this is a life from less habits occurring closeness between russia and the west was on show at a joint russian german summit in the city of that amboy president to me that medvedev and chancellor angela merkel. to person. i mean the smiles they got some business done with dozens of agreements signed our correspondent dana bash is following the story. in the windy city of where you could turn berg it was very much a case of the madrid if and merkel or a malema sure if you like is the su country's leaders were all smiles their personal strong relationship really highlights the country's two excellent relationship the moment historically delivered to agree to chatted with mr medvedev in fluent russian he with her off to a top local restaurant where they enjoyed off to perth but later promised it was not to both who predicted that germany would lose in the semifinal over the world cup now there was talk of a trio of world leaders forward looking leaders barack obama rich madrid if i call a transatlantic troika if you like moving the world forward on security and defense issues with food as

live from moscow i'm unless have it a growing closeness between russia and the west was on show was a joint russian german summers in the city of yeah got that in book president to me that had fed of an chancellor angela merkel joked about the world cup first a bug is but it made the smiles they got some business done with dozens of agreements signed our correspondent down a bushel is following the story. in the wind at their own burg it was very much a case of the madrid if and merkel malema sure if you like is the few countries leaders roths more of their personal strong relationship really highlights the country's two excellent relationship at the moment historically until it was greeted chatted with mr medvedev in fluent russian he with her off to a top local restaurant where they enjoyed all to perth but later promised it was not paul the octopus who predicted that germany would lose in the semifinal over the world cup now there was talk of a trio of world leaders forward looking leaders barack obama reach revert if i glow merkel atros that line take troika if you like moving the

the two wrapping up what has been a very successful summit a very successful meeting between the two leaders and also business leaders and political leaders germany and russia really two of the strongest partnerships on the world stage today that a bushel reporting their first will russia will hope its relationship with germany will pave the way for improvement of ties with the e.u. as a whole that is the opinion of cornelius and eastern europe expert at the bertelsmann foundation in berlin. at the moment russia and germany. clause especially in political context. we could see in the last two days economic cooperation is good but could be improved. i think the current development of the relations here is very positive and see. good german russian cooperation could be transferred. more thoughts about this story to a former k.g.b. officer says it's the developing friendship between moscow and washington which allowed the recent spy scandal to be dealt with quickly now we've got the full interview on all they can actually put nko coming up in two hours time but is a quick taster of what

this week marked thirty five years since a race between the soviet union and the u.s. turned into a joint effort in space exploration was a giant leap for mankind with the launch of the your first joint space mission apollo so use two rockets blasted off half a world away from each other before docking for the first time in orbit the event marked not only the beginning of an era of space cooperation between the two countries but also warming cold war really the u.s.s.r. and the u.s. commanders remember the historic space leg up as the most emotional moment of their lifes. the launch was during the height of the cold war so this project wasn't just technical and scientific comportment but it was also a great step towards cooperation between the u.s.s.r. and the u.s. towards progress in space there were no losers the main thing was that we started to work on friendship ties between the two countries it was like search and find ways to survive and live together in this one world it was the first time the soviet people and americans looked at each other is the quills it wa

it's a very interesting the brownlees between the battle for my heart and. in the therapies and that mosque is really cool so so so are you drawing these parallels professor you want to say that it still is possible to make moscow a very livable city a nice city to live in the are you sure what should what should we do. what should she be stopped driving is particularly dramatically you solve the problem of the made public infrastructure as it is personally the traffic infrastructures and because the level of that knowledge for example isn't that magic in the moment but if you are for. a very i when i was arrived today from a fan with a brain and i mean in terms of cd there is the quality of the architecture the dimension of the boulevards. the germ of the of the river and especially the relationship between the new and the all the good that there is very important. in architecture. this is very interesting but the dude infrastructures produce especially in the event of the five prime are very important and they made their on their bullet. and they did this

in the middle between shanghai. and then this is a pretty clear and in the other hand the possibility to organise you are almost all the cities that border now are not ready or strong in the. past and how this kind of this he's very important to as a consequence i feel that their idea of the big mosque up i absolutely agree but another question needs even of the global a big mosque or should be again there all the cities in grass i disagree with this idea whether or not they me. and. some british. rationale that it was the beach and this is another question but. moscow is the mars. with that but only the most suspect that if the in russia for that issue so as he was there i renounce spanish architect spotlight will be back shortly right after a break we'll continue this interview so stay with us there we go. to russia would be so much brighter if you knew about someone from violence to pressure these. stunts on t.v. don't come to vote for bush for the but. always adds by one vote for kerry vote for kerry so the peop

i am partial property owner of the building between lombard, 441443. although i do not oppose the entire project, i oppose a fourth floor that maximizes the wicked and the length of the lot. -- width and the length of the lot. it would make it completely dart and make the area -- dark and make the area harder to rent out. >> rose marie. >> good evening, vice president and commissioners. my name is milligan. for 50 years i lived on the the street. i currently occupy an office at union and columbus. discretionary view process is long and difficult road. there are reasons, exceptional and extraordinary to unjustified this process application. this is a reiteration that i tried to simplify. the exceptional because that is situated between two alley streets 17.5 inches wide. there are only three force-story buildings on each experian -- four-story buildings on edith. extraordinary. because of the history of development of telegraph hill by our regional planners. narrow avenues that would only support small business. extraordinary because there is no purpose

boards and then starts to rot in between there. so you have to keep that clean. once again that's a simple homeowner thing. you get a little saw blade or a pressure washer or just a saw blade is what i use. get down on your hands and knees and spend an hour and you get it all cleaned out. it's not a big deal. and if you fail to do that, you will be replacing your deck. >> one thing about stairs and really you have to -- if you're rebuilding a set of stairs, exterior stairs, what we try to do now is, if it doesn't have to be a usable space underneath, in other words, if it could just be an exterior storage, you can build the stairs and shim them off a finish siding on the inside. so you're not like the situation that -- i don't know if you've shown them the stairs, but you can build exterior stairs so you allow water to pass through. you can have it drain out. obviously if you have stairs over a living space you have to water proof the stairs -- waterproof the stairs but a lot of energy is being spent trying to get exterior stairs w

now for more on trade relations between russia and germany and the e.u. as a whole i'm joined by the c. o. . european businesses in russia frank shelf frank thanks for coming into the program now you've been watching this meeting i suppose so. we've hearing we're hearing the both leaders. say about the imbalance in investment there's more investment on the part of germany to russia than vice versa. and to the e.u. in general so why do you think this is happening well basically so it is happening because russia is an emerging market you have certainly very many areas here of the russian economy where motivation is needed this has been also stated by the russian government. investment basically come here into russia in order to hope motivation in very many areas on the other side certainly for obvious historical reasons at least europe is more developed in infrastructure also with general specs or for the consumer market than russia and so it is not so easy to find perhaps a profitable investment in european or areas where the work where this investment cou

loss from the polls the beginning of cooperation between the us and the soviet union at the height of the cold war the apollo soyuz space mission happened thirty five years ago. a very warm welcome this is r.t. live from moscow with me on this have it cooperation between russia and germany is on the high say says president de mint that event better than. coal salt of the leaders spoke at the forum in york at the same book well our correspondent daniel bushell is there and has been following events for us daniel good to see you angela merkel and to meet the vet if they've had a pretty busy day of it haven't they so what's really been achieved during this russia germany summit. well you get the sense that the two leaders have a strong relationship on a personal level angela merkel greeted and chatted with influence a russian they saw in several big business deals and there was talk of a trio of well. leaders forward looking leaders barack obama to richmond where if i call a trend that led to troika if you like moving the world forward on security and defense issues with food as the unif

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all that as you so rightly said it's seems to be a war of attrition or a battle between the. president turning out to be substantially better than people thought six weeks ago today of course we are looking at j.p. morgan chase schol disappointing results from their investment banking people were thrilled that they're right down charges were less than four billion dollars and that they posted revenues of twenty five point one billion dollars on a profit of around four point eight billion dollars which was. more than except the shares a fairly flat and i think we're going to be more interested in what happens tomorrow with bank of america merrill and also to a lesser degree with citi group we had of course yesterday. wonderful figures. for people to say well i'm prepared to hang with the equity markets but i think because they were. some six weeks ago there is perhaps a little bit of them unless of course the quality of the economic data continues to be very disappointing. make a silk science biggest foreign contract worth almost one billion dollars the company expects a kind

it is important you mentioned unity there is cooperation now in two thousand and ten between nato and russia do you think that this cooperation is stronger than what has been in the past i think he did so the potential to become stronger because we have gone through a period of difficulty and when you manage it if you manage to good through the difficulty then if you reached it then. you have and you know the munition to do it so i think normally when you go through difficulty and then you emerge other difficulties then there is a much solid base for moving forward now russia's permanent representative at nato has said that there's been a certain lack of unity among the alliance members and that that was sensed at the russian nato council on the subject of partnership with russia do you think that there is anyone actually trying to undermine this partnership between the alliance and moscow is anyone trying to get in the way of this this newfound friendship now first of all. and that's a real good thing is a dear friend of mine so i can speak very frankly because with a friend used be

the relations between jewish jewish men. who can go out. and force them to break. in the two years rami who are here and kelly been touched her have been together they've never been physically threatened he's muslim she's jewish but they're not thinking about leaving israel because they say it's simply too difficult and when my family found out they were very adamant about cutting me off on every level. for acting as a traitor to everybody and for being in israel and shit and making that choice right now israeli parliamentarians are considering a law that will require perspective israeli citizens to kid loyalty to israel as a jewish democratic state i would be israelis are furious most refuse to swear allegiance to a state they believe explicitly excludes and marginalizes them. r.t. jaffa. across russia marking navy day major celebration which is held in the last sunday to die every year the display of clout is also making ukraine where russia's huge black sea fleet is based. to watch the parade. reports from. very big day for sailors all across russia today is rus

in the middle between shanghai. and then this is a pretty clear and in the other hand the possibility to organise you are almost all the cities that border now are not ready are strong in their. own arsenal and this kind of disease is very important as a consequence i feel that their idea of the big mosque up i absolutely agree but another question needs even these a year of the role of big mosque. should be again there all the cities in russia i disagree with this idea and there are not that many of the. fun. can actually arctic national that are no more sea beach and this is another question but. is there more. with it but only the most suspect that they've grown to see the in russia for that issue so as he was there i renounce spanish architect spotlight we'll be back shortly right after a break we'll continue this interview so stay with us don't go. straight as provided citizens with. heights of. himself to put. the child. out of life. when the government seems to think. on my plate. right. i'm going to kill an

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a very warm welcome see this is coming from moscow with me on this have it a growing closeness between russia and the west was on show was a joint russian german summit in the city of you've got that emberg president dmitri medvedev and chancellor angela merkel joked about. the smiles they got some business a number of agreements while our correspondent daniel bushell is in the russian city for single line daniel a busy day for the team leaders wasn't it but there appeared to be a lot of smiles and even the little. yes in the window over you could get was very much a case of the. show if you like is the. strong relationship really the country. the movement of people to agree to do. better in flu. and russian he with her off to a top local restaurant where they enjoyed octopus but later promised it was not people who predicted that germany would lose in the semifinal all over the world cup now. there was talk of big business deals there starting to form a new trio of forward looking world leaders reach a bit better. and barack obama. tries that learned to troika to solve global security

meeting with the spies involved in the recent scandal between russia and the u.s. . what did you talk about with them. you will say you sang karaoke with them. we did sing but it wasn't karaoke strictly music what songs. from a soviet spy movie i'm not joking i'm serious we sang. on the beach was an achievement at the meeting she was there because the way who these people do you know in russia. i'm sure they will get good jobs and have interesting. and in a few minutes seeking inspiration from the installation. project we've been taking a walk on the wild side finding out. but first a rainy and president mahmoud ahmadinejad has accused russia's president of turning against tehran and joining the u.s. to spread the lies about its nuclear program ahmadinejad also insisted tehran wants to continue with friendship with moscow russia joined this western allies last month in imposing additional sanctions against iran for failure to disclose the fourth of the atomic program needed to do so from a moscow state university of international relations so as with this latest stat

there have been 225 projects of cooperation between the two cities. many chinese companies have found a home here. i think what is more significant is that this city is going to stage a san francisco place at the world expo in shanghai. that is an expression of profound friendship and strong special bonds between our two cities, and it will surely give new impetus to the friendship and cooperation between our two cities. this sculpture will stay here for a period of time. i think it will help local people to understand china, understand chinese history, chinese culture and the chinese philosophy of harmony. it will remind us to work hard to promote our mutual understanding and caption. i am confident with our joint efforts, we will surely make the san francisco exhibit a highlight at the world expo in shanghai, but also we will make san francisco the best gateway to china, a pioneer in the development of u.s.-china relations. shrank thank -- thank you. >> he spoke to the context of what we are here, also putting that in context is the head of the sist

chapter in space exploration the first ever joint project between two bitter rivals. it was a giant leap for the man on board to like i said he was the second pilot in a say you screw. with apollo it was one of the most significant moments in history of russia and the u.s. before everything was secret all the details of our space programs every detail he was a poor project we could finally passed a barrier. you lady still remembers all the details of that flight from the technical to the happy banter between them and the american astronauts on the go to we were showing the guys different cities and places in russia and when we were flying over the u.s. bonds brand was showing us florida i remember he said this is where all the pensioners go to live thirty five years on most of these men will once again get the chance to meet and share memories of their historic link up with my brother alex one of the seniors commander is in the united states for the big day. the launch was during the height of the cold war so this project wasn't of just technical and scientific import

in the middle between shanghai. and then this is really clear i mean the other hand the possibility to organise you are almost all the cities that border now are not a very strong in their. own arsenal this kind of this he's very important to as a consequence i feel that their idea of the big moscow i absolutely agree but another question needs even a year of their global a big mosque. should be again there all those cities in russia i disagree with these ideas that are not there me. the fun. bit is. crash nayak rationale that it was the beach and this is another question but moscow is the mars. with the probably the most suspect that they've grown in russia for the next year or so as he was there. are renowned spanish architects spotlight will be back shortly right after a break we'll continue this interview so stay with us there we go. state has provided citizens with. heights of goods to sell to find a hot stuff and pull up the tab sal still has a problem like. come when the government since trying to. shift from

in the middle between shanghai. and then this is pretty clear and in the other hand the possibility to organise you are almost all the cities that border now are not a very strong in the last year when i asked them how this kind of disease is very important as a consequence i feel that their idea of the big mosque up i absolutely agree but another question needs even of the role of big mosque. should be again there all the cities in russia i disagree with these ideas that are not there any. on. some big. crash my attic rational that it was the beach and this is another question but moscow is the more. with the probably the most suspect that they've grown in russia for that and she says he was a. renowned spanish architect spotlight will do that shortly right after a break we'll continue this interview so stay with us don't go. into those you should. just repeat. speech from a cinema and landed in your living. specimens is sitting straight to your stereo display a life filled glass is no problem genuine three d. conc

have between them is the perception of what pakistan sees of honest on becoming the u.s. does leave pakistan does not obviously feel comfortable with the administration in charge what they're looking forward to is having a pakistan friendly government in charge which obviously denies india the space that it currently enjoys under his eye india which pakistan sees as the stabilizing factor as far as the pakistan security situation is concerned i think that's where the difference lies pakistan sorry i had to go i was going to go to i was going to go to washington if it's interesting here what we heard dan just say in and i think maybe that this is where the biggest problem is is that pakistan wants to have an afghanistan that is friendly to islamabad but can that include mr karzai because that's that's the u.s. man in afghanistan i mean is that really where we have the differences can we find mutual accommodation between the two because we've heard just recently over the last week or so a pakistan and. pakistan afghanistan relationship but where does that leave mr karzai an

contact with somebody who made regular phone calls to joe cool moderate so there is a connection between them there and that in turn suggest that these men could have been part of the planning for march's moscow metro bombings during the search of the flat where these three men were living police found firearms explosives and also particularly significantly more scary with various potential attack targets marks on it this arrest is really significant for three reasons firstly of course it makes the world a safer place just in general there is a hard and fast evidence that these three men were conspiring to perpetrate attacks in russia and possibly elsewhere in the world also it is an important cooperation between russia and the french authorities the french police made these arrests and brought these charges following a tip from the russian authorities russia said to france there are you know there are these three chechens living in western france you should move in and have a look at what they're doing so that suggests that two countries are working together to minimize the terrorist th

and as well as that test positive for hiv so a positive or negative hiv test can mean that if it's between son being diagnosed with pneumonia or being diagnosed with aids if they're calling into question the reliability of the importance another thing they've been talking about is about the safety and effectiveness of the aids drug treatment now for more on this we can hear from journalist jane shenton from the community resource foundation he spoke to us about some conventional treatment has actually caused the death of a whole generation of young gay men in america when they were on the high doses of aids and t.v. that is well documented not one single young man or woman and there were a few women who took the high doses of aids their d. has survived many many others have survived who haven't taken the antiviral and many have survived who have taken antivirals at times to damp down what essentially is an immune suppression for many many different reasons so it's extremely important to be challenging this hypothesis which of course is tied up with hundreds and billions of thousands of dol

they fractured relationship between the u.s. and iran another spike this week as the country's traded allegations of a nuclear scientist a mary the iranian expert he returned home last thursday says he was kidnapped by the cia held for fourteen months and tortured to reveal information about the country's nuclear program and he also claims he was asked to confess to being an intelligence agent so the u.s. could swap him with her american is being held in iran on a spanish charges washington denies that's american media and while it's reported that a miriam's action at a u.s. spy for years working undercover as a terror on a university his christian first into the case. the looming question in this case how did the iranian scientists sure rama miri get to the united states one person has. already answered that question sure amiri himself but his answers completely contradict one another in this video a man who says he sure rama miry says he's in tucson arizona and was kidnapped by agents from the cia and saudi arabian intelligenc

to see that maybe even to the fact that between never see thank you. and you probably never would if it wasn't for a seaside p.r. stunt. sitting on the beach or parachute go i couldn't quite figure it out myself for legs now of my own ice a donkey it was intended to attract only local customers to watersports firm and a russian black sea resort but its effect quickly ripple down across the world levy many worried about the donkey's feet this animal was suffering was captured on videos and photographs and the way it spread through the media is really amazing and i think what the public has done is created a demand you know for animals to be treated better and for people to pay attention after attraction is such an audience the donkey's owner decided he tries handed a different sport running to the evidence the animal itself within the thirties also question the watersports company involved the police then concentrated all their effort on finding the owner and his donkey like this one there in moscow as you can see is a pretty big fella and difficult to

lost from the polls the beginning of cooperation between the us on the soviet union at the height of the cold war the apollo soyuz the space mission happened thirty five years ago. russians up for the worst drought in more than a decade and many farmers say despite government help they still face bankruptcy that and more in our business program and twenty minutes. of our warm welcome see this is the line from moscow i'm on this have good cooperation between russia and germany is on the high say president medvedev and chancellor angela merkel well song to the at the petersburg for today will we can now across. his ear get that invoke for us following events so daniel angela merkel and to meet them a very of a pretty busy day did they say wants but it she this year is russia germany summit . where you really get the sense that the two have a strong relationship on a personal level when i was at that meeting a few weeks ago in germany. they stayed up chatting to the early hours of the morning this time angela merkel agreed to talk to dmitry medvedev influence russian before he invited h

between the u.s. and russia where ten spies were deported from the u.s. in exchange for four in russian presence most of all so i thank you so much for talking to r.t. today that this seems to have been a very lengthy process in which no actual secrets were passed on do you think that these particular spies would ever have produced information that would have been of any value well it's difficult to say what they would eventually. manage to get over certainly what they were doing when they were discovered during very quiet suburban lives it does for a lot of people they have not penetrated any major institution like cia. or f.b.i. or the pentagon or some nuclear facility that and any of that they might have been used as me go betweens but one doesn't think that as the primary information source they were nowhere near as sensitive material and these kind of deep sleep i mean what kind of person would do that it seems to be quite a special type of scale it is to do to leave your homeland to go to somebo

there's a difference between perception and reality. is the people of israel yearn for peace, pray for peace. we've not had a day's peace, a day of complete peace, since the founding of the state in 1948. we know the cost of wars. there's -- many israelis have suffered it. i've suffered it personally. i've lost a brother in the war between the wars known as terror. many of my friends have lost direct relatives. we know the loss of war. we know the sorrows of war. we know the blessings of peace. yet at the same time we forged a peace agreement with egypt. we forged a peace agreement with jordan. and throughout these years, we built a robust economy. israel is a beehive of crea creativity and innovation. the economy is growing. it's one of the best economies in the developed world. there's a story there that doesn't get told. both of our desire for peace, our sacrifices for peace, and our building of a better reality. and i can envision, if we had the kind of peace i envisioned with the palestinians, we could see what we're seeing now in

i think first of all to go back to our tolls point you this is a missile alliance between the u.s. and pakistan countries really don't have friendships they have relationships and they have interests and their relationships are based on interests so we shouldn't really see this is a permanent relationship there will always be differences and the baggage of history of the u.s. pakistan rollercoaster relationship really impinges on current decisions and perceptions inside pakistan as far as afghanistan is concerned in my view pakistan could certainly live with karzai provided it sees a stable of law an entity in which the bathrooms have a much greater say that's the kind of government that they could live with because they're supposed to and that are most contiguous to the area that's pakistan on the border and if the post tunes are unhappy that the northern alliance or other groups that are traditionally closer to india have greater say then pakistan will be unhappy some of the recent signals from kabul have been quite positive i personally see this developing because karzai obvious

to be a rift between the two do you think. yes i think there are already is to some extent and i think the biggest indication is that britain is the biggest ally and their their public is very unhappy with the war and i think of britain as unhappy than the rest of europe is even more unhappy and so i think that the british public opinion is very in decades. the state of affairs of the. what the allies are facing at home and i think they'll be under intense pressure to withdraw troops faster and of course that puts more. pressure on the u.s. to withdraw but at the same time it leaves the u.s. more work to do as the leader of the coalition of troops start foreign troops start pulling out so the u.s. is really caught between a rock and a hard place on several different factors here and so i think the overall. diagnosis is not good and i think the prognosis is not good either or i will leave it there thank you very much director of the central piece and liberty at the independent institute in washington d.c. as always good to hear

the relations between george. bush. and hunting jewish. guys and threatened and forced them to break. in the two years romney who are here and kitty been touched or have been together they've never been physically threatened he's muslim she's jewish but they're not thinking about leaving israel because they say it's simply too difficult on other levels and when my family found out they were very adamant about cutting me off on every level. for acting as a traitor to everybody and for being in israel and in making that choice right now israeli parliamentarians are considering a new it will require prospective israeli citizens to kid loyalty to israel as a jewish democratic state i would be israelis are furious most refused to swear allegiance to a state they believe explicitly excludes and marginalizes them. r.t. jeff. now breakthroughs in treating aids have been attracting much attention at an international conference on the disease in the area but activists have also been trying to highlight the need for universal access to treatment camp

this is the way that this is going to pick these ruining our present that we can of the relationship between the human being an offender or a victim of racism an arab israeli man of finds himself behind bars after having consensual sex with a jewish woman who complained to police afterwards saying who tricked her into believing he was also a jew. and a law school board delays of moving on in the alleged neo nazi group accused of dozens of murders and other race crimes while psychiatric tests are carried out. you're watching r t live from central moscow it's two in the morning here thank you for joining us and now it's where top story kossovo unilateral declaration of independence from serbia in two thousand and eight did not break international law the international court of justice in the hague has ruled that judges decided that there is no legal article which prohibits declarations of sovereignty sparking concerns among countries with separatist movements that a dangerous precedent has been set. the highest court of the united nations rejected serbia's claim that cost of both secession in