oh global link to almost twenty years russia set to put pen to paper to join the world trade organization and embrace the benefits along with the difficulties. new sanctions a name for an invasion in syria a mosque a present you'd better be sure to the security council calling for the government to me your position to be peace through dialogue. last energising at times security and nuclear powers and the. major. high powered progress the indian prime minister and the russian president signed the tonic energy advances and agree on the ways to help the middle east into peace

join me in the show but in a moment. and in business we'll look at why during the world trade organization could harm certain sectors of the russian economy but in the long term the reduction of trade barriers should for russian companies to become a more competitive market are the. very welcome to you this is our life from moscow now nearly two decades of talks the finally coming to fruition as russia prepares to join the world trade organization it will strengthen the country's global ties to provide a big incentive to business however membership with the hunt at hand with tough competition as the new bush explains. for russia w.-t. or 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 rosters 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 remains the 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 much as companies begin to face new international competition. throughout years of talks the voices of both for and against only the

w.t.r. have been heard in russia r.t. is rare for not know where to find out who would be the winners and losers once membership documents are signed into me. with almost two decades of hard talks now over it's still not clear exactly what russia's double your membership is offering the country and with most all the details of the agreement still firmly behind closed doors i experience 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 number is only crazing thirty percent of the countries are well and are currently not in use and the raw fear is that cut of foreign 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 rush is 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 and. meanwhile those competitive enough will stay afloat and benefit alexander and his family run a small business just outside moscow their one hundred twenty go skiff enough meal to produce kilos of high quality cheese and. w t o entry could be seen as a double edged sword on the one hand russian producers like these small cheese

factory could complicate used tough competition but at the same time could see their product. march brode in 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 mr kopper uses have been among them a start at the w t o critics say russia's most industry will be at mabel to meet the raised competition exception of attracting 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 you know 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 entreats 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 cable gains we believe or roughly three point three percent of russian g.d.p. in the early years after accession and 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 was russia joins the w t o european air carriers will no longer need to pay a premium to use. john siberian roots currently funding to be endorsed here to drop 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 who no longer be an outsider but a part of the prestigious club two or three in 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 are to moscow. now our business team has been crunching the numbers for you in taking

a close look at what w.t. membership will mean for business in russia that's coming your way in around fifteen minutes time. now the u.n. security council's poor gave the details of a new draft resolution on syria put forward by russia it condemns all sides in the ongoing conflict calling for violence to stop but there's no mention of sanctions boss case been trying to mediate a peaceful solution for months but there's a little less help in the balance. doesn't think security officers were killed in recent clashes by defectors the phrase syrian army claims to have more than twenty five thousand troops fighting to bring down president assad western states still think acknowledge that acceleration in protest is wrong and middle east policy is professor jeremy salt says the main task now is to persuade all syrians to track down their weapons.

ban. the war going on with. the bombs or. contact their bonds began almost. beyond. them because it was. recently. in fact yes there was monitored by now i think. western governments are going to. issue orders for the army. but somehow some way has found. its waning hours to what they were able to do very hard. for whatever happens in syria very very serious regional and global implications most people will try to reword it very weird russian position and sort of russia has to be harnessed really don't. this resolution is going

breaking at the front door some change. on the way out. because so many charge. it would be. so. not trying to stop the hearing. coming up here on our border break. monitary an aid convoy heading. was finally given the green light after a four day sounds. governments around the world. look to give. us some power to shore what will your truth and consequence for the american soldier bases his pretrial hearing. a treasure trove of us going to cost him a life in jail. two of the world's emerging economic powers russia

and india are looking to become instability in a sea of global crisis at the meeting in moscow president medvedev and prime minister singh have discussed a whole range of pivotal issues from military and energy timelines to the political troubles of their neighbors in the house the story. 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 breaks group they alone encompass more about it beeped of the world's land coverage and their g.d.p. in twenty eleven stood at seven billion dollars and it continues to grow and one of the grimace india and russia reached today it concerns the building of the further two. units of the. station in india russia has already built two

units and one of them will start operating in two weeks from now also interim prime minister the russian president answered to an agreement today to build a nuclear enrichment facility in the. minimal unsing also signed a ten year lease of russian submarines that will soon be entering the easier navy and there'll be some very big purchase coming soon and is about to buy forty two upgraded russian support third jets the russian president and the prime minister of course looked at the recent developments in the north africa and the wider me it'll they also discuss the iranian nuclear program they agree that the north african and the middle east peace settlement should proceed without foreign interference now concerning one sided actions against iran they described it as counterproductive leading into nowhere but from their side they promise that they will continue to work closely together india and russia to prevent the global nuclear proliferation

. a russian aid convoy held up for days by around what cost has entered the disputed territory is now on the way to know the cost of i will withdraw police vehicles. that have the latest from the region. one of the most controversial he money third missions in recent us come to a successful iraq for. one hundred tons of russian has been delivered to the biggest city in part of course so there's nothing controversial about the cargo which the russian convoy was carrying it was mostly household items food but the russian convoy did wade into what had been the biggest conflict in the area since the summer and that is the conflict over who controls the border between serbia and kosovo the authorities who are working together with the european union to monitor the convoys across. to go through a checkpoint or to be accompanied by an escort by the e.u.

by the albanians. the stokely and accept all they've been not allowed any kind of albanian offices they put up barricades and started to protect themselves from the what followed was three days of extremely complex negotiations the russian convoy had been allowed into serbia has been followed by that score but this is not let go of ethnic albanians this is just a small. boy european union soldiers this is acceptable from all sides everybody yesterday was saying that this is enough of politicizing this question it is a case of delivering aid to a region that is in a very precarious position it's important just to get there 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 now she's always keeping an eye on developments in kosovo as well as other potential hotspots online right now at home the sounding us contest for tat. saying is.

fine u.s. policy. choice words it's time prime minister vladimir putin takes aim and u.s. senator john mccain find out more. russian authorities have foiled to attend. to use passenger luggage to smuggle radioactive material into iran on friday the incident happened at one of moscow's international airports as cross live now to god has been going on to tell us what happens well this was a flight from moscow to turn around going from shooting into an airport and as you well usually it's going to be and you'll see you one of the bags triggered the alarm and one off duty statement that they felt eighteen still telling stories each containing highly radioactive material gauges showed the levels of radioactivity exceeded the norm by twenty times and a further inspection showed that this is the top sodium twenty two which could only

be produced at a nuclear reactor uploading to some reports the large wound to the reunion citizen but this information is still to be officially confirmed at the moment of stories or folding a criminal investigation ok got many facts that you get this going on live from moscow for us that. hero to some but a traitor to others bradley manning a u.s. army private accused of siphoning military secrets off to wiki leaks is apparent in public for the first time since his arrest in may last year a pretrial hearing is scheduled to begin in less than an hour at a base in maryland among the documents manning leaked was footage shown us soldiers killing civilians in iraq this war has more. 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 has 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 the real disregard for life of torture of assassinations of mass 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 lifted the veil of the us empire to show us what we really are basically i got a military because of bradley manning 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 wall 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 then there's something wrong with the truth. in washington liz wahl r.t. . time now to take a look at what else is making global news around the world this hour an activist run for police in the egyptian capital the security forces stormed a protest camp outside the capital building hundreds of demonstrators top carlson's from fire bombs at police five gunshots and we had to disperse them and into a military administrations in force in the country while the new government selects has many offices trying to get the army still being trolled after the uprising that toppled former president mubarak. international criminal court

says there are serious suspicions that the killing of colonel gadhafi was on. the i.c.c. a mission to meet the libyan leader died of crossfire but is now pressuring libya to investigate the circumstances of death he was killed in october off being captured by rebels in his hometown of sirte. to pounce prime minister has declared the quake stricken replay a problem for kashima to be stable the power station has been put into a state called cold shutdown which means only minimal radiation is down from the plant is seen as a major milestone towards making the area completely safe following the quake and tsunami that devastated the city soon nine months ago. parliament has approved crucial stares the measures to save the nation's crippled economy the cuts have been met with theory in the public sector with widespread strong support strikes causing havoc across the country the thirty two billion dollars package is expected

to be passed by the senate in the next couple of days critics say the cuts are unfair and will impact on the poorest in society but next we continue to explore the russian caucuses and get a ringside seat to celebrate the region's reports sporting success. but dagestan often makes headlines for violence and volatility but is now grabbing global attention through its leading football club which is buying some of the game's biggest stars also grappling for a place in the limelight of the republic. but in a court that explains. dagestani men are definitely hands on with their favorite sport for centuries just about every man here takes to wrestling from childhood on words and the regions had to use cold showers is unlikely to be dealt

a blow with from the time we're born just johnny made a talk to fight boxing judo anything goes we just love it in our blood. no surprise the douglas town is the birthplace of world champions in all types of wrestling in the last fourteen years dagestan's fighters have always made the podium amateur nationals and then as well winning world european and a limpet gold medals thousands of dagestani boys are key and the no one else grapples than from top flight international wrestling nineteen year old shammy last month is one of them she's already been wrestling for a decade scooping several regional used championships along the way says joe who to dream to join the national team no matter how hard it sometimes is i'm ready to fight for this place. but there is another sport vying for d'agostini affections football is profiles been raised since local billionaire swimming monkey most

bought the region's main club. and set about buying star players like a middleman striker sam out how to use them and legend roberto carlos. r.c. potential in this club i want to grow together with this team. the potence of for. football is already seeping through including a possible bulls to dagestan image at home and away the more the club sponsors buying up big names people talk about it it's also rumored that and she wants to sign up the dutch coach. not long ago a local football club and she much color was barely known outside the region now it makes regular hardline with the doubles on the global transfer market and when it comes in place here in the capital city of my high school on this day becomes a real holiday for the locals. but a key goal for crowds like this is to host

a world cup game when russia gets to host the planet's biggest sporting event in twenty eighteen. it will be a chance to show another side of dog a strong people could see with their own eyes. for no stars who says men and boys and a few girls wish the matches passionately shouting slogans way round flags and forgetting for a few hours of the often tough life that awaits outside the stands this is one group that certainly has been achieved much in a question no r.t. close up in the republic of dagestan that's where the news this is our hair all to let's get to business update with padding around. thank you alex hello and welcome to our business update this hour and our breaking news. has been confirmed as russia's new finance minister who was promoted from being the deputy after they former finance minister aleksey couldn't was removed

from his position in september this year the point when it was widely expected to be one of has been working in the finance ministry for the better part of twenty five years. and a new era is about to begin for the russian economy on friday night in geneva the world trade organization will four mean by russia to join the club a successful conclusion to eighty years of negotiations analysts warned that joining the trade body could harm certain sectors of the russian economy particularly the uncompetitive light industry and machine manufacturing sectors but in the long term the reduction of trade barriers should spur russian companies to become more competitive more immediately is the big winner is likely to be the russian consumer as artie's new to medical reports. buying even a simple product such as a jacket or a good pair of jeans can be a challenge in russia since you're pretty much down to three options either you buy a nationally made product but the qualities usually inferior you can come to one of these shopping centers look for

a famous brands but since the vendor bears the cost of import tariffs and customs regulations the price tag is pretty high or you can have a plane go to europe and come back wearing everything you need but think of the logistics of that but this is going to change as russia joins the world trade organization now what is going to happen since customs regulations are going to be simplified and made more transparent import tariffs are going to be slashed and more companies are going to come on to the markets present their goods and that's competition will grow and prices will have to go down because of the extra supply companies will now have to fight for the consumer and that it will be a challenge for russian companies especially for small and medium enterprises but the consumer wins as the prices are expected to go down by around ten percent according to the economics ministry and the economy will add four point three percent of the gross domestic product and spending will grow by around seven percent according to the world bank and russia will probably find itself not in

a situation where it is the sixth largest economy in the world with just two percent of the global trade. markets now oil is heading for the base with the declines at some time or investors speculate that fuel demand will falter and there's shrinking industrial production europe and china is trading at ninety three dollars per barrel and grant is that just under one hundred four dollars a barrel for us our european stock markets are making cautious gains and continued worries about the sovereign debt crisis that puts his half a percent supported by mining stocks that are gaining metals prices fall if we have ten thousand xstrata up over three half percent and the russian markets are extending early losses. the r.t.s. is point eight percent in the red in the minors ix is point four percent down let's have a look at some index movers on the minds eggs financials are mixed this our credit is losing a one a quarter of a percent while they can be bank is half

a percent higher and oil majors are among the main street is with the wall snap down point eight percent. that's it for now join me in fifteen minutes from our.

in two thousand and ten especially konami exulted for industrial production was established in russia somalia region with a total area of six hundred sixty ect as. its investors are granted exclusive tax and customs benefits which includes a five year exemption from property lands and transport taxes as well as an income tax reduction to fifteen point five percent. the special economic zone operates as a free customs own which enables manufacturers to market their products in russia free of in four g.'s the some our region is he said is currently witnessing a sewage infrastructure construction to some.