she herself has been charged with embezzlement she was the head of the defense ministries prophecy relations department and she was involved with the defense contractor all the wrong service and a few weeks ago the scandal broke that there possibly was alleged to have been a scheme to sell off eleven million dollars worth of defense property cheaply if she's convicted kenya could face up to ten years in prison and unfortunately it goes beyond that as well possibly into russia's. satellite navigation system as well the company involved with building that russian space systems is alleged to have been burgled two hundred million dollars that's five point six percent of the total funding for that program all of this comes as a major blow to russia's defense ministry which was supposed to have been one of the ministries most pushing for reform in russia reform of the armed services and of the defense contracts that supply it got in there putin has pledged an eye watering seven hundred twenty six billion dollars to defense for defense reform over the coming decades but there's also the government'

selling off assets at an undervalued rate to companies that are affiliated with that defense ministry and that corruption costing the russian federal government about one hundred million u.s. dollars in terms of damage to that budget so this change is basically to take on the telly surgical of who is the defense minister remove him from the ministry replace him with. all of this wrapped up in today's decision right tell us more about himself and also tell us a bit about his successor he's taking over here certainly it will anatoly sort of the first civilian to ever hold the position of defense ministry here in russia he was actually charged with bringing needed reforms to the russian military machine and he successfully did so in fact he has been praised for doing so and then we have. who is the former emergencies minister very popular held that position for eighteen years then recently most recently has been the governor of the moscow region and he's been very popular in fact of let me put putting his confidence behind saying that he might just be the right man to be able to clean up

selling off assets at an undervalued rate to companies that are affiliated with that defense ministry and that corruption costing the russian federal government about one hundred million u.s. dollars in terms of damage to that budget so this changes basically to take the surgical of who is the defense minister remove him from the ministry replace him with sergei shy do so that he basically is not part of the investigation because he's a little bit too close in fact two arrests have been made there's one person of interest who's fled the country she's reportedly possibly a mistress of therefore being too close so all of this wrapped up in today's decision right tell us more about yourself and also tell us a bit about his successor he's taking over here certainly it will anatoly sort of the first civilian to ever hold the position of defense minister here in russia he was actually charged with bringing needed reforms to the russian military machine and he successfully did so in fact he has been praised for doing so but of course he has to have been forced to resign amid this scandal and

and a corruption scandal claims the head of russia's defense ministry and the allegations that embezzlement has left one hundred million dollars in the hole in the nation's budget. well news live from moscow this is are with me rory sushi and welcome to the program and of course our straight to our top story here on r.t. and the vote that's affecting just about every nation on earth the u.s. presidential election. now the vote proper has only just begun although early voting has been taking place for several weeks now polls can't seem to separate barack obama and mitt romney they're still neck and neck but alongside the two front runners many others who were running were not given a voice in the media so azzi from the platform they needed the notion that we have been the country that stood up to the bully as opposed to being a bully it's a growing police state quite obviously we can end the failed racist war on drugs downsize the military and the drone wars bring the troops home let's stop with our military interventions let's get out of afghanistan tomorrow thirty thousand drones flying ov

in this position he's charged with the task of cleaning up the defense ministries affairs now he has been very popular the past eighteen years as the emergencies minister and most recently he has been serving as the governor of the moscow region so very popular person big task ahead of him. you're watching r t we're here in moscow with the twenty four hours a day we bring you the kaiser report in a couple minutes from now. the mighty volga that runs deep through the russian soul it has provided inspiration for songs and poems and is the country's main north south artery and decades ago schumann ingenuity connected it to the don't refer to the west the voted on canal is an engineering marvel within a day a vessel can pass the canals thirteen locks ten million tons of shipping does so every year. another concrete giant is this finished fifty years ago it's the biggest hydroelectric plant in europe it powers the local city of volgograd and sends lots more electricity to moscow the hydroelectric plant behind me is a potent example of how much the volga can provide but harnessing a revel

half a billion dollars that was supposed to equip the new iraqi army had been stolen from the ministry of defense by the very people the u.s. entrusted to run it. >> that's a lot of money. >> it's one of the biggest thefts in history, i think. >> most of the iraqi officials involved, including the former minister of defense, have skipped the country, but we found one of his deputies vacationing in paris. if you went back to baghdad, you'd be arrested. >> uh, no. nobody will arrest me. they will kill me. [ticking] [camera shutter snaps] >> these surveillance photos were taken by undercover police officers while they watched a team of seven south american thieves clean out an old navy store. >> shirts at $22.50, and they got the whole rack. >> when police moved in to make the arrest, they found enough merchandise to fill a room. all taken in less than an hour without anyone inside the store noticing a thing. [ticking] >> we have never seen a problem of this size and magnitude in world history. >> now hang on. in world history. >> there's more counterfeiting going on in china now than we've ever see

oh ok here we are the ministry of defense the moves to agriculture now journalist say the next lead the world will be the health ministry that i've read in the papers this morning so do you think that these high profile corruption cases minister being used do you think it's symbolic do you think that the real war against corruption in russia is on i can say to you i presume that today when we are sitting and talking there is no corruption in russia. when they heard the people who are corrupt heard about these cases started by the president at least for a week a month or some. time there is no corruption. of course is very important what would be after that would be just a period of non corruption of us and then it will return back or we would really put is that it is a system that i should talk to you because because what you say is very very good because if people can work without corruption if the economy in the country can work without corruption it means it's not so bad because because the worst case is what it is where this is degrees where it doesn't work otherwise you think russi

the israeli defense ministry who i represent and indeed the israeli public mourning civilian deaths on both sides i've seen it running around the south from bomb shelter to bomb shelter dodging rockets hearing the cries of israeli civilians and the cries in the wells of the air raid sirens let me see the graphic footage in gaza of dead children being pulled. out of collapsed buildings to maintain that their deaths at the hands of israeli israeli airstrikes are the fault of the mass so i can tell you they genuinely generally breaks my heart you think that we want to see dead children on any side as i said we mourn every loss of life hamas on the other hand celebrating and they are putting their own civilians in danger i cannot tell you how much we desire quiet how much we desire true peace and calm in this region when we facing an enemy that's guilty of this double war crime whereby they hardly own civilians or shooting at our civilians for every decade now we are in this predicament that however with the most strategically surgical precision pinpoint strikes when they're hiding beneath

does is it puts sergei shy goo in this position he's charged with the task of cleaning up the defense ministries affairs that basically making sure that the modernization practices that they've implemented over the past three years continue now he has been very popular in the past eighteen years as the emergencies minister and most recently he has been serving as the governor of the moscow region so very popular person a big task ahead of him. almost i live in central moscow thank you. of course so the day's other main story is that of the race for the white house. and as voters in the u.s. begin to voice their choice at the ballot boxes for either barack obama or mitt romney other voices have gone almost on the hood during the campaign for the presidency but forward auti which provided a stage for them at our washington studios. the notion that we've been a country that stood up to the bully as opposed to being a bully it's a growing police state quite obviously we can end the failed racist war on drugs downsize the military and the drone wars bring the troops home let's stop with our military

dollars damage to the russian the federal budget basically under anatoly certain codes that watch defense ministry properties that were undervalued and skoal sold under sketchy circumstances and what that means is that that led to this particularly shake up meaning that they needed to make sure that the investigation regarding the scandal was fair and objective there are barred even to arrest to put say a gay child who in this position he's charged with the task of cleaning up the defense ministries affairs now he has been very popular the past eighteen years as the emergencies minister and most recently he has been serving as the governor of the moscow region so very popular person big task ahead of him. to the story now that's dominating news worldwide of course of the u.s. presidential election. well the vote has only just begun although early voting has been taking place for several weeks polls can separate barack obama and mitt romney and have them neck and neck right now but alongside the two front runners many of those who were running were not given a voice in the media so he gave them the

where well aware of it if you look at the events of last week surrounding the scandal at the defense ministry anatoly said the call that was asked to resign because of this candle and also the chief of staff and was a replaced this week as well so russia working very hard to fight corruption within the defense ministry within the country and it looks right now that there is no comment from russia on the cancellation of this deal will stay on top of it as more information becomes available well certainly a bold move by iraq especially in light of its fragile status among its neighbors has the right. we pointed out there are thank you that was our sean thomas keeping us updated on the story. right well more stories for you right now online at our dot com including. stockpile nuclear stockpiling nuclear weapons it's crazy the absecon into a wrong president is questioning the sanity of any nation with atomic bombs. around giving the game away u.s. navy seals have been reprimanded for divulging secrets including the details of the osama bin laden assassination while working as consultants on a pop

as well simply follow her twitter stream for the latest you know talk live to israeli defense ministry spokesman josh. joining me there in tel aviv now your bombing of gaza is aimed at killing militants but an increasing number of civilians are dying why is this when you have weaponry and intelligence at your disposal. well let's be clear object is not just to kill hamas militants in fact we have a number of strategic objectives we have to take out these mass storage facilities of long range missiles that can now cover over half of israel's population we don't think that any country in the world would take a situation would tolerate a situation whereby in the last decade over a million of our citizens have been under constant rocket fire from the hamas regime now let me point out that recently i must have made a decision to actually escalate the situation which led us to take the decision that it was time we took out the leader of the hamas military wing. and immediately conduct a pinpoint strategic strike on these long range project missiles we can hit all across israel pinpoint strat

where well aware of it if you look at the events of last week surrounding the scandal at the defense ministry anatoly said to call that was asked to resign because of this candle and also the chief of staff who was a replaced this week as well so russia working very hard to fight corruption within the defense ministry within the country and it looks right now that there is no comment from russia on the cancellation of this deal will stay on top of it as more information becomes available. well salary problems up ahead for british citizens even among those who are the lowest paid. that's because too many citizens face becoming poverty pensioners as we'll report later on. recently protests and demonstrations of any kind were banned until further notice and buck rein a curfew as if you can't go out of your home when the government doesn't want you to has already been in effect in the country since two thousand and eleven many of the protests which are now totally forbidden were related to members of the public demanding the release of political prisoners four people were also recently arrested f

was a replaced this week as well so russia working very hard to fight corruption within the defense ministry within the country and it looks right now that there is no comment from russia on the cancellation of this deal will stay on top of it as more information becomes available. well from stopping muslims praying on their holy as data stripping people of their citizenship while cranes efforts to destroy dissent are widening in the capital security forces. teargassed thousands of shiite worshippers trying to reach a mosque for friday prayers a sixteen year old teenager was killed after reportedly being chased by the police onto a busy highway public gatherings were banned last week to quell almost two years of anti-government action it's a crackdown that's also seen the citizenship revoked from thirty activists one of whom explained why. we had very strong position against corruption against. the budget of the country how it's being manipulated with and the fear of the will the family and do we put them in a standing question this fish that in the history of bahrain a position wanted to qu

. >> israel retaliating with more than 2000 targeted airstrike, israeli defense ministry confirming 19 hamas senior come centers, and 30 op practicetives, and funnelling tunnels were destroyed much operation pillar of defense lasting 8 days, and conflict coming to an end for the time being, a ceasefire com commencig just a few hours ago that the prime minister be benjamin thate nat warns needenetanyahu warnin. >> the army is ready when needed. the state of israel has to try to achieve a ceasefire which will be continuous. >> tha netanyahu added he agreeo give the ceasefire a chant after speaking with president obama. secretary of state clinton announced the ceasefire at a joint press conference with the egyption foreign minister, secretary clinton praised egyptian president, and muslim brotherhood member morsi for brokering the mosque. that is considered a terrorist organization by the u.s. government, of course. >> i want to thank president morsi for his leadership in ending the violent, this is a critical moment for the region. egypt a new government is assuming the responsibility an

crisis from the israeli side i'm joined on the line by josh when a spokesman for the israeli ministry of defense the i.d.f. so thanks for being with us one hundred twenty six palestinians have died since the violence began i was half of them as we've been reporting civilians israel also lost a soldier today killed by a gaza rocket surely can understand why critics accuse israel of disproportionate aggression when you compare these figures no. so first of all i'd like to comment on your disproportionate reporting because you seem to preempted my whole interview by saying that everything i say will be part of our p.r. machine so what i'm going to do is i'm going to make a deal with you everything i say will be based on how mass is actions and how masses of words so therefore you can't blame any israeli p.r. machine based purely on the facts and the words of hamas themselves ok when you go ahead and do it. let's go so first and foremost let's see how much his response to civilian deaths on both sides the israeli defense ministry who i represent and indeed the israeli public mourning civilian deaths

came five and a half years later in one nine hundred forty seven when his model came first in a defense ministry firearm design contest the new weapon was designated bake a forty seven. i took care to think over every single part to make them more technologically suitable for mass production. at the same time i needed to make sure that the gun was as reliable and durable as its design dictates that was not an easy task but in general any designer must be very careful with regard to every detail of the design the. vietnam war veterans frequents this firing range in the u.s. state of virginia it was here in the one nine hundred ninety s. after the end of the cold war that the a k forty seven was designed as met their american am sixteen counterparts following the gathering mikhail kalashnikov put his signature on one of the rifles belonging to the club and this is russian ammunition. so i'm sure it'll work well. general kalashnikov autographed this piece so this is quite a rare piece and when we shoot it i'm going to everybody want i want white gloves because we don't want to smear the signature o

when he took over the portfolio six years ago, he was the first civilian to head the defense ministry. his efforts to reform post- soviet russia's bloated military were never popular with any armed forces. his replacement is a former emergencies minister. critics call him one of putin's henchman. >> it shows the atmosphere in this country is changing. political decisions are being made more and more quickly. with little room for any procrastination. >> vladimir putin appears to be bolstering his grip on power. >> stay with us. we will be back after a short break, and we will be taking a look at how germans could vote if they could vote in this u.s. presidential election. >> that and some champions league soccer action updates. stay with us. >> welcome back. returning to our top story, voting is under way in the united states presidential election. >> polling stations in all 50 states are open across the country. the contest is neck-and-neck. the president made calls from his campaign headquarters in chicago after he cast his ballot in early voting. his opponent, mitt romney, voted in

happening in front of the defense ministry there in tel aviv. secretary clinton issuing a quick statement in response to this saying the u.s. strongly condemns the terrorist attack and our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and the people of israel. how much does on attack like this on the civilian population go to into fear with the negotiations at the highest wlefls secretary clinton at the hell snm. >> a lot. whoever unld and knows the middle east knew it was coming, knew exactly what was -- what are the things that are about to happen. this is the first of many attacks if this will not stop, if this operation in gaza will not stop. a third intefadeh was about to happen no matter what. palestinians were already frustrated, fed up, very angry, and very, very -- very alert, watching the arab world, seeking their freedom, toppling regimes, gaining some kind of rights. and they've been looking at themselves and saying we did nothing in these years. hamas of course exploited this politically, but solution to all of this has to be a diplomat

the president referred to an ongoing probe into alleged fraud at a defense ministry affiliate. he said he decided to fire him to create conditions for an objective investigation into all matters. the case involves the sale of ministry property allegedly at prices far below market value. the transaction resulted in losses of more than $93 million. authorities are questioning of his aides, a female executive, at the affiliate. he became defense minister in 2007. he worked on organization reforms and reduced military personnel, mainly officers. the military criticized him for that. analysts say putin hopes to improve public support for his government by replacing him with the popular shoigu. >>> a group of south korean parents have been charged with obtaining fake foreign passports for their children. they wanted to send their children to international schools. prosecutors say 47 people are involved, including top corporate executives. they passed off their children as guatemalan or honduran and sent them to international schools across korea over the last three years up until aug

now according to the israeli defense ministry it says it's limited to ninety percent of hamas' military capabilities of the same time the i.d.f. chief is reportedly ordered the army to increase the pace of strikes on gaza we've been selling seeing the swelling of troops on the gaza border now understand seventy five thousand reservists troops have been called up as well it would appear that a ground invasion is next on the cards you're in gaza what are you seeing what are you hearing. well we've heard very mixed bits of analysis over the last twenty four hours in particular last six hours we've got a ground invasion the streets here is generally it's like a ghost strip of land like ghosts people are still further violence further damage and people are trying to stop food and fuel exactly as has been going on the last few days since the operation started people here still feel overworked as they fear ground reoccupation of the gaza strip with time and commandos and so people are preparing for it but we have heard mixed rhetoric from the israeli. state regarding the cost might be too high

embezzlement around one hundred million dollars involving a company i feel you need the defense ministry investigators say they believe several of the ministry senior officials heavily invested in property which was then sold much below the market price and we also know that several people have been arrested already it's not clear at this point if himself is connected in any way with this case he was the minister of. russia's defense for the past five years it was during the thirty's and before that this large reform off the russian armed forces started and it looks like now is going to be continued by who really showed himself to be quite successful when he headed to the emergencies ministry for over ten years up to the last point he was also the governor of the moscow region now this is all we know at this point this story is only unfolding but of course we'll bring you more information as it develops. certainly you got it going off our correspondent live from moscow will be looking out for that story with you. but as our is of deadly blast have had syria killing more than sixty people