live from moscow this is r.t. with twenty four hours a day so russia has been finally granted accession to the world trade organization after almost twenty years of thorny negotiations the commission in geneva has finalized overall terms for the long awaited membership which will happen in december r.t. or smith's been there. there's a document in circulation which is the all the terms and conditions it weighs three and a half kilos and it amounts to some seven hundred pages now i haven't had time to read the whole thing and i doubt that i'm in the minority there but i can only imagine that it's full chockablock of painstakingly negotiated compromises which have taken place over that all that amount of time but in fact what the significance is is a question that the chief russian negotiator maksim says that he has been asked repeatedly over the last eighteen years what just what is the point of this and he pointed out during a media conference that took place off the gathering of the documents as they call

it he said that it's true that russia first deployed for membership back in one nine hundred ninety three when its economy was in pieces and over that period of time russia has rebuilt its economy without the help of the world trade organization so that it's now the sixth largest in the world but he said that despite that we russia now does ninety percent of its trade with members so membership of that organization is sort of a level playing field in terms of doing business it was still very important he talked also about the ups and downs of the negotiation process the draw the comedy and he said that the most difficult moment moments had come when they were negotiating the natural gas terrorists and also the terrorists for the agricultural sector in russia but he says that but now they've come to this agreement he's not fully satisfied with the deal but he says that it's an important geneva lesson to learn that if no one's really satisfied with the deal and that probably means that

it's fair for everybody he said he's also negotiated a reasonable period for making adjustments to tariffs between three and four years they will have to bring their tariffs in line with the rest of the world trade organization and the organization itself says that now one hundred fifty million russian consumers will be. i have access to cheaper prices for a whole range of goods but of course there are also disadvantages in this and my colleague catarina gretsch over has taken a look for us at the pros and cons of membership for russia of the world's largest trading organization let's take a look at the report for the person on the street w t o membership will not be just something they'll read about in the news but it will mean lower prices removing trade barriers between states increases competition prices of in florida goods drop and domestic companies also grow quicker with foreign markets opening up. for workers of these metallurgical company it all looks like

a win win situation their most recent project is the north stream pipeline should they enter international markets they'll face very little competition. and this is the last so much the largest plant in russia's south producing harvested rushers is his food for months ahead and workers who conspired. but the head of the company has a rather different outlook to that of the w t o cheerleaders. i will oil and gas will be in demand even without entering the well agriculture will tumble. agriculture will be among the hardest hit sectors but experts say the domestic automotive industry will be the one to undergo most step he will. the troubled mortgage giant the virus was rescued from the brink of death in the economic crisis of two thousand and eight by prime minister putin with more than

one billion dollars in loans cash and guarantees. about the government's favorite child but not all car makers in russia are as cherished this used to be a thriving want of musketry opened a ninety. thirty its most successful years were the fifty's and sixty's when hundreds of thousands of my screech chorus flooded the soviet and foreign markets after the collapse of the soviet union my screech was in desperate need of money but the government could not afford to loss making copper juices and musk reach was crossed out. the only way to avoid the collapse of yet another industrial giant experts say is to use the transition period after joining the w t a wisely firstly entry to the w.t. doesn't mean you instantly have to drop all customs tires and comply straight away there's a transit so-called transition period roughly seven years or so protectionist

measures will apply for a number of sensitive industries which employ millions of people such as agriculture timber and car making but at a certain point the states industrial dependence will have to let go of its hands and walk on their own two feet in the world outside it but that should also be a somewhat easier place to do business in with a reduction of customs tariffs and trade barriers to a more level playing field across international markets exceeding the gretsch over r t. the director general of the world trade organization pasco lami told r.t. it's very significant that russia has joined the club at the time the global economy is experiencing such difficulties well the economy is not in good shape but one of the ways to exit. this situation which i recognize a and we discussed about the last week in the g twenty in cannes he's not good one

of the ways to move out of this crisis is to open more trade fight against protectionism and the fact that russia joint that this very moment is also a symbol of the value of these monkey that rule system of rules and in that it had its economy growing including time which are difficult like the ones we are in in the world economy joining w t o creates a hundred percent guarantee for business that the rule of roll that no corruption will be there i mean our discipline in the our rule and the world trade around the nation he's a rules based system do not cover each and every part of business all trade life but the main pillars on. what can be called a transparent jew process legally based system they're all to the

countries in these accounts russia to move it so that each joins the level of safety and security transparency which all the markets are going to be status have joined when. they got into the world trade organization. well we're always eager to know your view on the story and today we're asking who will benefit most now that russia has to become a member of the world trade organization that's have a screen now and see how the numbers stack up at the moment while the majority still think they'll be no winners as the organization only adds to the big financial mess the world's already en route to membership is actually good for russia as little boost its role in the global economy almost the same amount believe that moscow's accession will play into the w t o's hands while the remainder think that russia will suffer because it will be unable to cope with the competition good to hear from you cast your vote at party dot com.

greece's announces next prime minister lucas papademos the former vice president of the european central bank will now take over the reins of the in battle country it follows four days of hectic talks between the outgoing pm george papandreou and the main opposition leaders on the new unity government in coming premier restored in you back or in his new administration and also to be sworn in on friday with the immediate tricky task of introducing more austerity in return for continued bailouts and this peter really believes that much of what the crisis is about is hidden from public view. we have to turn the clock back to the original collapse of the world economy because this was no accident it was a very well planned exercise and as we know ireland became a victim portugal and now greece and apparently spain and italy are likely to follow it really doesn't matter who's in power there are people that are controlling this situation and we also have to understand that there's massive.

could we say massive corruption fraud taking place and tax evasion in most countries factually creating this problems remember that they can take out any country financially or militarily that they want to take out their priorities are one to. to secure the world's natural resources the second one is to control the markets for those resources and thirdly to control the gateways to the sea lanes and the pipeline routes when you have control of this you've basically got the world in the palm of your hand whoever controls the finances of the world controls the world and this is what we're looking at here israel may be preparing to strike iran as early as the end of december that's the warning reportedly voiced by some in the british intelligence services this comes after the un's atomic watchdogs latest report ramped up tension over iran's nuclear program by saying it can't exclude tehran is working on nuclear weapons while he's put

a series watching developments. according to british intelligence chiefs israel will launch a strike against iran to stop it from developing nuclear weapons as soon as christmas according to sources in the british government if not christmas then the beginning of next year with these sources saying that israeli military action is to be expected soon a while other than later and that it will be action that will be supported in a just a clique by the united states not in recent weeks we did hear from the british defense ministry they confirmed that they have contingency plans in place should the u.k. decide to support military action against iran here in israel prior to the publication on tuesday all of the report by the international atomic energy agency the israeli defense minister ehud barak warned iran of a possible israelis strike he said that all options are on the table and when israeli officials use that phrase all options on the table it really does mean military action the israeli president shimon peres has also gone on record saying

that any israeli military strike is more likely than any kind of diplomatic solution we have had a response from iran's supreme leader the ayatollah i mean for mommy who has warned both the united states and israel that if they strike iran they must expect a tough harsh response from tehran he said and i'm quoting that we are not a nation to sit back i don't and watch materialistic corrupted and rotten power was written he ran we will respond with a strong slap and an iron fist he spoke about a graces and invaders being smashed from within the arabian president mahmoud ahmadinejad's responding to that i am a report he slammed the report and he said that iran would not step back one iota from developing its nuclear program he said that the report was relying on baseless u.s. claims that you rand is building a nuclear bomb. the reporting there and russia's state atomic company right. satam

is considering building new power generating units for iran's bushehr nuclear plant this comes just after the i.a.e.a.'s latest report said it couldn't disprove iran is attempting to build atomic weapons we spoke to the corporation spokes person who said if the project does go ahead it will be on full display for the agency to observe the first show nuclear power plant is a unique international project because so lots of countries including western countries are involved in to prevent patients of this project and all the jobs which was done by russian special use was done under the full control of a. possible implementation of the possible construction of next units will be as well implemented under the full international control off united nations watchdog experts it will be absolutely transparent for international society we

have great abyss mechanism of nuclear fuel supply where you say that we are ready to provide a new nuclear power plant to have nuclear fuel for all the lifetime of the subject and then the fuel of russian origin spent fuel we are taken back so it means so that international society can be absolutely sure that all the russian fissile material will be controlled by russian federation. internet users have been left shocked after videos of alleged police brutality against student protests at the university of california emerge online they clearly show officers didn't hesitate to use their batons to beat the young activists before arresting them after they refused to dismantle their make shift camp or t. talked to one witness and here's what he had to say. police approached with full force with right here and baton we don't want to move nor i guess through they use their batons for that repeatedly jab was in the stomach and they were hitting us with their tongs they're going people to the floor and then hitting them with their

nightsticks with their retirements as they're on the floor. they were they were going to go across the line and then the rest in that people that weren't doing anything they hit they had me repeatedly on the arms on the torso in the stomach and they arrested more students and they beat the syrians we repeatedly yelled that we were nonviolent peaceful protesters but they were extremely cruel in their tactics with that with their sticks many people were injured i heard that one professor one of the professors at university was was protesting and she's in the hospital or our it's our school we pay tuition we pay tuition that's rising every year for less service is class sizes and we decided it was time to take back our school and carrying out the momentum from the other occupy movements we thought this would be a good time. russian space scientists are struggling to get the country's first interplanetary mission in fifteen years back on track they've been trying to reestablish connection with

a probe which was north from wednesday it was due to head to the biggest martian moon phobos but technical problems mean it has become stuck in orbit one of the has the details. at the moment the theories around which probably a problem has caused the probe to be stuck in orbit around the earth after it's take of split into two camps whether it's a problem with the software of the probe or a problem with the hardware of the probe now it's a problem with the software that's something that potentially can be fixed now one theory that's been put forward is that it's a problem with the navigation system of the probe these type of probes when they're launched initially use the sun as their main focus point for navigation and then not navigation system switches over towards the stars now they some people believe that this probe has failed in switching from the sun to the stars and if they can send a software patch and upload that to the probe it should be able to go about its mission just a few days late now the big problems come and arise if it turns out to be

a problem with the hardware the food was pro but contains seven tons of highly toxic feel because this feel was intended on sending it from the earth to the moon or mars and then back to earth so there's a lot of fuel on board there one nasa expert is referred to the focus probe as the most toxic falling satellite ever so this is a problem that off course most of the russian space agency are facing that they may have to come up with some kind of contingency plan to deal with a potentially toxic. problem caused by the fuel that's on board this probe is peter oliver reporting there and now we invite you to the black sea coast as our close up series continues to explore the most amazing corners of russia.

right now the southern coast is a popular choice for russians but its its appeal will soon stretch further afield with food and it's hot local producers are slowly taking steps towards putting the region's riches on the world's most exquisite tables what is tom bachman talk to the pioneers of industry and find out about the hurdles still to be overcome like gourmet treats from russia's coast but these luxury food producers are struggling to find a market this is the only muscle in at least a farm in the area just off the black sea coast it's run by forex scientists who used to study the region's marine life back in the u.s.s.r. . that point you were thrown out that way when the country collapsed science collapsed we were fired from our jobs in america research center but we were good at growing muscles and oysters so we approached a company and arranged so million rubles for a start up it's a risky business with a storm capable of grooming a year's work on me but without any major setbacks they can harvest twenty tons of

mussels a year the problem then is trying to sell them about an appreciative if you're even on the black sea coast this is not ordinary food only the last two decades of russian started travelling abroad and seeing foreign menus so they started asking for more mussels mussels in oysters are currently very popular in russia in fact the efforts of these guys are unique here but the hoping to grow markets for the underwater bounty are not the only ones hoping for a place on russian dinner tables. but this vinnie arden tourist center inland yanis and his family have been farming for decades he's of greek descent and helped his father establish the farm recently he decided to try and make wine here curious that he grew we need three years to establish the vine then five years for a good product in a few years i hope we can produce great russian wine you the climate and weather

a good for great grain here but yes is hesitant to try and make this into a proper business it's corruption that's putting him off yes martin or i look at a list like an artist painting a picture if i wanted a serious business i'd be too scared of corrupt officials taking it from me but with a creative approach i'm not scared the people in authority are the ones who should be kept from power they do not respect our citizens janish complains that a license to sell his wine costs one and a half million dollars far too much for a small producer like himself this also prevents a good wine industry from developing here but he still loves the region. and hasn't given up hope of making it productive for most years there are some good great growing areas in russia this is a favorable area so if he or thirties don't interfere we can promote our brand improve ours is as good as any french wine but. at the moment you have to look

carefully to find local wine and muscle producers on russia's black sea coast but who knows within a few years this region could become a center for gourmet russian dining tom barton party. well this is the way the news looks at the moment here an article but with headlines from in about ten minutes from now meanwhile the u.n. human rights chief says that syria is facing a libya style scenario in the uprising against incumbent president bashar al assad has turned into a civil war well up next we speak to the country's deputy foreign minister about the ongoing crisis.

thanks a lot nic that serious deputy foreign minister thank you very much for being with us today sir happy to be with you now according to him u.n. human rights reports over three thousand people have been killed in syria as a protest started in march for how long. it's people. i think the question should be the opposite the question should be what's happening in syria. of course the credibility of some international number governmental organizations have been lost because they don't take into consideration what's really happening no one of these organizations has said that syria has lost more

than one thousand one hundred fifty martyrs from the army and the security forces do you think i mean this is the correct approach absolutely not. yes many civilians were killed assessing mated but people have to ask the question who killed them and why they were killed because our security forces were able to detain. themselves admitted that they were killing demonstrators in syria to keep the pace of demonstrations going on not only that but some of those criminals said they were killing people to keep for example the illegal building of houses in certain areas because they come up violate the law if the most asians were not there so these are the cases however we believe the killing of

a single pierce is too much he believes that life of one person is already crucial and this question is they still keep taking place and could just say that syria is at a state of the civil war no. i mean those who are provoking these developments want syria to go through a civil war and you know the complexity of the syrian population. is so deep because this is the history of syria we have something from everything. we have the three monotheistic religions within the each religion we have all the denominations so those who are behind these developments want really to lead the country into a civil war particularly when we correctly define those forces behind the developments that are going on i'll tell you those are religious extremists

sell if it's drug traffickers. smugglers they have been provided with up to date technology of communication. by the well known forces from outside syria and financing of terrorism and terrorist action has taken place so much billions of dollars were smuggled into syria to encourage people to disturb the peace in the country and not to mention the tens of thousands of weapons that have been also smuggled in the into the country from here kitty from lebanon from iraq and all neighboring countries can you really say that the whole opposition is made of pure islamists and there are no civilians who are just fighting for a better life absolutely not this is my answer because we have a position from inside the country syria the syrian leadership recognized that

there is a position and we have to take into account the views of the opposition and to work together with this opposition to build the new syria from what it seems from the outside also. the events are taking place in your country are affected by outside players for instance turkey turkey wants to be a leading power in for the sunnis in the region and we know that sunnis form the core of the opposition in syria also we know that turkey provides support for the oppositional syrian national council i was seeing double standards here can turkey use this whole thing to its advantage i'm taking your question i'm not taking very early. if the turkish government would pursue its policies in the imperial way according to the autumn months systems then the commit a big mistake for turkey for the position of terror in the entire region who told

them they are i mean the custom audience of sudanese and the entire world nobody has the right to interfere and the what if are so pretext including turkey if they want to interfere and disguise because this is a big mistake it's not just turkey the syrian t.v. has aired an interview with a captured terrorists who admitted to receiving aid from saudi arabia and jordan why would this countries want cast in the region here you have touch of the very sensitive issue the financing of terrorism. until now at least we don't say officially that i mean the saudi government or the jordanian government or the lebanese government or the government are financing these groups tourist to us but we believe money is coming from these comes from an unofficial sicko's our appeal to our brothers and

sisters in all these countries is not to allow that because and of the united nations this is called financing of terrorism they are sending money to consider this and i believe this should be stopped since the clashes are still taking place and the protests are still going on what do you percy for the near future in syria what's going to happen of course you are right when you said there are still some clashes between those terrorist elements and the police and security forces we hope they stop because as i said the killing of a single syrian is a big tragedy. now you will ask me ok what's the way out the way. so that has put on the table a comprehensive. reform so the whole process is a matter of three four months. thank you very much. thank

you. lou.

i'm a new stories and good things come to those who wait. wait russia finally gets the green light to join the global trade system. announces the veteran vice president of the european central bank as its new prime minister sparking fresh indignation on greek streets over the perceived loss of sovereignty to be used for this bureaucratic machine. israel may strike iran by the end of the that's according to british intelligence sources after the findings of the un's atomic. concern over to wrongs. the moment will be here my colleague in about an hour from now is the.