from russia's capital moscow this is r.t. glad to have you with us russia says it is ready for cooperation of it but only on . truly at a meeting in the kremlin requested more help for its afghan mission while moscow wants clarity on a joint missile defense shield in europe and. president obama could be facing a tougher challenge pushing through his reforms including his foreign policy agenda after democrats lose their hold over congress in the midterm vote the future ratification of the strategic arms reduction treaty with russia could now be hanging in the balance. of the victims of the deadliest wave of sectarian violence in months amid concerns one spoil sunni's are being drawn back to insurgency on tuesday at least ninety one people have been killed and over two hundred wounded in baghdad with a total u.s. pullout scheduled for two thousand and eleven many iraqis fear the situation could become even worse. next we report on the fate of the so-called russian titanic the giant passenger liner was considered a formidable cruise

and from our studios in the heart of moscow this is r.t. glad to have you with us let's get right to our headlines nato and to russia move closer to a strategic partnership as the alliance is chief visits moscow russia says it is ready for cooperation but only on equal footing. president obama could be facing a tougher challenge pushing through his reforms including his a foreign policy agenda after the democrats lose their hold over congress in the midterm vote the future ratification of the strategic arms reduction treaty with russia could now be hanging in the balance. iraq mourn the victims of the deadliest wave of sectarian violence in months amid concerns and once a loyal sunni's are being drawn back to insurgency on tuesday at least ninety one people have been killed and over two hundred wounded in the bank that. coming up in just a bit our spotlight show gets russia's position on developing diplomatic issues speaks to me of the chairman of the federation council foreign affairs committee that's coming up in about fifteen seconds. hello a

r.t. certainly glad to have you with us moscow has dubbed as unacceptable japan's diplomatic protest over dmitri medvedev his visit to russia's southern islands tokyo which claims that the four islands as its own said the president's trip was regrettable and summoned russia's ambassador to japan the islands that lie in the pacific and are part of a larger russian held archipelago to the north of japan became under moscow's control at the end of world war two the region has rich fishing grounds and mineral deposits and is believed to have vast oil and gas reserves president medvedev became the first russian leader to visit the area on a boycott reports it's a leftover from the second world war old soviet tanks rusting on the shore but their barrels pointed towards your pan because the island together with three other pacific islands was thinking over it by the soviet union sixty five years ago but the tussle to define its national identity still goes on. these cross appeared here a few years ago soon after the russian orthodox church opened its parish on the island of c. katon to dickie fi

r.t. rolls royce engine say it's gearing up to become a founder member of russia's titanium valley glad we're pugin size of the crew next week to create a vast technology and they are also around the world's top titanium supplier the s.n.p. the british m.p.'s and disrupt the british engines giant is hammering out a deal with top officials for the new special economic zone which will enjoy tax breaks and customs free trade. to tame valley initiative skolkovo yes they had meetings with the ministry of economic development and they're setting up special zones if the numbers look right and we like the park and we're able to work closely together there's absolutely no reason why we shouldn't be very very involved if the research and development operation is successful. production here as well what we haven't been doing in russia is is manufacturing engineering supply chain and research and development. and that's the area that i think we're interested in in exploring you know developing new technologies for gas turbines. new forms of engines i mean we haven't had. that many major technological shi

r.t. moscow witches and zombies took center stage in moscow this weekend with the city celebrating the freakiest holiday of the year halloween clubbers their glad rags for real rags and wigs artie's tom barton joined in the fun and now has all the details. it's halloween time for trick or treating and dressing up but here in moscow region really an occasion for just to go to one of the clubs in moscow we see not just scary costumes good but a whole variety of weird and wonderful god to see my rights to see system policeman to see whole souls of professionals but also it's a time to party with me is out of the sky he's a d.j. . england's big yes name from the last poll holloway's father was a new impressionist i mean there's. a least maybe. they make a long day at. the end of the city that was not all that we. want to see things become. seems to become a little over the world to me but i spend a lot of time in venezuela and really big on knowing there was such a time in every way every day in terms of dressing up i mean a lot of me being there is a little scary costumes but this lives in a different time to the sort of time listening well no dis

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