poland and russia are sealing a new level of relations as foreign minister sergei lavrov versus the country he's met with his counterpart i'll slap sikorsky we have both of them agreeing the potential of their partnership is huge the turnaround follows years of distrust between the two nations let's find out more now about this to get your life to warsaw and to r.t. has more if a lot of hungary or so it seems that the two countries are out for a further thaw and ties tell us more about that. well rory strategic committee over russian polish relations has taken place here in one of the most beautiful parks of warsaw in a historic part of the c.t.a. now he's touring a building called kos on the water and it seems to me that the atmosphere of this meeting has been as bright and as warm as the these place is rather nice and rather picturesque indeed when the two countries foreign ministers came to the media today they looked very happy and there has been a feeling a clear feeling but do you size up pretty much that is fine with what they've achieved and what they've had in the press briefing ha

where we have a news conference there with the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and his british counterpart william hague and takes a first visit to russia since he became foreign secretary new coalition in the united kingdom just to give you a couple of quotes from that news conference a lover of said our cooperation in trade in investment has good foundations european union is our key strategic partner he also went on to mention the middle east saying that we agree on the issues of the iranian nuclear program and william hague's party said two countries facing extremely serious challenges we cannot address global problems and there we work together very wide ranging issues discussed finance terrorism security and even drugs and of course we'll have more on this now next hour here on r.t. . culture is that so much i'm afraid we're going to need to get a lot of people you're young enough to look at news and alternative media outlets are challenging the dominance of traditional heavyweights in all languages why are viewers looking for alternative. leap. and discover it's easy. to

soviet chain and it has more than cooperation agreement presented by russian foreign minister sergei lavrov. roll show wants to prevent naysayers from placing any at major full says close it to its board it wants to set a formal limits a cap on the amount of the alliance's forces of that all place close to its borders particularly in its new members states which do light that bit closer to the russian our borders in doing this russia believes that it's simply asking for nato to keep the promises its made to the then soviet president mikhail gorbachev back in one nine hundred ninety when it promised no.

refused to comment and says it won't do so until the end of the week russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov said moscow is not aware of any details as there are no diplomatic relations between the two countries observers say the lack of clarification from tbilisi is an indictment of the authoritarian way the country is run. when someone is arrested they're entitled to due process that means they can call a lawyer that family members could be contacted therefore arrests are announced and it never happens i can't tell you how bizarre it is to hear a police spokesman see. i can neither confirm board to lawrie that arrests have taken place the secret arrests are the hallmarks of a police state. you know there is a new law before the georgian parliament which is called the freedom charter and it's something akin to the patriot act in the united states it will drastically increase the powers of the security service it passed its first meeting in the in the georgian part parliament recently and it is possible that someone is trying to whip up. a social mood to support that. georgia's opposition po

missile defense shield program and a new european security plan russian foreign minister sergey lavrov met with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton to also praise the successful joint drug operation in afghanistan and agree to go on with the point against the narcotics threat on thursday russian and u.s. special forces conducted their first ever major joint operation against drug producers in the region destroyed four labs and seized almost a ton of heroin. and the former u.s. drug policy spokesman robert wiener says it's a shame that washington couldn't start solving the opium problem until russia forced it to act. unfortunate that it has taken this long to really come together with you there's going to reluctance in the united states to even go after the drug trade in afghanistan it's been a policy of the military to let it go and that's tragic and it's unbelievable to me that it took russia to tell the united states where the drug labs were when we have a hundred thousand troops we've spent eighty billion dollars on intelligence we have one hundred thousand additional contra

missile defense shield program and a new european security plan russian foreign minister sergey lavrov met with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton but you also praised the successful joint anti-drug operation in afghanistan and agreed to go on the fight against the narcotics threat on thursday russian and u.s. special forces conducted their first ever joint operation against drug producers in the region they destroyed four labs and seized almost a ton of heroin. but the operation hasn't met with everyone's approval afghan president hamid karzai has criticized russia for its part in the operation over what he called a violation of his country's sovereignty he says afghanistan wants friendly ties with moscow but it has to be based on mutual respect and on still ahead for you this hour. russia's drink driving ban is getting tough as it aims to cut the country's shocking record of road deaths but some say it's going too far. and our team gets into the spirit of things to find out how russians celebrate halloween. georgia and russia might be on the verge of another spy scandal as r

russia is ready to get relations with britain back on track foreign minister sergei lavrov the optimism comes as his british counterpart visits moscow there are still issues standing in the way of bringing the two closer together. william hague's visit for. both sides have already managed to reiterate that they do want a better relationship they do aim for a better relationship the russian foreign minister said he however was keen to underline the fact that it is not then from russia's lack of will that the relationship has been somewhat flossy moscow does want a reset similar to ties with the united states in relations with britain but it is the british side according to the russian foreign minister and many other sources that is somewhat hesitant to bring the relationship to a new more open and more trusting level well there are many things of course hanging in the air. over relations between moscow and london one of them perhaps the most prominent one is the murder of former k.g.b. officer alex on the way it's been young guy that took place in london he was of course weazened of by a

vietnam and on the sidelines of that summit in viet nam's capital russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has met with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton they praised the first joint russian nato and. drug operation in afghanistan which happened on thursday lover of said it set an example for others but added it shouldn't stop there an agreement to share information on drug trafficking and terrorism has been made between moscow and washington as are reports that russia has been trying to bring the scale of the drug problem to the west attention for quite some time. in a puff of smoke. for drug producing labs in the mountains on the border between afghanistan and pakistan more than a ton of heroin and morphine destroyed in the process this is rushing nato working together closer than ever before in a first ever joint operation on a grand scale. these laboratories were in the mountainous area near the pakistan border we used about seventy special forces units three landing helicopters and six supporting ones we discovered and destroyed for drugs producing labs and seized more than

the first poland and russia receiving a new level of relations as foreign minister sergey lavrov visits the country he's met with his counterpart and others love sikorsky with both of them agreeing the potential that their partnership is huge the turnaround follows years of distrust between the two nations rif an ocean is in warsaw. when the two countries foreign ministers came to the media today they looked very happy and there has been a feeling a clear feeling but both sides of pretty much that is fine with what they've achieved and what they've had in the press briefing has just proved that prove they saw this mr lavrov and mr sikorski have repeatedly emphasized that the relations between russia and poland are currently significantly improving and they've been talking about trade turnover between the two country which has increased dramatically in recent times and many border issues between the two countries and cultural events and many many other things bilateral issues rater a chain that there are many facts indicating that the reason a good relation how relations progress and qui

missile defense shield program and a new european security plan russian foreign minister sergei lavrov met with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton the two also praised the successful joint anti-drug operation in afghanistan and agreed to go on with the fight against the narcotics threat on thursday russian and u.s. special forces conducted their first ever major joint operation against drug producers in the region they destroyed four. seized almost a ton. and still ahead for you this hour russia's new drink driving ban is. the country's shocking record of road but some say it's going too far plus. the high ranking a. little. more from the state of the art security hardware exhibition that's just taken place outside moscow. georgia and russia might be on the verge of another spy scandal as reports emerge of tbilisi detaining twenty people allegedly spying for moscow and with no official word from tbilisi yet the country's opposition says it's another sign of a police state parties following developments. what we do know about this story is that twenty people all of them georgia

british foreign minister william hague paid a visit to the russian capital this week his counterpart sergei lavrov expressed hope that relations will start improving across the board they had a low after the murder of former russian security officer alexander litvinenko in london four years ago he was poisoned by nuclear matter in russia refuses to extradite britain's main suspect asking for more evidence london in turn has granted asylum to several high profile russians wanted on terrorism charges at home professor anatol lieven of king's college in london says both sides have much to gain by putting their differences aside. one area where i think on both sides as a new perception of common interests is afghanistan and central asia because of course everybody is now beginning to think about the time off to the us and britain withdrawal ground troops from afghanistan the russians are of course deeply concerned about the security of central asia equally we are beginning to think about how russia can help and teton about forces you know off to be leave of course britain is playing to once again a ve

treaty between brush and the us which would cut their nuclear arsenals so says foreign minister sergei lavrov responding to allegations made by a group of american senators about the treaty known as start. sure the google everything that we have come to terms with is in the text of the documents and the additions these are open documents both senate and stay duma deputies have them there are no agreements apart from those that are stated in those documents. well several republicans have written a letter to secretary of state hillary clinton demanding details of the negotiations to find out if there were any secret agreements on missile defense the treaty is being closely scrutinized before it's ratified by the senate with republicans casting doubts over whether it's in u.s. interests it was signed in prague by president obama earlier this year both countries nuclear stockpiles would be slashed by a third and missile defense intentions would be regulated. let's take a look now at some other stories from around the world iran says it's increased stocks of enrichment uranium enriched uranium. an

so says foreign minister sergei lavrov he was responding to allegations made by some republican u.s. senators about the start agreement which is aimed to cut clear warheads sure the go everything that we have come to terms with is in the text of the document and the additions these are open documents both senate and state duma deputies have them there are no agreements apart from those that are stated in those documents. republicans have written to secretary of state hillary clinton demanding details of the negotiations with russia they say the records of the talks may show there were undisclosed discussions on missile defense which would limit the u.s. program the agreement is being closely scrutinized for its ratified by the senate with republicans casting doubts over whether it's an american interest moscow and washington agreed to slash nuclear stockpiles by a third and regulate missile defense intentions in april this year. well moscow's new mayor is about to be sworn in in an inauguration ceremony the city's lawmakers voted to approve the appointment of surrogates i've been in

missile defense shield program and a new european security plan the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov met with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton to praise the successful joint operation in afghanistan and agreed to go. on thursday the russian and u.s. special forces conducted their first joint operation against produces in the region destroyed for almost a ton of. this. new drink driving ban is getting tough as. some say it's going too far plus. the high ranking officials. will have more from the state security hardware exhibition that's just taken place outside moscow. a story still to come but first a new spy scandal has flared up between georgia and russia are off to reports that twenty people have been caught allegedly spying for moscow with many experts say this could be a p.r. stunt but tbilisi. has more now from georgia. what we do know about this story is that twenty people all of them georgia nationals have been arrested by georgian authorities no other details have been released in fact georgian authorities say that no information will be available and till the end

missile defense shield program and a new european security plan the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov met with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton the two also praised the successful joint drug operation in afghanistan and agreed to go on with the fight against that narcotics trade thursday russian and u.s. special forces conducted their first ever major joint operation against drug producers in the region it destroyed four labs and seized almost a ton of heroin. well still ahead for you this. on russia's new drink. as it aims to cut the country's shocking record of road but some say it's going to. go to the high ranking officials. specialized in military equipment like this heavily on the. security hardware exhibition that's just taken place outside. first a new spy scandal has flared up between georgia and russia after reports of twenty people have been caught allegedly spying for moscow although many experts say this could be a p.r. stunt by tbilisi. has more now from georgia. what we do know about this story is that twenty people all of them georgia nationals have been arr

prevent the two nations brewing frosty relations at a meeting in moscow russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov told his new counterpart william hague he hoped tires would develop in all areas relations hit a low after the death of former russian security officer alexander will now go in london in two thousand and six he was poisoned by radioactive substance and russia refuses to extradite britain's main suspect asking for more evidence but professor anatol lieven of king's college in london says one area of the two sides can work together is security in afghanistan and pakistan. one area where i think on both sides there's a new perception of common interests is afghanistan and central asia because of course everybody is now beginning to think about the time after the u.s. and britain withdraw troops from afghanistan. the russians are of course deeply concerned about the security of central asia equally we are beginning to think about how russia can help prop up anti taliban forces you know after we leave of course britain is playing a once again a very minor part compared to the united states

william hague to moscow came out both presidents matron rivetted and russian foreign minister sergei lavrov but as i have ever played with describe disagreements the two all seeking to repair the damaged relations. it doesn't it seem that the two sides have basically agreed to disagree one of the major issues that throws a shadow over relations between moscow and london is of course the case of. a former k.g.b. officer was poisoned by a radioactive substance polonium two ten in london just a few years back britain believes that the main suspect in the case a russian state duma deputy. has been refused extradition to britain in order to stand trial despite the numerous evidence that they have presented to russia to the russian side towards the russian side maintaining the fact that the evidence that the british side has presented is not conclusive and basically the situation remains at a standstill both sides reiterating the fact that they will continue to work together maintaining a force. to work within a legal brain but the laws of both countries will remain in place so nothing much has c