you're watching r.t. live from moscow our breaking news this hour ukraine's ex prime minister is guilty of abusing her authority while signing gas deals with russia a giant in kiev found cause the country to lose nearly two hundred million dollars in agreeing the energy contracts are just like here she asks follow you hansen joins us live now from outside the court so let's see what's next for you and. well we now understand that the judge has ruled that she has been found guilty of economic crimes in particular signing unlawful gas deals as the prosecution believes with russia in two thousand and nine death of course that cost ukrainian budget almost two hundred million u.s. dollars the question is now whether units in the center will be receiving some prison sentence now we understand that the judge is continuing to read out the verdict of course there may be some softening circumstances that she may get a suspended sentence that is something many accidents have been predicting we don't

not know for sure whether the verdict will be finished today and whether we will know the fate of indigenous sankoh during the day but certainly the fact that she has been found guilty puts the case it's a very interesting twist it means that she would not be you know she was not released from the courtroom directly at the start of the reading of the verdict now the atmosphere here is pretty tense and loud as you can probably hear thousands of supporters have gathered here to both protest against eunice to meet you too much ankle and to say that she is innocent and she says she is guilty and to say that she must be put in prison those are supporters of two different political movements in ukraine they have been in fact protesting here since july for several months now but clearly this time it's the biggest presence of the two camps we've been seeing here so far these security measures are very tight hundreds and hundreds of policemen are around the area protecting the first. from possible violence we've

heard statements from several decades of the ukrainian parliament from the unix machine decide that this day tuesday october the eleventh would not avoid bloodshed shooting and could be convicted to a prison time of course we hear and monitoring the situation to see whether any bloodshed will be spilled into the streets of kiev i see he said there are divisions in opinion there intimate shank and her supporters claim the case is politically motivated so how much weight is there of behind these statements. certainly the opposition has been saying all along that the case was politically motivated in fact they are describing today october the eleventh as the dooms day of the cranium democracy president in a call that has been denouncing all such accusations in his recent interview he said he did not care about the case at all and saying that this case is being dealt only in accordance with the country's legislation has no political background to it it is very interesting because one of the most one of the most important

accusations of units of assange was that she signed on lawful just deals with russia back in two thousand and nine and most always adamant at the same time saying that those agreements were signed into accordance with the two countries law and these look this trial must be transparent now there's also been lots of concerns from the european union a fact the latest statement from catherine ashton the european commission representative for the foreign affairs claims that if you do too much and go get a prison to prison term then the agreement on the association between ukraine and the european union would be probably be canceled so everyone is suddenly having their eyes on the situation and we are waiting to see what verdict the world will be delivered to you to assemble hopefully we'll be able to learn that during the day the absolute last and we're monitoring the situation with your help there the next here cesc in fact we're hearing reports that he was shankill may be gay. seven

years in prison well of course that has to be confirmed i will be crossing back to you for more and for some of our viewers maybe just joining us would like to remind them that ukraine's ex prime minister yulia tymoshenko was found guilty by court of abusing her authority while signing gas deals with russia asking thanks very much indeed for bringing us the latest for now and we'll get back to you throughout the day for more updates. well still to come this hour here on r t you more in cities in the u.s. joined anger as big business. and we. are to reports from the west coast where l.a. becomes one of the latest scenes of protests by wall street movement. reshuffling the world's arcade political stage russia's vladimir putin and his chinese counterpart are looking to lay the first breaks in beijing today for mayor

space to now development and much on the table for more on the much hyped meeting and what's at stake let's now take a listen to our tease. first of all it's important to mention that this is prime minister vladimir putin's first visit since announcing his privacy in the upcoming presidential elections and this amazing signal a change in focus for russia for many years the west has been dominated the political stage for russia but china's economic progress may have a moscow move in the sense many analysts are saying that the strategic partnership between the two biggest and fastest growing economies in the world could shift the power balance in the world now both nations have supported each other throughout the years on issues related to sovereignty security and development they also have similar political views and we've seen this just recently when both of them a veto the european draft the u.n.

security resolution which was condemning syria and was suggesting that it could face sanctions if it continue this crackdown on protesters both the countries are also members of the brics alliance along with india brazil and south africa and the concern of the economic uncertainty in europe and the u.s. has seriously undermined the dominance of all of europe and that you are sold. world political stage and it has cleared the way for emerging powers such as russia and china you know both countries are also important partners this year china has climbed the back up and passing germany and it's now russia's number one trade partner and i actually live near putin said that he expects such number this year could reach seven be a billion dollars and by twenty twenty that one that number to grow to two hundred billion also the russian prime minister today is expected it's a sign a sweeping cooperation on technical modernization and what this means is that china

will benefit from russia's leadership in nuclear energy space and aviation now russia on the other hand will take advantage of chinese superiority high speed rail transport power generation of weapon and alternative energy production and of course this meeting comes as both countries celebrate ten years since they signed the treaty of good neighborly ness and friendly cooperation and just recently president meeting with a bit of said that he's happy with the steadily consolidating bilateral trade economic scientific and technical toys and officials from both countries have actually said that this is the best their relationship has been in years and so they will of course be. to strengthen that. in acosta reporting there now the west can do little else but watch china and russia strive for global leadership that's the view. a senior research fellow at the skolkovo institute for emerging market

studies in beijing. currently when people talk about what you and also. the relation between china and russia. they usually focus on the economic cooperation i think. for this two countries to form even closer union. in the in the international affairs. political cooperation geographically speaking china and russia has every reason to actually need to form a closer pact certainly the united states as well as the european countries and the developing countries there would be concerned about this change in both economic and political landscape the war but i don't think of you could do anything to reverse this trend indeed this. will have the potential to change the war on the mentally. in not only in the morning call me about also in the

political. landscape of the war. and we've got plenty more on the deals being made added meeting in our business update in about fifteen minutes time. china has just over a third can germany to become russia as the number one trading partners just cancel trading fees for you on the ruble operations and also to countries are creating a four billion dollar investment fund to manage the rising flux of mutual fund they more of that than business lobby. now the eurozone is agonizingly close to accepting an new bailout plan for dad strapped nations but the final step could be a tough one tiny slovakia is a stumbling block the last country to ratify the agreement and push the deal through r.t. sara for of has been following the story. greece might have been banging at the center of attention recently because the euro is in crisis rumbles on and other

member states are being asked to vote on the european stability fund we take a look at how these other countries ok playing with the pressure all eyes are on slovak here today to see if politicians will vote positively on the european stability fund to aid ailing countries like greece as the last member state to vote slovakia's decision is crucial but take a look at this t.v. ad for a popular slave beer it announces to want to borrow from everyone that is greek not wanting to lend to grace that is slovak a tongue in cheek that's captured the mood of the people here perfectly. here is not a rich country we need money for our health care system brought home less for a elderly. as the second poorest country in the year is a new reason why they should help the richer nations who they view as having spent more than they could afford and political dissent is met there is uncertainty about

whether the leading coalition party will be able to get the votes they need for the bailout funds to go ahead the approval of all seventeen countries that use the single currency is needed. most. if we would. raise the second bailout or not. i see there's a strong pressure from from other european countries and. probably too weak to resist this pressure if it doesn't prefer the plan slovakia but be expected to contribute about seven point seven billion year a to the pot which will taste about four hundred forty billion year i believe the year is in countries like spain and italy making increasingly unstable many critics are saying that even this will not be enough but today every so often. announced the final solution to the problem and they say it will take these marches but this will be the end of it and it's likely the end of the tunnel will come out

and what we see is an endless. austerity leading to more depression. leading to more measures need to move depression and people realize now that you've got to break out of that despite facing an outpouring of public discontent germany managed to pass the measures at the end of last month but in survive here many have remained strictly a pays to boosting the fund that taxpayers paying a penny. they will say no. situation is not sustainable in greece. amounts to be pledged are so huge that it doesn't make sense and they see that it doesn't make sense to them and i think it's like politicians we all see that there are also other alternatives but look at the czech republic they don't have euro they are doing quite well they don't need the. common currency and at the same time that they don't have to pledge money and some loans to other countries the decision

of the small member state today could have a big impact on the plans for the bad out fund because the debt crisis continues to be felt from the richest member states to the purchased is no global concern about just where this is going to and. athens. artie's cars report is getting to the roots of their ravaging financial crisis and here's a preview of what's coming up for you at about twenty minutes from now. of accounts from old ladies sitting on fortunes and every single month they get their statement and they get out there magnifying glass and they try to figure out of the bank stole money from them this month but they're very good at doing it so they can pick it up and other pension accounts or their teachers or their firemen remember all these public workers accounts they're being vilified because they want a living wage meanwhile their pensions are being destroyed by bank of new york and other banks so they're getting really gang bang from both directions.

and started to wall street but the movement of people who say there are a lives have been ruined by bankers big business and government spreading across the u.s. and beyond over a thousand protesters hit the streets of los angeles joining the occupy wall street activist who started the movement around a month ago in new york has the story from l.a. . protesters took over a bank of america branch in los angeles and were willing to get arrested in order to send a clear message to wall street. to shake up that if they can no you know no mandate from the men and we get more than a dozen people have taken to the streets of los angeles now this room in the group we go from occupy los angeles in solidarity with occupy wall street and we have here people who have just been foreclosed on plenty of police here in force in

order to keep this crowd in check the anti-corporate mobilizations which started in new york are spreading and now some of the most affected by the nation's economic crisis are joining in rose goodell received an ip. action notice after falling behind on her mortgage payments i was a worker and was told that i was. working on that also knowing my pay she believes that this type of political action will bring results they've been really governing out of but i might just take you now and then because that and i think this is the stand that you're seeing at this point from struggling homeowners to be unemployed people of all walks of life are becoming in boulder and by the recent street demonstrations we have to go. through to make. that good bass be a to have your side of me and used to work at an auto parts plant he's part of the

four point five million people who have been unemployed for more than a year now this father of two is struggling to hold on to his home diverse groups have made up the mobilization in cities across america in recent weeks as more people become inspired to vent their frustration with our financial and political institutions that is that oh ok. there's still uncertainty about whether these protests will cause direct change or whether other self interested groups will try to capitalize on the popularity but it appears that the financial state of the nation has helped motivate americans to take democracy to the streets all right all right. ok if you're not brothers and sisters in the struggle i'm. in los

angeles ramon the lindo archie. now take a look at some other stories from around the world and then maybe a transitional government forces say they have foreigners programming troops in several small areas of the current hometown of syria but having fighting continues as loyalist put out here is resist. so far and he forces have captured the city's university conference center and main hospital where patients and doctors have been caught up in the conflict civilians are still trying to flee with manny fearing possible atrocities once the city is taken by the former rebels. former bosnian serb army chief has been hospitalized with a long infection the sixty nine year old is currently on trial at the hague tribunal facing genocide war crimes and crimes against humanity logic is accused of being responsible for the siege of sarajevo and the srebrenica massacre in ninety ninety five during the bosnian war well last week the former general complains to

the un court about his health and asked to be examined for kidney stones. hundreds of demonstrators clashed with police in the chilean capital santiago follows a peaceful march for the day of the meeting of indigenous peoples which replaced the traditional columbus day march over a seven thousand came to support indigenous rights but after protesters were stopped by security forces they started throwing rocks at police and armored vehicles police used tear gas and water cannon in response. now it's a man's world according to the song but maybe not for much longer scientists say males are on the road to extinction as they are gene slowly fade away and with a whole world heading for a fully fledged sperm crisis russia could be effectively worse than most. has more . this is the spam horror to heads three

tails or an inability to swim are becoming almost the norm for modern man sperm. is what used to be perceived as in fact till it is now very different twenty years ago two hundred million bibles bamber militar was considered normal today fifteen million is enough but proper sperm studies are not easy and haven't ever been conducted in russia until now that is a glimmer of was among the first only to find more than half of his fellow countrymen sperm didn't meet world health organisation standards. our study revealed not only quantity but the quality changes among russian men as their sperm literally swim in a toxic soup a whole range of poisonous substances including lead can a million and even mercury was found in their semen and that's not whole. mission has been noted recently that any kind of stress such as war terrorist attacks a polluted environment least a few of boys being born and more girls proving that the male chromosome is more

vulnerable to outside influences and fewer men now means even fewer down the generations just look at the sea of ribbons at the start of the new school year and it's clear girls in russia outnumber the boys. this mcguigan's have five girls in the report with the elders we simply wanted a baby never mind a boy or girl when you got pregnant with twins psychics swore they were boys and even advised the names at a german fair that now they are only sir and this one older has been a guarantee to my feet and only maria was maria from the stout i was happy to have another go i would know what to do with a boy now a big happy family but when these girls are ready to start their own families will discover russian men are going out faster than in any other country the total extinction of men may still be far off but the level. the stuff thread that you can find in places like this may soon become a rarity with growing mortality rates and life expectancy of russia dropping they

step dies hard i think this village with the n. usual name of girls has seen better times when men from the village of boys across the river kept them company now only the girls are left. they say hire someone to do the stuff but who's there to hire. men in russia lived to sixty years on average women seventy two that twelve year difference makes the russian life expectancy the worst in the world and while scientists around the globe wreck their brains to save the human male russia's been doing little to preserve its man so there are no national programs aimed at men's health the chance of a russian man dying prematurely is twenty times higher than a man in europe such as the consequences of the social and economic stresses of the ninety nineties in russia as well as smoking and drinking and now that local

scientists have raised the alarm there might still be a chance that russian men will be around long enough to once again take the lead. r.t. moscow. well you are going to live from moscow and if you want to catch up with our news stories you can go to our website r.t. dot com for more but here is a look at what's waiting for you there. that's a very in search for the secret of sasquatch an expedition into the wilds of russia to find out if big bird really does exist. then her of the iconic a k forty seven wins a case in a swiss court after the name of your famous kalashnikov rifle comes under attack from the drinks company.

time now for the business of day that was dimitri stay with us. and welcome to business russia and china are creating a joint investment fund with up to four billion dollars the deal will be sealed during russia's prime minister a visit to the world's second largest economy the startup will be jointly run by the russian direct investment fund and the china investment corporation in trouble ready allocated one billion dollars for the project at least seventy percent of the funds money is expected to be invested in russia and former c.i.s. countries the fund is planning to start next year and china has just announced its canceling trading fees for ruble bridge. russia looks likely to post a budget surplus this year i include prices of balancing state spending which has risen and election year the relatively healthy outlook is likely to continue in two

thousand and twelve unless the oil price crash is as good as love to support it from deutsche bank explains. even with a significant increase in fiscal spending ahead of the elections at the end of this year there is a very high chance that russia will have a moderate but still a fiscal surplus by the end of this year in terms of the year two thousand and twelve the possibility to attain the surplus is also there obviously oil prices will have a lot to do with that but my sense is that given that we're going to be and the postal the troll fiscal landscape after the elections is going to be easier to control fiscal spending and that i think bodes well for the team and relatively good fiscal outcomes possible even in the positive zone with regard to the fiscal balance next year. right let's move to the market starting with

commodities they are coming down slightly world prices after monday's rally light sweet is now down fifty six cents per barrel this brant down half a dollar. this is the opening picture for europe stock markets fell in early trading choose their investors are awaiting a decision on expanding the european rescue fund by slovakia this is the last year's own country to vote on the plan. in asia stocks are still positive they're rallying following a bullish session in the states banking shares in the leaves in hong kong after china's state run central region investment board shares in the country so-called big four banks and what analysts believe could be an effort to stabilize the financial system bank of china and china construction corporation are told the game is up more than seven percent this hour. and this is the opening picture or should

i say one and a half hours into the trading session in russia the r.t.s. is down point eight percent my sigs. one point one percent correcting up to several consecutive sessions of growth we look at the individual show you the world majors are among the main retreats is this our lukoil is down one the half percent banking stocks are also under pressure one point two percent down burbank is and that's after actually reporting a net profit for the first nine months more than doubled to eight billion dollars bucking the trend is a measure of mine a measure of its net profit its core group of the first half of the year reaching half a billion dollars and therefore the stock is up on herself or said the south. and the russian markets will be potentially allowed to continue work during the two weeks of new year holidays from now on the decision is voided at the end of the year as well as trading missed balances with global markets.

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welcome back you're watching r.t. and these are the top stories ukraine's ex prime minister is guilty of abusing her authority while signing gas deals with russia a judge in kiev found new its cause the country to lose nearly two hundred million dollars in agreeing the energy contract and they say have a huge police presence crowds gathered outside the poor building awaiting the announcement of her sentence. the fusion of a new global voice as asia's two biggest giants russia and china building union to challenge the political domination of the western world. slovakia holds the fate of the eurozone bailout and that's paul where the government both threatening to veto the new beefed up fun for dad late in european economies.