joined up thinking russia finally becomes a card carrying member of the world trade organization later on friday yes this is the advantages and anxieties. breaks down the syrian crisis to be un with a sanction pre-drawn president should call on both sides of the conflict to lay down arms and talk. unseasonal war would come to the russian capital as india and the kremlin cement their security and energy partnership the meeting comes as india prepares to fire up its newest nuclear power plant built with russian help.

a very warm welcome to you this is live from moscow now the wait is over fridays he's russia finally get to join the world trade organization after nearly two decades of talk it's expected to provide an economic shot in the arm and help strengthen bones with other nations but it will also raise the competition stakes as daniel bushell explains. for russia w.t. membership will become a leap into the unknown some states have benefited enormously from membership china's exports to the west of skyrocketed in the decade since it joined the top tier works by cutting countries import tariffs to make international trade easier but others have found it hard to compete with an increase in cheap foreign imports the w.t.r. works by consensus meaning any country can veto talks the latest objections came

from georgia has taken some last minute mediation from diplomats here in switzerland to find a compromise but membership also provides opportunities ross says low cost space could allow it to export more products to of the w.t. or members if the signing ceremony goes ahead as planned on friday evening all that remains is for russia's parliament to ratify membership russia's chief negotiator here makes the medved cough says that should happen in the first part of next year the real test will begin then as russia's companies begin to face new international competition. well daniel bushell there are russia's w.t. membership will see many winners but also a few loses as artist where for not now explodes. with almost two decades of hard talks no over it's still not clear exactly what russia's wor membership is offering the country and with most all the details of the agreement still firmly behind closed doors experts of left to try and little crystal ball gazing. their

predictions begin with agriculture one of the most vulnerable areas it will probably be the most seriously affected to enter the w t o russia had to pledge to reduce in-state support to farming which amounts to nine billion dollars annually today is expected to become just half of that in just five years we've already travelled to hundred and fifty kilometers away from moscow and what we see here is a sad picture goes through it is like this one us road all across russia and with a struggle in agriculture industry their number is only increasing thirty percent of the countries are well and are currently not in use and the raw fear is that the cost of farming subsidies there in the world grain will only make things dramatically worse russia though will hardly be starving lowy puts taxes will help fill the gap with foreign goods for customers it means bigger choice and lawyer

prices while local producers may suffer or russia's currently importing forty five percent of all food products or may soon become fifty to seventy percent local producers will be on able to compete will go down. meanwhile those competitive enough will stay afloat and benefit alexander and his family run a small business just outside moscow there one hundred twenty go give enough milk to produce kilos of high quality cheese and a w t o entry could be seen as a double edged sword on the one hand washing producers like these small cheese factory could comp against tough competition but at the same time could see their product. mart broda market. but back in the crystal ball the future doesn't look bright for wrong constantine a young engineer at one of russia's largest farm machinery factories is afraid who

join russia's jobless once the country joins the w t o. we make great machines but we can hardly compete on price with foreign makers the fears of the young father of two are far from groundless the car industry is another risky area with an open market this as soviet era facility is going to have to go had to hand with the latest technology that mystic up and uses have been one that made you start the w t o law business critics say russia's most industry will be at mabel to meet the raised competition the accession of attractive offering a gloomy prediction that once the country's in bad lines will stop factories will shut and thousands of people will be left out of work and out of la ukraine's two thousand and eighteen change to the lead to a fifty percent loss of employment in its auto industry in russia however the effect should be more gradual due to securing a certain privilege entry to the w.t.

have 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 base time should be enough for the industry to build up some muscle the russian manufacturers for example have to invest more in order to increase their efficiency their productivity and this is one of the instruments in order to promote the monetization of the russian economy and the predictions continue to go away with foreign investments said to be ready to rocket the cumulative gains we believe or roughly three point three percent of russian g.d.p. in. early years after accession after more like ten years with the grocer would gain about eleven. european business already acknowledges the many positive signals and the many reasons to venture into russia once russia joins the w t o european

carriers will no longer need to pay a premium to use john siberian routes currently funding be endorsing. the prices of tickets to. foreign companies here. but apart from economic achievements the country's political image should benefit and maybe what's more important russia will no longer be an outsider but a part of the prestigious club not been part of the global body would have a vast a little strange russia has been the biggest economy not to be integrated into the w t o but after an eighteen year marathon of negotiations all the world's key players finally come together under the same umbrella. group an ocean out in moscow. well just a few minutes business has more on how russia's membership. could make a big difference. russia is the only a large economy that is still outside the w t o negotiations included about sixty

members which is the largest group in the whole w t o history well now russia is becoming a member analysts say it will mean growth gains for russia's g.d.p. as well as a pickup in investment in the long run but first and foremost the big winners could be the consumer as input there as will be reduced and we can say that the fall in prices well is expected to be ten to fifteen percent we'll have more of business in about ten minutes. before then though the man who allegedly humiliated the world's biggest military machine gets his day in the dark. horse is actually undermining our national security but there's something wrong with the truth accused wiki leaks whistleblower bradley manning will finally appear in court martial major more than a year and a half to his arrest. the u.n. security council is mulling over a new draft resolution on syria putting forward by russia it condemns all sides in

the ongoing conflict calling for violence to stop but there's no mention of sanctions the kremlin's u.n. envoy says the balance strong shippey pounced from the outset. our assessment of the situation that was that various violent groups were taking advantage of peaceful demonstrators in order to pursue their agenda so those concerns were reflected in the draft resolution but there is also very strong language in terms of knowing purity and support of human rights and. the need to stop violence and make sure that it does transgressions do not go unnoticed. russia has been trying to mediate a peaceful solution for months hosting delegations from damascus and members of the opposition there's little let up in the violence which most recently saw desert is gone down to dolls and all the says the free syrian army claims to have more than

twenty five pounds and troops pointing to bring down president assad but western nations to refuse to acknowledge that the regime protestors are armed u.s. a base military whistleblower says washington siding with the opposition to force regime change they have had this vision to train the rebels there they also help the rebels moghul arms into syria but also they have a communication division there in order to actually increase the number of the factors from the current syrian army is not some kind of simultaneously off rise the situation where people are rebelling and then suddenly they are mysteriously arms and mysteriously arms are being smuggled into syria from turkey who who is providing this arms all these are u.s. arms ships could trust from turkey it's being smuggled into syria we went through this with iraq we went through this with libya we went through this with so many

wars that we have had since nine eleven and this fits the pattern we have had before you don't start anything big out crap at least that's not the case with the united states military you start doing the prep work while this prep war started in may two thousand and eleven in case of syria. now it's the end of an era in iraq where u.s. forces are finally packing up and shipping out has all she reports online military top brass forces the american flag symbolically lowered during our live on a trillion dollar war that's killed near total one hundred thousand iraqi civilians you can see the ceremony at dot com. and then another online report hacking the mind of medical technology is developing quickly and now it's the site by prospects of controlling the human brain could become a reality of the civil future with new advances in d.n.a. programming.

now a promo so to speak the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth could land one army private behind bars probably manning accused of releasing secret military and diplomatic data to wiki leaks well made his first court appearance on friday after more than a year in a high cost to the. wall has the story. only it was this video of u.s. army pilots in iraq eagerly firing shots at innocent people on the ground and hundreds of thousands of secret military documents and cables leaked to wiki leaks there have been some criminal acts committed by u.s. government employees and those employees have never been held accountable for them all this made public over a year and

a half ago by bradley manning army private turned whistleblower and the past eighteen months that bradley manning has been behind bars he's become somewhat of a symbol to his supporters who represents the extreme secrecy and lack of transparency within the u.s. government the documents that he helped to make public reveal that the u.s. has some dark secrets it shows that in my opinion in the last decade there's been no real. lessening of the standards of diplomatic reporting and in our military the real disregard for life of torture of assassinations of as executions have become more of the norm really. and for bringing all this to light he's regarded by many as a hero he has impacted governments around the world he's lived through the veil of the us empire to show us what we really are basically i got

a military because of really mean michael patterson is an iraq war veteran he says seeing this video changed his life from the wiki leaks stuff that are coming out and that's when i kind of hit that mall that wall. basically i decided i was going to do something more. but today manning is paying the price he's been locked up behind bars as a maximum custody detainee subject to solitary confinement and forced nudity which some argue are forms of torture he was being treated as if he had already been convicted and the punished what was going to be a very brutal punishment he's now charged with aiding the enemy his critics say he put american lives in jeopardy just because you don't like the country's foreign policy doesn't mean you can out it to the planet that doesn't make you a truth teller that makes you a tree a traitor and as manning finally gets his day in court his supporters say the only thing he's guilty of is telling the truth he awoke a lot of people up to the actual realities of his world right and he deserves you

know a medal if the truth is actually undermining our national security and there's something wrong with the truth. in washington liz wall r.t. . well there's plenty of good comber in there in moscow with the indian prime minister manmohan singh here on a state visit he's been meeting president medvedev at the kremlin and they've had plenty to talk about let's get the latest now from our correspondent because the fact that chauffeur he's been following the trip for us i caught it talks have already happened when we get any results. there has been a result by doing so to all and all have been signed between these two world powers today mosco as the world economic crisis continues to readjust to the economic leaders on the global stage emerging economies as we've seen today which russia and india definitely are are set to remain firmly in the spotlight both other members of parts of the brakes probe and they too alone encompass were about to be the

world's the world's learn coverage and their g.d.p. in twenty eleven students seven billion dollars and it would grow further as they sealed their relationship close relationship today with the other agreements now one of the grimmest which the two confirmed is that russia will be building to thaw the reactors will be put down to one atomic station in india russia has already completed construction of two reactors there one of them was to start the prating in two weeks from now in the second one the top three year old is still a cause for more than fifty percent of india's on a g used but there will be a substantial substantial expansion of nuclear policy stations with russian bolton that the struction all for the next few decades come on other agreements russia and india also enter the deal to build a nuclear enrichment facility you need to also manmohan singh signed a ten year lease of russian submarines which will soon be entering the indian navy

and of course straight to these two greats countries are set to bring it to a completely new level in five years time the land of the trade. over a good ridge some top twenty billion dollars from the manual from the current time and also induced to make some very big purchase soon it's about to buy forty two upgraded russians boy. thirty employees jets. to russia and india's partnership does stretch beyond economics and trade as you suggest but into what other areas does it reach. hope corps and these third meeting in a row this year russian president dmitry medvedev the prime minister of india mas singh looked at the developments. in the wider middle east and also they discussed the randian nuclear program now concerning the not the african and the middle east peace settlement they said that he should it should proceed without foreign

interference but it said the mastic that there are all the countries involved but they also say they support of again instance government in sustaining peace and in negotiating with the military opposition with the taliban they also describe one sided sanctions against iran today during the press conference as counterproductive and said that both india and russia will continue working closely together to prevent further nuclear proliferation. given in a gradual reporting from central moscow many. now a russian convoy carrying tons of humanitarian aid that was halted and had trouble checkpoint between kosovo has been allowed through twenty five trucks will stop home tuesday by e.u. controlled customs officers all refused to get escort through the territory then now on their way to new england kosovo accompanied by the spirit there is been in dispute since july one costs three cents and constance officers to the checkpoint

minority serbs reacted by erect barricades of consequence controlled by i think campaign eons who declared independence. three years ago it is home to more than one hundred thousand serbs. it is going to take on some other world news in brief now and there have been russia's lease and protesters in egypt at a sit in protest a modern end to military rule it out and after a rumor spread that one of the activists have been detained hundreds of demonstrators torched cars and threw stones at military police who fired gunshots into the air to disperse them injuries are being reported but egypt's currently holding a months long election process to replace the military government has been in place since president was ousted in february but many have grow impatient with the slow progress of reform. there's high levels especially that the

former libyan leader colonel could doubt his killing was all war crime the international criminal court chief prosecutor now wants to know what the country's new leadership is going to do to investigate it the eight month long uprising against gadhafi has long all killed over thirty thousand people and in october with his capture and violent killing. japan's fukushima nuclear facility has been declared stable nine months after being crippled by the earthquake and tsunami is in what's called a cold shutdown condition with only minimal radiation now leaking from the plant the government is drafting a plan to decommission that the city now that the crisis is closer to being under control. if you use government faces a confidence vote on friday to try and get the wheels turning on the thirty three billion euro or staring. the vote expected to be passed easily as prime minister

mario monti his government has an overwhelming majority in both houses of parliament monti was appointed last month to head a technocrat cabinet tasked with cutting debt and avoiding collapse of the euro zone's third largest economy. and they are in r.t. we get the latest on the euro hockey tour and our sports rounds are wrong because russia is rather new the guys are getting remains unbeaten in the top with the latest blow being delivered to finland you will be telling you more about that in around twenty minutes time here on r.t. . and also a few minutes from moscow out team guzzles on a few courses of global call me crazy but before that more reaction to russia joining the w t o with you and the business team. hey very warm welcome to the program let's start with more on the new year that's about to begin for the russian economy on friday night in geneva russia will become

a member of the world trade organization to discuss the benefits some of the stumbling blocks without says frank shelf the head of the so c. action of european business in russia thank you very much for joining us so what difference is this going to make to european companies operating in russia if russia is going to enter the w.t. or indeed with detectors being done today and then the ratification done next year . the rules of the game will much more be much more transparent to european companies because russia is going to move into the mainstream of international business behavior into its a more clear rules when it comes to arbitration when it comes to public procurement and in very many other areas as well. you mentioned that rules going to be more transparent in russia but have you seen a pickup in interest from european companies to expend into russia where we certainly see constantly foreign direct investment coming from europe into the country although certainly the crisis in the euro zone is not helping this to say

that now due to accession what let's say increase the direct investment coming in from europe it's not the case yet it's because too early the signatures are being put on the document today and instead the rhetoric asian has take place before it really comes into being and then over a certain time of several years to the end of this decade in fact you will have transition periods when tariffs are going to be adjusted and practices have to be changed here in russia and this is not going to change one day to the other but in the long run will being in the w. to improve russia's investment climate it will because rules should be more transparent in the future and certainly for a lot of foreign investors whom we are talking to for example the question of russia being w two a member or not being a w two or member plays a role. because it says something about the accountability of the legal framework and this legal framework will certainly change into as i said before international

mainstream and will make it easier for investors to understand what is going on but how do you think russia will respond to the increased competition from abroad well certainly it would be a big change partially at least for several russian sector competition will increase this means that the russian players will have to increase their investments into higher productivity new technologies that are meant for cetera and this might certainly hope in fact the morning is ation of the country and the diversification of the economy and in the end it should also bring the branches to the consumer because shop prices should fall but what about just future resolution will be w t o provide a forum for assaulting trade issues between russia and europe well this is one of the major factors certainly here that the w.t. or will give a framework for international dispute resolution which russia will be included into

and this will make it not possible for example for either side to increase a return really terrorists for example or to bring into the game non-tariff barriers etc without any negotiations and without any disputes a solution in the future and we certainly hope that all the sides russia including will play according to the rules crankshafts head of association of european businesses in russia thank you very much for your analysis thank you. still have time to have a quick check on the markets as you can see oil is heading for the biggest weekly decline since september investors speculate that fuel demand will fall to me drinking industrial production in europe and china is now at under ninety four dollars a barrel while the brant plant is trading at one hundred and three dollars per barrel. european stocks are mixed this hour meet optimism that the u.s. economy. is recovering jobless claims in the country unexpectedly dropped to a three year low the food is now a third of the cent while the dax is still in the red on the russian markets the

makes the saudi r.t.s. is just and more in the red and the my six is a quarter percent are. all goldman sachs and five other large western financial institutions have had their credit rating downgraded by feet the agency says the decision is due to increased challenges in the financial markets the deputy chairman of russia's central bank alexina guys says the move will affect banks here. and somehow influence russian banks because as soon as the global markets are eight or four the stock exchange at the rate of financial institutions first of all boats going down it influence or russian we can see that our biggest banks which are on the market like this about one called it would be losing their position keep it inside this situation. without high profits this year and in that very situation their capital stock is going to up just

because of the influence of the global financial situation and you can watch the full interview by lexi would have been all sport light program next week and that's all we have time for now europe today it'll be back in about fifteen minutes time with another business update for you here on r.t. .

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