pakistan's image of the u.s. a research associate robbia choudhry and we'll look into the wal-mart ties ation of marijuana if the controversial substance is legalized could it become corporate ties and put mom and pop growers out of business and then we'll debate the more reality of assisted suicides it's an old issue the many people are taking a fresh look at some ask someone who is pro-life why people don't have the right to choose what to do with their own lives including choosing when they want to end them but first. the big story making headlines today is what the washington post calls a top secret america a hidden world that's growing beyond control and intelligence industrial complex although they didn't exactly use that word one that was created in response to the terrorist attacks on nine eleven and has now become so large so expensive so complicated that we have no idea if it's working partly because it's all able top secret classified now we have no idea whether america is any safer thanks to the fact that there are so many agencies so many intercepted phone calls e-mails documents

also a religious controversy a clash between the church and also has of an exhibition these talkies ations overturned to solve its style censorship. eleven people have been killed and nine are in hospital after a bus lunched off a cliff in the mountainous region of south ossetia the boss was on its way to the southern russian city of logic of cars when it left the road and fell over six to me says police are investigating if a lorry which might have been in the wrong lane could have forced the boss off the road the tragedy happened on the trans caucasian highway connecting russia's republic of north sh here with south georgia the driver is in a critical condition. teen age would be so sad boma goals were among eight people arrested and a counter terror operation in the southern russian republic of dagestan guns grenades and lost whales were among items found by russian security services with

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ation box is today a place to join russia silicon valley a joint new project being built on the outskirts of moscow it will also modernize was just train system its trains which are outdated and yet crucial to the country really relies on its trains a lot of parts of the country and thirdly wind turbines will build wind turbines an eco drive in a country which is also trying to become more environmentally friendly the other big issue was iran of great wall concern at the moment as it continues to suggest it's moving towards a nuclear bomb but that if up the pressure on nash. iran is an active and proven trade partner but it doesn't mean that we are indifferent towards the way the islamic republic is developing its nuclear facilities we are also concerned with some military components of its atomic program like iran should find courage to begin fully cooperating with the international community to iran should do this even if it doesn't like some issues it's currently facing a friendly relationship between the two wrapping up what has been a very successful summit a very successful meeting

equal rights but in my view zionism will never allow that to happen because it amounts to the de nies ation palestine i think israel's leaders will invent a pretext to drive the palestinians off the west bank and into jordan syria or ever . and the blood will flow the west bank will be sowed with blood and it will be mostly palestinian blood. and if there be honest reporters around they will call it a zionist holocaust now i fear that's where we're going because that wouldn't be the end of the story. it would so inflame. a muslim masses that you would be opening the pandora's box of a much wider conflict well as i think i suggested earlier the only person with the real power. to try to influence his row to behave in its own best interests as well as those the world is the president of america now yes it's true that europe russia there are lots of other countries with the same power the same leverage economic sanctions whatever but no other government on earth is going down this road until an american president gets the lead. question is that so much different. from democracy doesn't stand a

complete without actual sporting events a lot of which will be held at another event because like ation the crew let's go sport complex where the guests will be able to skate this soaring moscow heat and it said pressure on the outside might be nearing forty degrees but inside here they care a lot ski ice palace the weather is always perfect for some ice skating and i'm sure these kids behind me well they do have the right idea president sambo cup st paul world championship and canoe spring championship are just a few sporting events which will take place during the forum the organizers expect over six thousand people to participate including past and present and big medalists while the form itself is expected to be visited by over three hundred thousand people romana cost of r t moscow. brings us the end of the sport said what that would most vote for you until the last time that states that. hungry for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. coming into the future seeing double speak speak from a cinema and landed in your l

mr president has just touched upon which is part of what is ation a between the e.u. leaders of the of russia very small one of the problems your task to be resolved immediately because they're all interested in it he totally promised to do exist ask all of us no matter their. copyright resolve these issues so please you're welcome to ask a. question for mr berlusconi and. it does become more relevant lately. just a second place. wasn't least. a subject has become somewhat relevant lately during the russian president's meetings with the heads of european states airport and it's been touched upon treason to negotiations . finish leaders is the visa free regime between russia and the e.u. and mr berlusconi called you. saying in two thousand and eight that you would. visit a regime the reason being introduced because your position has changed since then and if it hasn't what specific take steps have you taken to promote a visa free regime the. norm in. my opinion as simple as that. it has changed it has become. i have become even more confident that we should go for a vi

on the press nice ation to really make the route regime there a very strict prison regime and effectively to prepare for what was now an increasing venture as he was that they might have to kill the family because the white and the counter-revolutionary forces were working their way east from blood of our stock right in far the far west of russia working their way back to walk along a trance iberian rare way towards a culture which was then a focal point on the railway line amongst the guards was there anything that they weren't going to go through with it yes absolutely just before they came to kill the family you're asking was issuing orders about who was supposed to kill whom they were all given an individual target and some of the guards immediately said we will not kill the girls and the number of killers in the end was reduced because of that and in fact the ultimate solution was putting all in a room and and killing them all together but that turned into a bloodbath didn't it and you've spoken to a forensic expert tell me what you what his opinion of what happened was well what con

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not of the caucasus target as ations claimed responsibility for a serious of bloss at the box on hydro power plant in russia but in about korea and the north caucasus meanwhile national and to church committee is reporting now that all the people being involved in this attack those who have carried out as well as the organizers have all been identified although officially no name has yet been given the russian media has already suggested that i made abdul mawgoud be behind this attack this man is known as the leader of al-qaeda militants he became number one in the republic just a while ago and since then the number of deadly incidents in the republican south and in the region as a how has increased dramatically and analysts say that in such a matter this man is now just trying to get some respect from the militants in the region and maybe at this particular this recent attack on the blood could also be part of his planned huge plan to gain popularity and to strengthen his position as the leader of the militants so for the republic that's now listen to what the investigators say. we re

all oil companies involved in shelf explorer ation are already working on a common security fund the accumulate emergency deposits chief jobs for what is going to be needed to make that commitment to safety for the environment for workers. priority number one we're going to see a sea change quo boy as a result of what's happened in the gulf hopefully that sea change will reach the shores of safety security risk management could be the oil industry new motto and russian oil giants wouldn't be immune as in the new innovative a business are cheap. on that so for the business here for now but you can always find the stories on our website that flash. let me. bring. you my. last. question is that so much about the taxpayers' money maintaining ization is a lot of people at various ways to get out of a good part of the world is experiencing a crippling feat. is this a trend or simply freaking weather one. welcome back you know whether it's a look at the top stories whole villages burned in central russia in the record breaking heat wave killing dozens and leaving thousands homeless the army

car parts this is not just the biggest german investment in russia but also an example of local life ation it is no longer traffic car assembly as it was twenty years ago these call parts are built with russian hands and ultimately will be built what the russians do you. unlike we're not and harold. was born in congress but in a way he also stands out from his we thousand chorley he was recruited from a local orphanage frequently out of work sylvia says he's now driven to succeed but i want to stay and work here if they give me a chance to grow i would like to become a foreman and ultimate. manager i see perspectives from reference to more and more companies are opening up in the region which. remark he was behind the idea to improve she set up a women's club in carluke which among other projects to patronage of local. government does a lot and also private. but after eighteen years old they are on the streets and what can we do so if we give clothes one day it's worn out so we thought that. beginning a project there it's not about giving money or giving things but giving an opportunity fo

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west many believe it cannot make modernization based on market freedoms is a form of democrats is ation yet there is also the more centralized chinese model which is emerging from the crisis as a jan you know financial powerhouse the russian public opinion research center to gauge the educated of russians towards different political bad news thirty six percent up fall conservative ideals such as returning to traditions and moral values tested by time twenty four percent ed here to a democratic ideals such as human rights protected freedoms and another ten percent of the respondents chose liberal values such as the free market. ok princeton and i to go to you in washington before we went to the break sean was making a comment about how the west reacted to the global crisis are they did they earn a little or deserve a x. i'm sorry rather experience a little bit of humility was pointed out earlier in the program and my is are more of a give or take to it so that both sides learn from each other. well i want to pick up on that intro on opening the door to the discussion of values here becau

for the business update engineering giant siemens has put flash on the bones of russia's more denies ation drive after a huge deal to provide the country with state of the art technology trains and white turban tar pines present richmond but if an chancellor angela merkel noted in yet it didn't work that business was booming between the two countries to help. siemens fixes its position as one of the top foreign investors in russia it will build two hundred forty more trains in the country to replace creaking regional storch europe's biggest engineering group will help to produce wind turbines cutting the country's dependence on oil and gas siemens also agreed to join russia's joint new silicon valley being built at skolkovo near moscow the multi billion euro deal comes as president richard medvedev asked for foreign help to pull the economy out of its backwardness but i assure you my not just the let me draw your attention to the fact that germany is number one in the list of russia's parliaments and we have always work jointly in creating new technologies over one hundred years and we hav

response on an individual level so we had lots about the need to address and marginalization stigmatize ation especially among high risk groups and the russia in particular was mentioned. valence of take in injecting drug users and the need for greater resources to be put in things such as needle exchange programs so the debate will remain ongoing for this week and it's not a need to date since aids came to the public attention in the one nine hundred eighty s. there were people who openly oppose the mainstream iss we can see that continues but for the people that are attending this official conference at the main focus really is what they're saying are these life saving treatments and making sure these reach the biggest number possible in the funding is from the governments of the different countries to provide this universal access to the hague hiv prevention treatment sarah first reporting there from now on the way here in our to . find out why the use of drones by the u.s. military keeps coming out of fire that's in just a few minutes. before the hour we go to indiana we're outraged paren

it's organized ations and also to make sure they're providing the money and we're delivering the services especially in tough economic times the protests the speakers are ready reserve be angered by that and what they see as a cutting back in funding and commitment the things that really critical time before the official conference started we were posting from the unofficial conference which was a group who held alternative is questioning some of the fundamental assumptions of what we all think about the and aids and they were questioning all said that this new treatment methods they have their own official talks they used were met with widespread criticism skepticism here is the mainstream conference now it's got to be said that these are new arguments since aids and to the public forum and people were aware of it since the one nine hundred eighty s. there have been opposition to the. mainstream we can head out to spec is one of the people he has for this attorney to be. in order to pick up this morning from somebody who has you have. souls and sexual contact with somebody who's possibly

we reveal and that's what we've been doing for the path for us is the truth about how when i was ationsactually behave you know if afghans don't like how those organizations actually behave then of course it is their right to engage with them or not engage with them it's not so much that there is it i think is the potential danger that they might be in now that such a huge body of information is in the public domain once again that is an allegation by the london times and that a publication who was in the oppositional relationship to the guardian paper that we collaborated with the printed fourteen pages on monday elation to this issue the times of a. and didn't printed your pages in relation to this issue on monday so they are in now in an adversary relationship because they weren't invited to the party that washington says that these documents are outdated says is there any truth to that claim well it depends on what you're talking about if you're talking about how the war has progressed of course they know that the war has been going since two thousand and one that's nine years this

the office in the ground and the dreadful so on and on for ten pages with new york times with axes ations of the double game against pakistan and what i accuse the new york times and what i think hughes american institutions of is of lying all the time in their teeth so i'm not so i'm sorry if i may i may have to hold this double game there are going to be there are going to be conspiracy theorists having a field day with this so your with these leaked documents you were touring pakistan into the story now. now it's not me this is the new york times doing it and the new york times is the voice of america so to say they draw pakistan into that and i don't know how they managed to read the ninety one thousand documents and find out this truth in them but explicitly do they talk about leaks the documents there are times writes made available by an organization code and then they start rattling off and that is something which i find very astonishing and it reminds me in fact of the practice of nine eleven where the american knew within seconds that this was a bed. some of bin laden killing am

the russian government has reduced the number of comes from what is said to be the biggest profit as ation in the country in fifteen years causing the state railways operator mortgage agency from the list eleven companies are being prepared for sale with the aim of raising at least thirty billion dollars to help plug the budget deficit in a timid vetiver reports. if you want some of the russia's blue chips well general snifter say the largest banks bear bank now is the time the government is considering selling my noid to stakes in eleven of russia's leading companies some call it the biggest privatization since the ninety's but it's not yet clear which wires to government will target therefore we're talking about. minorities and this is much different from what we have seen in russia taking place in the ninety's or prove it is asian in. general usual when we're talking about truth they should with some salespersons for strategic investors so i think that in russia's case now we're really talking wild government convention to increase fleet pre-flood of the state of companies only months a

realize ation that if we take the story back to nine hundred forty two when the soviet union had been invaded the german forces were stalling it wasn't just being invaded by germany but by a coalition of eastern european countries remain you know on this route to you can the caucasus from gary and on this there were crazy troops fighting but stalling growth and the deception was in of course this was how the germans through than to do it that it was a crusade a european crusade against bolshevism and if we bear that in mind i think we can understand the soviet point of view was that they want they want to do create a buffer zone to stop the similar crusade happening in the future ahead for the technology while the top stories from around the wall sounds like real how developed can mean we saw with a range of them diplomacy seoul says it's capable of reaching one of north korea's nuclear facilities tensions between the two countries have supplied the south north of sinking a korean warship killing forty six same as the christmas holiday also how the potential to enter the territories o

declared independence from belgrade in february two thousand and eight after un broke it because the ations failed what the us and most european nations recognized that serbia backed by russia and china called it a violation of its territorial integrity because fo had previously been administered by the un following the nascent bombing campaign against serbia in one thousand nine hundred nine some believe that this decision at the hague while not legally binding could provoke instability in other parts of the world. well let's be clear this isn't merely an issue. that has local implications huge international implications because here you have reporting in fact a non europe you know bombing its way into sovereign state in the balkans for the republic of yugoslavia at that time and subsequently as a result of it. and label for fashion to explain and the united states in fact was the very first country to recognize its course when it's clearly what they want to control this country if the international court of justice. and we have all these countries still sticking with. this situation i'm t

sound control, and per their recommendation have done specific sound etienne situation -- sound aten, ation in the building and moved the speakers away from 766 harrison address and pointed them the other way. we actually performed three sound tests in that cubic building, and used that to help with our additional sound atenuation. and mr. granelli can certainly say this is not a first but there is an email i believe in your packets, and i have a copy if you don't have one, concerning sunday, july 4th where mr. wayne canon who lives in the cubics building states that at -- there was, quote, very heavy bass sound around 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. on that particular evening, the club opened its doors at 10:00 for the first half-hour, it's very low volume but there was no sound system at all in operation on july 4 when there was a complaint from 8:30 to 9:30 in the evening. so we may have a situation here where, you know, locked buildings in the area, it seems like the sound is coming from a certain place but may be coming from somewhere else. after the sound tests were completed between mr. granelli a

all oil companies involved in shelf explore ation are already working on a common security fund don't accumulate emergency deposits chief jobs for what is going to be needed to make that commitment to safety for the environment for workers. priority number one we're going to see a sea change globally as a result of what's happened in the gulf hopefully that sea change will reach the shores of safety security and risk management could be the oil industry's new motto and russian oil giants wouldn't be immune as in the new innovative a business are cheap. and that's over the business day for now but you can always find the stories on our website that's our flash. let. me see. you saw. it. last. the in. the back there with our tears on the top stories whole villages burn in central russia in a record breaking heat wave killing dozens and leaving thousands homeless the army has been sent to help firefighters control the raging inferno. led chinese emergency workers struggled retrieve barrels holding dangerous chemicals and they were swept into a river and are now adding four rochelle. and

six months of this year we're beginning to see some signs of recovery particularly since they could ation program the scrappage scheme payment and so the past few months have shown some improvement. it looks like the cash for clunkers program has played a major role in this recovery but the program was coming to an end of the end of this year what do you think this sector prospects really look like without it. if indeed the cash for clunkers program has been very successful the first program was for two hundred thousand cars they quickly went through that in the first few months in orders and they've extended the program to another two hundred thousand cars four hundred thousand in total that means the scheme will probably get into next year they simply can't produce that many cars in the period what happens beyond that is not clear clearly it's played a strong role in increasing sales we've seen sales of russian browns up by about twenty percent in the first half of the year so clearly it's doing a good job at the moment it will continue to have an e put it front to the end of the year w

be another shock and or process where we will see more disco priming and we will see more monetize ation and as you say the more you leveraging is they really have very little choice open to them they can either go down the route of an explicit default which is just not palatable if you are one of the get reelected or you go down an implicit route which is to reflate the system so yes they have a fire on their hands and they're going to have to constantly manage reflation versus this as you call it deflation but i would add. that you have to be very careful how you define inflation and deflation deflation or inflation is really related to money supply if the money supply is increasing you have a symptom of which is inflation a rise in the price of goods that is the definition so of collapse in money supply leads to what you call deflation although the money supply is reduced somewhat globally it's still probably runs at double digits so i don't see deflation in the terms that you express it i guess is a moot point because what you're saying is that at some point when the deal leveraging

limited strategic importance and i believe in most of these cases the feet will be full prototypes ation renationalisation fear is probably one of the big east obstacles for foreign investors into venturing russia there is the fear of their wells the government feels more confident that they really resort to so-called crippling nationalization when they used to regularly three to four steve foreign investors out and indeed there is these danger so the government needs to provide better investment protection mechanism for new best years are a bit wary that if they vest and if they have a conflict with the state and they decide to take the case to court the court the judicial system which are largely roomies politically dependent or will probably side with the state so the fear of own nationalization is there and the state has to take some steps to provide guarantees that it will not have. time to take a look at how the markets are doing asian stocks are mostly lower and friday on wall street's weakness in the previous session even strong gains for sony able to prop up the total market hon

welcome to the business program engineering chime simmons has put flesh and bones of russia's more lies ations drive off to a huge deal to provide the country with state of the art technology trains and went to turbines president dmitry medvedev and chancellor angela merkel notion. that business was booming between the two countries daniel bushell reports. siemens fixes its position as one of the top foreign investors in russia it will do two hundred fifty malton trains in the country to replace creaking regional storch europe's biggest engineering group will help to produce wind turbines cutting the country's dependence on oil and gas siemens also agreed to join russia's joint new silicon valley being built at school. the multi-billion euro deal called the pretty creature but it also helped to pull the economy out of its backwardness but i assure you when you're not going to get a might let me draw your attention to the point that germany is number one in the list of russia's parliament switch and we have. created new technologies for at least over one hundred years have perfect. economic rel

the meeting the demand put in media tour of the city and noted that with all of them wondering is ation of the numerous plants in the city little attention or speed to the people even the local beach lack basic facilities next morning some be there is where police to find changing rooms toilets and sun loungers it's clear that putting expect a similar prompt response from this to producers in any bit of a business r.t. allows you update for this hour but you can always find more stories on our website r.t. dot com flashback. let me. be easy. to love my son. blah. blah. wealthy british style. sometimes subscribes. hype that. market. why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines join in to cause a report on our. motion to be soo much brighter than if you knew me poundstone from phones to impression. from stocks on t.v. dot com. this is our t.v. the headlines that there's no end in sight for russia's exceptional heat wave which has seen the hottest month on record the stitching hate co

dependence or independence say as an act as a gesture is see nothing in both cases it's gross well ation of the international law what kind of documents if you do not mind i will catalogue very briefly the your charger especially. goal especially. chips chapter two the declaration on international law also adopted by the united nations and nine hundred seventy number of key always see documents among the charter for a new europe. then there is allusion. of the un security council which is seal world it that's too well ford. four plus five more is always some cause the issue adopted previously all later on and guiding principles it's about ration of a guiding principles of course a war. course of war a political settlement also stand by the u.n. security council own lot of big stalk so i don't know why people neglected search key international documents so you've highlighted some of the potentially controversial issues at stake here let's talk about the long term endgame but what are the consequences are going to be from this i can anticipate of interests of points of view for example if

and welcome to the program engineering giant siemens has put flesh and bones of russia's mortifies ation dr off to a huge deal to provide the country with state of the art technology trains and wind turbines present that if and chancellor angela merkel noted in yet it didn't work that business was booming between the two countries reports. siemens fixes its position as one of the top foreign investors in russia it will build two hundred forty multan trains in the country to replace creaking regional stalk europe's biggest engineering group will help to produce wind turbines cutting the country's dependence on oil and gas siemens also agreed to join russia's joint new silicon valley being built at school near moscow the multi billion euro deal comes as president richard madrid if asked for help to pull the economy out of its backwardness you might manage to get let me draw your attention to the point that germany is number one in the list of russia's parliament switch and we have always worked doing here in creating new technologies really over one hundred years and we have perfect econom