the so-called elephant oil fields of tengiz and kashagan on the caspian sea have put kazakhstan in the top league of countries with proven oil reserves... nearly40 billion barrels. >>reporter: that's about half the reserves of russia... kazakhstan's neighbor to the north. >>russia's threat to cut off oil supplies to europe in 2008 left lasting impressions... putting its reputation as a reliable energy partner at risk. kazakhstan has been filling that void. >>kulibayev: kazakhstan is a reliable partner for the moment and will be a reliable partner for the future. >>reporter: for the last few years the fashion has been to talk about bric countries: brazil, russia, india and china... but kazakhstan's elevated energy status has earned it a spot among the new grouping of brink countries. >>west: the brink countries are the countries where production is going to be rising substantially: brazil, russia, iraq, nigeria and kazakhstan. but of those five countries, kazakhstan is unique in that it'sthe only one that is landlocked. it's the only one that doesn't have beachfront property and so thec

is to explore and develop a major caspian sea gas filled it signed a thirty year deal on the shop a seam and filled with a stage energy firm the deal involving up to five hundred billion cubic meters of gas could strength of the role of visitor by john as a supplier to the west. that's all we have time for knowledge join me next hour for more and get more stories on our web site r t v dot com slash business. every month we give you the future we help you understand how we'll get there and. the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join us for technology update on our jeep. with twenty four hours a day this is all from the russian company top stories now in the south as the war in afghanistan reaches you the ten online videos posted by nato soldiers are on the mind the coalition's reputation does not make it streams websites using direct links to clips uploaded by allied troops to drum up new support for the. unrest flares once again days before call them entry elections or two to be held security is being intensified across the country ahead of sunday's

bp has announced a 30-year deal to search for oil in the caspian sea. sokolov has joint exploration in that region. this is the latest move by bp in finding fresh opportunities under the new leadership of chief executive bob deadly grey the allied irish bank is selling its stake in the u.s. group -- bob dudley. the allied irish banks is 19% tax owned by the taxpayer, has been bailed out by the irish government, and has been ordered to shore up by $14.5 billion. it has already sold a stake in the polish bank. you can see that the markets are steady after hitting that two- year high, and capping the weakness is the tech sector. the u.s. dollar fell, and the big story to keep our eyes on his u.s. jobs. numbers are out tomorrow, and the u.s. jobs numbers are very important for the global economy. that is it for now, george. >> it would be fair to say that things have not exactly gone to plan for the organizers of the commonwealth games in delhi, and even before the competition started, athletes and officials were grumbling about the accommodations and the q

flows through stand and kazakstan and onward to russia another part goes through iran across the caspian sea and the caucasus ridge and ends up. north caucasus or deeper in russia's territory by the way this provides a source of financing for terrorists and extremists in russia's caucasus because the. americans in afghanistan say that they cannot eradicate most of the puppy fields because a lot of danny's depend on their livelihood on these fields by producing the opiates what can be done about it this is their solution to the problem. when the us says you cannot deprive farmers of their livelihood it actually sends a message to the afghan leadership as well saying they shouldn't do it because first this will destroy people's livelihood and second you push farmers into the hands of the taliban i think this is merely an excuse furthermore since u.s. special representative for central asia richard holbrooke first suggested this idea that instead of eradicating drug crops the u.s. should target drug labs and traffickers which was almost a year ago the number of labs producing drugs for russia h

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british oil is to explore and develop a major gas field in the caspian sea it's signed a thirty year did on the show five asking me to yield with the state and. the deal involving up to five hundred billion cubic meters of gas could strengthen the role of azerbaijan to supply it to the west. and other news russian investment company dialogue in seeking to exchanges twenty five percent stake in call maker asked of us for the shares of new. that's according to the head of russian technologies which is more like the major shareholders of us currently owns twenty five percent of the troubled russian calmly in september the french company came to move and increase its stake into the financial condition of both of us gets better the state owned by the troika dialog is worth around three hundred twenty million dollars equals two percent and roughly one percent in the. not shop day for this hour we can always find all stories on our website. this place makes our friend. but another's it sparkles and unexplainable.

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that's the challenge getting in the supplies from the arabian sea or caspian sea. the south and that's chamin. 70% of all supplies go through that route. through the port of karachi. that is about a 24-hour drive, that is about a 1,200 mile drive. with that closed now, all they got is what is happening and that is only 10% of the supply. another challenge for them, if this does stay closed in the north, is that we're also going to get the supplies in. what nato is saying what we are also looking at, two other possibilities should that border crossing in the north stay closed. all right, these are the supplies here that are at risk and i want to show you at the moment, chris. first of all, describe as nonle nonlethal. fuel, clothing, military vehicles and spare parts. reaching the troops there, hundreds if not thousands of the trucks are just stuck. these are just some of the pictures we wanted to show you that we found earlier and attacked by militants who are taking advantage of the situation. these are the same containers that we see all the time. chris, 1,000 tr

countries are to discuss the proposed pipeline that will connect caspian gas to the south stream which will pump the energy under the black sea to italy and other european countries now the linking project was proposed in two thousand and seven but is still being negotiated the two presidents are also to talk about security in the region and drug trafficking from afghanistan. and now to some other news in brief for you at least one hundred thirty people have killed and hundreds are seriously ill after a suspected call over outbreak in rural of the stream of those needed treatment have a well hospital staff and facilities doctors are now waiting for test results to confirm the cause of the infections many people are still living in unsanitary conditions after january's devastating earthquake which killed some three hundred thousand people. and doctors also fear a color epidemic in the forehead west african nation of bennett and seasonably heavy rains have left that hundred thousand homeless with people for sleep on pavements and in makeshift shelters officials say forty three people have been killed in the last two weeks. and

countries are to discuss the proposed pipeline that will connect caspian gas to the south stream which will pump the energy under the black sea to italy and other european countries now the linking project was proposed in two thousand and seven but is still being negotiated the do presidents are also to talk about security in the region and drug trafficking from afghanistan. and now to some other stories in brief for you at least one hundred thirty five have been killed and hundreds are seriously ill after a suspected cholera outbreak in rural haiti at the stream of those needing treatment has overwhelmed hospital staff and facilities doctors are now waiting for test results to confirm the cause of the infections many people are still living in unsanitary conditions after january's devastating earthquake which killed some three hundred thousand people. four hundred tourists have been stranded in taiwan as typhoon meggie reaches lab a rescue operation is reportedly underway as the storm triggers heavy rains and walk slides earlier this week meghan about your the philippines killing of more than twenty people and is expected to