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r.t. our special report and those who've seen the dangers of nuclear weapons firsthand taking upon themselves to open the world's eyes that's our special report now on i'll be back with more news and. the nuclear age is there for sixty years. i can describe exactly how an underground test was no there were three two one zero or more you couldn't hear anything there was no noise at all when the ground lifted up. we live under the threat of increasingly sophisticated weapons. in two thousand one hundred. treaty. signed on to a statement providing for an unequivocal undertaking to the total elimination of nuclear weapons it has been set back by principally the united states but not alone russia france china the u.k. all have their share of responsibility. disarmament agreements are not being honored. what is happening now it is that their role is entire countries are able to write a draft international law because there isn't sufficient body of protest from within that country ordering them to these basic principles. things polynesian pressed into the midst of a nuclear attack. and when we accom

r.t. new york. special floating cranes are preparing to lift the doomed ship bulgaria which sank in russia's of older river last sunday the search operation for fifteen missing passengers continues in the area and on nearby islands artie's told partners on board one of the ships watching the recovery efforts the two enormous cranes behind me have begun the process of lowering two cables which will then be threaded underneath the ship and used to write it is currently leading on its left side divers will then be able to go under to check for any of the remaining fifteen bodies that are yet to be found the shores are also being searched for any of those bodies and they also be able to search for the potential damage caused to the bulgarian to sink they will eventually find that damage as the ship is ready to be raised and they'll have to seal the hole to let all the water in and any other holes and then all the water inside the bulgarian will be able to be pumped out making it's light enough to be raised the

r.t. sophie shevardnadze discussed the prospects of economic cooperation between paris and moscow with the french president's special representative to russia stay with us here at r.t. . after the last special representative of the french president on cooperation on russian french business relations thank you very much for being with us today so you come to russia every fifteen days what is your primary mission but when you're on your golf you my first mission given by presidents are cozy in line with president medvedev is to report and scope out the establishment of your russian economic zone and the second part of this mission is to strengthen economic cooperation in all possible areas between our countries. now you have responsibility also developing the trade between french france and russia which sectors of the russian economy do you think are most attractive for business leaders in france. yes your one year today for france it is of course more materials in trade we have gas oil is essential but there is much more. alstom is doing with transmission holding building locomotives for export. the world look at wha

r.t. watch our special report on those who crusade against a global threat of atomic weapons the regular citizens but they hope their passion for peace can ring a wake up call for countries that refuse to relinquish their nuclear arsenals. with the end of the war and the going away of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared. the risk is not zero that something might be going off by mistake especially with the nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. because of that they're going to use it as a threat. as an actual event that you know if you keep spinning a trillion dollars a year on weapons of eventually you're going to blow everybody up you you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see if people don't wake up nuclear weapons are a bill. that represents all of the firepower of the second world war and this second sound is the equivalent firepower of the world's nuclear arsenal today. welcome back you're watching our leading credit rating agencies are threatening to downgrade america's triple a credit score for the first time in over ten years t

r.t. on this saturday special floating cranes are preparing to lift the ship of bulgaria which sank in russia's of older river last sunday a search operation for fifteen missing passengers continues in the area and one nearby islands out of two hundred eight people on board one hundred fourteen are confirmed dead including twenty eight children two people have since been arrested in connection with the disaster the head of the company which operated the boat and the inspector who certified it as fit to sail boats faced charges of negligence that led to the arrest warrants of also being issued for the captains of two cargo vessels which passed the sinking ship without stopping to help. right now let's get to some other international news for you in brief in our world update syrian opposition members have been holding meetings in damascus istanbul to discuss ways of al think president assad has come to a massive nationwide protest rocked the country on friday at least thirty two people hundreds of thousands of anti-government demonstrators quarter of the streets of the capital and other cities be

r.t. talks exclusively with the colonel's son with both gadhafi is wanted at the hague and targeted by nato so if elisa lam shared his view on why his country's under attack that's a special interview next on r.t. . so first of all thank you very much for joining us here on out. well in two thousand and eight you were welcomed in london tony blair embraced your father you received a ph d. from london school of economics and now just three years on media villain targeted by nato missiles in your own country split by civil war why do you think has your face turned so violently so good listen to what he. and for others. we heard. i mean we've got most of us from our many countries. from iran north korea. this is huge mistake lydia's you give up you. of mass destruction you will stop developing. you'll be hearing very friendly with the west and this is the result so. this is a message to everybody that you have your strong you never trust them. you have to be. on alert because they're going to have friends over when i. understand. and the same thing could happen to any other country talking about mistakes and lessons what would you have that differently one of our big mistake

taken the walk of almost a thousand kilometers just to talk people out of war that's our special report next on r.t. . can we. do. what i came home it was amazing i was honestly one of the best friends of my life i thought i was going to pass out i was so happy. there was my wife and my daughter that i hadn't seen for a year and it was just almost too good to be true it was going to. at the same time there was only so wonderful because it's been the last year away from them in iraq which was terrible and so when a t.v. camera man came up to me and asked me some questions i told him out of the bat it's a i'm really glad to be home i'm proud of my service but i am against or in iraq and i know that some family members and some friends weren't pleased that i said that i thought it was maybe inappropriate at the time but if every soldier comes home and they just say that they're glad to be home the nuns going to know the truth about what's going on in iraq. just. puts a. slight listed missing a spin and maybe the support is absent that say to an impatient look at him and so plenty of people on the fiel

r.t. are now coming up our special report on one of the most scenic regions in russia from woodlands. and the region presents a sight to behold discovering russia is next. michael skin region deep in the sun here in forest is one of russia's newest territories formed in two thousand and eight it brought together the chips on the argument boria regions and with it a striking mix of asian and european culture. traveling around you can find buddhist temples spooling national parks and remote villages that still practice traditions to date back a thousand years but if you're flying here in the regions vibrant capital to top. one of your a new place of course the best way to get to know it is to have a local show you're around and i know one lady here who's promised to serve me a bit of what life is like in the fast lane. trichuris homes just over three hundred thousand people and it's a real mismatch of styles it's one of the only cities in russia that's based on a grid system and the downtown area has some beautiful european influenced architecture but the further you rolaids the more so

union's first hydrogen bomb but also became the country's best known dissident that's in our special report next on r.t. i'll be back with more news in this in half an hour from now. the end. of. december one thousand nine hundred eighty six in the u.s.s.r. as an apartment in the city of gold key a phone line is urgently installed at a set time the phone rings the voice of the other and speaks this is going to giove please return and continue your patriotic activity. the person these words were dressed to has spent nearly the past seven years in political exile. he was the man who created the first hydrogen bomb and received a number of the state's top awards but he was also the most widely known soviet dissident constantly hounded by the k.g.b. and oppressed by the party's leadership the man who drew so much attention was under a sucker out of and his life was full of paradoxes. now known as the city of nizhny novgorod the key was closed to foreigners in the soviet times because it housed a number of secret defense facilities with urge you to come to your senses mr santorum as a person living among th

countries tackling the flow of illegal substances from central asia and europe so our special interview next on r.t. . the problem of drugs and drug trafficking go anywhere no matter how much we fight it. to talk about the details of his fight and the problems that. drugs on the global scale. thank you very much for joining us today according to a. more than seven thousand people have died in russia. since the beginning of the year at the same time there are. number is actually more than one hundred thousand and that is actually. in the numbers. the figure of seven thousand. number of people who actually died from poisoning that is they took such huge doses that their organs failed most drug users however died from overdosing. the reason for most drug related deaths is fairly regular consumption according to. russia is. what is the. drug users. those are in fact common for the whole world i mean police all over the world europe or america only managed to confiscate around ten percent of illegally traded drugs within their countries another thing is the extremely low efficiency of our borders and th

r.t. washington d.c. . to see what it's like to be a soldier involved in that kind of conflict special report coming up in the next hour here on r.t. no it's time for the latest business news with korea. hello and welcome to business here in r.t. thanks for joining me russia is having to face up to its own banking scandal the former heads of russia's fifth largest lender bank of moscow are facing criminal charges after its huge bailout regulators discovered a third of the bank's assets or in bad loans or in acosta has the details. everything is sorted when v t v the over bank of moscow and discovered bad loans worth knowing a billion dollars which is about one third of the bank's assets but this isn't the first time the bank is involved in the scandal the all the one involved the building that you see it right next to me which is at the mayor's office and that was because the former had all the bank of moscow unviable to do was accused of shady loans to construction companies are run by the former mayors right now he has since fled the country and the warrant has been issued for his arrest the bank of moscow

r.t. dot com exclusively from. thursday sees the marking of a special bond between russia ukraine and belarus which goes back more than a millennium orthodox church leaders are in kiev marking the conversion to christianity they helped exactly one thousand and twenty three years ago when ukraine's capital used to be the center of the ancient state of ross and his leg series yes. thousands have gathered in key of central monastery the key of the chest a lot of the one you can see over there behind me to attend the biggest liturgy the biggest service held by the head of the russian orthodox church but they have to deal came over to the ukrainian capital to mark the celebrations of the christianization of ancient russia indeed a thousand and twenty three years ago. who was back then reigning in the key of adopted christianity he took several citizens of the key of to the waters of the river here in kiev and turned them into orthodox christians this is the biggest religious holiday for the believe years old across the post soviet space indeed russia ukraine and belarus are celebrating this holiday and today it's thursday

trade union leader he says the public won't take this without a fight a special interview for you next on r.t. . today i'm talking to mark so what's because he's one of the brains behind the thirtieth of june nationwide strikes in the u.k. he's head of the public and commercial services union rights for talking to r.t. today now this is possible to plan to cut public spending in this country just how drastic are these cuts going to be gives an impression of what they might mean for the cuts of the biggest that most people will have seen in their lifetime. i mean half a million jobs lost in the public sector six hundred thousand jobs in the private sector as a direct result we're seeing changes in the delivery of welfare cuts in funding of education for for young people and also a tax on people's pensions in addition to that in many of the communities up and down the country will see libraries close cuts in social care services everything that people have taken for granted over years is ultimately. you seem to see these cuts in terms of right and wrong almost a moral position but isn't there a

r.t. has a handover nato begins with combat troops from afghanistan but are local security forces ready to fend for themselves i do stay with us for a special report from deep inside the war zone. here with r.t. now greece has seen a glimpse of hope after european leaders came up with a plan to fight its debt crisis after long negotiations e.u. governments agreed on a range of measures designed to help the debt stricken country to avoid a default greece will receive a new bailout now worth an estimated one hundred and nine billion euros the move will see interest rates on greek debt lowered and the period in which it must repay its loans doubled greece has been battling its debt crisis for the past eighteen months and a scene of violent protests from a disillusioned public journalist simon young says that despite the second cash handout troubles in greece are far from over. president sarkozy has been saying in brussels you know greece is a special case it's received this special support from the europeans and other countries won't receive that but of course. i mean do we believe that i'm not sure that we do because it's inconceivable that t

r.t. how he assesses the industry's future that's a special interview next. gyrates it's great to have you with us today thank you so how much is the new production technology improved since its first reactor well the history of the nuclear age goes back more than a half century and enormous changes have taken place in that period of time i think the remarkable thing about the history of nuclear energy is how safe it has been almost from the very beginning. when we go back and see the first reactors experimentally being built in the one nine hundred fifty s. we're looking at a very very new technology and now we've had some bumps along the way that is force for sure we had three mile island in america we had sure noble in ukraine we just had fukushima but there i think the remarkable thing about this technology which is producing so much of the world's electricity is how essential east safe it has begin been it does not emit any emissions into the into the global atmosphere and it has only on a very very rare occasion and harmed anyone and meanwhile we've had

are the local security forces ready to fend for themselves stay with us for a special report from inside the war zone. with r.t. now agrees to see no blimps of hope after european leaders came up with a plan to fight its debt crisis after long negotiations e.u. governments agreed on a range of measures designed to help the stricken country to avoid a default crease will receive a new bailout worth an estimated one hundred nine billion euros a move will see interest rates on greek debt lowered and the period in which you must repay its loans double greece has been battling its debt crisis for the past eighteen months and has seen violent protests from a disillusioned public some critics think the second cash will not be the miracle cure that greece needs to avoid default. but i think it's going to prolong the agony unfortunately a lot more money has been thrown at the greek economy in the hope that that can stop the contagion but really a lot of it just looks like hype and i'm very very concerned that we haven't actually kind of sure we've just got another sticking plaster you know what really the european unio

discover more of our special reports on the arctic and launched sister channel r.t. . it's available on line and we're breathtaking pictures and analysis of the icy waters of the arctic seems the web addresses are to dot our team dot com. the report on laugh. last may's gaza aid flotilla raid by israeli troops nine activists died when commandos stormed a turkish ship delivering humanitarian supplies to blockade of palestinians the scheduled release comes as more aid vessels try and reach the arab territory but last year's incident continues to drive a wedge between israel and turkey as powell's leader explains. today thursday is the deadline that the united nations gave itself to submit a report into last may's patella incident in which nine turkish citizens were killed while trying to break israel's blockade on gaza for the last few days as radiant turkish citizens have been meeting around the clock in new york to try and reach some kind of formula that is acceptable to both sides at the heart of the dispute is istanbul's insistence that tel aviv apologize for its rol

soldiers that's in a special report coming out about fifteen minutes time here on r.t. . in the spending the year in iraq is knowledge or journalist i saw some of the ways to go and u.s. contractors there is kind of wasting their time trying not to get killed three and . a and. i thought all was willing to do stuff to see about five hundred miles. it would take me about twenty seven days in newton to publicising from people and by the markets i think the whole lead speech was people started the face of a dialogue in sleep just. changing the slogan or when the sun seems that it's the. arrow. and i'll stake a look at some other stories from around the world efforts are underway in thailand to form a new coalition government which will bring the converse first have a female prime minister to power that's after the opposition party won a landslide victory in sunday's general election taking a clear majority of seats in the parliament its leader forty four year old chino why is the sister of the country's exiled leader toppled an army who five years ago it's hoped the election

r.t. the evidence your thirty's are claiming they've got could have been obtained under pressure. it's not a special case one surgeon who always on the wrist is giving such kind of explanation they specially had to take into account that he was not the only archie's wife too and they had a very small child why but her being released on thursday. was the week the program mentioned so of course it's quite difficult for me to say one hundred percent what is behind us said. situations i'd enjoy a good time to time we are receiving. these condors have no real legal outcomes and we never saw any kind of real that human patients that government you think through right now government decide to irish journalist she's surprised too political because the government we are trying to control everybody and i think until now we didn't even want to be there. was some of it something. like the kind of autonomy problem when you have problems with social and health care when you have a problem and we. mentary a rule of law and the rights of people when you love your country twenty percent to thirty thirty because they

coming up the latest of our special reports about one of russia's leading national parks stay with us here on r.t. . mountain ranges and hills roll across the landscape intricate crests and rocks tower of centuries old trainees. given the water wind and rocks constantly vive supremacy they exist in a unique calm. deep holes in the kite dawn mines swift mountain streams and quiet springs flow from the ground. this is time tonight nature's peculiar creation on the border between the urals inside the area it is the site as one of rushes out of the way national fox. when national park warden valentino gregorio was on duty he uses a customized off road vehicle with large wheels to move around forest causing the easiest way to the peaks of the ground tyga ny ridge you don't find roads or footpaths here. adventure enthusiastic the not put off by the hardships of the journey this group of tourists from the city of chile have been ski an industrial center in the urals their hobby is rock climbing today their destination is the top of a cliff and quick noid crest waiting across this mountain stream is a da

r.t. about the a lunar landing is the most important part of an astronaut special well his interview is coming up next. it's a great pleasure and honor to have you with us here today thanks so i always went to ask you are we alone out there and. there's no evidence that says that. we're not alone. i really think to get to the question of are they out there of course they are where there are no there's no evidence you've seen if you look. you know that's that's a. jumping to bizarre results with incomplete information and we were very careful not to excite the people who would jump to the conclusion that an observation immediately meant some thing that. was from somewhere else either in testing. unusual object or something from beyond the earth. there are many many explanations for things that are i'm not identified and it talks many of those explanations are in your backyard there's something that you just don't know was there it got there for some reason that's very logical very understandable. but the the the the media the press the exaggerating public wants to see bizarre unusual things and

special report methods. discovery. communicate with the wind and. test yourself and become free. nature can give you on. that is the way the news is out here on r.t. right now though let's get a business update with dmitri. welcome to the program rupert murdoch's news corp as sold at seventy nine percent stake in russia's biggest outdoor advertiser use outdoor sells advertising on billboards public transport and other services in russian cities the investor and management buyout deal is to be worth three hundred fifty million dollars experts say the real value is closer to two hundred seventy to two companies that use corp has had at stake for sale for five years after the company decided to pull out of the russian market the new owners say they plan an i.p.o. to recoup their investment russia's economic growth is slowing despite the high oil prices the konami's ministry says their country's g.d.p. increased around three and a half percent in the second quarter compared to more than four percent at the beginning of the year however the outlook for the second half is brighter. in the first half of this year the ministry of finance ran a tight fisca

r.t. certainly glad to have you with us. the georgian government. arrested this week were laying special services. the three men have now been charged with spying after being arrested a few days ago our correspondent peter all over is following the story for us. initially there were four photojournalist arrested on thursday one of those has now been released without charge over the three that remain in custody all pool reporters meaning that they had it's very close quarters contact with the president of georgia mikheil saakashvili we are hearing this one of those who is in custody has confessed on video to having been a spy to be sending information to moscow and in not video confession he is in the case it's one of those three that are in custody now with regard to the third member of the team he's believed to be on a hunger strike denying any charges against him you know the reason they were charged this comes after their personal hard drives we see stunned detailed maps of the presidential compound and presidential goings on the the the daily schedule of mikheil saakashvili was found on that h

lines a special government commission has reportedly now been set up to investigate the incident turkmenistan has long been a very secretive state with the internet banned until just recently r.t. contacted the editor of a human rights website in turkmenistan who gave us the latest information. that in much of the russia starting from yesterday people began returning to the town fires have been put up to the local snow helping soldiers to clean up according to reports the number of casualties and those who died because of injuries has reached nine hundred but we have to verify this information i cannot guarantee its reliability but it's certainly more than two hundred people many died in hospital the residents of about done are no longer in a state of panic but some are still looking for their family members and i can't say that the situation is common in some remote regions people aren't aware of what's happened as they have no internet access some are perhaps unhappy as they would like the president to announce a state of mourning or express his condolences it seems that their thirty's aren't willing to admit that there are casualties there's no official theory as to the cau

r.t. the e.u. and the us have let international condemnation of cause it was decision to send special forces to seize crossings on its share of border with serbia nato led peacekeepers have been deployed to the area to help control the situation which is stoking ethnic tensions one police officer was killed after coming under fire from local serbs mounting a roadblock near a lot of the disputed crossings possible says it's trying to enforce a ban on sort of the imports in response to a similar boycott because of our goods around sixty thousand serbs live in the north and don't recognize cost of the parents which is you know literally a player in two thousand and eight politics expert market gusev says possible to not have to go have holes its puppet masters in washington. you should bear in mind that the. union leaders could have done nothing without the ok from the us administration and we know that the us has got a massive investment in kosovo it's got the biggest military base in the world in cambone still smack bang in the heart of course of all and so everything that. gets up there is also raise

r.t. . the e.u. and the us have let international condemnation of casa those decision to stand special forces to seize crossings on its shared border with sara the nato led peacekeepers have been deployed to the area to help control the situation which is stoking ethnic tensions one police officer was killed after coming under fire from local serbs mounting a road block near a one of the disputed crossings cause it was says it's trying to enforce a ban serbian imports in response to a similar boycott of cost of our goods around sixty thousand serbs live in the north and don't recognize cost of the pants what it in a laterally declared in two thousand and eight bulk of the expert in the boys are managed says that the e.u. and nato made a mistake and recognizing possible because it's willing to work with serbia. the decision by. the korean war you and to send a special forces is this is direct slap in the face of the serbian government which has been nothing but cooperate you've been even capitulating in the ongoing negotiations which were set up by the is a matter of fact to indicate that this action t

r.t. the evidence could have been obtained under pressure. and the rest is giving such kind of explanation specially we had to take into account that he was not the only wife and they have a very small child why relief. that we. mentioned. before. but. we never. think. he's even. going to have. three. rule for law and the rights of the people when you lost your country twenty percent of thirty thirty because they yell and they get caught then there is responsible election you should find somebody who will be guilty in everything which is wrong in the country because very old police call sickening and they say it's just quite easy to explain this russian size and to me and everything would be wrong to the country least was russian so suckers really creating things i cannot say me and trying to link everybody who is against quemoy against he's a regime and who is fighting for deal democracy in this country he is trying to link was russian and coming up in the program. just before the anniversary of europe's worst massacre since the nazi era r t travels to chevron outta where people are still in search