used to be an open market with rows of counters only recently they've built everything at our expense if i may say so. but it's shamelessly low prices and high turnover areas like this one in beijing manisha transformed themselves from shantytowns into glitzy shopping quarters also helping china to surprise germany as russia's largest trading partner last year. and ceremony commensurate with the trade volumes meeting for the fifth time this year presidents of russia and china both stressed this search igi comport and serve their alliance. russia and china are committed to strategic partnership concerning all issues it helps our countries to adjust to a constantly changing geopolitical situation we have good coordination concerning the international agenda and regional issues. or lng the joints of diplomatic corps reality our russian hydrocarbons about four hundred thousand barrels of russian

crude crosses the border each day when these pipeline the first between the two neighbors reaches its full capacity next year the mount will triple along to russia among other things to diversify its supply markets away from western europe. have these alliances not without reservations over the recent years russia scaled back its weapon sales to china due to concerns that beijing may copy the designs and later on in other foreign military markets china is used to buy some of for example forward group want and then produce those equipment that's by itself so of course it's also reduces the boredom of military trade between russia and china but there's also something that russia would like to borrow from china back in the fifty's the soviet union spared no means to industrialize its communist neighbor but now it seems the tables have turned the russian officials now. with an idea of

modernization with very much like to copy china's economic miracle. to order in the recent decades china made a breakthrough in high technology and called for ration in this field is mutually beneficial for all countries nowadays we both have some ideas and experience to share with each other so we have a great perspective in the high tech little. two thirds of the cabinet traveling with the president russian delegation in china proved among the largest in recent years and they all did their homework for the course of this visit russian officials took a particular liking to side in confucius and china scholar how among other things at the by peaceful the worst again developing friendship with somebody who can a teacher any good well china is definitely not the case this country has made such a dramatic leap forward that you want to comment is big brother russia is more than willing to learn from it some of boycott are facing china. meantime

talk to us at the remark over and over from the moscow state university of international relations says while russia is concerned about energy supplies to europe winning over the chinese market will not be an easy task either. russia is concerned with the situation in europe whether this situations in this two regions are quite different now the situation is in europe is quite settled and we are not witnessing any off gas or oil wars this direction right now however with the channel we see some controversial issues yes we did agree about all supplies and we did agree about gas supplies we should remember quite well the china is also the r.c. find its suppliers not only russia is the r.c. find it supplies. we know that china is building

a very good relations with central asian states with australia with salva stations there are plans to supply gas to china as well but there are no agreement on the exact process right of the moment. jewish activists aboard a boat sailing towards the garza blockade say they expect israel to intercept them the campaigners say their objective is to show not all jews support their government's policy towards the palestinians the attempt to deliver humanitarian aid comes almost four months after an israeli raid on another flotilla ended with nine activists being killed the incident was condemned worldwide and labeled a brutal and disproportionate attack the jewish state still claims the incident was self-defense and considers the turkish charity group which led the flotilla terrorists linked to harm us party's policy investigators. the pictures that catapulted a relatively little known him go on to the world stage in the world in which we

live today where sympathizers or sympathizer are also being called terrorists it's no wonder that i h h is being accused in this way the turkish charity first popped up on the cia's radar four years ago it's been banned in israel in germany who say it's strongly linked with a mass in gaza the last thing ismail humans would call himself is a terrorist he's a father of three and says he boarded the ship for gaza for his three daughters always in the guise of the children should have a right to live freely we want this so why join that organization if another event of this kind was organized i would go again sit up in the early ninety's to help bosnian muslims the i h h or humanitarian relief foundation has offices in one hundred twenty countries wherever in the roads the people. we will go and the room or solidarity for these peoples and it's shown solidarity in pakistan

ethiopia lebanon indonesia iraq china as well as with the palestinians we help we'll hospitals schools we have impressed we have apostles for the people's callous genuine. how to commie says israel is trying to portray the group as a terrorist one in order to try and justify the deadly fratello grade immediate aftermath a world continuation of what israel had done these really is. mounted a defense which was you know we quite clever but but not based on any on any facts it's now for the investigators to decide two key israel and the united nations each with the only inquiry police here are t. . well a recent un report came to become clear that israel's military broke international laws are to talk to you and watch a group that is part of the american jewish lobby that monitors the activities of

the united nations its executive director believes the ongoing investigation is nothing more than another attack on israel the human rights council held an emergency session only a day or two after the flotilla incident happened they declared israel guilty of quote an outrageous attack so the outcome was entirely pre-determined and this is not something that's exceptional in fact mary robinson who was the un rights chief said that the human rights council has a pattern of acting politically and not for human rights let's remember who the membership is saudi arabia china colonel qadhafi of libya is now a member of the human rights council this is not a body that cares about human rights this is a body that is political that is in gauged in a constant campaign to digitalize israel and human rights is the last thing on the minds of members like saudi arabia cuba and saudi and libya the human rights council as kofi annan said it is selective politicized and casts a shadow upon the reputation of the un as

a whole. the outcry over the flotilla deaths did lead to an easing of the gaza blockade although some restrictions are still in place and. from the united nations relief agency says easing the blockade made a little effect on life in gaza. i don't think that using the. influence on the humanitarian situation or the circumstances of the people here in the gaza strip we need jobs in gaza we not only we just ignore the trucks that follow normal the gods or or visit the builders or something like that we need building materials to get into gaza because we have tens of thousands of homeless people and they got just. great products for the u.n. system and the private sector is completely paralyzed and we have more than forty thousand factories have been destroyed during the war and because the percent of

the population is still depending in you and humanitarian aid organizations it is an unbearable situation here in gaza it's now eleven minutes past the hour here in the russian capital you are with r.t. and a file sharers across russia trying their luck in politics in an attempt to legalize the free use of copyrighted products it comes as lawmakers actually attempt to strengthen the existing laws against pirates artes are you going off looks at the winners and losers in any crackdown on russia's pirate infested music industry. has been in show business since the late nineteen eighties back then giving away demo tapes was the best way to gain fans a few decades whose formula seems to be making a comeback. except now to spread the word. music on the web for free so people pay to see him in concert. you see the album was already uploaded and

downloaded a hundred times before i even published it i know there's no point in fighting it some going to use it instead. according to some estimates piracy leads to over ten billion dollars in losses globally every year. anything can be found on the international so many musicians are forced to hold more. concerts while just a few years ago they were merely the second source of income the. record companies are accusing pirates of stealing their money but there are those who want to draw a fat line between selling counterfeit c.d.'s or d.v.d.'s and sharing files on the internet. the noncommercial exchange of information being free. by the lawsuit is the leader of the pirates of russia party that a lot. of the internet is everywhere i just need to click a button a couple of times and download a movie or some new album i want to listen to all distribution model is pointless and outdated. the party wants to see new laws in russia legalizing all

nonprofit file sharing on the web formed in july in two thousand and nine it's also one of the founders of the pirates parties international a movement which unites so-called pirates from around fifty countries we need to really take a chance again to take a stand and also tradition and taking back the freedom that once belonged to us to rephrase somebody's last name that is. taken that one hundred years for the pirates unite some websites accused of facilitating illegal file sharing in the global anti copyright movement have millions of registered users and last year two members of sweden's pirates party even managed to get two seats in the european parliament. and these people are naive and lost with poor norge of economics and history a free economy cannot exist criticism supported by some deputies of the state duma who see by meeting the plant roots of russia party official its organizers could

get more than the morgan for the establishment of the pirate party while lot liberate the people from the criminal liability for awhile it into law the parents of russia are seeing the current laws are outdated and unfair and claim that we will be back to buy most of the internet users in the country and that is around forty percent of the electorate piracy surely is a controversial subject but let's face it it's now grown into an international phenomenon with some official pirates even getting into european politics but before the pirates of russia can even dream of getting into the state duma they'll need at least forty five thousand members just to register and the question is even if they do have the right amount of supporters are they ready to come out and name themselves you've got this going off are deep moscow. venezuela's a ruling party backed by

a president who goes chavez has won the country's general election but early results show it did miss out on the two thirds needed for majority now the opposition could block the bills put forward by the ruling party opposition leaders also claim they won the popular vote which would be a major blow for the country's president the elections are seen as a popularity test for chavez ahead of the two thousand and twelve presidential elections r.t. that you have this has been following events for us in. the remote start to flare on the eve of the election allegations that voting machines were out of order began to circulate on the opposition side. but here at a station that is predominately pro opposition there were no complaints did you having trouble voting just now. no nothing no problem i'm very surprised what has been drilled into their heads is that the opposition will win close to fifty fifty . six. members.

in the house you know the congress and maybe sixty seventy towards the inner city however the crowds display more support for the government. what the opposition claim all along is that media messages they hold a majority on the contrary throughout the best eleven years to a revolutionary process us one reelection and these do is going to be a victory for us. my point station you can hear people saying vote up to the left read the government's party this school is not only one of the most historic landmarks in the city it's also one of the largest voting districts and the opinions here for the most part are split fifty fifty at this polling station there were also no problems with voting some were even helping people with how and who to vote for began on the streets of caracas it's almost impossible to avoid election time to get busy the venezuelan people know this election in many ways isn't it illogical dispute one deeply rooted in the history of latin america into what this

is more than and the although if you call war it's a war of interests and power the power that the right has always had over latin america more than any of your logical war it's about the right of the people in about the america to make our own decisions decisions that will eventually reflect after this election is finally over. r t caracas venezuela. so fully back on earth seemingly unfazed by the technical glitch that threatened their return the ira so screw members supreme talking about their experiences that their minds were surprisingly fixated on the things they missed most while in space. yeah . i love spicy food i make real hot chili sauce myself i missed it badly i finished off all the spicy ketchup stuck on the ice s. and shocked everyone by making eating with subway sandwiches now as my fuel is good as a rockets. the thing you miss there most of all is the earth itself i missed smells

i missed trees i even dreamt of them i even hallucinated i thought i smelled a real fire and something being bbq donate i ended up putting pictures of trees on the walls to cheer myself up you do miss the earth air. or the crew's first attempt to undock from rather to undock the soyuz from the international space station failed because of a technical malfunction as a result two russian cosmonauts and an american astronauts return home was postponed by one day the problem was quickly fixed than three crewmembers landed safely in kazakhstan after the six month mission of circling the planet. now to some other headlines making news around the world u.s. marines along with the afghan national army were involved in a firefight against taliban rebels in southern afghanistan the soldiers were forced to take cover as they came under attack from several directions in the town of marjah they responded with

a. machine gun fire the attack comes during nato the largest military operation in the country so far named dragons' strike the operation is designed to drive militants from the southern taliban heartland of kandahar. has postponed a decision on whether to quit peace talks with israel for at least a week after a moratorium on jewish settlements in the west bank imposed by israel ten months ago expired the ban was viewed as a move towards peace talks with palestinians palestinian leaders have warned they'll pull out of u.s. talks currently underway building restart jewish settlers in the area have already celebrated the end of the band by laying the foundations for a new kindergarten. and north korea's ruling communist party is preparing for and largest political meeting in decades where the country's leader is successor should be decided it's predicted kim jong il will pass key positions to relatives as part

of a succession plan with one of his sons expected to land the top job in one hundred eighty he took over control of the country from his father the first hereditary transfer of power in the company's history. book coming up next hour the debate over illegal immigration that is raging across europe and the united states is tackled in our cross talk studio here's a quick preview. i just hate this rhetoric of this own you know these poor people and coming out of the shadows let me tell you they came out of the shadows didn't they they were marching down our streets in the millions and everybody in the world saw that even in. oh come on give me a memory have a limited utility harristown a show i want to say one point their children that they're having here while they're here he legal as well as a huge and we're going to stay sure as we were sure it's still very new to this story to not get our chief initial now go see this is the compassion and those people want to talk about the feelings they want to feel they want to make

everybody think that the law should have feelings and that we should think that well you know if someone committed murder let's feel bad for them because hey they came from a bad home that's only or was it when he ran over her uterus me through their eyes got wise to the way you're with her during the united states by by harboring normal you in the illegal aliens with your words and your right. to. do this and of course talks with me looks interesting business news is next step. hello and welcome to the business bulletin russia's largest banks bank says it has billions of dollars to spend on mergers and acquisitions the bank wants to become

a bigger global player and is looking to expand in asia eastern europe and c.i.s. countries see. lots of money the problem is finding quality assets to invest in last year spurred by quad by the russian d.p.s. spike and its current examining a takeover of kazakhstan bta. now let's have a quick look up the equity markets you u.s. stocks are very low on the wall street thought so new concerns over the european banking sector and european stocks are still flock to mix having given up only against tech stocks and lending some support on the front seat telecoms and utilities are dragging unilever is the top performer on the foot to go to a cent this hour on news it's to acquire a u.s. company for three point seven opinion dollars. and here in russia markets are also mixed and recall is dragging on the my sex and it shows is down a little three and a half percent this hour plants was shutting us telecom is bucking the trend up one

point from week setting. profits at the russian oil pipeline monopoly trans neck to plunge by forty eight percent in the second quarter despite strongest sales the net total came in at just under six hundred million dollars to say the bottom line was hit by rising costs and foreign exchange losses. russia's people of the sport almost five percent of it shares from conoco phillips but two point four billion dollars it's less than half the stake the american firm put up for sale under an option that expired on saturday courses the aim of the buyback is to end halt its attractiveness to investors and support the check price. the second will shortly be hit. russian cinemas on monday it's the follow up to all of the stones' highly successful chronicle of insider trading and corruption released in one thousand nine hundred seven but is there any crossover between fact and fiction and would such a movie be possible in russia did i didn't read of us speaks to

a man who spent over ten years as a trader in the u.s. and performed in the series on wall street to worry is. when you talk to somebody about the stock exchange that people are scared you know this is like a bad lord or you know. we're going to have a lot of young guys twenty twenty two years old who works for our kompany and work with us and when the parents find out what they do it's like a casino it's nothing to do with the casino if you do really and i was in new work you can make money and everybody knows that it's got a big problem was that i think bristol of the rushes of no deserve to have maybe not a big movie may be not with the example of big name actors but i think personally of evil it's a i would shoot the movie which of the movie by the financial industry just explain people what it's all about it's not them to be afraid i mean a way that people put the money in the bank some time would like known and put that minded there because somebody is promising them percentage and they do that with the money in the financial firms which can really hate themself and probably

sometime make more money it's just for a population than the popularisation i think they can really come up with a movie like that not only in the russia adopted an insider trading law holly activity would be as of now i think personally it's not going to be effective at all for russia for one simple reason that i saw the law on the fines are extremely small people are not afraid the united states for insider trading you just go straight to jail beside this you was in line and everybody knows as a martha stewart as a cause laws because everyone and you talking about martha stewart who who did not really made money she just saved sixty thousand dollars because she got the information early she served nine months in jail if the person with more of the story go to jail for sixty thousand dollars that everybody is afraid that the regular jewish lawyer me in the regular human being who is getting the inside information is just going to go to jail the lawyer has got to be definitely it's got to be more street and everybody knows that the fines are going to be much bigger the fines are extreme of this will that people are not afraid so there's

nothing to be afraid of it's not going to change anything what would you call the mean different. russian and american stock exchange is the issue of course it's a liquidity for one simple reason you cannot really compare changes the one which is over one hundred twenty five years and another one which is it is barely for a little as of fifteen years the one major problem is there is a perhaps ten to fifteen stocks in the russians like exchange which has a liquidity i mean a large liquid at the for the racial funds to be in other major problem of course number of players in united states where the liquidity is coming from the eighty seven percent of those would have to come from a large farms. it comes from moms and pops operation i mean everyone from five years old to ninety years old are investing their money obviously it provides a large liquidity and finally russia is adding

a new natural resource to its long list of exports amid a global ban on elephant ivory the country is taking up mammoth tusks to meet a growing demand for ethical ivory at a price of roughly five hundred twenty dollars a kilo sixty tons of the ivory are exported annually to china the world's biggest market scientists believe there should be a plentiful supply of the tusks they estimate as many as one hundred fifty million mammoths like frozen beneath the siberian tundra. i'm not sold the business is for now but i'll be back with more for you next hour and of course you can always find the stories of you log on twelve website. called flash it's.

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and political of. modernization of china published many books about the country explain how china has managed to reinvent itself in such a short time. thank you very much to you both for joining us now i'll start with you mr nesbitt now you first visited china about forty years ago and obviously a lot has changed now what is the post dramatic or surprising change that you've seen nineteen sixty seven when i first read there was very primitive really very poor. pretty discouraging place the big change is the people now that people are so energetic. and so excited about china and what's happening there.