next artie's closeup series as we continue exploring the many diverse parts of russia. this weekend. when you are traveling tomsk the city of toms one of the oldest towns in western siberia which was officially open to foreigners only in one thousand nine hundred has become one of russia's major i and fastest developing innovation based centers are to test our so it has been finding out what makes thompson tick. while we are here in tongs in south western siberia now this is a very important region for oil exploration and production companies some of the major industries here are building metalworking and timber but over the years this region has also diversified their industries and they have become known as a town of science and an important economic center here in siberia and it's also a center for nuclear research and production however today investment is flowing into new for lots of the new and growing industries and that includes technological innovation scientific research and development as well as start up companies well tom is continuing to carve a name for i

nations which is facing an identity crisis sixty years after being created to oppose the soviet union artie's laurent lesser has a story. it's the biggest and oldest military alliance in modern times but when you think about what its place is in the world today. the answer. the answer doesn't come easily and not just for one speechless american official decades after the cold war ended with no common enemy originally supposed to define i defend western europe against the soviet union nato allies have been at a loss for a new one and at a loss for a clear purpose it is one of identity crisis for a while we can severely by the seemingly endless afghan war with nato members growing weary in countries such as canada and the netherlands pulling troops out the power of the block is in question. in many of the places in the world we're seeing because of lack of. ability to transform. the depths and perhaps the consequences of a growing group of now twenty eight nations driven together but still largely led by the interests of one states who's trying to use need to directly and indirectly or directly

artie's close up team travel to the siberian region of tomsk a place of exile for many key figures in russian history even the man who founded the infamous gulag camps joseph stalin. eleven pm in the russian capital i met tressa great to be with you here on r t our top story debate is raging in germany over a t.v. show that aims to expose possible internet pedophiles by secretly filming their meetings with decoys posing as victims critics including the country's justice minister claim the program flouts the law in pursuit of higher ratings but creators claim they have to resort to such methods as the law falls short in tackling internet predators are has more from munich. it's every parent's nightmare their child is being lured by someone they met on the internet this girl is pretending to be thirteen years old the man at the table is in his sixty's babying conversing online for we. go from it is you is and yes if i'm a little kid in your honor. when just a kiss. you tell me. the back of your neck may be ok but perhaps that might turn you on that later is actually an undercover journa

well next it's artie's a close up series as we continue to explore what russia has to offer. this week we travel to the tomsk region it's famous for the variety of natural treasures that have been preserved for generations deep forests and clean lakes offer the finest of siberian nature. are silly or enjoy the pleasures of the wilderness. the times square in southwestern siberia has long been known to be rich in oil and gas and the local economy has been linked with oil and gas and other related industries for quite some time but the local economy has a new growing and developing sector and that involves the collection the gathering of the processing of while growing natural products such as berries mushrooms and pine nuts there are some companies that do invest in the processing of these products and was very interesting here is that this is really growing in the wild so people here could just go to the forests and go gather that themselves and the results they get of course depends on how much they gather i am in the heart of what really is the perfect example of that lush

and artie's close up series makes a journey to a land which offers locals abundant wild bounty for food and business siberian region tops. eight pm in moscow i match reza good to be with you here on r t police are investigating a brutal attack on a correspondent of russia's commerce sun newspaper all a caution was was fiercely beaten near his home in moscow one is now in an induced coma investigators are saying his professional activity may be behind the assault artie's peter all over has more. the attack occurred right in the center of moscow where mr caution lives and two attackers were waiting for him to return to his apartment building into the courtyard part of the of the apartment complex where he lives they were standing holding flowers apparently trying to disguise what their intentions were mr cashin arrived they produced a blunt object and set about him in a brutal attack with the cash in currently in a very critical condition in a induced coma in a hospital suffering from many many bruises as well as seriously broken fingers from this attack why these these two people we can

nukes by a third but the recently empowered republicans seem determined to stole the deal as artie's guidance to count now reports it's getting pretty tense here the informal republican leader on the new start senator jon kyl said the treaty should not be considered until next year he is saying there are other important things for the senate to talk about like the economy and that's bad news for the trade of the administration is making a last ditch effort to appeal to the secular state hillary clinton defense or to robert gates leading security experts in the country they're all saying the failure to pass the new start treaty this year would endanger the u.s. national security they give two reasons for that first americans can no longer track russia's strategic nuclear arsenal the other main reason is that weakening cooperation with the washes that could follow if the new start treaty is not in place joe biden and hillary clinton made it clear that the new start treaty is the centerpiece of obama's reset of relations with washington for anyone to think that we can postpone it or we

also artie's close up series takes you to one of the oldest towns in siberia which is now become one of the most promising innovation in russia. ten pm in moscow good to be with you here on r t our top story russia says the alleged spies arrested in georgia have nothing to do with a national secret service this comes as georgia's interior ministry has confirmed that thirteen people were detained last month accused of being undercover agents for moscow are. reports from from tbilisi. this story has all the makings of a spy a movie and not a quality wanted that let's get the facts out first thirteen people four of them russian nationals arrested by the georgian ministry of interior fares for allegedly spying for russia now and no evidence has been presented at least publicly they do say that apparently they have concrete evidence and that evidence has been gathered by none other than a mall which also allegedly has been implanted into russia's directorate of military intelligence by georgians this statement was made a week after f. foreign media source broke the story reaction has been

officials say cause a statement is confusing as the raid was led by the afghan interior ministry artie's a new company in a gretsch of a report that for some moscow's part in the u.s. led mission came as a complete shock. or did this one died of so did this one group board and this one group or did this one died too while this one lost his leg and he got a mush is showing his cormorants killed in the soviet war in afghanistan two decades ago only four out of the fourteen in this picture made it out alive andrei was a commander over mine disposal unit in kandahar in two years his ward lost thirty five people dozens of others lost limbs a third of all mines used against soviet soldiers were american mate most of the us were enemy which supplied the mujahideen with the quick mint weapons medicine it was american street in asylums which helped shoot down our planes. two decades after the soviet army is x. it and really was taken aback to find out that russia was back in afghanistan again this time with its former anime. these are the pictures he saw on the news reports for drug producing lap

that was artie's military contributor colonel you're going to now you can watch all of his blogs on our website that's r.t. dot com and here's a taste of what else is online waiting for you right now britain take to the streets to demand justice for victims of police brutality as a survey says one person a week dies in custody in the u.k. . and the rat owners from around russia unite to prove their pet rodents of fairest of them all over one hundred rats struck at the start but only one who went home with the cheese find out more at r.t. dot com. or make up is supposed to enhance beauty but that's not always the case in russia tons of fake cosmetics are making their way into stores across the country leaving many suffering seriously from their affects and while shoppers are taking a gamble buying the products so authorities seem unable to stop the trend artie's were a phenomena reports. up to thirty percent of all cosmetics in russia are fake it's a huge figure but even these official stance by the ministry of internal affairs could just be the teeth of the iceberg almost every month po

solve with some pointing the finger at dog breeds and others blaming bad owners artie's denise reports. this eighty five year old woman was almost killed by two pit bulls and here on the yard she was screaming for help and when a neighbor heard her cries she called the police when the officers arrived the region animals turned on them. one of the officers blew his whistle the dogs robbed the victim and the tag of the policeman badly injuring his arm the officers had no other option but to should both animals dead by the time the woman was unconscious she was immediately taken to a nearby hospital where the patient was in shock upon arrival we had to perform an emergency operation to amputate her arms the owners of the balls kept them for breeding but it seems they didn't keep them secure enough since on the fateful day they managed to escape jumping over a fence and tearing through the neighborhood so that the liquid unfortunately it's not the first time when dangerous animals are causing severe and sometimes deadly injuries and i think that one of the reasons is that there's

next artie's closeup series as we continue exploring the diverse parts of russia. this week we're touring the tom screening which is in western siberia artie's tests are selling has been exploring the city of tomsk known as one of russia's major hubs and fastest developing scientific and innovation based centers it's one of the oldest towns in siberia but it was only officially open to foreigners in one thousand nine hundred ninety today wooden houses hundreds of years old still lined the streets and there contrasts it by the youthful enthusiasm of students who flock to toms the home of siberia's first university. gordon is a graduate of the thomas cloyd technic university he's only twenty four but he's already working on a ph d. and is running his own welding company with twenty six branches all over the country look at the thought that. i started doing this three and a half years ago while still in underground when we assembled our first models in a small garage then we want a few contests and received grants which allowed me to launch the company. because with t

learns to live and work with roma not just enjoy the music in the nightclubs daniel schorr arty saffir. and a little later we'll tell you about the possibilities of a smoke free russia find out who's behind it and why some say it's an infringement of their rights. the afghan president is reportedly reiterating his unconditional support for nato operations in his country and this comes just days after hamid karzai slammed u.s. led military operations and cold for their drawdown he apparently changed his mind after a private meeting with a top alliance commander in the country general david petraeus the incident comes on the eve of a landmark nato summit in lisbon the u.s. led blocks expected to agree on a road map for withdrawing all of its combat troops from afghanistan by the end of twenty fourteen artie's military contributor says it's now up to general petraeus to make the exit a graceful one political approach is still remains the same down despite the fact that it hasn't worked in nine years and it's unlikely to work in the four years and it operates the cross purposes with the mi

was artie's peter all of our reporting on the unity day celebrations in russia let's take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the world at least fifteen people have been killed in a landslide near the coast rican capital san jose rescue workers are still searching for survivors in a landslide comes after days of torrential rain that flooded a nearby river around six hundred people have been forced to flee to emergency shelters. the us authorities have seized more than twenty tons of marijuana worth around twenty million dollars after discovering an illegal link to mexico and underground tunnel that had lighting ventilation and even a rail system served for smuggling drugs stored in warehouses on both sides of the border seventy five such tunnels have been found over the past four years as the two countries continue to improve anti-drug cooperation i suspect that suspicious package has been destroyed by greek police following a spate of mail bombs sent to foreign embassies in the country the package that contained a small amount of explosives was returned by the f

fumbling along without one boring mr arty lisbon portugal well let's stay with the nato summit and talk to thomas clough from the think tank european council on foreign relief thomas after the geo political changes of the last twenty years there's a debate over whether regional military organization like nato should exist at all now how viable is nato today. well another crisis is sort of consubstantial to nato has existed certainly since the fall of the burden of war but in fact there was much question about what nature was all about and how it would operate even even before the war so nato isn't in a sense in an identity crisis more often than not i still think it has a road to play it's not a bad idea to have a large group of countries representing more than half the military spending in the world in an organization in an alliance working together discussing talking corporation called an aging that's not a bad thing in itself how this allies should be used and against whom if at all is of course a matter that's open and going to be redefined in the new nato strategy terrorism is an o

says the charges butis facing are serious and they will continue to provide him with consular help artie's but in a port neither has the story. mr boot has said that u.s. officials had tried to pressure him for evidence and pressure him to confess to crimes during his extradition from thailand to the united states and according to what's being reported this is a pressure that mr boot did not came into. we're going to victory during the extradition the americans attempted to convince him to make a confession of the crimes he had never committed and promised some kind of privileges in return rejected all these offers what the russian diplomats also have disclosed is that mr boot is being held in solitary confinement at the metropolitan correctional center in lower manhattan mr booth has also left his wife relocated to the u.s. here to new york to be with him his wife of course has been in thailand by his side for more than two years proclaiming her husband's innocence now mr boone stood before a federal judge and the judge had read out the charges mr boot pled not guilty on all of the charge

war artie's sorrow for reports. greason tell emerging here in kosovo at the moment an organized crime group including a former health minister involved in organ trafficking now the story starts a couple of years ago when doctors working for the private health clinic medical is the can see behind me were investigated for allegedly performing these illegal organ transfer operations now the group was said to have targeted poor people from regions such as russia kazakhstan and remain here and offering them around twenty thousand dollars to come here and have these operations performed with the recipients as well being charged a huge amount of money for the cases taken eva by the police mission working here in kosovo and they boards these indictments the seven people now the prosecution haven't actually made these public but we've been able to gain access to one of the documents and seeing what the indictment said the one person named in the indictment also has links to another shocking case involving organ trafficking n

an air strike on iran for the first time the information has been given to a russian publication artie's catarina has more on the leaks. it may be very cold here in moscow but it's certainly very hot in the world wide web with many of the world's leading newspapers publishing thousands of secret documents leaked to them by wiki leaks the world's largest whistleblower containing messages secret messages thousands of them sent from u.s. embassies to the u.s. state department from around the world over a number of years those documents have raised already a number of questions many experts are of course already saying that the main focus of this latest leak by wiki leaks is not exactly what the messages themselves say but what these messages say about the u.s. state department and the condition of u.s. diplomacy many experts already shouting the opinion that this means that the united states state department is in a very troublesome position with not only security problems evidently as a leak of nearly two hundred fifty thousand documents has been has become possible but also because many w

demanding inquiries into suspicious cases and severe punishment for officers involved in london rally artie's a lawyer emmett met protesters who have lost their loved ones. if you want to be heard they say sometimes it's better to whisper than to shout these people are relying on that as they take to the streets to tell the silent story of loved ones who have died in british police custody. is here because of his brother a recovering drug addict pap's died in two thousand and eight following a routine stop and search by the police he call it was he was being restrained by them when outside restraint it's it's one of each for and often either side of these arms pulling him back and two officers then. hit him in the back and that's really how you know it samantha rick david's brother also died two years ago mentally ill shawn was restrained by four police officers and bundled into a van and in the five minutes it took to get the police station had stopped breathing he died a short time later there's no ideal outcome because my brother is dead ok nothing is going to bring him back we know that b

political farce and that georgian authorities are simply attention seeking ahead of a nato summit as artie's arena glue show reports many georgians fear the government's anti russian mania could land them in prison for espionage also. for alina this spy scandal was a horrible deja vu her own husband. was thrown into prison for allegedly spying for russia during the two thousand and eight conflict between georgia and south the city or. they said some three thousand three hundred pages of data which my husband supposedly sam to russia that's a blatant lie we have presented evidence numerous times that on formation with witchcraft and worked was just his analysis if you look at his case you'll see that it's easy to say that anyone's a spine george or something with. the lynas husband was george's envoy to nato he was named in a documentary just shown on one of george's main channels to as one of the russian spies who didn't get away in fact the film was just part of what seemed to be a spy novel unraveling in a small caucasus country over the past week thurst the news of the arrests that came s

the horses can offer according their how max kaiser economist and hells of artie's kaiser report believes germany is ready to emerge as the world's new superpower the crisis is only adding to germany's ability to ultimately break away from the euro and compete head to head with china for competition in terms of being the twenty first century global superpower it will be germany and china the us has gone the u.k. is long gone continental europe is outside of germany doesn't produce anything so you've got a reconstituted germany with their own central bank again their own currency and i predict the rise of germany again this is something that after world war two. was attempted to be outlawed but germany is back and of course germany has actually relations with russia the russian leadership speaks german the german leadership speaks russian so there's a lot of talk there and the tonic genie is being let out of the bottle i don't think america is prepared for a germany because being a was a superpower again and yet as a result of this crisis that america helped engineer there you have it amer

said to be hiring people and seeking funds to finance terrorists in russia's republic of chechnya artie's daniel bushell has the latest from brussels. police here in brussels say they busted an islamic terrorist cell tied to russia's republic of chechnya which is planning attacks three three throughout europe and this evening also it is swooped on fifteen people suspect of recruiting jihad is to fight in iraq and afghanistan it comes just hours after or storage is launched pre-dawn raid on homes of another eleven suspects who were tied to a cicily are linked network the belgian prosecutor's office said quote they were an international terrorist group using its stream internet site and saw al mujahideen to plan an attack it comes as part of massive coordinated raids across europe in countries like the netherlands denmark germany where thirty one year old russian man of chechen origin was arrested suspected of training jihadists to fight terrorist campaigns those arrested or belgian dutch moroccan and russian origin this is seen as among the first top level links that police have found betw

learns to live and work with roma not just enjoy the music in the nightclubs the new bushell arty saffir. and a little later we'll tell you about the possibilities of a smoke free russia is behind it and why some say it's an infringement on their rights. the afghan president is reportedly reiterating his unconditional support for nato operations in his country and this comes just days after hamid karzai slammed u.s. led military operations and cold for drawdown the upcoming nato summit in lisbon is expected to see a roadmap for withdrawing international combat troops from afghanistan by the f. twenty fourteen artie's military contributor says it's up to the alliance commander in the country general david petraeus to make the exit a graceful one. political approach is still remains the same told down despite a defect that it hasn't been working nine years and it's unlikely to work in another four years and it operates the cross purposes with the military strategy reach that actually doesn't make sense because it's bottom up approach successfully tried and tested by the u.s. special forces

fumbling along without one boring mr arty lisbon portugal. and we are now joined here in the studio by sergei struck on political commentator from the commerce not newspaper to discuss the upcoming nato summit thank you very much for joining us and it's now a nato seems to be trying to reinvent itself so what is the future of the alliance do you see more cooperation between russia and nato let us hope that nato would not in your own bicycle as the russians see the jokes aside definitely what is clear that need to ease at the crossroads and the old security doctrine is already obsolete the new security doctrine has not been worked out there are different voices that are different groups of interest so it would be quite a tortuous process i would say that this is something like a middle life crisis for you if you compare me to america but i hope it will be our car ok now you are mentioning some obsolete documents they will be talking about will do you expect some practical results to come out of the summit between russia and nato what frustrate

artie's peter oliver reporting from moscow. well campaigners in the u.k. demanding answers into why no officer has ever been convicted for deaths in police custody one person a week reportedly dies as a result of contact with the police. reports. if you want to be heard they say sometimes it's better to whisper than to shout these people are relying on that as they take to the streets to tell the silent story of loved ones who have died in british police custody. is here because of his brother a recovering drug addict happy pap's died in two thousand and eight following a routine stop and search by the police he was he was being restrained by them when i say restraint it's it's one of. an officer neither side of his arms putting him back and two officers been. hit him in the back and that's really how you know it samantha brick david's brother also dies to me. years ago mentally ill sean was restrained by four police officers and bundled into a van and in the five minutes it took to get to the police station had stopped breathing he died a short time later

there is an air of hypocrisy and leaders around the world are seeing this protesters are seeing this artie's alice hebert takes a closer look at this high stakes battle for the world's currencies. they'll be plenty of soul searching at this g. twenty for the south korean capital it underlines its economic but there are may just spots around his country circle the wagons while others try to cool the schulze then there's the problem to the north this year's g. twenty is being billed as the financial coming out to south korea proof of just how far the country's come in the nearly sixty years since the end of the korean war once poorer than it's a northern communist neighbor and now the thirteenth longest economy in the wilds north korea may just full kilometers north of this freedom bridge and demilitarized zone but economically the to paul's the threat from the democratic people's republic was particularly. and solace in taking any chances with security forces on high alert but it's another call all the g twenty leaders minds the outbreak of the so-called currency war the u.s. lead the charge

president dmitri medvedev said that while the system is not perfect the country is on the right path artie's natalya novikov a has more on his message. in his address russian president dmitry medvedev mainly spoke about the need to modernize russia's political system with the help of gradual but still reforms but also to make sure that a stable political system doesn't mean that it's the naysaying. zelig national political system or we simply want to make our political system more fan more flexible more dynamic and more open to renewal and development he must enjoy the confidence of our lecturing it is no secret that for some time now signs of stagnation have begun to appear in our political life because debility has threatened to turn into stagnation the national president also spoke about the freedom of speech in the country they need to improve the quality of the work representation have stronger opposition forces and simply have a better political competition and more rights for political minorities. or if the opposition has no chance at all of winning a fair fight it degrades and become

artie is a really good reporting well political analyst dimitri thinks the georgian president may be trying to provoke an angry response from russia good good turn the political balance in his favor but if you put yourself in the shoes of saakashvili he is really in a very difficult situation he cannot at taxol to sit and applies there for the second time because that would be political suicide and he cannot put two or three little pressure diplomatic pressure on russia because he was so bad he just created the. international soul the only way for him is to organize all kinds of p.r. stunts to try to attract attention to the problem to shoulder or just the keys at these do something so we see them over have seen all these p.r. stunts in the last few months born out of the morning meant for the second of all the war a rest in a turkish captain for fourteen years like a bomb done to us now thirteen people arrested in all beaks spy case obviously he expects russia at some moment to will spacious and to do something dramatic increase military presence in our posture will solve the satyr

this is artie coming to live from moscow with me rena joshie today we take a look at what's been happening during the week and crew was locked up in a u.s. jail for thirty two hours after filming a protest against a controversial military training facility in georgia dubbed the school of assassins reported kalon for described her treatment as brutal and international organizations condemn the use of police violence against members of the media but despite all the outrage american mainstream media has remained silent gun education as more. it started off as a rally outside a u.s. training camp for latin american military and police officers what followed this nonviolent protest caught everyone by surprise dozens were arrested police targeted journalists along with the activists i'm a member of that right. i'm a member of the program sorry ok i'm sorry among those arrested were r t correspondent kayleen forte and our two cameramen john conway both there on assignment covering the protests that brought together thousands of people. here the only thing i asked officer to please remove the hand

artie's catherine mcgrath over reporting from moscow. now the seven suspects in kosovo have been charged with persuading people to sell their organs with false hopes of cash one of the queues had previously faced allegations of trafficking body parts of serbian prisoners during the kosovo war as our first discovered that conflict in kosovo was later declaration of independence have invited organized crime. they grease him allegations claims the snow going to his crime grave including doctors and a high level health official were involved in organ trafficking and as the investigation continues there are now growing concerns with political instability and a weak justice system because of a could be becoming a breeding ground for criminal activity we don't have very real space and real estate is not functioning actually and we don't have double that's why the forty's very high unemployment is increasing. the allegations focus on the medicaid private clinic and first surfaced years ago forcing the center to close shockingly r.t. have discove

but in a country with a high proportion of immigrants some think it's a proposal that's too severe artie's tests are so your reports from geneva two years ago twenty two year old life was brutally cut short we are going to come to my son's at the carnival with his friend he was just standing and having a conversation with three young men came towards him and started beating him with their fists on the hit beat him until he fell and then started kicking on the beat him to death for no reason no reason at all they did it just for fun. details then emerged the victim was swiss the attackers were from the balkans and to immigration sentiment rose giving traction to a referendum proposal to make it mandatory for foreign criminals with heavy crimes such as murder and rape to be kicked out of the country just a year after voting in favor of a law banning the building of new minarets on mosques the swiss are set to return to the polls on sunday with another yes or no decision to make they're out of paper should no longer be in switzerland because they don't deserve to be in switzerland to some peo

that was artie's military contributor colonel you have guy who shot . at least thirty seven people have been killed in a police operation to release hostages from a catholic church in baghdad militants took over the church after attacking the country's stock exchange where they killed two guards they were reportedly demanding al qaeda members be set free. before a teenage al qaeda fighter held at guantanamo bay has been sentenced to forty years in prison but a plea deal means he'll serve only up to eight years as he's already been held since two thousand and two. was captured in afghanistan age of fifteen after a four hour gunfight to u.s. forces he pleaded guilty to five war crimes charges for throwing a grenade that killed an american special forces medic. in brazil at the ruling party's candidate to do who serve as one of the wrong turn over the country's first president. beats opposition rogers a senator in a second round with fifty five percent of the vote. to continue the policies of out giving the symbol to be sworn in as the country's head of st

support for the trade among experts but not on the hill and obama has very little time to change that artie's gun if you can reporting well a british students have gathered for a third nationwide day of action in protest against government plans to raise university tuition fees the reforms are part of the u.k. government's deficit cutting measures reports suggest that police attempted to contain the protesters in advance students to avoid a repeat of last week's violence previous to waves of protests through thousands of demonstrators have accused the police of overzealous response to isolated clashes now let's get some more analysis on this from steven davis he's a director of education i think it's nude or economic affairs and now joins us live from london so it's already the third wave of massive student protests against the rise in tuition fees tell me can can rallies like this can public rallies ever change lawmakers minds i don't think so certainly not the demonstrations of anything i think they're more likely to make the it more because we go through all the increases in. now i surely

know for sure whether it's fake or not and whether you'll be left a beauty or a beast grief notion artie mosco. in our exclusive interview later this hour we look at iraq allegations of torture and abuse by british troops but first in just a moment it's kareena with the business news. for the. we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. which brighten. from months to impression. don't. have a welcome to business have a go straight to our top story russian billionaire or like to apostatize buying back a stake in europe's leading construction companies struck for more than five hundred million dollars basic element was forced to sell a twenty five percent stake at the height of the global financial crisis now he's buying back seventeen percent of the farm through his company ross parea aims to make russia a top three market will build infrastructure for the sochi olympics in two thousand and fourteen and a link deal will also sell a twenty six percent stake in road building concept concerned transport to strike back the federal reserve's plan to pump

of manned operations this is the longest period of continuous human habitation outside the earth artie's learn what it takes to become a space satellite. member the second two thousand the first permanent crew reaches the international space station as the world watches its arguably humanity's most them vicious engineering project to date a mixture of science technology and political cooperation between formal sworn enemies. in the ten years since there i says has expanded to the size of a football field and received two hundred visitors while for a shock but at the before the i s s is a breakthrough corporation that of before there was a separate space agencies now they work together like a commodity it's a little more this station has cost the taxpayer one hundred billion dollars and that's just absurd it's too much but it's their money now admit they're not sure what to expect from the station and that includes the expedition one cosmonauts themselves you to get them get the trains but then shall i says crewmembers his own training was more chaotic come over to me because i when i sho

in kazakhstan was dubbed ideal the crew had a few tense moments before their trip to terra firma artie'san intel you know because i was more from star city the heart of russia's space program. veteran cosmonaut through the year in has now safely returned to the government center for training his colleagues from nasa and douglas wheelock back to the united states remembers the team will be undergoing after flight procedures for rehabilitation flights back to earth from the international space station took about three hours may nineteenth spacecraft land safely the mission is now complete and the crew feels good and is satisfied with the way it went landing. i congratulate everyone who contributed to the success of this project for you the chief and has all together spent a year in space and his colleagues from nasa sean and and douglas will or have spent about six months there each in their mission included a number of space walks and say different experiments and they in fact brought a container a refrigerator with the result of one hundred twenty scientific experience they conducted dur

from new york mayor michael bloomberg who is addressing a meeting on climate change in hong kong artie's guy has more from washington. if you look back at these me term election campaigns in the u.s. china was everywhere a lot of attack ads featured china as the source of america's problems as a country that stolen americans jobs so something close to hatred was being promoted toward china here some other countries as well but china in particular a new york city mayor michael bloomberg a very influential political figure here in the united states said enough is enough and here is a quote i think in america we've got to stop blaming the chinese and blaming everybody else and take a look at ourselves and of quote elected officials in the us are pretty much in the habit of making scapegoats out of anything in foreign countries if we do a very few americans really know something about seemed to have become a great target but michael bloomberg and the have it can backfire badly he said i quote if you look at the u.s. you look at who we are electing to congress to the senate they can't repeat

the reassurance comes after a meeting in moscow between the russian leadership and nato as chief artie's a catarina retro but has been following the high level talks. both nato and moscow realize that a new global security strategy is needed for the twenty first century and it is time for change it is time that nato and moscow boast that partnership now nato is an organization that is currently facing serious challenges has an identity crisis analysts say that north atlantic alliance has bitten off more than it can chew and its and in afghanistan in particular nato so wants to read itself always so cold war one sided identity ross wilson is a moscow today for talks all the two main issues the first one is anti missile defense and you were recently nato invited russia to participate in that system but the kremlin keeps asking hard questions on what role will it be given will it be just a mere observer of the new technology or will it the to supply in the new system as a hands on mom but will it to dissipate in the entire process starting from construction to at savation up this system wel

should improve its record but as artie's report now found out america has a way to go until it reaches international standards. freedom justice and peace for the world must begin with freedom justice and peace in the lives of individual human beings america long the self-appointed global leader on human rights pointing out the shortcomings of others for the united states this is a matter of moral and pragmatic necessity but scenes of injustice like these are taking place not in other countries instead happening right here in the u.s. a point being made by the united nations human rights council in its first comprehensive review of washington's record two hundred twenty eight points to be precise recommendations on how the u.s. can do better in practicing what it preaches might want done up. tension centers throughout the world to punish those people who torture and execute detainees arbitrarily the u.s. dismisses many of the suggestions calling them political provocations by hostile countries he had even america's allies are highlighting grave flaws friends in ireland demand obama foll

artie. stay with us here on r t still ahead this hour america's disillusioned hispanic voters look at why term elections have left the fastest growing minority group in the u.s. feeling betrayed by both parties plus. russia is celebrating national unity day holiday with a stark lutes but also allows people of different social and political if it is the share their ideas. first though georgia plans to revamp its ailing agricultural industry by inviting new farmers from south africa bores are a minority there in the georgian government believes they would find better opportunities far from home and bring investment and new ideas but local farmers fear the drastic measures will see them plowed off their own land. reports. three years of land but his family barely scrapes by well target lives on potato soup all year round one of many farmers struggling to survive in georgia though he has plenty of land he cannot afford to grow anything on it. most the fuel for the tractor is too expensive the pe

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artie's going to keeping us updated on the fate of an r t news crew being arrested in the united states. on the way in a few minutes the world's most widespread bird of prey which face is being wiped out to new york but one man is on a crusade to save these falcons from flying into oblivion and how he's doing it also. the air all sea has become a wasteland of sand. and pollution and when the france joined me and kazakstan to investigate how this transformation has affected the people here and how it but it's down on the environment. people in serbia are getting less enthusiastic about their country joining the european union a new gallup poll highlights concern over signing up to an alliance that's having trouble keeping itself together etc firth explains it's the basics that people are worried about with prices in the shops already suffering from e.u. practices. it's government's i a family on the west in just a few days' time so have you will be presented with a questionnaire by the commission and what's seen as an important step in sebi is to join the e.u. for us citizens as was the