russia's defense ministry has released a video of tests of its latest missile systems among the new weapons is the hypersonic. which can go ten times faster than the speed of sound and is said to be capable of outsmarting all existing defense systems and then. an intercontinental ballistic missile which has a vast range it can carry multiple nuclear warheads. was granted exclusive access to russia's latest nuclear deterrent. meet satan as natives come to cool this. thirty six and

two hundred and nine tons of nuclear ged and it is a paradox that these things evolution. it likely mean the end of human civilization and yet it is that very fact that guarantees that moves say man will lead the press the red button. carries as many as ten nuclear warheads as well as decoys and counter-measures its speed in service for nigh on food see years now he's time for something new

something a little more powerful. a swedish zoo was receiving death threats for their controversial practice of culling healthy animals as zoo's director though says it's regrettable but necessary.

yeah think it's the best way of taking care of the animals he says to let them breed. and sometimes they got surplus and sometimes we need to euthanize. we serve really scold the coastline and a lot of those think animals shouldn't get killed on the rock hunters the field animals that i've been to that says several times it's a beautiful place and i take my kids and you know this is something that is a regrettable but this soon needs to kill animals for food is no reason why

a woman's rights has information that is terrible for those people just don't understand how to run the zoo. the russian presidential elections are less than a week away just a moment speak to one of the contenders. manufacture consent to instill public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the financial merry go round to be the one. nine. the middle of the route six. real news for.

me it's so also not accepted bed wetter than russia and all the us is deciding maybe off what chairman companies all european companies are investing in or which infrastructure we are building a true mini or in is europe i think it's a trim and it's a european decision. it is good to have you with us today and it is. seven days until the presidential election here in russia and ati is starting its special coverage.

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. you. would be. we spoke exclusively to one of the hopefuls in the candidate for the communist party you say fifty seven year old director of a follow on his left wing platform proposes nationalizing big industries and banks . about some of the pressing issues facing russia and its society. there is terrorism appears in places where people live in poverty and an environment for terror groups to develop first and foremost we must get rid of such environments people must be employed if a man has a job with a decent wage and cares for his family he won't become a terrorist if he has no job and has fallen for certain doctrines imposed on him he becomes easy prey for terror recruitment i'm talking about the domestic situation

as for terror groups existing outside of the country we must fight them very hard the good guy should be strong and pull no punches. i think the european union pictures russia is a threat in order to consider data its internal policies i'm getting the impression that the e.u. authorities present russia as the enemy to consolidate themselves while doing so they're lobbying for defense spending why would you unleash an arms race if you already have a lot more weapons than we have and your military budget is bigger than ours i believe someone wants to escalate an arms race even more and for that reason it must be shown that there is some sort of threat in existence. so we can put this issue to a referendum but i can tell you ninety nine percent of russia's population will be

against same sex marriage it's certain so why raise the issue it's like asking muslims whether they'll eat pork they won't although in many other states people eat pork and there's nothing wrong with it but muslims won't be doing it in russia people have certain moral norms and we must consider this fact so as of today we don't have any grounds even to propose the issue of same sex marriage to our nation throughout the week we'll be introducing you to russia's presidential hopefuls and how they view the future of the country and the world and on sunday march eighteenth through try to join us for our special election coverage election night live here on r.t. international. well the independence movement in catalonia shows no sign of dying down five months on from the referendum that was branded illegal by the spanish government. forty five thousand protesters a day attended a rally in barcelona on sunday calling for

a new government that will work towards catalonia session from spain people charted their support for the former catalan president carlos. now he and four other separatist leaders are currently out of the country and could face prosecution if they come back home demonstrators also demanded the release of local politicians jailed for their roles and last october's vote after the referendum in madrid imposed the direct rule in catalonia but jonathan shafi from the radical independence campaign says the spanish government is failing to uphold democratic rights i think what the spanish government is attempting to do is to people and of course it's still not the number we used when we used to say it. seems so today in the but always has been to try and strangle the mood. using b.d.s. at ministry to take weeks to strangle the possibility of establishing an end and we have to look at this and actually start to question what democracy really means and

the european context i have not seen enough internationally and i have proceeded piñon when it comes to what's going on in past what it means not only to get the situation on which and what you have in peace and you know you have campaigners and joy the saudis and in whose been a bitch this be anointed was the leader and that had won a parliament and even be allowed to leave the jail on monday to attain that that beat has been ruled by the spanish supreme court so democracy is under attack in very obvious ways and it's evident that the international community the e.u. and protect you are asked to stand up on the state of democratic rate and it's not doing to. the group of fraudsters has been busted in some petersburg for selling fake passports though fake not in the way you might expect.

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oh. sophie shevardnadze north's frame to gas pipeline from russia to germany is in jeopardy due to a strong opposition from europe and the united states to project survive its core as well as the energy speaker of the christian democratic union party in the german been a stack five for. a new russian pipeline is set to bring natural gas directly to germany bypassing eastern reader of transit routes and it's led to protests in states being cut out as well as making washington d.c. to europe into upsy for american gas instead with a new pipeline really make europe even more dependent on russian natural gas or

bring cheaper energy for all and move berlin bow to the political pressure from all sides will be tough and hold its line in difference. for the energy speaker of the christian democratic union party and a german bundesliga welcome to the show great. have you with us lots to discuss germany has given the green light to the north stream to pipeline which will bring the natural gas from russia to germany directly via the baltic sea polland and the baltic states and other e.u. members opposed to projects but opposition to the project comes from countries who currently do transit business with gas from and stand to lose if the pipeline is built does it actually about trying to reduce dependence or really about lost revenues. first of all i think it's good to have approach north stream too because it brings diversification diversification and the transport off natural gas and diverse of even more routes and more

diversification means more liquidity in the european market and that increases the security or supply not only for cho many. increases the security of supply all over europe and so basically i think it's a good idea to have to say additional pipeline sure but why do you think countries in european union oppose it because they're losing revenues or because they want to reduce dependence what is the core cause of the opposition i think. i think it's a mixture of course may be a great day fear that they lose transit capacity or trans. transport. fees but. i personally think that it will crane will. be indicated in the future as well but they also have

to have west and infrastructure because to infrastructure is quite old and there are really no investments needed and there is opposition from poland as well poland fears to be even more. dependent so russian gas but if if they think if we have a diversification and if we have more routes a pipeline to which we have an ocean one definition we have a model we have to grind it drowns it we have several. capacities and mediterranean sea and then we have a lot of elenchi terminals and at the moment they are not fully used capacity is only used by fifteen to twenty percent and so i think this brings competition to the gas market and

we also have storage capacity all over europe and competition normally brings lower prices and so what the consumer and also always industry can benefit for it and therefore i think we have to convince a lot of european partners that it's a good idea gas a plaster here of have been disrupted several times in the past years because of kiev moscow disputes over ukrainian gas import debt so isn't moscow's goal to avoid the unreliable transit partner legitimate enough and isn't nordstrom to to going. ring a more reliable gas supply to europe. no stream two is the shortest way to bring to gus to central europe and the european union we still working on it's having a. single market on energy and on us gus as well and so we implemented

for example reverse flow with so that we can also supply. the countries and europe or in eastern europe. hopefully. we will have an additional increasing off to security of supply so of course when it comes to gas and oil and energy in general it. oftentimes becomes a political thing for instance the polish prime minister says nordstrom too as a political project aimed at undermining central europe there's a ukrainian member of parliament his comparing the an astute are they molecule ribbentrop pact in the thirty nine how are statements like that affecting the project's perception in your country in germany. we say and we think it's not to put it to go pro checked its private approach it's privately multiway that it's privately financed there is no public finance if you look maybe to what

the pope polish government now at the moment tries to add to this that pollution. elenchi terminal all they have learned she told me one day old so on to build a new pipe and that this system may be or will be supported for example by the european union and i welcome this brooch act as well because it also diversifies their roots and to diversify. the markets and so we can bring more competition and more security of supply now the european commission wants to take over and not seem to negotiations from germany and bogged down in bureaucracy and red tape all the germans insists it's their rights to handle talks on their own well berlin confront brussels over this. we are negotiating at the moment and. mentioned before we want to have a single european and achieve market also and gas as well but we also have

a national. end of she makes so far for example to terminate we decided to face out nuclear others decide to face nuclear or to stay with nuclear and if the european commission would take over responsibility or they. would give the final approval for. pipelines or for oil and cipro checks or also for storage maybe facilities that it would take directly does nationals over and it t. on the energy mix and so i think. it's not a good idea to have it for both this perspective of the economist magazine quotes a european commission official as saying that if it was dinner wager instead of oil that would be no problem so this has nothing to do with gas this is a european commission's personal grudge against gas from the right. i'm not sure

about. if this is. against gospel but the. european commission and a lot of. member states and also from critiques from the parliament from other european parliament they are afraid to be more dependent to russian gas and so that. because the resources we have into europe in you would in all three are shrinking norwegian or in the north north sea or and great britain also in the netherlands and so there it there is the fear that the dependency crows but if you have a pipeline this pipeline you can move it if you like elegy ship or an oil tanker at the he can go from qatar to japan as well as to western europe for example and a pipeline east area so i see

a pipeline. brings up both way dependence we need the gas russia needs the money from the gas to sit and. for the. for the federal of the budget and the two. to do out i don't think so. i'm not afraid that that will increase i'll attempt and the dependency so like you're saying to europe's gas demand is expected to rise within the next decade with british and dutch production falling in norway freezing some of its oil and gas projects brussels wants to pull the plug on gas from here up but does it have a backup plan for the day here or faces a gas shortage. that there are a lot of scenarios and i know a lot of perspective if the gas. demand will increase or.

stay. the same nobody knows exactly what we are doing heavenly. we're working heavily on the renewable sector for example but i think gas will play a key role even in the renewable in the future if you look to electricity we need backup capacity and this has to come out from conventional and i think also from a two point from a de colonizing point a few it's better to have gas and makes in the long run then for example a hot coal oil. coal so i think gas is. intelligent patna for the renewables and we can also use this pipeline system sporting hydrogen for example or. things so this infrastructure is not only limited to the fossil h. and therefore i think pipeline system combined for storage capacities and then she

terminals all over europe is a quick thing and i would win situation for all participants even commission wants to manned the e.u. gas directive and propose changes will actually harm nordstrom to germany saying that they possible amendments aren't applicable under here opinion or international law so why would russell's come forward with proposals that are known to the bat. yeah that's the moment to be negotiated and there it's at the at the moment out talks and at the moment there are. some lawyers on. very king on that and then finally we have to find a solution and i hope that we find a common solution for europe which in greece is secured to a full blood supply for everybody and went up like the five european companies germany and france united kingdom austria invested ten billion euros in

a project should in brussels protect their interest as well we we have a market orientated approach and you're off we want to have a single european and achieve market and we want to mobilize as much private money as possible for increasing and building the infrastructure. so that's one side and we have to balance it on the auto side of course the. european commission is concerned as some other states do the talking about that dependency on russia or to other populous will increase and therefore we have to do to balance this but basically i think it's it's good that we have a lot of european companies cooperating and westing in this project with private money. all right mr faster we're going to take

a short break right now and when we're back we'll continue talking to five for speaker of the christian democratic union party and. we'll talk more about the nordstrom project and the opposition to truth from. the rich we've signed one of the great just kill people. but there was one more question and by the way it's going to be our coach. guys i know you are nervous he's a huge star. you have to be the center of the poll we would.

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