and generating power plugs its first nuclear plant into the national grid the facility at bushehr was built with the help of russia. and italy moves closer to the center of the eurozone debt crisis as its crucial austerity package and as the final stages triggering a new wave of protests of tough spending cuts the top stories of this up. international news and coming. live from my headquarters here in central moscow this is r.t. unsolved issues in russia u.k. relations should not stand in the way of healthy and profitable corporation that's what the leaders of the two states concluded after their meeting at the kremlin artes and he said no it has more on the outcome of the first official visit by a british prime minister to russia for six years. president made of called the talks direct and constructive david cameron called them axel would the two leaders have pretty much agreed to disagree on their sticking points saying that they have to be able to move forward in other spheres especially business a lot of talk that least in the news conference a lot of questions about the lives of

iran's bushehr nuclear power plant has officially begun operating and is now providing electricity to the country's national grid it's a first such facility in the entire middle east region and has been following the launch in bushehr. this is a truly historic day for iran as its first nuclear power plant in bush era is joining the national energy grid it's going to start operating with thirty five to forty percent of its capacity that is the plight thirty five to forty percent of the energy and it's going to reach the hundred percent potential within the next couple of months now this is something that has been in the making for a very long time this is a joint russia iran venture russia's adam story expert there's been a vigorous lee helping the rhenium side in the destruction of this nuclear power plant specially since one thousand nine hundred ninety eight the opening of the plants has been attended by russia's energy minister spazz called and also by the head of story expert both of whom have underlines the importance office then sure for both countries now russia's energy minist

to the national grid the facility at bushehr was built with the help of russia and will reach its full capacity at the end of the year. it's really moved closer to the center of the eurozone debt crisis is crucial austerity package enters the final stages triggering a new wave of protests and tough spending cuts and much of the nation fifty four billion euro program is aimed at balancing the country's projects and triggering growth. well i'll do that with a recap of our top stories for in about fifteen minutes up next it's the sport with . good to have your company this is a sport that we have got plenty ahead over the next ten minutes including all this . stateside shock some stories are shikarees her first ever grand slam title beating big favorite serina williams in the women's u.s. open final. soaring eagles one of the favorites for the n.f.l. trying this year philadelphia get their campaign all to start against the set list from. topping the charts russian move into first place overall in the modern pentathlon world finals being held here in moscow. let's start with some sad news

iran's bushehr nuclear power plant has officially begun operating and is now providing electricity to the country's national grid it's the first such facility in the entire middle east region and artie's an english guy has been following the launch in bushehr. this is a truly historic day for iran as its nuclear power plant is joining the international energy grid it's going to start operating at thirty five forty percent of its. thirty five to forty percent of energy and it's going to hundred percent potential within the next couple of months now this is something that has been in the making for a very long time this is a joint. venture. that's been vigorously helping the. nuclear power plant specially since one nine hundred ninety eight the opening. by russia's energy minister and also by the head of. the important. countries russia's energy minister has said that all of. the international standards together with. went through difficulties and problems. and to deal with. the whole world i'm sure. of the station to develop the nuclear energy projects. we created together you have to

generating power plugs its first nuclear plant into the national grid the facility at bushehr was built with the help of russia. and italy moves closer to the center of the eurozone debt crisis as its crucial austerity package enters the funnel stages triggering a new wave of.

generating power iran plugs its first nuclear plant into the national grid the facility at bushehr was built with russia's help. italy moves closer to the center of the eurozone debt crisis as its crucial austerity package enters the final stages triggering a new wave of protests and tough spending cuts but much debated fifty four billion euro program is aimed at balancing the country's budget and triggering growth. up next we look at the silent casualty of war the environment which faces severe and long term damage from both the production of weapons and combat itself stay with us . sometimes we think that it's easier to make war and to work to create an it or to clean up after it the military is a major player in terms of environmental outcomes. the environment is wars silent or short when we talk about the costs of war we're really focused on what happens to the way or the animals we rarely focus on that which sustains human or. we're completely out of sync in defining threats to our security. at one time the principal threats were in the what cheery they no longer are there now env

generating power iran plugs its first nuclear plant into the national grid the facility at bushehr was filled with russian help. italy moves closer to the center of the eurozone debt crisis as its crucial austerity package enters a final stage triggering a new wave of protest at top spending cuts. and europe is that problems thought of international stock markets down with the r.t.s. closing more than three and a half percent and the red bull have all the details for you and business in twenty minutes.

generating power iran plugs its first nuclear plant into the national grid the facility at bushehr was built with the help of russia.

generating power iran plugs its first nuclear plant into the national grid the facility at bushehr was filled with russian help. italy moves closer to the center of the eurozone debt crisis as its crucial austerity package enters a final stage triggering a new wave of protests tough spending cuts. and the euro has that problems thrive and so national stock markets down with the r.t.s. closing more than three and a half percent in the red we'll have all the details for you in business in science minutes. seven pm in moscow i'm at tresor good to have you with us here on r t our top story unsolved issues in russia and the u.k. relationship should not stand in the way of healthy and profitable cooperation outs with the leaders of both states concluded at a meeting of the crown one or two years and you say no way has more on the outcome of the first official visit by a british prime minister to russia in six years. president it's made of call the talks direct and constructive david cameron called them axel would the two leaders have pretty much agreed to disagree on their sticking points sa

generating power iran plays its first nuclear plant for the national grid facility of bushehr was built with the help of russia and will reach its full capacity at the end of the year. also reporting the start italy moves closer to the center of the eurozone debt crisis as its crucial austerity package enters the final stages triggering a new wave of protests of tough spending cuts much debated fifty four billion euro program is aimed at balancing the country's budget and triggering growth. for more tougher starting measures in a new one of property taxes being prepared for the greeks as the country is finding it hard to escape the grip of its debt expert talk to greek n.p.c. . who says joining the euro zone has destroyed his country's financial prospects a special interview for you next on r.t. . greece has given the world many i define myths including the latest one and its economy was strong enough to join the euro zone was it a comedy and tragedy or maybe a farce well to discuss that right now joined by the member of the greek parliament . thank you very much for your time sir now g

generating power iran plugs its first nuclear plant into the national grid facility at bushehr was built with the help russia. of italy moves closer to the center of the euro zone debt crisis as its crucial austerity package and there's a final stage triggering a new wave of protests and tough spending cuts. five pm in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story we're covering breaking news on our t.v. an explosion at a nuclear facility in mar cool in southern france one person reportedly killed several injured authorities say no radiation leak has been reported the explosion followed a fire in a storage area for radioactive waste according to the list figaro newspaper the facilities in the garden region it's a major site involved with decommissioning nuclear facilities and operates a pressurized water reactor will bring you more on this breaking news story shortly . unsolved issues in russia u.k. relations should not stand in the way of healthy and profitable cooperation that's what the leaders of the two states concluded at their meeting at the kremlin or he'

iran's bushehr nuclear power plant will officially start operating when it starts to provide electricity to the national grid lawyer monday the facility which was built with russia's help came online last year russia's angy minister praised the efforts in working together and promised similar projects in the future. together would only rate income to parts when through difficulties and problems building plans and to deal with them to produce the results that are drawing the attention of the whole world i'm sure the cooperation in creating the station and the building out of nuclear energy projects will be seen as the atmosphere we created while working together. russia has agreed to provide fuel for the plant but iran will return old span fuel to russia to ease western concerns over to iranian enrichment program their riders once again stressed its atomic ambitions are peaceful and are not aimed at building nuclear weapons. sunday was an emotional day for americans remembering the victims of the nine eleven attacks exactly ten years ago thousands gathered in new york at the new memorial

iran's first nuclear power plant is now putting electricity in the country's national grid work on the bushehr facility began in the nineteen seventies but construction stalled until the ninety's when russia sense precious to complete it both countries have agreed that spent atomic fuel from the plant will be sent to russia to reduce western concerns that iran could use the materials to build nuclear arms. probable stormily is reached landfall in louisiana in the southern u.s. as a state of emergency in the region as well as coastal parts of mississippi where evacuations are taking place up to fifty centimeters of rain are expected over the next few days in louisiana including new orleans which is still haunted by the katrina flood disaster in two thousand and five ago comes less than a week after hurricane irene killed more than forty people in the u.s. . on what's going celebration central this sunday red square has been marching to a massive military to tutoring hundreds of armed forces performance from around the world who've been showing off their skills the russian capital's also been wr

bushehr is not the public can take as a state he met his prepays will be all the latest from syntagma square. also this hour as government forces storm would kill opposition town in syria moscow calls on both sides to talk while rejecting western sanctions. and violence flares between serbia and breakaway kossovo seven kosovan serbs are injured of the disputed border crossing. welcome you watching our team from moscow with me kevin owen our top story at eight pm greece says it's doing all.

first nuclear power plant is now putting electricity into the country's national grid work on the bushehr facility began of the one nine hundred seventy s. but construction stalled until the ninety's when russia sent specialists to complete it if countries agreed that spent atomic fuel from the plant will be sent to russia to reduce western concerns that iran could use materials to build nuclear bombs. or so in our world update this hour tropical storm lee has reached landfall in louisiana in the southern u.s. as a state of emergency in the region as well as coastal parts of mississippi where evacuations are taking place up to fifty centimeters of rain are expected over the next few days and the reason including new orleans which is still haunted by the katrina flood disaster in two thousand and five comes less than a week after hurricane irene killed more than forty people in the u.s. . well up soon a british opposition m.p. talks about his country's involvement in foreign wars that'll be our interview for you after a recap of our main stories of me in about this in a minute from now sta

first nuclear power plant is now putting electricity into the country's national grid work on the bushehr facility began in the one hundred seventy s. but construction stalled until the ninety's when russia sent specialists to complete it both countries have agreed that spent atomic fuel from the plant will be sent to russia to reduce western concerns that iran could use the materials to build nuclear arms. tropical storm lee has reached landfall in louisiana in the southern u.s. there's a state of emergency in the region as well as coastal parts of mississippi where evacuations are taking place up to fifty centimeters of rain are expected over the next few days in louisiana including new orleans which is still haunted by the katrina flood disaster in two thousand and five a gale comes less than a week after hurricane irene killed more than forty people in the u.s. . russia's youth are beating a path to the big cities to make their living but the rural towns they leave behind dying out as a result you got to skim off has more now on the generation drained he held the few who stay behind a

first nuclear power plant is now putting electricity into the country's natural grid work on the bushehr facility began of the one nine hundred seventy s. but construction stalled until the ninety's when russia sent specialists to complete it both countries are agreed that spent atomic fuel from the plant will be sent to russia to reduce question concerns that iran could use the materials to build nuclear arms. called the storm lee is reach landfall in louisiana in the southern u.s. there's a state of emergency in the region as well as coastal parts of mississippi where evacuations are taking place two fifty centimeters of rain are expected over the next few days in louisiana including new orleans which is still haunted by the katrina flood disaster in two thousand and five the gale comes less than a week after hurricane irene killed more than forty people in the u.s. . the u.n. war crimes tribunal has missed a key piece of evidence in the trial against balkans war suspect rackemann outage it's asked our solti for a copy of an archive interview with the former bosnian serb general which

of the there is a lot of hope for this power plant which is which has just become operational in bushehr in iran so out of that whole fear and. nation joining us now in studio is ivan eland to talk about that he's senior fellow at the independent institute thanks for being here so there is a difference between producing nuclear energy and trying to develop a nuclear weapon. well one could lead to the other but in this killer case this reactor is a light water reactor so there's less proliferation danger meaning there's less of a chance that they could use it for nuclear weapons the other thing is that russia is selling the fuel and then taking the stand you a lot of times the spent fuel can be. used to mean fuel and so that's an added safeguard in this case so i think you know people who say that this is a proliferation risk there might be a little bit but it's not it's not a it's not that much of one i think ok so you're saying that for example when the u.n. nuclear watchdog comes out and says that it's concerned about iran's nuclear intentions when their plant goes online are you sayin

to the national grid the facility at bushehr was built with the help of russia and will reach its full capacity at the end of the year. italy moves closer to the center of the eurozone debt crisis as its crucial austerity package enters the final stages triggering a new wave of protests and tough spending cuts and much debated fifty four billion euro program is aimed at balancing the country's budget and triggering growth. has more e.u. countries sink in a sea of debt peter byrne and his guests are discussing whether there are any positive sides to the crisis cross-talk is next here on r.t. and i'll be back with more news in off an hour from now. oh in the welcome across. the euro a currency in crisis and an unknown future is there a silver lining. ok let's to determine if there is a silver lining to the euro crisis and i'm joined by jeffrey summers he's an associate professor at the university of wisconsin in milwaukee also we have michael hudson he is president of the institute for the study of long term economic trends and matthew and he's a financial journalist ok gentlemen this is

european missile defense shield has been a bone of contention between a washington here and moscow the bushehr of ministration saying they want to put missiles in western europe to deflect the threat of rogue states like north korea and iran do you think we could see perhaps a change or a shift in a russian of russia's up foreign policy strategy. i don't expect any major shift i think there might be a slight change of tone i think president clinton. in the cart. use some rather. strong language titans remember the security conference in two thousand and seven when he announced american. family i think over time. probably has changed and he will be more pragmatic perhaps to the point but i don't think on the on the issue there will be any big shift across person which is also deal opposed to. shield that would. look like national security interest i think on that much more to the battle for the economic and social issues. we're certainly seeing a lot of enthusiasm. among the members of the ruling united russia party with us with this announcement and i guess in a candidate for next year's presi