belarus ones -- berlin warrants belarus not to send negative s ignals. they are clear signs china is more comfortable than ever flexing economic and political muscle. >> at the european union-china summit in brussels, the chinese premier laid out two demands. he wants to -- he wants the european union to lift its embargo on trade. >> he says he wants them to look at the country as an economic equal, saying it is time for them to recognize china as a fully fledged market economy. >> they were all smiles, and indeed, the first part of the speech to the participants was cordial. but then came the criticism. >> i must be very frank in saying this -- we have been working hard on lifting the arms embargo and raising our trade status. a solution has been elusive. i deeply regret this. >> then, the live feed of wen's broadcast was cut off on the orders of the chinese delegation. an eu spokesman said he had ended his opening statement and had moved on to private negotiations. these discussions included china's efforts to help the eurozone deal with its debt crisi

moscow's lending belarus nearly 10 billion euros to build this, the first of its kind.ccording to the government, the majority of belarussians support the project. we've been told to follow this white car to a place where we can talk. tatiana, like most others here, does not want to be seen speaking with western journasts, especially not if they oppose nuclear energy. she is comfortable talking here on her farm in the middle of the woods. tatyana has thyroid cancer. there has been a marked increase in the disease since chernobyl. she was a vocal opponent of the new plant until she was arrested under flimsy pretenses. she spent five days in jail and was denied her cancer medication. it was a warning. now she is more careful. >> they have tapped my phone, so i do not use it anymore. i am not sure if i am being followed. i have not spotted them yet. i know they know me and can lash out anytime they want. no more threats are needed. >> tatyana says president lukashenko is assessed with the idea of having his own nuclear plant. it is also in russia's interest to build it as

-- in all precincts throughout the republic of belarus. i would say voter turnout was more than 70% total. >> however, opposition leaders are skeptical that so many people turned up at the polls. they have called for a boycott, saying that election officials would make sure that the president remained in power. >> these elections were not competitive from the start. a free election depends on people being free to speak, organized, and run for office. we did not see these in this country. >> despite the criticism, the president praised the elections as open and fair, saying western countries could learn from belarus. he also lambaste it opposition leaders as cowards, out of touch with the people -- lambast died opposition leaders as cowards, out of touch with the people. but opposition leaders say that our form can only be brought about -- >> opposition leaders say that any reform can only be brought about by help with -- by russia. we talked about the extent of russian influence. >> vladimir putin is actually the last standing ally of the

belarus holds national elections on sunday. most bets outside the country are not on a free and fair pole. >> the european union has been critical of president lukashenko for his crackdown on reporters. >> our reporter visited the country and talk to people who stand to win and stand to lose if he stays in power. >> this group of activists is trying to make a point. they want to say that in belarus, no one is free. lukashenko's police often put these activists behind real bars. one went to jail for eight months, but he continues to protest, even though he has been thrown out of university and few other people show up for the protests. >> people are scared. when you speak out against the regime, you lose your job, have to leave university, get beaten up, or end up in jail. that is why there are not any big demonstrations here anymore. but a lot of people are disappointed that division in the opposition. >> in minsk, there is resignation, not to send -- not dissent, unlike after the presidential election years ago. tennessee poli

eleven the ice hockey world was shaken by terrible news look i'm a thief was travelling to minsk in belarus for the first game of the two thousand and eleven to two thousand and twelve season when their plane crashed into notion the airport in the region deficient explanation was pilot error. gainey punin was among the first to arrive at the crash scene he was a close friend of event to the team's captain. there are still a few places here where the earth is still scorched and the smell of kerosene hangs in the air. that. was up here. some of the plane taking off from airport began to roll comedia lay after takeoff and flew in this direction before crashing by the river by the second most severe blow curd here and led to an explosion. why can some one of the airplanes fuel tanks were full of gossip. i think that's when most people were killed last year four hundred. thirty seven passengers and crew members on board only teammate alexandra de lima off and flight engineer alexandra c. itself was still alive after the awful crash but barely the world prayed for a miracle. my husband took him b

the a european election watchdogs slam sunday's parliamentary vote in belarus those results show a new lower house predominantly behind longstanding president alexander lukashenko although serious observers say the election was fully democratic the result may further harm in sex relations with the west as a lecturer jessica reports now. there will be no members of the opposition inside developer russian parliament old hundred nine deputies which were elected following sunday's parliamentary elections will be supporting president lukashenko current political course this is according to the russian central election commission this parliamentary election in belarus had an increasing number of international observers with more than four hundred observers of which from the european union some of the international observers criticized the election calling them undemocratic and saying that the members of the opposition were not registered in the course of the campaign and had very little air time on television which violates all democratic norms now such a result of the election comes as no s

between trying to get involved in the wto and the this, in union that is happening between russia, belarus, kazakhstan? >> the short answer is, no, not really. there is a really complex answer. there is a way in which union agreements like that can be incorporated into wto. it is called a section 28 process where you modify people's agreements and go through it. but in the end, it will be more negotiating and more paperwork, but it is not incompatible. >> and it is all in the interest of trade. >> it is all in the interest of facilitating trade, so countries like isaac than it can export goods more freely around the world and other countries have the same rights and exporting to convict on -- kazakhstan. >> i am thrilled to have the opportunity to talk with you, mr. ambassador. >> thank you so much. conversation with ambassador fairfax, we visited the foreign ministry of kazakhstan. what were you -- would you say are the pillars of the foreign- policy of kazakhstan? >> in up, after gaining independence in 1991, we became a full-fledged member of the united nations as a peace-loving nation.

hours level tragedy the entire squad was killed in a plane crash on route to a k h l match in belarus now pays tribute to those who lost their lives. live. that is over from the wall to spoil for now there's plenty more light to hear out say. spanning continents. and oceans the connections. of the fruitful billion empower the pacific. the russian apec summit on our t.v. . world the future of science technology innovations all the latest developments from around russia we've got this huge earth covered. going to be soon which brightened if you knew about summed from funniest impression .

foundation of the city of yugoslavia itself the team boasted the best hockey players from the world from belarus via the czech republic slovakia sweden the united states and canada people love to look emotive jaroslava not just because it was one of the most renowned teams in the country all but it won the russian c. colleagues three times but for the fact that it was also a very friendly and well balanced team it's called players were always from jaroslava. and that remained unchanged. alexander of us enough had played ice hockey since he was eight in the summer of two thousand and eleven he returned from the n.h.l. the twenty three year old was going to play with a look at monte for a year and then return to america in two thousand and eleven he was going to get married just like a few of his friends from the club like andre tell you he and conservative a step took. his path was not easy but third thing is age group you always won the title of the best player in the tournament and sometimes in player of the year. he does actually scores first and only gold and the n.h.l. gives this to every pl

. >> all rigaw >> the united states has imposed sanctions to a firm in belarus for providing arms to syria. the company contributing to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. the officials say the firm provided parts for aerial bombs syrian forces used against rebels. the treasury department will freeze the assets in the u.s. and ban the firm from dealing with american companies. treasury officials also slapped sanctions on syria's army supply bureau and on the head of the research center involved in developing chemical weapons. documents i identified, 117 aircraft operated by iranian airlines used to transport weapons to syria. a treasury official in charge of counterterrorism, said he hopes the penalties will help disrupt the flow of weapons to the syrian regime. >>> iran's foreign minister pledged unwavering support for the syrian government. he met in damascus with president bashar al assad. syria's conflict is best resolved within the country. political analysts interpreted that as implying that assad should put an end to civil war. leadership in tehran wants to preve

the region and also its vast territories including that of its customs union with kazakhstan and belarus to build a bridge basically between asia and europe but also that in a. kind of back all of his thoughts about the importance of this shift towards asia for russia in an exclusive interview that he gave to several days ago one of the main issues of course the importance of trade with china which has become one of the most important partners for russia with trade expected to exceed one hundred billion dollars through out the end of this year let's listen to what the g.o.p. has actually had to say during that exclusive interview with r.t. china's taking up this new leading role i know tony in russia's eyes but also in the eyes of the whole world nor what makes this rather special however is that russia and china are neighbors and our special relations took thousands of years to evolve to where they are. over the coming years we are bound to achieve. a one hundred million dollar turnover rate and of course is not only china in that region which is playing an increasing role russia has al

countries including belarus and moldova were battling it out while teams like israel and iran who resolving matters on the pitch even if the adults of these countries still cannot seem to find common ground but it was kazakhstan and host. russian who eventually made it to the final home advantage had clearly helped the russian side reach the spot but it was has expand that stole the show putting five unanswered goals past the home side and taking the trophy the tournament also attracted a few prominent figures including to. need suits i was invited to take part in the trophy presentation and i think it's a big thing because in the past backyard football was one of the main producers of footballers we see playing professionally and with this tournament i hope we will see more such talents come through when asked about whether he had spotted any future stars he was optimistically. it's of course tough to gauge because the kids are still young but on the whole the level of the tournament is growing every year and those kids i saw in the final left a very good impression. but of course this eve

the russians are fading fast in second or third place together with the belarus people. the rates of the incarceration are five, six, seven, eight times than most in other societies, europe and elsewhere, though their rates of nonviolent crime and drug use are not that much different than ours. so if another country were to lock up its own people at the rate that we do, and if our rates of incarceration were more normative to the rest of the world, we would regard with that other country was doing as a massive violation of human rights. that's the way we would look at it. now, the other point here is what we're doing is not even consistent with american history. i mean, we had 500,000 people behind bars in 1980 and now we have 2.3 million, 2.4 million people behind bars and almost have 5,000 people behind bars just for a drug violation. there are as many people behind bars for a drug violation than we had for everything in 1980. it's not consistent with global standards and not consistent with our own history. it's costing a vast amount of money and i think what you see

victoria azarenka had a comfortable when over george's and their position fairly it only took the belarus player an hour and twenty minutes to wrap up a six two six two win as our anchor will next play defending champion sam stosur for a place in the semifinal. he was meant defending champion novak djokovic has progressed to the last sixteen the serb in these ballots so on arthur ashe court in an hour and thirty seven minutes six three six two six two with the final score truck of each was happy to get through the morning match and when explain switzerland's that his last governing pair i am also happy is horsey david ferrer the spaniard booked his place in the fourth round with a four set win over australia and former world number one lleyton hewitt and one. day for a place in the last eight. local favorite andy roddick has kept his career going after saying here we talk after this tournament the thirty year old has made sure of at least one more appearance on court after a force that win over italy's fabio fognini and the set to face argentina's fine martin del potro in the last sixteen

change at the top of the k h l table checks idea of an ivy league is after their phone a win over belarus although they are level on points with nothing to make who beat three two in overtime action now from that game host twice came from behind in constantine. early in the third period to send the game to extra for a czech forward. grabbed the all important goal from their fifteen minutes. while twice former champions up to third following a five mile drubbing of our vanguard away from home in siberia election voters are back to brace here by through the first period and completed the ride in the dying seconds. and finally rushes n.b.a. stars are enjoying the last few weeks of their break before heading back to north america for the pre-season so rich and poor managed to catch up with kara lanka he's looking forward to joining his new club the minnesota timberwolves. in the end it wasn't a difficult decision to return to being even though he was offered a lucrative contract to remain in russia. but the lure of the biggest basketball league in the world proved too good for eight hundred f

euro twenty twelve with a broken leg or france are currently top of group buying but will welcome belarus looking to eventually it with them as one of the eight in paris and european qualifiers two years ago georgia mean more than one bare opening qualifier and spain are worried one upset. someone has done it it's clear that nothing is guaranteed even be the world of european champions does not guarantee anything these are difficult trips we've been analyzing the georgian team they have high quality players and will make it very difficult for us this is a world cup qualifying game and nothing will be easy. white house where england have also been training ahead of tuesday's match against ukraine at wembley the three lions are without veteran defender john terry who is out with an ankle injury the chelsea man picked up are not doing their five nil drubbing of moldova in their opening qualifier on friday we know theo walcott is also real that's due to a virus having to england's long injury list to fill the gaps manager roy hodgson has called up seventeen year old liverpool will go right he

summit were not guided not only by russians because by co-ordinated position of the troika russia belarus and kazakhstan bad the way you might have heard but he was certainly a party countries which are already. showing for me were to fall back to kl interest in establishing special relations. free trade areas with the customs union and the single economic space music. group we are starting to tackle negotiations with some of those countries we also believe technology nation of integration but in the regime and asian space. between the benefit of all in the future we could just look at me for me to speak about buildings growth for dialogue between the disciplines of the eurasian economic union that is now being established and a pakistani cooperation is possible with other regional associations if you are in summit where burned the importance of taking joint steps to improve the supply chain. eliminate points that remain that limited tools with me but the flow of goods and we suggest to use transit potential of our country today versus five regional and global supply chains and you. green

the post i was there was created to be travelers by the three percent former soviet states russia belarus ambassadors done. in the big game with more than just our common response to the challenges of those races they are some of them w the doors when they come in a planned joint project with a value go hanumant so leisure negotiations with them your book the water and then after a movie doing the customs union and new zealanders are on their way that wasn't just in a joint real goal it should have just the possibility of launch and similar negotiations with vietnam. to go to work and work force negotiations on the sale mad to other countries also possible we receive dozens i want to highlight dozens of requests from the countries but from you can asia of the century regions that are seeking special treatment stuff that i shall be.

course this is according to the russian central election commission of this parliamentary election the belarus had an unprecedented number of international observers with more than four hundred observers of which from the european union some of the international observers criticized the election calling them undemocratic and saying that the members of the opposition were not registered in the course of the campaign and had very little air time on television which violates all democratic norms now such a result of the election is comes as no surprise to most of the political analyst i spoke to some of them inside just last week saying that they would not expect anything different from this election mainly because the opposition in the country had been divided part of the opposition decided to boycott the election and other part of the opposition withdrew from the election at the very last moment this election paints a very grim picture for. relations with the european union with so much criticism coming from europe actually had hoped for a proper democratic election this time but certainly give