this is our city and tonight it's a global link up after almost twenty years russia's acceptance of the ranks of the world trade. process embracing the benefits along with the difficulties more details from to be just a moment. also no sanctions and no foreign invasion in syria moscow present six new resolution security council calling for the government and the opposition to reach for peace through dialogue. and. looked straight at a u.s. army private accused of passing military secrets to the whistleblower web site wiki leaks appears a court for a pretrial hearing. from

moscow you're watching r t welcome it's ten pm here now my name is kevin and first this hour nearly two decades of talks are finally come to fruition is russia's accepted into the world trade organization it will strengthen the country's global ties and provide a big incentive for business however membership of the club also comes hand in hand with tough competition results he's done you bushell explains next. russia completes its eighteen year old a c. to join the world trade body no other country has taken so long to enter president medvedev of russia has criticized the hurdles placed in russia's path towards joining he's accuse the european union and united states in particular of illegal subsidies to their farmers and car makers now the pulse of industry in an attempt to stop competition from other countries. does work by consensus that means any

single state can block can block decisions a major complaints have come from georgia which has slowed up the procedure up of the russian delegation here is looking at the positives some states have benefited enormously from membership china's exports for example of skyrocketed to the west since the eight 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 but they will also be opportunities russia's does have quite a low cost base which means the russian producers can produce religiously cheaper cheaply compared to other countries and that should allow it you opportunities to export now the chief trade negotiator here for the w t o from russia side is makes the call he says that they parliaments of russia does still need to ratify this agreement and he expects that to happen early next year. is a voices both for and

against joining me. here in russia with the national went to find that would be the winners and the loses documents assigned to geneva. with almost two decades of hard talks now 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 and 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 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 are spread all across russia and with a struggle in agriculture industry their 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 well they 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 and 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 to skiff enough milk to produce kilos of high quality cheese a day but back in the crystal ball the future doesn't look bright for wrong the car industry is another risky area with an open market this is soviet era facility

he's going to have to go head to hand with the latest technology that mystic carbon users have in mind that may start the w t o critics. rush is making history will be unable to meet the increased competition exception of a tractor offering a gloomy prediction that once the country's in bad lines will stop factories will charge and thousands of people will be left out of work and out of la however the predictions continue to do only with foreign investments said to be ready to rock it the cumulative 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 their gross you would gain about eleven percent of g.d.p. 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 clan not been part of the global body would of the past

be 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. griffin otieno t mosco. so there are pros and cons of business so you've been crunching the numbers for us to take a closer look at what w t o memberships going to mean for business in russia the person tells all about that career are there what you got for us kevin well we've just heard what mary international has said in her package joining the trade body could harm certain sectors of the russian economy that's true particularly in the uncompetitive light industry machine manufacturing sectors auto industry but in the long term that we duction of trade barriers should make russian companies become more competitive spro them a little bit more immediately the big winner is likely to be the russian consumer

that's the most important thing we'll have more for you in our business boards and just ten minutes from now. he would security council's poring over the details of a new draft resolution on syria put forward by russia he condemns all sides in the ongoing conflict calling for violence to stop but there's no mention of sanctions moscow has been trying to mediate a peaceful solution for months now but there's been little let up in the violence nonetheless activists say at least six people have died on friday when security forces reportedly opened fire on demonstrators one of them with you may recall over two dozen state security officers were killed in fighting with defectors the free syrian army claims now to have more than twenty five thousand troops fighting to bring down president assad western states still don't acknowledge that and the regime protesters are they times correspondent have asked about told me there's plenty of evidence that that is actually happening and that the weapons are coming from abroad. what's interesting is what the u.s. and nato countries consider and accept an acceptable is that the syrian government

cannot fight an armed insurgency in their own territory the free syrian army they're getting weapons smuggled from the middle east to the borders in turkey any in jordan as well this has been already proved then about the u.n. figures. people are seriously question now if it be lies numbers if she's saying that five thousand people were killed over these past few months it makes like almost no one hundred that the effect so there's defraud of pre-war is already there so the russian move is an intelligent move because it's a preemptive i would say resolution it condemns both sides in asks for a u.n. peacekeeping mission in fact to solve the problem there are tanks inside forms and how many shore instance this thing is we still don't know the rule of to say snipers that we see here even the people i talk to in homes the children look we

don't know where does snipers come from. d. could be gerber but they could be all ports in this and they could be mercenaries trying to incite civil war any fact most of this is really killings by these snipers in the event shocked children saw what do you want in what nato wants is simmering civil war let's put it this way as a threat are you for something much tougher probably after the american legal action in one year. coming up here on r t nine eleven claims of links to a rat and now we've got a story about a us court ruling that the islamic state and its supreme leader provided support for this attack on america for details on the very short we can. also find out why independent celebrations in the town of kalak star turned violent with at least ten people dead. a hero to some but

a traitor to others bradley manning of the u.s. army private accused of siphoning military secrets after wiki leaks has appeared in a pretrial hearing at an army base in maryland among the documents manning leaked was footage showing u.s. soldiers killing civilians in iraq the charges he's facing carry the punishment of up to the death penalty talk about this story now with the governor is a former cia officer joining us on the line from washington d.c. hi there among the charges that iran is facing is quote aiding the enemy now how big a blow to america's campaigns abroad has manning really delve in reality. well the charge is laughable that's why i laugh and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and others were saying manning has blood on his hands and when the chairman of the senate armed services committee carl levin asked the secretary of defense

robert gates well give me a memo on that well you know gates said well really our worst fears were not borne out by the facts as a matter of fact this these charges are greatly overwrought. gates's term so there has been no indication of serious damage to u.s. personnel or those who cooperate with the united states what's the damage is is the revelation of things that the american people should know about and that's what bradley manning was doing by his own by his own e-mails see indicated that he wanted this to lead to a discussion and a debate and so reconsideration are the kinds of policies that he witnessed the effect so right the go to page two as a form of sale for saying something to tell us to what extent of an old indeed u.s. troops are implicated in war crimes. well that's really what one of the main things that came out of the wiki leaks disclosures mentioned

earlier was that video with voice gunbarrel photography showing deliberate killing of close of billions in baghdad during the celebrated surge now those are war crimes that's murder this wasn't in the heat of battle or anything like that and so to have the u.s. military command say oh that was all according to our procedures that was all standard operating procedure that is a terrible indictment as to what the u.s. military in which i was proud to serve has become you don't shoot civilians even when they're wounded you don't shoot little children course a lot of people on the other side of the argument here to put this next question to our last guest as well i mean we heard in a report in the opinion that quote just because you don't like the country's foreign policy doesn't mean you can put it out to the rest of the planet and the quote one of our guests they said can you see any side to that argument all. well

sure there's an argument there but there are gradations of values here there is the promise of the written promise that i and others signed before we became employed and got access to classified information they will not release information that would endangered the national security i just commented on the the absence of dangers to national security what the supreme value there is what ethicists call a supervening value and that's what bradley manning saw he saw the torture he saw the other abuses he saw the feckless war and he said i can go back and keep my mouth shut like my superiors say or i can follow my conscience at great peril to myself and this is very clear in his e-mails a great peril to myself the american people need to know what's going on so they can make more enlightened decisions well ed bradley manning in this place this case very closely right mcgovern thanks for your thoughts about

a former cia officer on the line from washington d.c. most of our exchange. well in parallel to this meantime the founder of wiki leaks has scored a point in his ongoing legal battle with the british government the supreme court in london has agreed to hear julian assange his appeal against extradition britain wants to send the sarge to sweden to face questioning over geishas made by two swedish women he denies any wrongdoing but to lower courts have previously ruled against him the supreme court to agree to hear his appeal or sanders lawyers had to persuade two judges in this case raised the question of general public importance to appeal will be considered in february science claims the case against him is politically motivated him if if he is extradited he will receive a fair trial. a lot more of our story on our website as well r.t. the call me along with these stories tonight to pakistan and the u.s. go to attack following a deadly nato air strike but some experts saying islam a bad could start openly defying u.s.

policy in the region got more about online sniper instead. we've got the time to go there we discover the fate of the russian aid convoy halted for days at a troubled checkpoint between serbia and kosovo the trouble the. next u.s. court has won a default judgment that a rainy and officials including at supreme leader khomeini provided help to the nine eleven hijackers behind of course the worst terror attack on american soil the lawsuit was filed by the families of the atrocities victims there was no rain in representation in the court michel chossudovsky director of the center for research on globalization who told me the u.s. he thinks is paving the way for a campaign in iran. just the fact i could sell it as a. propaganda ploy directed against the right where you think humans are run of the eleven we look you took we took more than iran that is not the only. you know

me get this information. campaign which is not being waged against against iran i think this is. part of the propaganda ploy you deb and i see it on the croisette to run as a threat to global security as you know us and uk we follow which thread is that when you say that the rather supports the war on terrorism when in fact it was terrorism this is supported by the united states of america and we see that in libya where they actually supported the libyan islamic fighting group and it's also full of it in fact we did it with fabrications and fabrications where a lot of shit which has been all the pentagon's threw it all up and many years oh no he's seeking a justification to go along we've seen the drone attacks we've seen various.

we've seen the sights of which the. battle for the future of the internet's entering its second day as the u.s. congress continues to debate amendments to the stop online privacy act or sopa the legislation aims to slash the about of pirated online content but some of the original engineers of the internet are strongly criticize the bill saying it could create an environment of fear and hamper innovation let's talk about this with our own swartz he's a web programmer a net activist joining us on the line from new york aaron hi there now the intention if you look at it briefly seems good it does need to protect intellectual property rights what's wrong with that. yeah i mean it's a reasonable goal unfortunately in their quest to accomplish it they've decided to trample over due process the way the internet works and just basic freedom of speech which is ok so if this bill does does make it through it's going to make it possible to shut down practically any website that host pirated content i think that's the worry isn't there and i guess that would surely go against the first

constitutional amendment that guarantees freedom of speech that's the crux of the argument here that you're worried about yeah. yeah i mean the worry about it is not you know shutting down copyrighted material there's already tools in the united states and other countries for shutting down cycles. that exist used to close the site that's better yeah. yeah so what this is is much broader than that it says any site that has a significant amount of infringing material the government doesn't just take down the infringing material it takes on the site entirely and it does it without even a trial the find out whether it's illegal or not and as you know copyright laws are extremely complicated lots of things that look like copyright infringement but turn out to be licensed in one way or another all of that is ignored without even a trial the site gets shut down entirely whether legal illegal whether it's the copyrighted content protected speech and even a site like you tube which has a mix of different kinds of content under this bill the entire site to get shut down so how the people want to bring this in defending it after all that the

digital millennium copyright act has been kind of doing the job business is nine hundred ninety eight trying to clamp down on copyright so why are they saying that isn't working. yeah i mean i think you know the movie industry in the music industry they're always looking for more ways to extend control over the internet and you know if there's just a couple people sharing copyrighted music they think they need big new tools to stop it but also i think part of this is a larger crackdown on freedom of speech is pretty much no other law that would give the government the power to censor the internet that wouldn't be laughed out of congress you know if you said the government needed to censor the internet to protect national security it would be widely seen in america is totally unacceptable and beyond the pale but by using copyright as a wedge issue suddenly we're able to put this power in the hands of the government and then once they have it it can be expanded and expanded to deal with a whole range of other things you know you look at pretty cool calm and collected and i would just

a. little bit of trouble because you downloaded more than four million academic articles online now you're facing i gather up to maybe thirty five years is jail. the moment of cool cases early in the new year correct me if i'm wrong so this new look up attention of a huge impact on your life couldn't it. well i mean one of the interesting provisions in this law is it doesn't just shut down websites it also increases the penalties for people caught in gauging and copyright infringement so for example if you. make a video on you tube of yourself singing and copyrighted song this bill would increase the penalty to that to ten years in jail so there's all sorts of people who do these things that would just be considered part of natural life as a teenager that now are facing huge felony charges as a result of this law just briefly do you think is going to get through. unfortunately i think it's going to be very close there's an enormous amount of lobbying being done by hollywood in the recording industry and there's just not

enough people speaking out on the other side and we've seen a huge uproar if people go to american censorship dot org they can take action in a whole bunch of different ways and we've seen over a million people taking action but they've been spending billions and billions of dollars lobbying to push this through and they've got a lot of senators on their side so it's going to be a tough fight households programmer internet activist things being on the line from new york. deadly clashes have broken out between police and demonstrators in an oil town in western kazakhstan prosecutors say at least ten people were killed today including police officers to reports. trouble seemed to start a head of preparations for the country's independence day celebrations kazakhstan left the soviet union twenty years ago to the day a crowd had gathered in the central square where a stage of being set up but this crowd contained a lot of people who'd been there for a long time since the summer in fact

a crowd of oil workers striking and protesting when hundreds of their number were fired from a an oil company then for demanding higher wages police moved in to try and clear the central square and then what happened has been debated witnesses and protesters say that the police opened fire on the crowd the police say that the crowd attacked them and that they were forced to respond by opening fire buildings were set on fire including the mayor's office and a hotel in the central square the prosecutor general of the country says that the trouble was caused by criminal actions as he puts it and that there will be an investigation launched to find those responsible. more headlines around the world unconfirmed reports claim at least two activists have been killed in clashes with egyptian police outside the cabinet building cairo demonstrators torched cars and through fire bombs at officers who fired gunshots into the air trying to disperse

them the country's currently holding a long running election process to replace the military moves have been in place since president mubarak was ousted in february. japan's prime minister's declared the earthquake stricken nuclear plant fukushima to be stable now the power stations were put into what they're calling cold shut down which means only minimal radiation is now leaking from the plant it's seen as a major milestone towards making the area completely safe after the quake and tsunami that devastated the facility nine months ago. russian authorities afford an attempt to use passenger luggage to smuggle radioactive material into iran on friday the instant that one of moscow's international airport sheremetyevo he got his cut off from ports. this was a flying from moscow to there and from shooting it's what airport and the luggage was going to be a regular security check one of the banks triggered the alarm and one of the check to be found eighteen student canisters each containing the radioactive material and

gauges showed that the levels of radioactivity exceeded the norm by twenty times and a further inspection showed that this is is a top story in twenty two which could only be produced at a nuclear reactor according to some we foresee in luggage belongs to marine citizens but this information is yet to be confirmed officially at the moment after all these are holding a criminal investigation. business news now more on the top story of ours so russia's entry into the world trade organization as in the business desk. thank you kevin hello and welcome to business here in r.t. as we've been reporting a new era has become for the russian economy the world trade organization has formally accepted russia as a member bring to an end eighteen years of negotiations analysts warn that joining the trade body could harm certain sectors of the russian economy particularly the

un competitive light industry and machine manufacturing sectors but in the long term that we ducked out of trade barriers should spur russian companies to become more competitive more immediately the big winner is likely to be the russian consumer as artie's which we met today with. 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 the price tag is pretty high or you can haul the plane go to europe and come back wearing everything you need but think of the logistics of that 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 onto the market 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 in not a situation where it is the sixth largest economy in the world with just two percent of the global trade. joining the global trade club should help foreign companies do business in russia more easily jacob nell from morgan stanley russia explains how that works. i think three ways it's a signal of russia's commitment to the multi natural trading regime that will help with investment it's a move toward a rules based governance system for the economy so it will be more certainty and

predictability about economic decisions and i think thirdly of course it means that barriers to trade both in the form of tariffs and in the form of restrictions or investment in particular sectors will be abolished or reduced let's take a look at the markets now stocks in the us are mixed this hour the dow is trading in the red while the nasdaq is over half a percent higher than industrial companies helped propel markets higher while utility telecommunications companies are dragging the dow jones down stocks in europe and lower on friday the footsie lost a quarter of a percent while the dax fell half a percent mining stocks were high in london after metal prices climbed to the sharp falls last week here in russia markets closed lower as well he has lost over one and a half percent otherwise extended point seven percent in the red. i'm told has been confirmed as russia's new finance minister he was promoted from being the

deputy after former finance minister aleksey according was removed from his position in september this year the appointment was widely expected today as you know one of has been working in the finance ministry for twenty five years. well that's our business update but don't forget you can always find most stories on our website the address is r.t. dot com thanks for watching.

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