souvenirs but the plan is for two theory to 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 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 the track to meet people to the town. far from being a p.r. stunt filipino means business 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 rome's water supply and the mayor is threatening to cut it off if he doesn't get what he wants other than its artsy guillotine italy. faces faces rather growing isolation in the region as they take a spawn minister heads for egypt their jet type to one is expected to cement closer ties with cairo with both countries experiencing recently strained relations with tel aviv on friday night of raging mob in the capital strong downed signs the israeli and the sea forcing staff to flee under swelled after telling for he

stopped projects for killing several egyptian security force numbers by mistake last month and correct spelled israel's ambassador last week i would a country's refusal to say sorry for gunning down nine activists and attack a ship trying to bring out a blockade of gaza last year the turkish pm says that type was a cause of very low but his country chose to refrain from aggression political analyst. from turkey feels israel shouldn't be surprised that the gyptian isn't tags have turned against it. in the killing of more. soldiers by. force. so that's why we. use really a. government official. our people are very very upset. in fact with family. internationally.

what made. her go around killing people and especially. cruise. books. from a close range there was there are people are very angry. one of the only two survivors of a plane crash which killed almost the entire locomotive. team has died in hospital team member alexander who was trying to cigs died from severe bans the plane carrying the leading russian cage team crashed in central russia last week on route to bella breeze for the first game of the season over one hundred thousand people gathered to honor the sporting heroes in their hometown the ceremony is also held in their native countries of foreign players and stop

a crew member from the plane is now the only survivor among the forty five people on board doctors say his condition is serious but stable. let's take a look at some other news making headlines around the world the u.s. has claimed that a new share is about to detain. somebody who's under surveillance in the country and the prime minister says he is one of the of such team members of his inner circle who fled to the country in the past ten days there still fierce fighting in libya at running by lead one of the kind those last holds get out his fighters have a good nor a deadline to surrender given by nato branch rebel sources which expired last week and it's not known where libya is huge to lead a is though he said and i want to massachusetts still in the country and. least a hundred and twenty people have been killed and hundred one. when the leaking petrol pipeline exploded in kenya's capital nairobi the disaster struck and chinatown

quickly ripping through around shackled homes and buildings giving some people no time to flee the prime minister kenya has promised a full investigation and compensation for the relatives of victims officials suspect of explosions they have been caused by locals trying to siphon fuel from the pipeline. there's been an explosion at a nuclear facility in that market all in the southern fronts one person's been confirmed killed several killed and others injured officials there want of a possible radiation leak but say no missions have been detected the facility handles nuclear waste with low levels of radioactivity. website home has a little more for you including eye catching leaders lynch's news and analysis as well so i feel right now. find out how well alligators replays black sharks north of the natural wild but they military one has a new generation of russian battlefield helicopters and all the way so it will stay

plyometrics has dropped. out of the gas t.v. and computer games traditional toys which had stood the test of time must have been as a go see at russia's toy kingdom just eighteen meters from the other sold but here are just a click away at all to call. and those are the stories we've got for you this hour now more top of stary to measures a new one of property tax are in store increase as the country struggles under crippling dead next week talk to a great pm rather similar scandal caller who says joining the euro zone has destroyed his country's financial prospects.

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 we are now joined by the member of the greek parliament. 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 or 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 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 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 then that itself is borrowing so they are making money out of the help to us now some critics say that sense year 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 is that the greek political system. for. for the best part 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 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 an augmentation 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'd be chances of greece defaulting on 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 them that's one of the reasons i'm here in moscow to promote the conference that we're having and role does 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 in greece this would have

advantages for both sides plus the fact that with the help of the european union greek far most have stopped producing can imagine the country like greece right now kong feed its people we don't produce enough meat we don't produce enough week even oil we are importing a country like greece that should be producing everything contra do you said thing that should be and who 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 transfer. who made the transition from the drachma to the euro was incorrect for example prices when 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. i'm telling you maybe greece borrowed a lot of money in the past and here as well because you know from germany especially why don't you check out how much money germany has made out of greece the past that he has you'll discover that it's more than what we borrowed. from the. league. the be loser the biggest

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six. and again this is old see the headline. stronger nations for mutual benefit russia on the u.k. agree not to allow the divided opinions on between because scandal on the resolution of the syrian crisis to stand in the way of that political and economic partnership. generating pod around my cousin you could have known it into the national grid since you had bush spelled with a helpful brush on will reach its full capacity at the end of the. ninety's and even center stage and the deepening eurozone debt crisis as a crucial austerity package heads for a critical parliamentary vote triggering a new wave of protests that tough spending cuts if to pull been a euro program was aimed at balancing the country's budget and triggering a growth.