and will get more analysis of the american presence in the region from artie's military contributor later this hour. now russia's most famous female agent is now starting a political career as one of the leaders of a youth movement out of shopman became known worldwide after the spy scandal earlier this year between moscow and washington that saw agents from both sides being swapped. to watch that she took on her latest role. it was at this meeting of the young guards organization which was filled with a young audience looking towards a political future in russia that chapman turned up and gave her blessing to them she was elected to the public council of the organization and when she was given the microphone she gave them some words of encouragement. recently people will say you know when fame and money does these make us happy probably the symphony to city human emotions he would be listening to to society he should most vocal he is smiling no he's an old nose in the matters and if you mean the world. well that might seem a little bit rich coming from a child man who has pursued quite r

and we'll get more analysis of the american presence in the region from artie's the military contributor later this hour. now russia's most famous female agent is now starting a political career as one of the leaders of a youth movement and a chapman became known worldwide after the spy scandal earlier this year between moscow and washington that saw agents from both sides being swapped well let's get more on this from our teens tom. now tom you were following the meeting of the youth movement today now why are they choosing as their figurehead. when i was at a meeting or lots of young people from the young guards organization meeting today here in moscow that was there where she made an appearance they got that from regions across russia to elect a new leader for that organization to elect people to the public council that's holding the station she was elected to represent one of the russian regions public council and she addressed the young people with words of encouragement and that was the organization itself it's part of the united russia party in russia and it's the youth wing of t

it's not a problem for the men with the muscles tombaugh it's an arty.time now for the business with you. hello and a very warm welcome to the business program here on our team russia's prime minister is confident there will be no gas wars between state owned gas monopoly gas brawl mendus counterparts the energy giant expects demand for gas to increase next year with the market price just at this year's highs. because. we don't expect the demand for gas to fall mixed year on the contrary we think it will increase as for the gas contracts the price of gas probably contract is defined by a formula connected to the price of oil products regarding the spot price the excess supply we saw recently is now fading we think that next year the spot price of gas will be quite high stress would consumer prices and russia have risen eight point seven percent since the beginning of the year that's slightly higher than official forecast but still the lowest level of inflation in the country's history fuckwit and prices rose after this summer's drought and potato and cab

worth of crude former head of the oil giant yukos is already in prison for tax evasion and fraud artie's catarina has the latest from outside the court. so far we do know that. his former colleagues. have been found guilty of stealing over twenty billions of dollars worth of oil and embezzling the proceeds we also know that one of the charges that prosecutors. put the two were put against them has been dropped that charge is that charge was focused on stealing shares of a daughter oil company and it was drop because of the statute of limitations that had run out on not specific charges we know that their lawyers have already said they will appeal this verdict and from what we've managed from the lawyers that we

arties going on education reporting there now joseph a sit in shawnee the president of the n.t. nuclear campaign group the ploughshares fund says barack obama has done well to overcome the many obstacles in the start treaty ratification process. most of the opposition to this relatively modest treaty has been political the opposition what thought they could deliver a knockout blow to president obama they missed and he struck them down instead part of it is ideological there's about twelve to twenty senators in the car in the senate it is just opposed to arms control treaties if they're arguing to the bitter end but they're a minority they're losing they were trying to run out the clock they kept making the argument we don't have time and then they started to do these little mini filibusters around their amendments to prove they didn't have time they were waiting for something to happen they were tipped the balance in fact what happened is that military officials talk to each senator they got calls from republican secretary of defense bob gates hillary clinton the secretary of st

this friendly move is happening while both countries work on patching up their strained relations artie's laura abbott has more from the british capital. william hague the foreign secretary wrote a letter to the house of commons explaining what had happened he said that britain had indeed expelled a diplomat from the russian embassy in london they requested that diplomats expulsion on december the tense after what hague is calling clear evidence of russian intelligence service activities acting against british interests here in london then we are also hearing of course from the other end that there was a tit for tat expulsion from the british embassy in moscow and in response to that expulsion from moscow william hague said that britain rejects any basis for that particular action despite the fact that of course it was only a response to war what the foreign office here had done was this of course is a huge embarrassment for the foreign secretary william hague who when he took office as recently as may this year said that he vowed to improve relations with moscow and him fact went to mosc

for many the future is even less certain with a feeling of being pushed towards integration as artie's alice habit reports said speaking met by a wave of hugo nostalgia as many say they hanker for the stability and prosperity the came under the leadership of marshall tito. everyone in stumpy a new slow down his cafe is a popular watering hole for locals and tourists alike keen for a taste of you can astound. stepping inside the café you can be a really it's like taking a step back in time only thing with an alcohol available in the form and you can. hear there certainly in a french wines a whiskey on the menu and you can pay for your meal in local currency we were told no account will they accept us dollars or english pounds. but now he's channeling his love for all things yugoslavian into politically founding the fledgling alliance of tito's left forces policy. when you say tito you think socialism peace brotherhood and unity it just says it all life was better then it was cheaper to live it was safe we could travel more people had jobs and factories were working now everything is imp

on the second day of his india tour the president will take a bollywood and the taj mahal artie's natalia novikov a has more from india. now that all the major deals have been signs during president the biggest high profile visit to india it's time for the russian president to explore the other side of the country here in mumbai the problem of the visit includes a trip to bollywood where russian president is meeting with the most. popular film directors and film stars and indian films have always been rather welcomed in russia and now indian filmmakers are looking to reproduce some of their classics together with the russian directors also here in mumbai russian president is meeting with a meeting with representatives of the general public at a local university as cooperation in science and technology is crucial for the two emerging economies if two countries like ours can come together and perhaps show to the rest of the world there are these are the alternatives for the intelligentsia and countries you know we can offer alternative ways of thinking earlier during his visit to need daily

what is the clock ticks down to the new year artie's been checking the festive spirit around the globe and beyond the crew of six currently living on the international space station planning a new year's party complete with three and presents. was lucky enough to talk to a cosmonauts ahead of their big day. down here on earth will be celebrating new year all around the planet in our customer fashion with celebrations and parties but there will be six people who won't be able to they'll be one hundred kilometers above on the international space station and they'll have a bit of a different experience cut off from the rest of the planet as it were have limited communication each of the crew will be up there for six months they've been doing experiments and living quite quite a different life to most of us down here here at mission control in moscow we were able to day to get a chance to talk to them on the on a live link up to the international space station hello my name's tom barton from russia today television merry christmas and happy new year there are sixty. six million of us down

supporter into a riot on saturday russia's interior minister says nationalists incited the violence artie's catarina as are of the reports. anger and mismanagement thousands of football fans took to the streets of the russian capital with a smoke filled bryant. transforming quiet central moscow as fires in bottles flew overhead riot police detained instigators of the clashes at what started out as a peaceful commemorative rally to know that. some people have reacted very violently the death of the spartak moscow. i do believe that some of their dissatisfaction is understandable but it is unacceptable when we have aggression with firecrackers that those into flames and ordinary people sort of police have already arrested those responsible for the murder of your spirit and will arrest others everyone is equal before the law the firing questioning was shot dead last week during a mass brawl most of those gathered in the city's minute square simply wanted to pay their respects and demand a full investigation into the death of one of their own but take into account the fact that the suspect in t

channels summing up the results of two thousand and ten artie's arena louche go was listening in. this is the third time that. conducted such an interview with the representatives of three main channels touched upon the subject the subject matter is that concerning the foreign policy and he also focused of course largely on the internal policy but to start off with things that concern the foreign policy he basically talked about some of the main events of the year and one of those unfortunately was a quite. event that of course was the tragic death of the polish president in the plane crash. i was also a place where thousands of polish nationals were killed by the soviet secret police in the one nine hundred forty s. i do have the plane of the polish president to come down in that very location something that is bitterly or wrong make something that the russian president spoke about as well. who every time we receive such unusual we're shocked by the tragedy but this time it was not just people who died it was the polish political elite and in addition to top of. something mystic

was a marathon session wasn't it artie's a really good reporting live from the kremlin thanks for that. you're watching r t we've got plenty more headed your way including a fresh fight for land in israel the government bulldozing anyone villages and uprooting inhabitants from the desert they've lived in for more than a century argue looks at the reasons behind the crackdown. but first tensions are spiraling on the korean peninsula as the north threatens to launch what it calls a secret nuclear war against its neighbor if seoul strikes first on thursday the south military held live fire drills some of the largest in its history the exercises brought heavy military equipment fighter jets missile launchers and troops within thirty kilometers of the border with the north souls recent series of war games have come in the wake of cross border artillery exchange that killed four south koreans last month foreign policy analyst stephen godwin's tells r.t. that soldiers military strategy is imposed by washington and its goal is the end of north korea. the united states' policy for the last sixt

artie's accidentally hunch over a reporter from the scene of a shoot out with militants earlier on sunday stay with us here on r t coming your way shortly carving up the desert the israeli government accused of pushing the arab tribes off the land that's been their home for more than a century we find out why a few minutes. but first this week the brother of the late polish president claimed the body buried in krakow does not belong to lech kaczynski jaroslav kaczynski his twin brother and a former prime minister of poland says he's not yet decided whether to have the remains exuma poland has rejected moscow's report into the april plane crash that killed lech kaczynski and ninety five others investigation said pilot error was to blame still not clear whether warsaw is contesting that point the current polish prime minister donald tusk said the findings into the accident in the southwest russia are unacceptable and more than one hundred fifty pages have been reportedly sent to moscow detailing where poland believes the investigation was flawed aviation expert chris yates says the russian

the state council and modernization commission by addressing the recent racial violence in moscow artie's catarina graduate has the details. he talked to local governors and urged them to work more closely with the at the groups to prevent mass rides similar to the ones which happened in moscow and sent his brick on december eleventh over a bottle thousand people clashed with police in these two cities in moscow it was just outside the kremlin they were chanting russia the russians and beat ethnic minority groups represented just mostly from the north caucasus those mass rides followed the killing of an afghani crush in this part of the book on representative and three of the four suspects who were released shortly after that of course it urged drew to fire football fans the most but also drew they are above the president and the prime minister the squeak released after such a short detention and they carried out the road investigation whether those policemen were somehow under pressure to do that of course that all raise concerns about a rising tide of xenophobia in the country and also

this week artie's close-up team is in the omsk region which is in southwest siberia in the second part of the series we take a look at how locals live there and learn about their customs and traditions our very own a tour guide in the region tom patton shows us how people survive the cold and also what they do for entertainment. excepting soviet times has always been on the frontier of russia it required people to come here and build it from scratch and then to defend that frontier both people with the cossacks and it's their strong and self-sufficient local culture but i'm examining in my report. the view from the end of a cossacks spear but not to worry the young cossack on the other end knows what he's doing he's part of a tough rural tradition which has lasted for centuries. let's. see media they start teaching us riding on which in servant to trickle at the age of thirteen depending on chance abilities and as for me i was a very good do i do horse at eleven as well as i can handle a spear and a saber progress that's got to go after him and the others have a demanding daily schedul

right artie's catarina graduate a live near the kremlin thanks for that report. deeply entrenched on opposite sides of a fragile peace barricade israel and lebanon are fighting a propaganda battle having won the hearts and minds of their own people the two rivals have now set their sights on taurus policy reports some of the attractions seem more than authentic. it might not be quite the real thing but it sure brings one up close and personal dozens of tourists flocking to hizbollah strongholds deep inside lebanon at the low we decided to create and develop jihad tourism in order to thwart attempts to distort and falsify history. dubbed pallywood hizbullah and hamas would these theme parks offer through all of their own their appeal the danger here is all too real and we try to tell our visitors about real events that took place in this region many stories are about those who gave their lives for their brothers. and in the space of sixty thousand square meters all the trophies collected by hizbollah fighters are displayed captured his radio weapons and tanks alon

doors right police reacted immediately the result for six hundred people detained dozens including artie's camera three injured hit with police batons at least six of the nine presidential candidates have also been arrested many of them senior disappearing or without trace you know below thirty i was with my husband in the hospital when syrian men entered the room they held me down i was trying to free myself i was screaming but no one came to help their people the bottom of the bed he couldn't walk so their reaction in the blanket direction although they're looking inside. a new one u.s. officials have already condemned the violence but as with the observers president aleksander question simply told everyone. this is. a do just comes the o.s.c. forgets that it came to observe the election not to control it when it comes to darts it's not for them to evaluate. europe's last dictator as he has been dubbed in some western media did receive some praise from observers they've all agree this election was much more democratic than the previous one in two thousand and six. freedoms given to oppos

just as if he's here artie discovers a love story at a cost madrone space group of pairs to leave but. also coming up in just a few moments. to look through yet still the most beautiful poetry in the country has been fixed and decorate this here is that. greece has been gripped by a new wave of protests over the government's a sweeping austerity measures aimed at reducing debt and fulfilling its bailout obligations a general strike spain called after the country's socialist government passed a highly controversial bill which slashes the salaries of public servants helen scopus journalist at athens international radio believes people don't want to pay the price for corrupt politicians fed by the e.u. . people are demanding that the burden of this financial crisis not be put on their shoulders greece is the only country up to now at least in the eurozone that its financial crisis is not because of the collapse of the banking system but because of the political system the corrupt political system the people that i have talked to feel as if the european union is rewarding politicians corr

just the beginning of what will be a winter of discontent and possibly also a spring of discontent artie's laura an ally for us in london thanks for. still to come how a boy can influence the decision of a prime minister vladimir putin the new dog has been named the premier made is choice from one of the thousands of versions mailed to him by the public plots. is. going to go. to. learning foreign languages is just one of the many practical ways to spend time in moscow's top traffic stay with us to see more. but first the united states largest banks may pay out record bonuses this month rather than early next year so the wall street elite can avoid higher tax rates but with homelessness at a level not seen since the great depression critics have slammed the sums that will be given to bankers off the back of a hefty government bailout artie's marina poor nial looks at the flow of cash that many average american say is going straight into the pockets of fat cats. next the sculpture thirty thousand dollars not the first floor thirty thousand take to thirty two thousand if an artist were to il

of course will be keeping you updated with the latest information as and then we get it all right artie's caterina's are the live outside the courthouse facts about report. or for more reaction on the how to koski verdict i'm joined by sergei stroke on a journalist from the congress on newspaper here in moscow good to talk to you so this is one of the highest profile court cases of the russia in a long time what do you think the russian public is feeling about it how do they assess this all when we speak about the russian political and business of and we definitely they were watching and the case with keen interest and debate in the days ready to go but at the same time i think it is equally true that many of the street rural fold that they can very tentative interest in this case because this has very removed you know a well with connection to to their day to day life and moreover in russia ordinary people view rich people. with deep suspicion because for them those people see what synonym of course we can spare speculate one of the reasons for that maybe this is because of the market pr

has condemned the arrests and is calling for the release of all protesters artie's catarina explains how about unfold. this is a. ruse the new start. accounting for this is unfair and. probably over. the people may have deserved better but what they got instead was more of the same. public good it's from the bottom of my heart i would like to kank my supporters and congratulate them on a victory. so you are not from my opponent so i have to inform you on the saddest of all cajuns for you but you will now have to do with the acting president for at least another five years. and this. opposition supporters journalists and a number of foreign ambassadors all came to a thousand strong demonstration outside the government building in the center of the capital minsk. despite calls to keep the protest peaceful some started storming the building smashing windows and breaking down doors riot police reacted immediately the result over six hundred people detained dozens including artie's camera crew injured hit with police baton at least six of the nine presidential candidates have also been ar

michel go ahead artie's washington correspondent dan mitchell can follow the developments. in the vote. on this man on this resolution or seventy one days twenty six days two thirds of the senate president having voted in the affirmative the resolution of ratification is agreed to. and with this approval russian the u.s. will start the new year with a treaty that has become a symbol of trust and cooperation between the two nuclear superpowers i am glad that democrats and republicans came together to approve my top national security priority for this session of congress the new start treaty this is the most significant arms control agreement in nearly two decades and it will make us safer and reduce our nuclear arsenals along with russia. both states have some very significant reductions underway over the next ten years the countries will cut their nuclear arsenals by a third down to some fifteen hundred fifty deployed warheads on each side the deal also limits the number of delivery vehicles and launchers but even with those cuts both russia and the u.s. will still hold mor

violence spilled into the streets with demonstrators attacking police and vandalizing war memorials artie's laura emmett reports from london. we're seeing broken glass a lot of people being drafted in for this cleanup operation a lot of the violence was centered around the green area which is just opposite the houses of parliament that protesters tore down fences which are now being having to be put back up again yesterday was was a violent day it's now being called the worst unrest that we've seen in london in the decades i still miss aisles of course schools and fire crackers being aimed directly at police and there was a point in the evening in fact when whenever you saw a police motorcycle or a police car it was being aggressively attacked by protesters and also one point the prince of wales charles and his wife camilla as car was attacked by protesters they were on their way to. without what's now being described as significant enough police protection as attack that cost masked one of the windows and three paint on that car there's an investigation into how that could have been allowe

around the world and around the clock mrs arty cos of a prime minister is claiming he's won the nation's first part of ensured action since it declared unilateral independence from sebi a three years ago with unprecedented poverty corruption and ethnic divisions the new government will need to answer the call from the public for change. reports many believe the candidates still represent the same problems. the dawning of a new uniform idea. that's the message plastered across the media faces on tuesday is all across the capital purging people to take parsing pre-suppose first general election since declaring independence in two thousand evades voters at this polling station in central pristina decided to brace the cold temperatures to call the vote they told us that they want to see a change for starts here in kosovo and that is the only going every day problems of unemployment and living standards that they care about. the economic situation here is bad so we're waiting for better days but we don't expect miracles. i believe things will get better now but for me the biggest problem is c

outlining an extensive list of measures washington should take to protect freedom and rights back home artie's marina porton i reports. what speaks louder. actions or words we recognize the inherent dignity and rights of every individual up. promised by the u.s. president and a requirement outlined in the universal declaration of human rights thirty articles outlining basic standards of life inalienable rights for all people. article three everyone has the right to life liberty and security of person with every drone attack with every. invasion and occupation of a foreign country with every overthrow of a foreign government that the united states happens not to like or happens to agree with every one of those is a violation of that one article political commentator nima shirazi accuses the us of falling short of a feeling several of the principles it helped create article five no one shall be subjected to torture cruel inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment with every detainee kidnapped and rendition and. you know tortured in guantanamo or in bhaag room or elsewhere. that's yet another

as promised next artie's financial wizard max kaiser looks at how the wealthiest on wall street have created the biggest income gap in generations. guys or this is the cause or a porch until markets are made up of rewards and the risks the broke over the five years ten years fifteen years all of the rewards of been sucked up by a few people and in exchange for all the risk of the general population the result has been the widest wealth and income gap in generations.

in the two cities to mark the death of a spartak moscow football fan killed in a brawl on monday artie's catarina was in the city center when the violence broke out. anger mismanagement thousands of football fans took their aggression to the streets of the russian capital with a small field riot transforming quiet central moscow as flares and bottles flew overhead riot police detained instigators of the clashes at what started out as a peaceful commemorative rally to know that. some people have reacted very violently to the death of the spartak family but i do believe that some of their dissatisfaction is understandable but it is unacceptable when they have aggression with firecrackers that burst into flames in ordinary people suffer will take all the necessary measures and you think like that happen again so that the authorities are not accused if in effect of us in handling the killing of. the police have already arrested those responsible for the killing and the rest others everyone is equal before the war. the fighting questioning was shot dead last week during a mass brawl most of t

claims president obama's special representative helped build an effective team on the ground but artie's military contributor says the diplomats failed to tackle the most burning problem. with the gradual shift of the u.s. military and intelligence community from afghanistan to pakistan i guess the u.s. commander in afghanistan has a bigger fish to fry than to waste his style and he's energy credibility and respect and attention from his troops leveraging misappropriate praise on the architect of the drug promotion strategy in afghanistan and the main defender of the opium cultivation all across the country we used to be general trios women now if general to stick with us praise to richard holbrooke calling him the titan of the us policy in afghanistan and pakistan he might as well make his mission guilty by association he might be start with the mission creep which will be described as a titanic fubar both in afghanistan and across the border in pakistan you're watching out looking ahead next we have an american war veterans who found themselves fighting their own conscience. they are k

whether the world health organization is massively underestimating the global malaria death rate artie's charan singh reports. they named yes eastern state of bihar one more victim succumb to malaria it's a treatable infection yet it still takes more lives in india than h i've seen many of them that malaria has spread everywhere around religion no medical teams come to help us and hospitals are far away for people like counsel dying at this cost would you but not many patients believe they have the feticide to confection down to kind of a sudden i have a very high temperature and i think i have now larry and i've come to the doctor for treatment because many people in my neighborhood have now larry and a new study has found that malaria kills more than thirteen dinars the number of people couldn't be estimated by the world health organization since many millennia deaths occurred at home many moving lydia's they don't get recorded so research just visited families and asked them to describe what happened to the victims a method known as the autopsy we estimated that something like four pe

law moscow's deposed mayor yuri luzhkov could face charges of corruption money laundering and fraud artie's catarina gracia over reports russian investigators suspect yuri luzhkov alleged murky dealings may have been a family affair. why i call the workers at one of moscow's banks are facing jail for lending too much credit and trust to the city's former mayor your english cough and his wife russia's richest woman board and find themselves at the central yet another scandal prosecutors suspect them of laundering some thirteen billion rubles almost half a billion dollars in a somewhat primitive that seemingly effective for ot the bank of moscow owned by a friend of which golf is accused of approving a whopping great loan to dummy company which then use the money to buy land from the mayor's wife was here membership in the scam was carried out under the control of city hall and luzhkov personally in three months this premier estate company appeared and with little more than three hundred bucks in his account to get a loan worth five hundred million dollars unbelievable it was clear the compan

soviet war memorials many in the country believe the real goal is to stop anti russian sentiment artie's reports . the destruction is savior monuments a law banning savior symbols and now an empty city a documentary and a series of cartoons. papers all part of an anti save it campaign currently being led by the cuban government that both the timing and methods of implementation have led many to question its real rate of it then you say it's not just anti soviet propaganda but anti russian those conducting this campaign are trying to put russia on a par with the soviet union. it's been two decades since julian independence and just two years since children attacked south is that yes provoking an armed conflict with russia a history of tense relations and these recent events i thought likely to have a bearing on what's now happening. in a local newspaper to pick your favorite general characteristics in georgia with the from this white. part of the anti favor campaign. being anti russia of encouraging the public to live by the bigger picture. but many georgians particularly the older genera

it's not a problem for the men with the muscles tom watson artie. going to say don't drop it all right in twenty minutes not the talisay with a sport she's got news of and a limpid gold medal winning tennis stars embarking on a new career in the boardroom now that said there are no shortly tonight this thursday but it is business before that in a few moments. great for the feel we've got. the biggest issues get voice face to face with the news makers. the latest in. the future. but i welcome to the business program here on our today with me was folly russia's investment climate has been one key issue this week forty billion dollars of direct foreign investment came to the country this year that's roughly the same as in two thousand and nine that the government was seeking to attract more question abroad and that discussion has turned to the possible impact of the holder called the sentencing on the investment climate in the country for more on this i'm joined by lead to give again from i.h.s. global insight thank you very much for joining us this ho

artie's oxide only hunch over reporting from the scene of a shootout with militants earlier on sunday stay with us here on r t coming up breaking the silence millions of deaf people waste their concerns by paused their only means of communication is still not officially recognized find out why in a couple of minutes. but first this week the brother of the late polish president claimed the body buried in krakow does not belong to lech kaczynski jaroslav kaczynski his twin brother and also a former prime minister of poland says he's not yet decided whether to have the remains exuberant poland has rejected moscow's report into the april plane crash that killed lech kaczynski and ninety five others investigation said pilot error was to blame still unclear whether warsaw is contesting this point current prime minister polish prime minister donald tusk said the five exam to the accident in southwest russia are unacceptable one hundred fifty pages have reportedly been sent to moscow detailing where poland believes the investigation is flawed aviation expert chris yates says the russian inves

it's not a problem for the men with the muscles tom watson artie. going to say don't drop him next palestinian officials say well ask the un security council to approve a resolution condemning israeli settlements in the west bank while r.t. here is now from a human rights group which believes the world body is struggling to deal with israel. with me i have the executive director of human watch a human white scoop based in switzerland mr miller thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. your group basically the united nations but why does the u.n. even need monitoring he would watch as a non-governmental organization whose mandate is to monitor the united nations according to the principles of its charter essentially to hold the un accountable and to measure it by the artistic of its own charter many israelis complain that israel does not get a fair deal or fair hearing by the united nations would you agree it's one of our issues that's important to us is fighting anti-semitism and also the discriminatory treatment of israel the un's obsession w

it's not a problem for the men with the muscles tom barton artie. going to say don't drop it now as mentioned a bit earlier the kaiser paul and i are very shortly tonight here are looking at the huge problems in store for the u.s. economy more about to come but it's business news with charlotte coming up first. hello welcome to the business program here on r.t. with michelle amos folly now russia's investment climate has been one key issue this week fourteen billion dollars of direct foreign investment came to the country this year that's roughly the same as in two thousand and nine that the government was seeking to attract more kirsch more forward and our discussion has turned the possible impact of the holocaust the sentencing on the investment climate in the country to give again from i.h.s. global insight says the case is likely to negatively influence the sentiment of potential newcomers. i think the reaction to the outcome of the court. different from those investors who are already in russia and sort of know the rules of the game probably th

swedish courts over sexual assault charges in a case that many argue is politically motivated as artie's laura amid reports sweden's media and legal establishment are sticking together to defend the country's reputation and accusations of spin. the charges leveled at founder of wiki leaks julian our souls have awakened the world to justice system the scandinavian countries requesting his extradition from the u.k. on sexual assault charges he's accused of having unprotected sex with two women elsewhere the media is crying foul citing u.s. pressure following the release of embarrassing diplomatic cables by wiki leaks but not in sweden in sweden it's not many people who say today that they suspect. it's a case of. you know your innocence not being the best of the charges been dubbed sex by surprise legibly refused to wear a condom and it's a crime unique to sweden it doesn't usually carry a prison sentence experts in the u.k. are asking why go after a song in this way maybe in the near future we'll come across some leaked documents showing how the u.s. put pressure on sweden and great brita

the euro and hundreds of thousands of angry people all across the continent lashed out in response artie's lorimer sprigs of the timeline for us. the summer of discontent that became a winter woes for a europe in crisis across the continent tens of thousands repeatedly turned out to protest against their government often resulting in violence and destruction. and it's not over yet after a brief holiday hiatus most assured the unrest will return in the new year and we haven't seen the worst of it yet john a thirty first for every the first bomb on the door mats the credit card bills people will be beginning to lose their jobs people have been living the proof for this on their credit cards to pay their mortgages they're going to start defaulting that's when the real protests are going to start in the u.k. was a huge hike in college fees that sparked the violence. in our land the country's near collapse forced its toughest ever budget to secure an e.u. and i.m.f. rescue in greece in spain public sector pay slashed while taxes writes. for the french it's the prospect of being forced to work l

and pay pal all came under attack when they stopped taking donations for wiki leaks meanwhile is artie's guide to discover the firms are still accepting payments to. the u.s. government has presented no charges against julie. in a song but that hasn't stopped government officials from reportedly putting pressure at the highest level to cut off we kill leaks money supply a senior executive of america's money transfer giant pay pal said the state department had written to the company claiming the online whistleblower was involved in illegal activities so pay pal along with massive card and be so are no longer accepting cash donations for the controversial website it's the threat of this has some impact on national security and when you say that in the united states everybody. you know what's their parents and they do what they're told. and so i think that it's a misconception in some cases that people think that the u.s. is purely a money driven society it's not the government has certain progressives particularly over national security no court ruling no legal procedures were needed to cr

artie's financial guru most cards are looked at the financial fallout from the ever continuing stream of wiki leaks. top stories today russia will buy at least one of mistral helicopter carrier france the companies are currently agreed the price which will be the largest military deal between russia and the nato country. that offers the details of this long negotiated transaction. at this point it really does seem that this deal is going to be sealed at least that's according to russian officials moscow looks set to buy the mistral produced by france this is a huge. helicopter carrier ship it's also capable to transport dozens of tanks and other transport vehicles the negotiations on those deal have been thing teaming for around a year and first washington royce's concerns on a nato member state selling this type of work wittman to russia you know with the restart of relations between moscow and washington the situation seems to have changed previously the french prime minister who's visited the moscow just recently he said that there are no you know obstacles remaining in this deal a

more than two thousand kilometers away from moscow but it shares more with the capital the new think arties tom barton uncovers its checkered past in the region. two things in particular it is famous for those are the fate of exiles sent here by the czarist regime along a difficult and dangerous road to get here and prison and forced labor once they arrived the other is a rich military to dish and the city has a military academy established here two hundred years ago has provided very famous officers and generals for the russian and the red armies and it's those themes of examining. on the march under guard these men and women are walking one of the longest and probably the loneliest road in the world they reenacting the march into exile made by thousands and czarist russia. it succumbs years to go there is some ways winces in say yes a lot of people died on the way this group in the western siberian region of omsk discovered they're living on the only surviving stretch of the original nine thousand kilometers of the siberian exiles track that's had no modern changes made to it. when you co

everybody here realizes that the new start is sort of that the mild stopes of this we set that was artie's going to check out reporting from washington d.c. but meanwhile robot god from the center for owns control and nonproliferation says the republicans want to prevent an obama foreign policy victory that's become politicized because the minority party in the senate has said that its first priority is to prevent the reelection of president obama so they are reluctant to support his initiatives and to give him more might appear as a foreign policy success it will be more difficult if it's too late to next year because you must start the process all over again you must hold hearings in the committee comes here will be new senators who will have questions and it will prolonging the whole process and this is in the mutual interests of both the united states and russia and ministration wants to get it passed before the end of the year rather than having extended in the next year with the new congress of defense artist lawrence korb says bowman has to make a stronger case and push the benefits

russians are affected are confined to remote villages with little chance or hope of rejoining society as artie's oksana we touch over found out. lost amid vast families russia's oldest lapp a village has no streets only one but houses with its own fire brigade ambulance service and kindergarten it's a home for many people affected by leprosy away from the eyes of a public with little understanding of the disease when the first patients arrived fifteen zero there were packed into just one house but now there is this a building big enough to house two families given the patients more privacy and dignity by larry like the vast majority of people in tears he has been he could believe but says it's not the ethics of the disease which made him stay but people's reaction. sometimes it's like a man in a snake you see a snake and get frightened but someone who knows the snake a snake catcher is not only free he knows which ones bite and which is dying and how they bite at the snakes don't use white out of the blue the same with letters if you hear this word you get scared once you know woods what's that

peter all of our arty perm region. well it's more than a dog's life for one canine who now resigns at the height of russian politics this week prime minister putin finally chose the winner in a nationwide contest to name his you quote from thousands of entries but then you're settled on buffy for the copyright was given to him by his old harry and counterpart in sofia last month and it was submitted by a five year old boy from moscow to be inside his other dog labrador economy is getting on well with the rapidly growing newcomer. now coming up our two interviews child writes about how will our who talks about the abuse of russian children by their adoptive parents i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in a few moments. we'll . bring you the latest in science and technology from around russia. we've got the future covered. wealthy british style. has no time to practice. and. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports on r t hungry for the full story because w