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i was cell phones would be useless without this mineral. tiny theses needed to make them work but every piece of coltan is extracted at a cost to human life. former cold war enemies move closer to strategic partnership with. common security structure in europe and cocoa rates on afghanistan dominated topspin made us cheap and the russian leaders in moscow. president obama could be facing

a tougher challenge pushing through his reforms including his foreign policy agenda after the democrats lose their hold over congress in the midterm vote. the iraq mourns that the victims of the deadliest wave of sectarian violence in months amid concerns once while sudanese are being drawn back to insurgency. broadcasting live from our headquarters and studios in central moscow this is our team certainly glad to have you with us russia says it will work together with nato to create a missile defense system in europe but only on equal footing the reassurance came after a meeting in moscow between the russian leadership and nato is chief that he has been following the high level talks. both nato and moscow realize that

a new global security strategy is needed for the twenty first century and it is time for change it is time that nato. boost the partnership now nato is an organization that is currently facing serious challenges it has an identity crisis analysts say that north atlantic alliance has bitten off more than it can chew and its and in afghanistan in particular nato so wants to read itself always cold war one sided identity rasmussen is a moscow today for talks all the two main issues the first one is anti missile defense and you are recently made so invited russia to participate in that system but the kremlin keeps asking hard questions on what role would be given will it be just a mere observer of the new technology or will it put to support a say in the new system as a hands on mom but will it to dissipate in the entire process starting from

construction to activation of this system while sergei lavrov today says that of course the. new system will be discussed in detail cheering the upcoming russian nato summit in lisbon in two weeks' time but he said that russia sees that its agreement to accept the invitation is only possible if they take part in the system as equal partners look at the national. nature is a serious organization everything that comes from the organization is taken very seriously by russia partners in nature have a clear understanding russia's participation in this project is possible and will be based on equal footing before we go into this project this work should be carried out the full leaders of our state take decisions well russia is currently providing nato with crucial support in afghanistan it provides a military supply routes for the afghan war and just recently russia to part for the first time

a. in many years in an unprecedented joint open ration against. several drug producing with more interest trucks worth hundreds of millions of dollars for destroying the russia hope regime with nato on hand to drop policies in afghanistan is one of the top priorities because after almost about can produce terror in hands up in russia russia and nato acknowledge of course that there are fundamental disagreements that still divide russia nato ties have been slowly recovering after russia repelled georgia's military invasion and saw the setting in office two thousand and eight been there is sun city or tornadoes moving east woodside it's nice to see it as one of the top threat states national security but it seems that chances are high that the two sides could push it was said bottom similar to that the the united states and russia pushed a while ago but ross wilson said the the two sides should not treat each other as cold war anime's anymore but rather like modern day partners the right approach

would be to develop a true strategic partnership between nato and russia and focus on the areas where we are faced with the same security challenges areas where we share security concerns show my approach would be the pragmatic true to go for a true strategic partnership made his blueprint for change also says further cooperation with russia a top priority but most go is pushing for more than just words from nato or it is you've got that integrate you have a reporting for us there and sticking with the same story to retrieve love from the russian council on foreign and defense policy says russia is ready to expand its cooperation with nato in afghanistan on certain conditions. process seems to seems like linking expansion of its support of nato operations in afghanistan to nato

support off russia's agenda agenda as i said is first and foremost signing a legally binding agreements with nato that limit expansion will be u.s. and nato military infrastructure i mean troops at the territories all of you still in central europe and nato is quite reluctant about supporting the russian initiative but still i think the sides could agree on the first expansion of russia's support of reconstructing the old soviet era economic infrastructure the terrorist or afghanistan secondly russia can sign egremont with nato transit so real to the troops to afghanistan through the russian territory and thrice russia can expand its supports of training of gamble leask or anti-drug sports i think these are the possible areas of the group. the democratic party has

narrowly managed to retain a majority in the senate in the us midterm elections but the house of representatives is now in the hands of the republicans with congress now divided between the two parties it will be much harder for obama to move forward with his reforms including foreign policy and security agenda u.s. radio host scott horton says obama's goal to rid the world of nuclear arms could now be undermined. democrats in order to get the republicans in the senate to sign on which the democrats still control the senate but by less of a majority now but you need two thirds stratify a treaty and in order to get the republicans to sign on to the start treaty they basically had to add so many amendments and riders to the thing that it basically allows for the creation of brand new generations of hydrogen bombs dozens and dozens uncounted new facilities for manufacturing hydrogen bombs more some. marines more air power and they've changed the accounting methods for the nuclear warheads

in such a way that actually united states doesn't really have to reduce their stockpile of nuclear weapons hardly at all so they've turned what ought to be the most important issue in the world the. mutual. reduction of american russia's nuclear weapon stockpiles towards zero and turned it into a farce turned it into a way for republican congressmen to get bankrolled so that they can run again next time and keep the companies that manufacture nuclear weapons and or make the parts for the manufacture nuclear weapons in business at the expense of the rest of us and at the risk of our entire species in fact and with russian lawmakers now saying they want to reconsider their support for the strategic arms reduction treaty the landmark agreement could be hanging in the balance state duma foreign affairs committee has recalled in earlier recommendation to ratify it they have now to assess almost thirty amendments to the treaty made by u.s. legislators obama and medvedev signed the deal in prague in april it should see

both country's nuclear arsenals slashed by a third. of from the russian federation council hopes the reset in russia u.s. relations still will not be affected. there is nothing wrong. with our relations with the republican party. and all the criticism all the republicans against a star three agreement for example were it was criticism not against russian position or russian views of the star three agreement but against the position of democratic government during the negotiations and against against obama. primarily so i think that the reset is not in danger. and you can catch of the full interview with me markelov in the spotlight later in

the program. our website is also keeping you up to date twenty four hours a day here's some of what you'll find online right now at r t dot com hope is running low for women in afghanistan a shocking number of fall victim to don't mess to good news and violence with the suicide rate on the rise despite international efforts. and the moscow landmark metro unveils a new attraction as it turns one of its stations into a public museum for more you can head to our to dot com. russia is mourning the death of a veteran of post soviet politics viktor chair. in the one nine hundred ninety s. it was russia's prime minister during the difficult transition from communism in one thousand nine hundred three russia and the us created the joint commission on economic and technological cooperation it was also known as the. commission that also dealt with the use of plutonium extracted from nuclear weapons. and also

served as presidential representative on the balkans during the yugoslav war in the last few years he was russia's ambassador to ukraine weathering strained relations between moscow. a famous russian anti-drug enforcer who authorities want to jailed for up to twelve years has been sentenced to two and a half years probation you go to beechcroft tackled the drug problem in the urals by forcing addicts into rehab but his methods were criticized as being inhumane despite winning huge public support our earth has more. this is closed today then looking for you but of course he has been found guilty kidnap and legal at attention that this is a must it's the bitch took the action flicks that is the tough. part of that take me to help pick up full sting people to quit and fight that addiction this case really showing nationwide attention even president but they did come and sing about

it as saying that the case needed closer attention and many supporters have been saying that i fall for big on a speech coach i actually have been commended for his action scene a lot of a lot of the public reaction has been a very positive towards this i did a full simply fighting drug addiction i've never seen it with pitched of operating efficiently to help the main foundation city without a new question but that the people who actually live that have seen the positive effects the bizarre actions have we had shifted to exacerbate just over a month ago i had the people who is addicted to the cheap ten years ago they would know you guys and so the talk addiction was so the bad you know people were afraid to go there for it to let their children live and they seriously and now there's been a few. very very positive impacts and even more interesting that

some of the drug addicts at least like to. see the treatment themselves the thirty's methods are incredibly harsh but actually they were this chap eagle carried out over two hundred operations against drug dealers as a result the mortality rate was hosed the gypsies were afraid to sell drugs and consequently don't bribe you for it is clearly the authorities that didn't like them took addiction. hope that this is the six that are out thirty thousand people a good. day could an unofficial statistic say that was a hard drug addict in russia. a drug addict it is an issue that needs to be tackled . firth reporting there for us brazil's new president dilma rousseff has a valid to intensify the government's efforts in fighting rampant poverty but despite advances made by her predecessors hunger and unemployment are still the reality for millions of brazilians but now the downtrodden are sidestepping government and leading their own fight for change from the ground up larches

loyalist to reports from sao paulo. a simple life. tending your own garden. growing your own food it's a simple life worth fighting for even if you've built it illegally six times they've tried to kick us off and together with the church and with some politicians we've been able to appeal standing your ground because another life one you've worked to escape is always in sight not far from where you toil these are the favelas they are the slums in brazil it's the way the majority of the poor live in this country and where here are just a stone's throw away on a settlement this is where a group of people now live off the land in a commune as an answer to the poverty and joblessness in the slums brazil is the largest country in south america and almost half of the farmland is controlled by just one percent of the landowners and there's a lot of activism to a huge social movement in fact behind changing that. misty struggles so brazil can

do radical agrarian reform so that we can settle bill land and get rid of property pushing to get all poor brazilians like the forty families living here back to the earth after they were pushed off by the world. when the green revolution led by powerful foundations and governments like the us turned farming in the developing world into an expensive and high tech agricultural industry with this revolution huge businesses occupy the land and this has been happening since the one nine hundred fifty s. and they've been kicking small farmers off the land the kick them off and they send them to the city saying that the cities need workers but the cities didn't need all those workers so while the land became a means to produce and export food for the world to consume benefiting the few people who controlled it. the large landowners the bank owners and the multinational corporations small land workers like these lost their jobs to

technology or lost their land going into debt. trying to compete and were left to starve or today it is very much an oppressor capitalism is becoming a monster because wherever the market or product is the principal focus everything or everyone else excluded but everyone's included here in their own collective socialist solution a model of their dream for brazil enough. that we want wealth distribution for the poor and the workers we want land distribution the green revolution of their own. a simple life worth fighting for lauren mr r. t. so paulo brazil now a brief look at some other international news this hour a volcano in indonesia which began erupting the last week has unleashed its biggest blast yet said to get huge ash cloud into the sky reports say this latest activity from mount merapi was three times as powerful as the initial blast ten days ago

about seventy five thousand people have already been evacuated from the area near the volcano and more are fleeing fleeing their homes at least forty people have been killed since the eruptions began. iran has denied reports that an execution is imminent for a woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery earlier this year the mother of two sentence was suspended after the case sparked international outcry however the authorities said she could still be hanged for murder the iranian foreign minister has already reportedly told his french counterpart that no decision in the case has yet been made. forty's in central serbia have a declared a state of emergency after a five point four magnitude earthquake killed two and injured up to one hundred people more tremors are expected around the town of. where buildings were badly damaged and electricity and water were cut off. iraq has been rocked in the wake of

its bloodiest week for months at least ninety one people have been killed and over two hundred wounded in a series of attacks centered around baghdad's shia neighborhoods the blasts came just two days after al-qaeda militants took a christian congregation hostage or is ruled zoltan firefight with fifty eight dead with a total u.s. pullout scheduled for the end of next year despite escalating violence many iraqis say they feel abandoned and it's forcing some to join the enemy one sunni militia group praised by the u.s. for its help in providing security is now falling back into the hands of local warlords and al qaeda like he's obviously a local. there is still a force to be reckoned with tens of thousands of sunni muslims angry at the shiite iraqi government known as the sons of iraq four years ago they were won over by american dollars to fight al qaeda one of the strains they live in the neighborhoods in which they keep watch. we did

a great service to iraq some where members were working with the terrorists before they joined us and they give us information about the armed groups but despite attempts by the iraqi government to disarm them in communities like this they continue to patrol the streets because they insist iraqi soldiers just can't keep the peace. and security forces sometimes just turn a blind eye to what's going on there's lots of human rights violations and there aren't enough human rights organizations to defend and protect people. but all these paramilitary groups upholding the rule of law or are some of their activities questionable as suggested in the four hundred thousand iraq documents released by wiki leaks in one account has sons of iraq leader is said to be responsible for the murder of innocent civilians conducting insurgent activities under the guise of a sons of iraq leader extortion and rape. everything has a positive and

a negative some leaders use their position for settling trouble scores stockpiling weapons making money and killing innocent civilians but the majority brought stability and. but that majority also feels abandoned by an america which armed trained and paid them and despite big promises less than half of the ninety thousand strong force has been given work or absorbed into iraqi security forces this man is one of the few who has but he's afraid to reveal his identity. to talk after the americans were finished with his group's after iraq or secure they no longer supported us especially when the iraqi government charged early theirs with crimes a lot of the leaders have lost trust in the american and iraqi government and they're afraid that by working for them he might face charges and or assassination. iraqi security officials say hundreds of sons of iraq members have returned to al qaeda and that many of the thousands now in the iraqi government payroll secretly aid the

insurgency for observers like ideal iraqi security forces are running a losing race to keep up to speed to either integrate the groups or to be able to secure iraq without them and i think that how that the training given by the u.s. was not complete and it never will be because america wants iraqis to keep beating them they don't want to rock to build a strong army and that way they can justify staying in the country and making sure iraq is never strong enough to control the region. in army bases like those iraqi federal police are trained in intelligence the tactical side exploitation. medical anything like that they do patrols connor i see is that for many iraqis what the americans left behind was destruction and devastation it will take a lot for being to rebuild the wounds of their lives. armed and dangerous these paramilitary groups struggle to find a place for themselves needing some observers to warn that while they might have

been used for short term military gains in the end they could be the roadblocks to peace policy r.t. baghdad. to find out how the iraqi military will cope with the challenges ahead we met general mohammed askari a spokesman from iraq's ministry of defense that's in a minute right here are today.

what now has general mohamed i'll ask again an advisor and spokesperson with the iraqi ministry of defense so thank you very much for joining us here are not going to come back to the american soldiers have left by and large the majority do feel confident that the iraqi soldiers and the iraqi security force is able to keep the situation so calm and. it is a good question it's worth talking about the readiness of the iraqi security forces because the number of american troops left in this country is less than fifty thousand it's important the americans again what's also important is the timing the timing of implementing this phase of the agreement was put forward by the minister of defense why did he choose this time each timing has a meaning there are steps that need to be taken so that the iraqi forces will be ready by december thirty first twenty eleven we believe that we will be ready

enough to have full security control at that stage and for all the american forces to leave iraq as well you say that the timeframe is given by the iraqis and not motivated from the american side. if the recent departure of american troop. it was because washington wanted to improve a bomb is picher so walked or if it was because of american pressure or desire it doesn't matter to me as an iraqi as an iraqi i welcome the american withdrawal and i wish that we will be ready by the thirty first of december twentieth levon to say goodbye to the americans for good because we will be fully ready to take over as a rocky's we cannot accept that the americans will stay in iraq of a good i don't care for the reason but we will not let anyone stay in iraq for a long time and the timing issue is very important but having timetables is

critical because they serve as a pressurizing factor on us we have to meet each deadline we have to improve the level of the iraqi security forces the difference between iraq and afghanistan is that we have put timetables for everything we're doing the afghans and not doing that they were lying on the americans and nato to do things for them. how well trained have yourself to school by the americans. and how the current iraqi soldier is different to the soldiers we had before two thousand and three today's iraqi soldiers were young during the two thousand and three war but they were also trained on russian weaponry like for instance on the russian tank later iraqi soldiers were trained on american weapons which are different to mine but we still have a lot of russian made technology here and many pilots who were trained on russian planes so we need their help to keep training them the americans may be in charge

of getting our soldiers ready whenever we get another expertise from for example france or russia we go to those countries and we get the help that we ask for. another but also there have been tied to this that the security forces are now well trained enough just two hours ago there was a bomb not far from. do you think that you are convinced that a safe and secure place for. they are not untrained but the training they receive is not enough when the americans came in the borders were open to terrorists and violence spread the americans dismissed the iraqi government who did not think to form an iraqi army before two thousand and four and it was too late because the terrorists were already and we got volunteers we gave them brief training and sent them to the field they were combat soldiers with not enough training the bombs that are going off in iraq today and not a measurement for how well the soldiers were trained bombs were going off even when

the united states was in the country we need better intelligence who's behind these bombs and how they managed to still carry them out. at the moment the iraqi security forces one and there has been a law that's been put forward to reintroduce conscription do you think that this law will be implemented. this compulsory service has not been approved yet it's still a draft only the retirement law was approved for now we don't need compulsory recruitment because when we ask for example for ten thousand volunteers we have at least one hundred thousand young people coming to volunteer so we don't need it the countries need compulsory recruitment when they need soldiers and they don't have them besides we don't have the facilities and equipment to train all these personnel when we have them in the compulsory recruitment we have enough soldiers for now in

the future when iraq is stable enough and investment will start coming in the young men will go towards civilian projects by that time we will be having a lack of personnel and by that time we will need the compulsory service. general thank you very much for joining us on our back of it wants. you.