all right our team is tom barton dishing it out for us in central moscow thanks tom. let's get over to the business sas katie has the latest for us market opening and how are traders responding to those g.d.p. figures well they're not very happy until last. it's a negative at the moment and that's because despite g.d.p. still managing to grow two point two percent that signifies a soft patch for the recovery of the us because between october and december last year we saw a growth of three percent so it has slowed down slightly investors are showing their own person safe at the moment during their first hour of trade ok moving on to russian business we're going to talk about gas problems and it is good news that she rushes that gas export the gas pump has beaten expectations with its full year results they managed to earn forty five billion dollars in twenty eleven it with a gain of thirty five percent thanks to high prices and growing production the company increased its market share in europe its key market to twenty seven percent from twenty four percent a year befo

take part in an easter vigil to mark worshippers believe is a resurrection of jesus christ ati's tom barton was our christ the savior cathedral when service was read by the truck era. easter services in the russian orthodox tradition are designed to be both long services but also very beautiful services stylized markings of the key moments in the story of christ's death and his resurrection on the third day a key moment in the service is the east of vigil where the priests walk in a circle around the church holding candles and they also change their outfits three times during the service from black which represents lent through the purple which represents the passions that christ went through and on to one which represents the resurrection itself. the holy fire has also arrived here in moscow this easter as it has done since the eleventh century when it first made that journey from the church of the holy separate in jerusalem the story surrounding the fire is that a light shines through the roof of the church of the holy sepulcher every step in jerusalem and somehow manages to light two can

right tom barton there live in moscow thanks for clearing that up for us tom. i have the job swap that's ringing the changes india long known as the world call center capital is turning the outsourcing tables i work proving on them that americans. a british lie detector test has revealed that the u.k.'s prime suspect in the poisoning and murder former security officer alexander litvinenko is innocent a polygraph has cleared russian m.p. on the gov way who's become the focus of a dispute souring relations for several years between london and moscow which is refusing to extradite him to britain archies laura smith joins us live with more now laura just tell probing was the. well from what voight has said we understand that it was a three hour process so really a very sort of sort of resoundingly test it was performed on google voice and misha tive so he was the one who asked for a test to be done and as we all know from lie detector tests a lot of questions are asked and i can tell you sort of three of the most of the most approving ones that were asked one of wh

project coincides with the fifty first anniversary of the very first manned space flight teams tom barton looks of the chances of success. to put a man on the move to keep him there that's the aim for space exploration in the coming decade according to a plan unveiled by moscow's academy of sciences' choice was bogus but was mankind cannot stay where it is now for a long time we have been successful in exploring near earth space it's time to move beyond that. goal is to put on man rovers on the moon by two thousand and twenty with landing stations established by twenty twenty two which will start the process of building a permanent manned base there and on a minute the moon is that all well say scientists we actually know surprisingly little about our closest cosmic neighbor and the consensus is we should try and prove our skills and science as close as possible to home before attempting any bigger leaps vast quantities of frozen water have been discovered under the moon's surface taken there by billions of years worth of collisions with asteroids and water might not be all we thought if

but in today's article for you tom barton speaks to you recall when you're founder of the swedish pirate party and his ass internet freedom isn't something governments should take lightly. he's woken up these rallies are huge i mean if you look at poland there are these rallies that have already been are absolutely astounding and people are frankly demanding their rights act and means censorship of the net and that is not acceptable not to the generation growing up not of the people who understand what the net is about and that it's the greatest equalizer that mankind has ever invented and that's not something we're ready to give up frankly we're discovering things that just shouldn't be the european commission went out the other side the other day and said this is no big deal everybody will be free to keep the sharing of governmental approved things and that's not what they should be saying they should say that you can you still have freedom of speech. soon which brightened if you remove someone from feinstein impression. he's free to start on t.v. dot com. wealthy british style. that's

the european parliament and twenty four to promote internet freedom well a little later this hour tom barton speaks to rick felt he's a founder of the swedish pirate party and he says the failure of similar legislation in the us shows that people's voices can be heard as soon as politicians realize their jobs are at risk. so people i think that was the first case where the general population really woke up through realizing that well we have been saying all along isn't worth crying we are actually warning for a very real danger you have the key element politicians started to fear for their jobs if that hadn't happened people would already have passed but politicians sort of saw the floor crumble beneath their feet as here in europe two hundred fifty million europeans cheering culture that's not a problem with a couple of teenagers that's for the voting population and if you want to keep your job you can't call them criminal. and you can see that interview in full in just over ten minutes from now here on r.t. time now for some other news from around the world this norwegian mass murder free

online and they always do this summer and that's flying internet piracy in today's artsy interview tom barton speaks to rick fox linger founder of the swedish pirate party he says internet freedom isn't something governments should take lightly. internet freedom is a subject very much in the headlines these days and synonymous with internet freedom increasingly is the word pirate. it started with piracy and the idea that information on the internet could be copied and passed along sometimes without copyright but the issues involved with the reaction to this and governments trying to pass legislation to try and restrict access to the internet to do with piracy have caused a lot of controversy and pirate parties have sprung up to try and promote the rights of internet freedom we are lucky enough to have with us the founder of the original pirate party here in sweden rick forefinger thank you for joining us thank you for having me on the show appreciate it ok just recently we've been conveniently provided with three examples with a significant defeat it seems for the pirate movement a success an

wake of accusations american personnel were involved with prostitutes during foreign trips parties tom barton has more on the new restrictions and some details on an earlier scandal right here in moscow. the new conduct rules include a list a ban on heavy drinking and agents have to stop drinking ten hours before they next go to work there is also a probation on visiting disreputable establishment or from bringing foreigners back to hotel rooms and chaperones will accompany agents on trips to keep them in line this all comes after twelve agents were suspended after reportedly bringing prostitutes back to their rooms in colombia ahead of the visit by president barack obama he called the agents in question knuckle heads and the congressional investigation into that incident has also been expanded to include another incident in two thousand and eleven in el salvador of a similar nature all of this suggests that official comments that what happened in colombia was an aberration may indeed not be the case and it appears that here in moscow the scandal may have spread here as well on this central s

coming up next hour here on our to your special interview artie's tom barton speaking to rick fox finger but founder of the swedish pirate party he says that internet freedom isn't something governments should take lightly. or these rallies are huge i mean if you look at poland there are these rallies that have already been are absolutely astounding and people are frankly demanding their rights act of means censorship of the net and that is not acceptable not to the generation growing up not to the people who understand what the note is about and that it's the greatest equalizer of mankind has ever invented and that's not something we're ready to give up frankly we're discovering things that just shouldn't be the view of the european commission's or that this is no big deal everybody will be free to keep sharing governmentally approved things and that's not what they should be seeing they should say you because you still have freedom of speech. so twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital washington will be trying to talk its allies into raising one billion dollars a year

spotlight program tom barton explains what was said. the general was interviewed and asked about the possible threat from a number of countries regarding specifically nuclear threats nuclear missiles including north korea and iran and general mccurry of the head of the armed forces general staff said that yes that threat was indeed always present and that without specifying directly iran a number of countries could possibly present that threat we have been closely monitoring the nuclear capabilities of many countries and they got there we are aware that many countries home they were admitted having a nuclear arsenal but they actually have one there is no doubt of nuclear weapons fall into the hands of extremists what it will seriously compromise international security but we conduct a joint assessment with our u.s. counterparts which prove the threat is a realistic one that iran involved at the moment with heated an ongoing diplomatic exchanges regarding its nuclear ambitions and it is that threat that is central in the u.s. reasoning b

much attention in the media saying moscow finally saw the danger of a nuclear attack on parties tom barton explains what was set. the general's comments came in response to a question specifically about the possible nuclear threat from countries including north korea and iran the general confirmed that that threat was a possibility but he didn't specifically focus on any one country but that has created rather a media for war around that comment since with many media outlets repeating the quote the threat is always we have been closely monitoring the nuclear capabilities of many countries and they could do and we are aware that many countries whom they were admitted having a nuclear arsenal they actually have one if there was no doubt of nuclear weapons fall into the can and so extremists as what it will seriously compromise international security so we're open to consider any possible scenarios some reports are saying that this is a new revelation that russia has finally opened its i use to the potential nuclear threat from iran others are saying that russia is well aware of potential nuc

interview tom barton speaks here work fostering or founder of the swedish pirate party he says internet freedom isn't something governments should take lightly so if you open up these rallies are huge i mean if you look at poland they're the rallies that have already been are absolutely astounding and people are frankly demanding their rights act that means censorship of the net and that is not acceptable not to the generation growing up not of the people who understand what the net is about and that it's the greatest equalizer that mankind has ever invented and that's not something we're ready to give up front that we're discovering things that just shouldn't be the beer be your people mission went out the other side the other day and said that this is no big deal everybody will be free to keep sharing it covered mentally approved things and that's not what they should be saying they should say that you still have freedom of speech. wealthy british style. market finance come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger no holds barred look at the global

and the lives of those who live here would be very empty indeed tom barton artie. and in just a couple of moments here on the program where we hear from people concerned that their back gardens are being turned into shoojit gas. after the headlines. just. zip zip good lumber it sure makes him a kirby was able to build removes most sophisticated robots which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tunes mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans in the world this is why you should care only on the allergy dot com.

two major international companies analysts are speculating what this will mean for russia and as tom barton reports he says that it will create a new way of doing energy business in the country. beneath the waves in the ice of the arctic upper helps the world's last great untapped reserves of oil and gas and russia is intent on extracting them the complexities of the project are causing a revolution in the way russia does business in the sector apart from offering substantial tax breaks to investors there's also the prospect foreign firms will be allowed to own resources under the seabed no one really knows how much energy is there but the best guess is about one hundred sixty billion barrels of oil in the entire arctic region that's enough to satisfy global demand for around six years it's also thought to hold thirty percent of the world's gas reserves russian state oil giant ross nerved has brought into wealthy partners to help the agreements with foreign firms exxon mobil and any cover a range of projects in a number of countries will now have interests in the u.s. europe and africa serv

hospital for years medical problems were treated in local tents but now help is at hand parties tom barton reports on what's become an emergency lifeline for many villagers. flying north with me in this old soviet work or so the helicopter is drops of blood a mere brodsky and his team from the region's medical aviation service we head across ever more barren trondra higher and higher into russia's arctic far north until eventually we see our landing spot with arrive at this tiny village after crossing hundreds of kilometers of snow a world of us as a boy here suffering from fever and the doctors are going to see what they can do. inside a small building not warm but two babies and their parents are waiting for us the doctors inspect them but can't make a diagnosis and decide to bring them to a regional hospital for better care state law on a doesn't like taking her baby away from home but she's been before and agrees to go. that's the usual practice with those who live in the tundra and keep mothers with their newborns in hospital for a month. on the way back another stop to check on the h

reindeer and fish mean everything for the indigenous people populating this on welcoming land as tom barton discovered. an icon of the north and yet some of the native north and peoples follow brazing reindeer wherever they go their routines revolving around the animals the lives of the reindeer herder is usually hard in isolated but occasionally they gather to share their world and compete in the skills they hold on the tundra and i'm about to join the celebrations. lassie throwing. stick wrestling. and hurdle jumping oh cool cause for competition for the main event is a record i actually. agree races bring teams from the bar and. the competition is tough i feel a bit nervous my rivals get better every year even though i won last year this year the younger ones may compete on a par with me. and perhaps he's right to be a bit jittery what it seems getting started is the trickiest moment. it's possible sometimes for a cameraman to. knock your feet off the couch. after the festivities and sit down to eat some reindeer of course but also that other russian arctic speciality fish in this nearby

of correspondent tom barton's outside christ to save the feet will be crossing over to him to a bit later to bring you more flavor of what's happening there in central mr it's an eight. and still to come as well an artsy age old solutions to the current debt crisis the u. case treasury plans to issue never ending bones they were last seen of the first world war sadly generations that come with billions of pounds to repay and get some reaction to that also. so is a gun near the border is absolutely deadly a dream cast a nation but a faithful if we report from the us mexico border for many illegal immigrants perished as they try to find a new life in america. over two thousand cutters for new delhi's municipal elections are going to try to woo voters today so many might find it hard to make the choice not because of the overwhelming numbers but because a fifth of the candidates is standing for office despite a dubious past as proof free to reports now for a t.v. . show pinney's has been a counselor representing one of the wards in india's capital city for five years he's up for reelection t

tom barton reporting right there want to forget we're also covering all of these stories online or just at r t dot. let's have a look and see what else is waiting for you there right now for example of one of delicacy becomes fast food a black caviar eating contest is being held here in the russian capital tracting masses of crowds eager to participate. at a childish behavior u.s. security services a closed down and entire airport after discovering that a baby hadn't been screened properly those details also at r.t. . you know just a few minutes is the world update on our team but for now they consider themselves to be descendants of an ancient tribe in existence in the promise land for thousands of years however returning to home soil they've been faced with the government oppression and struggle to be properly recognized with this story as artist paula sleep. deep in israel's negative desired other women serve an ancient people trying to build a modern homeland but these mostly black americans are not jews nor do they profess to be instead they call themselves african he is with knigh

this time but there's a lot of work ahead of all russia's arctic fields any of its vast isolation tom barton. well let's now get the latest financial aid for haiti is that the ask and well this time it's almost. here in moscow but markets in europe are. trading in asia though is in full swing so what's happening there how's it going absolutely well marina it's not looking too good actually there around the hole for you through the trading day and stocks are up and that's all to a group of twenty nations that europe's debt crisis still threatens the global growth who got the nikkei there around a third of down the highest rank edging towards percent in negative territory while the asian markets are taking the lead from the u.s. and sending technology firms lower they're the ones that are really suffering so let's see how the u.s. yesterday will see that shares took a second straight day of losses and that the u.s. jobless claims hold it around a four year high sparking fears that the recovery in the world's largest economy is indeed slowing now added to that there were cells of previously own

about whether tech posed a threat let's hear about what was really said our correspondent barton can tell us more tom can you put this into context for us. absolutely karen the general was interviewed and asked about the possible threat from a number of countries regarding specifically nuclear threats nuclear missiles including north korea and iran and general mccurry of the head of the armed forces general staff said that yes that threat was indeed always present and that without specifying directly iran the number of countries could possibly present that threat iran involved at the moment with heated in the ongoing diplomatic exchanges regarding its nuclear ambitions and it is that threat that is central in the u.s. reasoning behind its missile defense plans in eastern europe the general was keen to state that it has long been russia's position that the pursuit of a missile defense shield against these possible threats should be pursued together with russia u.s. nato plans to put that missile shield in eastern europe without russian involvement would result in responses both diplomatic and military