joined up thinking russia finally becomes a card carrying member of the world trade organization they told friday aussie assesses the advantages and the insiders and. experts say russia's w t o entry may hurt some sectors of the russian economy both first and foremost the big winner is going to be the consumer more in business in twenty minutes. moscow breaks down the syrian crisis for the un with the sanction of redrawing preselection calling on both sides of the made on arms and toward. high powered progress in moscow as the indian prime minister and the russian president sign the tonic and

i just dancers and agree on the ways to help the middle east into these join me to do the job but in a moment. a very warm welcome to you this is our life from moscow now the wait is over friday sees russia finally get to join the world trade organization after nearly two decades of talks it's expected to provide an economic shot in the arm and help strengthen bones with other nations but it would also raise the composition stakes as daniel bushell explains. for russia w.-t. a 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 the hold 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 cross as low cost space could allow it to export more products to of the w.t.r. 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 courses 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. reporting now russia's deputy and membership will see many winners but also at least. for national now its goals. with almost two decades of hard talks no over it's still not clear exactly what russia's double duty or

membership is offering the country and with most all the details of the agreement still firmly behind closed doors experts a left to try a little crystal ball gazing. their predictions begin with agriculture one of the most vulnerable areas it will probably be one of 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 there now worries only crazing thirty percent of the country's are will land currently not in use and the raw fear is that cut of farming subsidies like sessional 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 it 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 goats 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 cop against tough competition but at the same time could see that 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 head to hand with the latest technology that mystic upward use is happening monday may start at the w t o critics say russia's making history will be i'm able to meet the crazy competition the accession of a tract 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 deputy zero lead to a fifty percent loss of employment in its auto industry in russia however the fact

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 and the predictions continue to go away with foreign investments said to be ready to rocket the camel gains we believe or roughly three point three percent of russian g.d.p. in the early years after accession. after more like ten years with the grocer would gain about eleven percent of g.d.p. european business already acknowledges the many positive signals and the many reasons to venture into russia once russia joins the w t o european air carriers will no longer need to pay a premium to use. it's currently running towards. the drop in

prices of tickets. in my twenty's. but apart from economic achievements the country's political image should benefit and maybe what's more important russia who no longer be an outsider but a part of the prestigious clark north korean 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 moscow where in just a few minutes business has more how russia's membership of the w t o could make a big difference. before the man who allegedly humiliated the world's biggest military machine gets his day in the dark. if the truth is actually undermining our

national security in the something wrong the truth. excuse wiki leaks whistleblower bradley manning will finally appeared in court martial later more than a year and a half after his arrest. the un security council's mulling a new draft resolution on syria putting forward by russia it condemns all signs 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 drop should be passed. from the outset. our assessment of the situation that was that various violent groups where 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 punitive and support for human rights and. the need to stop violence and make sure that it does the transgressions do not go unnoticed.

russia has actively been trying to mediate a peaceful solution for months posting delegations from damascus and members of the opposition in the latest violence government troops who should be fired on protesters are for friday prayers on thursday deserted is gunned down two dozen officers the free syrian army claims to have more than twenty five thousand anti regime troops but western nations still refuse to acknowledge their role u.s. space military whistleblower civil had been says washington spring doing 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 defectors from the current syrian army it's not some kind of simultaneously op 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 shipped to 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 without 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. it's the end of an era in iraq where u.s. forces are finally packing up and shipping out reports online military top brass more the american flag is symbolically lowered drawing a line under a trillion dollar war that's killed more than one hundred thousand iraqi civilians you can see the ceremony at all dot com. and in another online reports are king in

the minds of medical technology is developing quickly and now it's the sign five prospect to controlling the human brain could become a reality in the forseeable future and with the advances in d.n.a. programming. now there's plenty of good karma in the air 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 here because they could actually be following the trip for us in central moscow can't have told have already taken place and when will we get any results as to what's been spoken about. russia and india samanta their close relations today must

go with five more deals as the crisis continues to readjust the world economic powers emerging economies like russia and india. look more than sad today to remain firmly in the spotlight as members of the brakes group they alone encompass more about it beat of the world's land bridge and their g.d.p. in twenty eleven stood at seven billion dollars and it continues to grow and one of the grimaces india and russia reached today it concerns the building of the further to create units of the golan the told me station in india russia has already built two units and one of them will start operating in two weeks from now on. well just to remind our viewers poles still accounts for more than fifty percent of india's energy use but there will be a substantial expansion of the new fear of nuclear power stations with russia involved in the construction of the next few decades also into prime minister the

russian president answered to an agreement today to build a nuclear enrichment facility in the. middle of the thing also signed a ten year lease of russian submarines that will soon be entering the indian navy and of course straight to these two breaks countries are taking the trade to a completely new level in five years time that trade over will reach some top twenty billion dollars annually from the current term and they will be some very big purchase coming soon it is about to buy forty two upgraded russian support there are to make. jets and get russia and india's partnership as you've been saying such as well beyond economics and trade so what other areas have been discussed. on these third meeting this year the president the russian president and the prime minister of course looked at the recent developments in the north africa and the wider at middle east they also discuss the

iranian nuclear program they grieve that the north africa and the middle east peace settlement should proceed without foreign interference they also said that they will continue to support again assistance government to birds to bring back peace to the country and democracy too and they will support the government in negotiations with the military oppositions with taliban now concerning one sided actions against iran they described it. as the counterproductive leading into nowhere but from their side they promise that they will continue to grow closer together india and russia to prevent further global nuclear proliferation then again you could be here to watch over many thanks for the update on the visit of mom i'm saying to moscow thanks. russian convoy carrying tons of humanitarian that was held but the trouble checkpoint

between serbia and kosovo since tuesday has finally been allowed three trucks have crossed into noble cause of accompanied by three police vehicles. that reports despite the successful end to the diplomatic dispute the conflict in the area is far from being solved. one of the most controversial humanitarian missions in recent months has come to a successful and around three hundred tons of russian aid has been delivered to the biggest city and part of kosovo. now there's nothing controversial about the cargo which the russian convoy was carrying it was mostly household items and food but the russian convoy did wade into what has been the biggest conflict in the area since the summer for albanians who declared independence in two thousand and eight they consider this to be the border of the state for the serbian minority we're still lives a very few right inside kosovo this is completely unacceptable they still say to

that part of serbia and they will not allow any albanians to control the border on what they consider to be their own territory when the russian convoy arrive that will drive into this the cost of authours used to monitor the convoy to cross from serbia in the car so they go through a checkpoint or it has to be accompanied by an escort a man by the e.u. . part of the study and accept all they've been not allowed any kind of albanian officers into their thirty five day for the barricades and some of them to protect themselves from that and of course in serbia for sure they were not going to go for this either what followed was three days of extremely complex negotiations the russian convoy has been allowed into serbia and it has been followed by a small escort manned by european union soldiers this is from all sides and everybody yesterday was saying that it is a case of delivering aid to a region that is in a very precarious position but as you can see from what has been happening over the

last few days we are no closer to a long term political solution in the region. promise to speak the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth could land one army private behind bars bradley manning accused of releasing secret military and diplomatic data to wiki leaks will make his first court appearance on friday after more than a year and a half in custody artie's war 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 of torture of assassinations of as executions have become more of the norm. 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 u.s. empire to show us what we really are basically i got a military because of really maybe michael patterson is an iraq war veteran he says seeing this video changed his life from the wiki leaks stuff started coming out and that's when i kind of hit that more that wall and 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 detainees 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. 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 this world 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 wahl r.t. . from world news in brief now the marab in clashes between police and protesters

in egypt sit in protests demanding an end to military rule it happened right that one of the add to this happened detained hundreds of demonstrators torch candles and threw stones at me and she police who fired gunshots into the air to disperse them injuries are being reported but egypt's currently holding a month's long election process to a place the military government that's been in place since president barrack was ousted in february but many have very impatient at the slow progress of reform. that's high level suspicion that the former libyan leader colonel gadhafi is killing is a war crime things national criminal court chief prosecutor now wants to know what the congressman is going to do to investigate it the eight month long uprising against gadhafi has long killed over thirty thousand people and taper 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 it's in what's called a cold shutdown condition with only minimal radiation now leaking some of the plant the government's is drafting a plan to decommission the facility now that the crisis is closer to being under control. italy's government faces a confidence vote on friday to try and get the wheels turning on a three billion euro or stereotype package the vote is expected to be passed easily as prime minister mario monti's government has an overwhelming majority in both houses of parliament on she was appointed last month to head a technocrat cabinet tasked with causing debt and avoiding collapse in the euro zone's third largest economy. and later next hour get the latest on the euro hockey toward all sports rounds out russia's the ice hockey team may not be in the tall with the latest blow being delivered to finland he will be here in an hour's time

saying all about it right here. next of course we go to you with all that is business for us to go away. thanks alice welcome to the program and as we've been reporting a new era is about to begin for the russian economy and on friday night in geneva the world trade organization will formally invite russia to join the club as successful conclusion to eighteen years of negotiations and list warned that joining the trade body would harm certain sectors of the russian economy particularly the uncompetitive life industry and machine manufacturing sectors but in the long term the or adoption of trade barriers should see russian companies to become more competitive archies more in the course of a husband. it's been a long and bumpy ride to say the least russia first applied for membership back in one thousand nine hundred ninety three but russia negotiator switched gears after seeing china's economic performance and two thousand and one talks and volved some

sixty countries making it the biggest seam of its kind in the entire w t o history while extraction as a good news for export oriented companies it can make life difficult for an official industries which will struggle to compete against foreign companies and these occlude agriculture engineering and the automotive sectors under the current the w.t. of regulations the average duty on imports of goods will drop to seven point eight percent from the current ten percent when it comes to agriculture it will come down to ten point eight percent from the thirteen point two and for manufactured goods that will decline to seven point three percent from the current nine and a half now one third of the new judges are expected to comments of force and now and these include the dairy and steel products as well as certain alcoholic beverages twenty five percent will be lowered over the next three years and that

applies to software certain meat products as well as cough medicine now import duties on cars helicopters and civil aircraft will be lowered over the next seven years and when it comes to poultry that will take around eight years now that this transition period will give russian companies time to adjust their main challenge will be to try to match not only the price of their competitors but quality as well but the government isn't abandoning them quite yet for years its support of farmers and car makers by imposing protective trade barriers and it will continue providing support but in a different way even though these sectors are feeling pressured and others believe the government will do what ever is necessary to maintain its key industries but it does expect them to modernize and eventually compete and dependently. still makers are likely to benefit from russia's joining the w t o membership will free them

from anti dumping measures imposed by china and other major buys the vice president of the russian union of the dust released senator printers explains what's at stake first couple years plus two billion dollars a year because of the so-called damping. investigations which caused the damage and the last two or steel industry so we're well aware getting money out of w t o n three and then we have is eighty years of transitional period where we can handle those industries which are concerned by the lowering of tariffs. and additional competition. let's have a look at the markets oil is heading for the biggest weekly decline since september investors speculate that fuel demand well for each spring think industrial production and europe and china light switches now at ninety four dollars per

barrel while the bratz wind is trading at under one hundred four dollars per barrel . and european stocks are up i mean optimism that u.s. economy is recovering jobless claims in the country unexpectedly dropped to a three year low footsie is gaining point seven percent as you can see on the dax is up point four percent and the arson markets along with the r.t.s. have sent in the red in the my success point three percent down let's now have a look at some of the individual shareholders in the white sox energy majors the lower gas giant gazprom is quiet while oil major rosneft is down point three percent and financials are on the rise but the bank of a percent. goldman sachs and five other large western financial institutions have had their credit rating downgraded by fitch the agency says the decision is due to increased challenges in the financial markets the deputy

chairman of russia's central bank alexey required says the move will affect banks here the force and somehow influence russian banks because as soon as the global markets the rate or for the stock exchange rate of financial institutions first of all boats going down it influence or russian we can see that our biggest banks which are in the market like this about one called it would be losing their position keep it inside this situation. and the current high profits this year and in that very situation their capital stock is going up in just because of the influence of the global financial situation. and you can watch that full interview with alexy were kind of in our spotlight program next week that's it from me my colleague kareen mini-con will be here in about fifty five minutes time with another business update here on.

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