global link our own ways twenty years russia has said paper to join the world trade i think. course is prepared to accept the benefits along with the difficulties more details from chile brought in just about. no sanctions and no foreign invasion in syria moscow presented the resolution to the security council calling for the government down the opposition to reach for peace through dialogue. last than a jiving at times the security and nuclear power of cement the partnership between two major emerging economies leaders of russia and india a.

very warm welcome to you this is ours here live from moscow nearly two decades of talks are finally coming to fruition as russia is set to join the world trade organization within the our mental strength in the country's global ties and provide big incentives for business but some tough competition as well losses and a bushel is in geneva for us that's false leave it to him like now daniel watch the membership has been a long time in the making how it. is we're into the last hours or even minutes of the eighteen year journey to join the world's trade body organizers all keeping us in suspense it could happen very shortly no other country in the world has taken so long to join in president medvedev of russia among others has criticised the hotels

that have been placed in russia's poles in order to join this georgia has been a particular country that has raised objections really putting barriers into the port of russia's entry and some economists have said that it has been absurd the number of difficulties that have been placed in their paws business. it is that the european union in the united states in particular have sought to protect their agriculture industry as well as some of the pictures of industry from competition from russia and that's why it's taken so long but really today is all about celebration it's all about embracing the opportunities for russia as well as for foreign competition of course and he will be good but join in the w.s.j. will say be a tough and said she's about as economy went. some states have benefited enormously from membership china's exports for example of skyrocketed to the west since the joined ten years ago but others have found it hard to cope with the foreign competition that comes it is a transition phase russia gets several years around seven on average from which to

lower its import tariffs which makes it easier for foreign companies to export their products to russia and russia the industry will have couple of years in order to get you slowly to w.t. or membership but there will be difficulties but there will also be opportunities russia's does have quite a low cost base which means the russian producers can produce really cheaply compared to other countries and that should allow it you opportunities to export also getting into a world trade body which has its own rules and legislations will make it easier to trade generally so generally russia's delegation here is looking at the opportunities now it does still have to be ratified by russia's parliament the chief negotiator for russia. did tell me that he expects that to happen early next year so we should expect the whole process to be wrapped up if it does happen today if the signatures do come from the trade ministers today we do expect the procedure to be finalized next year i k a daniel keeping us posted our correspondent. live

jimmy. well throughout years of talks boyce's both for and against. russia. and went to find out who the winners and losers. assigned. with almost two decades of hard talks no over it's still not clear exactly what russia's w two your membership is offering the country and with most all the details of the greens to firmly behind closed doors experts are left to try and 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 countries are well and are currently not in use and the raw fear is that cut of foreign subsidies like sessional grain were 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. meanwhile those competitive enough will stay afloat and benefit alexander and his family run a small business just outside moscow their one hundred twenty goads skiff 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 their product. march broader 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 on the back you start at the w t o critics say russia's making history will be at mabel to meet the crazy

competition the accession of attractive offer in 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 cable 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 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. trans-siberian it's currently five million dollars. to drive the prices of tickets. in. the department from economic achievements the country's political image should benefit and maybe it's more important russia to 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. where international.

mosco well business team has been the crunching the numbers for you and take a closer look at what membership really mean for business in russia that's coming your way in around fifteen minutes time. now the u.n. security council is pouring over 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 they're trying to mediate a peaceful solution for months but there's little let up in the. dolphins' state security officers were killed in recent clashes by defectors the free syrian army claims to have more than twenty five thousand troops fighting to bring down president assad questions they still don't acknowledge that anti regime protesters are wrong to middle east politics professor jeremy sold says the main task now is to persuade all syrians to put their weapons and down. the government.

has made in the bronx been one one way. force was directed towards. and it's been very little reference to the gangs of on gangs contact their bonnets began almost from the beginning of this movement things gangs in a sense hiding behind the peaceful process of getting the police with them because in the long term it's more recently the fall of the activists in fact if they want to monitor. this now i think. a way out of this question governments are going to have accepted. this and it's not just the syrian government has to. want is for the army to found that somehow some way have found. just waiting arms to put their weapons on the serial to be very hard. for whatever happens in syria will get really serious regional and global implications not think it was destructive. it's

very weird russia's position and sort of our russia sort of behind the syrian government like. this resolution is being frank you know the fun part the russians change position i first i don't see it like that i think russia is giving calling on the white. people first of all putting out. because so many charge counts are being made it would be almost impossible to get. so that they wait now to try to stop the killing. coming up. in power to governments around the world. live to the. u.s. impartial us what we really are. treats and consequences an american soldier faces his first hearing for leaking at the train if you're asking you to to stick. two of the

world's emerging economic powers russia and india are looking to become anchors of stability 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 minute tree and energy ties to the political troubles of the neighbors thinking they're going to buy half 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 grimaces india and russia reached today it concerns a building of the further two. units of the atomic 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. middle of the thing 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 to upgrade a 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 that is 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 and leading into nowhere but from their side they promise that they will continue to work closely together in russia to prevent the global nuclear proliferation. a russian convoy carrying tons of humanitarian aid that was home for

a troubled checkpoint between serbia and kosovo has been allowed through twenty five transfers stopped on tuesday by e.u. controlled costumes officers after refusing an escort through the territory they're now on their way to you over the course of the accompanied by three vehicles there has been in dispute since july when costco sent its own customs officers to the checkpoint minorities reacted by erect barricades closer is controlled by ethnic albanians who declared independence three years ago it is home to more than one hundred thousand serbs. while aussies always keep an eye on developments in kosovo as well as other potential world hotspots online right now to die hard to stand in the u.s. again take the time following a deadly nato air strike with some experts saying islam about to start openly defying u.s. policy in the region. also he's never short of

a few choice words this time five minutes of video good in takes aim at us then is it john mccain find out more at r.t. dot com. now egyptian protesters have clashed with police in cairo after pictures of a detained activist badly beaten by offices spread online the country is currently holding a long running election process to replace the military rulers who have been in place since president mubarak was ousted back in february let's talk live now to dr you said sydney who's the editor in chief of the gypsies with tanya newspaper many thanks for joining us here on r.t. how likely do you think it is that these clashes could grow into another round of protests. erupting once more. last week with the new

cabinet. they understood that there was an agreement between the revolutionists and into the square to. keep it for some time in order to give the new cabinet. to address the two major challenges that egypt faces which is their economy and the security. people in egypt continue to moan that the military rule is resigned meanwhile the country's three phase parliamentary election is in full swing it seems is almost parties are really steaming ahead do you think that the army will eventually step down. because of course has been a commitment on part of the supreme military council setting lying of. june twentieth the very are committed to deliver

well or to a newly elected civil president and the newly elected parliament and they will go to the barracks. ok and should islamist parties come to power in that election what would it actually mean for the country. well. monitoring and following. currently running elections. of course. the percentage of parliamentary seats shaved by very slim apart this is where the freedom and justice party related to the islamic brotherhood group of the newly emerged new party related to the newly emerging cell of his groups. are more than what was made or expected by most of moderate egyptians whether christians or moderate muslims also

the liberal wing of the new comers of part of that are joining the political arena cheve considerably less than expected so it seems that egypt will be ending up with a considerable majority of parliamentary seats. related to the. present great challenge to what will be happening to egypt concerning not only running the country by an islamic majority but also what will happen to the constitution because a majority of the parliamentary group will be in charge of writing egypt's new constitution invertigo there are certain wide eyes voices calling out loud

drugs. should be initiated between the liberal groups and the islamic groups in order to organize for a name game in gauge between themselves how to control and steer things. happy ending for the constitution he said and editor in chief of egypt's tunney newspaper many thanks for speaking to us. rational foresty is have foiled an attempt to use passenger luggage to smuggle radioactive material into around on friday the incident happened at one of moscow's international airports he was going off how did he tell. this was a flying from moscow to their room from the immutable airport you luggage was going to the regular security check one of you should be a warm and one a police check to be found eighteen student genesis each containing plainly radioactive material and gauges showed the levels of radioactivity it suited the

norm to want to target and a further inspection showed that this is is a top story i'm twenty two which could all be produced at a nuclear reactor according to some of your steel luggage belongs to you norine and citizen but this information is yet to begin from officially at the moment of goodies of aid in a criminal investigation. now a hero to some traitor to others bradley manning a u.s. army private accused of siphoning military secrets off to wiki leaks has appeared in the pretrial court had an army base in maryland it is first a hearing since his arrest in may last year among the documents manning leaked was footage showing us soldiers killing civilians in iraq. 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 lifted the veil of the us 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 moral code 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 punishment was going to be 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 truthteller that makes you are truly 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 a medal if the truth is actually undermining our national security but there's something wrong with the truth. in washington liz wall r.t. . meanwhile the founder of the web site wiki leaks is schooled up pointed his own legal battle with the british government the supreme court in london has agreed to head to nasa launches appeal against extradition britain wants to send the songs to sweden to face questioning over rape allegations made by swedish women he denies any wrongdoing but two lower courts have previously ruled against him the court to agree to hair has appeared a soldier's lawyers how to persuade judges that his case raised a question general public importance if he'll be can fit it in. the case against

him is politically motivated and that he is extradited he won't receive a fair trial. the way the news this hour. is this is on the way now with kenya. i. hello and welcome to our business up at the south thanks for joining me as we've been reporting a new era is about to begin for the russian economy on friday nights in geneva the world trade organization will formally invited russia to join the club a successful conclusion to eighteen years of negotiations analysts warn that joining the trade body would could harm certain sectors of the russian economy particularly the uncompetitive light industry and machine manufacturing sectors but in the long term he would actual trade barriers should spur russian companies to become more competitive more immediately the big winner is likely to be the russian consumer as artist which the 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 quality is usually inferior you can come to one of these shopping centers look for a famous brand but since the vendor bears the cost of import tariffs and customs regulations 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 a 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 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. and russia as a cure a number of opt outs and protections during the negotiations to join the deputy o. the head of the country's union of industrialists and out of her nurse believes the government has a good deal. if you. join the w t o on president in the favorable terms we didn't join the w.t. you rules for state purchases this means local companies still have benefits in getting orders from the state we also didn't join the rules for free transit energy resources if this helps to retain some benefits for strategic sectors in seven years we'll reach the same level of monkey protection as in europe we would get an

immediate boost for our economy or our competitive industries but equally there won't be serious damage to weak industries. the markets now european stock markets are making cautious gains and have continued worries about the sovereign debt crisis the foot is up half a percent supported by mining stocks we have ten to one extra gaining over three and a half percent of the four metals prices germany's dax is up just a notch this up karen russell markets are extending early losses the r.t.s. is down just under a percent l m i six point four percent lower. to other stories and also one of has been confirmed as russia's new finance minister he was promoted from being the deputy after the former finance minister was removed from his position and september this year that point was widely expected as a lot of has been working in the finance ministry for nearly twenty five years speaking to present me with a lot of sets out

a position of budgetary restraint where she would get a favorable environment to help us generate additional budget inflows this year we transferred most of this to the reserve fund it's now up to one point eight trillion rubles also we used additional inflows to cut borrowing as a liquidity problem is quite critical now we're going to cut state borrowing again next year. well that's all for now i'll be looking at the market the next hour or so i mean that if you.

culture is the same i understand not going to have more humans on the back of the new buyers market hero or traitor these are among the labels to describe bradley manning he's a legend involvement in the became extremely surprised hundreds of thousands of cars. will do the trick science technology innovation all the news developments from around russia we've got the future covered.